Much easier for them than in many places in the world. They allready manage to heat almost of their homes with the abundance of the islands' geothermal power. And they are working vigorously to increase the amount of the elictricity they produce from it as well.
Don't get me wrong, it's very cool that they are making the most of their situation, but not many places in the world have it quite as easy as they do.
In an former article about this case, it was said the reason why the judge made M$ responsible, was that M$ is claiming the rights for all stuff that is published in the MSN forum. There is some legel stuff in the rules for the use of the forum that any content published goes over to M$.
This is a huge point, it sounds like MS lost because of their crazy idea to own the rights to anything posted there. Just like MS to have a policy like this, and if this is the reason they lost, they got what they deserved.
Compare that policy to Slashdot's posted comment policy for instance...
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way
If MS did claim rights to the photos uploaded, then they basically brought this on themselves
i'll say this up front, im looking forward to the new games coming out for the x-box, because most of what's out so far was quickly produced and not designed to make the most out of what the console can do.
i will also gladly pay 49 a year for the online service and headset, i think the VoIP factor of their service will make interaction over the service a step above the other 2's plans.
and i have to say that the screenshots and review of this game look and sound like it will be absolutely incredible... but there is no way in hell im paying 150-300 for 1 game... i'll just wait till they realize they aren't selling at that price, and pick it up for $99.99 with the controller a few months after the release (hopefully);)
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give him a CCNA studyguide, tell him that by learning how the backbone of the internet works he will gain the knowledge to really 0wn shiite like mad with his super l33t router knowledge.
he'll either end up in jail or making 50 grand a year in no time;)
The only ones who'll be frothing about how outrageous this is are the people who are abusing the system (the 1%).
i don't consider myself an "abuser", i dont use p2p applications, and i dont host a games server (though i do play games online). i easily go over the 5 gigs a month that most of these companies seem to be leaning towards.
the fact is that there are increasingly more and more things on the web that are designed for high-speed users (high quality video streams, games designed for broadband only, internet radio, etc)... and now that they are becoming more commonplace we won't be able to use them in the near future. frankly if i cant use theese features without paying an extra 10 bucks a month per gig over 5 i just wont use them at all (or whatever pricing they decide on). when that happens there is no longer a point to having broadband.
i would just go back to my dual 56k shotgun setup and forget about it at that point. if all these broadband providers want you to do is websurfing and email there is no point to broadband.
i don't mind some reasonable limits that inhibit running a mp3 or warez server 24/7, but the 5 gig number i've seen mentioned so often wouldn't cut it in my opinion, and would certainly drive me away
they do cut back on your airflow slightly, but if your box is adequately cooled they shouldn't pose any major concerns. you would be amazed at how much dirt these things suck up
you see pro-life groups actually do compare cloning to to nazi research. this argument certainly doesn't fly with me, but it is one of the arguments they use.
And hey it's hard to refute idiotic arguments, unless you at least realize that they exist
It's just going to slow broadband adoption (less competition) and allow the Bells to sit on their fat T-1 revenues.
if the Bells sit on "their fat T-1 revenues" too long they will find that their chance of a large market share has been gobbled up by cable, satellite, and wireless. They know better than to let this happen, they just want to make sure that small ISP's can't compete with them (over their own lines at least), and for now they seem to have succeeded
sorry to tell you this, but your link to bugzilla is pointless...
you see they are one of the few sites out there that knows to block referrer hits from slashdot (guessin it killed em once or twice, but hey at least they learned)
doesn't mean your point is any less valid, just that bugzilla knows better than to be slahdotted;)
I recently went to dinner with my father, he is a employee of Rocketdyne in California, he has spent the better part of his career working on things for the Shuttle. A few months ago when the launched he was invited to Canaveral to be honored for his work at the launch. To put it mildly he loves being onvolved with the shuttle project, and is very well off (but he doesn't break that 5 mill number you propose, maybe 2 or 3 at best).
So anyways back to the dinner, i had just read a story about the Russian 100k sub-orital trip deal, and asked him what he thought. I was pretty surprised to hear how interested he was in it, no doubt he wouldn't risk his life on some crackpot ride... but if there was one available with a fairly proven track record i now know he would jump on the opportunity.
This is a very well educated and well informed person when it comes to space flight, and he loves the idea. It doesn't surprise me one bit that it's a fairly common view.
that is the essence of this game, a basically old school DM game, integrated with the new graphics.
*shrug* beats the heck out of me how pointing out how it has the advantages of both is trolling, but i certainly do like the concept behind the game, can't wait to see how it turns out
Well, when you consider the party that Rosen and Valenti threw for their favorite bought and paid for politicans yesterday, things certainly don't look promising, at least in the short-term.
I wonder why they didn't invite Boucher to the festivities? Frankly until there are more fair-use advocates like him in congress i will be very worried
Now if they just make the next project "novel ways to remove people who don't help us from the gene pool"
Don't worry, im all over that one. You see i figured that considering the current state of the USPTO that i would apply for "a method of using deoxyribonucleic acids to create unique and distinct characteristics among individuals"
after my patent on DNA is approved i shall charge a 1 dollar licensing fee among all humans.
Of course should you choose to not pay my fee, or i refuse to license to you i shall be forced to remove all of your unlicensed DNA... so you see, i shall have exactly the answer to the problem you would like answered;)
I cannot go patching my software every morning after booting the computer!!
thats one of the things that Windows does rather seamlessly though. I booted to it this morning to take care of a few things, and a little reminder notice popped up in the toolbar saying "a update is available"... all i did was click "Yes" and it was installed, it told me i had to restart to finish the update, and i ignored that part...once i finally do restart my computer it will be fully installed. This process took me a grand total of about 1 second of my time.
There are plenty of valid complaints about MS, but this is one of those cases where they are doing something right.
in reference to his attitude about people who skip ads during shows...
CW: What if you have to go to the bathroom or get up to get a Coke?
JK: I guess there's a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom
jeez how reasonable of him, there is a "certain" tolerance for allowing natural bodily functions by TV viewers, but im guessing that us beer drinkers and people with weak bladders should probably stop watching, because such willy-nilly use of the bathroom is probably thievery;)
Do I care if cops are present at my ISP while executing a search warrant? Of course not. As long as a search warrant is required and a judge (with accountability) believed the police presented enough logical reason for the warrant, I certainly don't care.
Exactly, there was a warrant presented and that's what really matters here. If they have a warrant the courts have allready ruled that they have a right to access the data, and it's not like Officer Bag O'Donuts is gonna have the technological skill to glean the data from a server anyways, even if he is present, he will just stand there while a admin goes thru and collects the data and then hands him the printouts of it. He will not have any more of a clue about how the data was collected than if he wasn't present.
Taken from a interview With Jamie Kellner (CEO of Turner Broadcasting) here
in reference to his attitude about people who skip ads during shows...
CW: What if you have to go to the bathroom or get up to get a Coke?
JK: I guess there's a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom
So you see there is a "certain amount of tolerance" for normal bathroom users... but beer drinkers who just go around urinating willy-nilly at every commercial break, and people with weak bladders should certainly not be allowed to watch TV;)
Seems some water flow patterns at the Gilroy Hot Springs may have changed a bit.
This is a beautiful area that many people in the bay area take advantage of, and it is also a very historically significant site.
Following WWII when Japanese-American citizens were released from internment camps many of them spent a good deal of time at Gilroy-Yamato attempting to re-enter society, bit of a overview here
The land was recently sold to the Nature Conservancy (ie. about a month ago), but is still being ran by the seller until the conservancy is ready to take over...
From what i understand they have some serious problems right now tonight, yes no major structures have fallen, and no lives are lost, but this is practically a sacred site to many Japanese-Americans, and a beautifull one in any case to others... would be a shame to see it suffer any ill consequences as are being reported
sheesh man, if you really want it fire up IRC, get on Efnet do a channel search "VCD"... you will see a certain number of chans at the top of the list that list it in their comments, coincedentally you will notice that these specific chans also have over 500 people in them probably.
then you can madly try to get in a fserv, or queued up on a xdcc bot, etc like most of the other 500+ plus people in the channel are doing
i dont even download these things and i know that much...if this is to complicated for you im sure it will be a lot easier to get on the mainstream piracy tools like kazaa soon;)
HP and DEC actually listened to their customers. In particular, I've spoken directly to DEC engineers in reporting/resolving problems - NOT some third-party technical support office.
i wholeheartedly agree, my first job dealing with HP was adminning a HP1000 RTEA system, i lucked into the job when my boss left and they asked me to try to hold down the fort till a replacement could be found, i was far underqualified for the position and in way over my head.
I poured through manuals like a madman and did my best, but honestly it was the great service from HP that allowed me to get by. Funny thing was, about a month later i was doing the same job as the guy i replaced better than he had done it, and managed to keep the job.
If it wasn't for the great guys at HP that got to know me on a first name basis for a few weeks there, i could have never done it. I'm still gratefull to those guys to this day.
Second, administrators that attempted to block the AIM service by blocking the default port of TCP/20379 were in for a shock. The AIM client/server model is extremely versatile and doesn't pay any attention to WKS (Well Known Services); the login server allows connections from every TCP port under the sun, including the ports that are likely permitted for business reasons: TCP/21 (ftp), TCP/80 (http), and TCP/443 (https). While we would never do something nasty like run nmap against login.oscar.aol.com, we think you'd be surprised if you knew just how many AIM-open ports there are.
AIM also runs over proxy; and the client has an "auto-configure" button that makes it really easy for Nancy in Human Resources to bypass your perimeter security. In a nutshell, AIM's a slippery little devil and just about impossible to block unless you're using a perimeter device with content inspection capabilities. We can expect more user toys to start exhibiting these perimeter-security-bypassing traits, which means that you will not know what applications are actually in use on the network layer, since the port number will become meaningless.
Remember when the RIAA did their experiment with those kids downloading a ton of music before the Grammys, well those same kids said they got most of their content with AIM. Shutting down everything except HTTP/SMTP/POP may not even cut it nowadays
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Much easier for them than in many places in the world. They allready manage to heat almost of their homes with the abundance of the islands' geothermal power. And they are working vigorously to increase the amount of the elictricity they produce from it as well.
Don't get me wrong, it's very cool that they are making the most of their situation, but not many places in the world have it quite as easy as they do.
In an former article about this case, it was said the reason why the judge made M$ responsible, was that M$ is claiming the rights for all stuff that is published in the MSN forum.
There is some legel stuff in the rules for the use of the forum that any content published goes over to M$.
This is a huge point, it sounds like MS lost because of their crazy idea to own the rights to anything posted there. Just like MS to have a policy like this, and if this is the reason they lost, they got what they deserved.
Compare that policy to Slashdot's posted comment policy for instance...
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way
If MS did claim rights to the photos uploaded, then they basically brought this on themselves
i'll say this up front, im looking forward to the new games coming out for the x-box, because most of what's out so far was quickly produced and not designed to make the most out of what the console can do.
;)
i will also gladly pay 49 a year for the online service and headset, i think the VoIP factor of their service will make interaction over the service a step above the other 2's plans.
and i have to say that the screenshots and review of this game look and sound like it will be absolutely incredible... but there is no way in hell im paying 150-300 for 1 game... i'll just wait till they realize they aren't selling at that price, and pick it up for $99.99 with the controller a few months after the release (hopefully)
give him a CCNA studyguide, tell him that by learning how the backbone of the internet works he will gain the knowledge to really 0wn shiite like mad with his super l33t router knowledge.
;)
he'll either end up in jail or making 50 grand a year in no time
The only ones who'll be frothing about how outrageous this is are the people who are abusing the system (the 1%).
i don't consider myself an "abuser", i dont use p2p applications, and i dont host a games server (though i do play games online). i easily go over the 5 gigs a month that most of these companies seem to be leaning towards.
the fact is that there are increasingly more and more things on the web that are designed for high-speed users (high quality video streams, games designed for broadband only, internet radio, etc)... and now that they are becoming more commonplace we won't be able to use them in the near future. frankly if i cant use theese features without paying an extra 10 bucks a month per gig over 5 i just wont use them at all (or whatever pricing they decide on). when that happens there is no longer a point to having broadband.
i would just go back to my dual 56k shotgun setup and forget about it at that point. if all these broadband providers want you to do is websurfing and email there is no point to broadband.
i don't mind some reasonable limits that inhibit running a mp3 or warez server 24/7, but the 5 gig number i've seen mentioned so often wouldn't cut it in my opinion, and would certainly drive me away
you could try fan filters out.
they do cut back on your airflow slightly, but if your box is adequately cooled they shouldn't pose any major concerns. you would be amazed at how much dirt these things suck up
if troll is the proper moderation for this.
you see pro-life groups actually do compare cloning to to nazi research. this argument certainly doesn't fly with me, but it is one of the arguments they use.
And hey it's hard to refute idiotic arguments, unless you at least realize that they exist
It's just going to slow broadband adoption (less competition) and allow the Bells to sit on their fat T-1 revenues.
if the Bells sit on "their fat T-1 revenues" too long they will find that their chance of a large market share has been gobbled up by cable, satellite, and wireless. They know better than to let this happen, they just want to make sure that small ISP's can't compete with them (over their own lines at least), and for now they seem to have succeeded
sorry to tell you this, but your link to bugzilla is pointless...
;)
you see they are one of the few sites out there that knows to block referrer hits from slashdot (guessin it killed em once or twice, but hey at least they learned)
doesn't mean your point is any less valid, just that bugzilla knows better than to be slahdotted
I recently went to dinner with my father, he is a employee of Rocketdyne in California, he has spent the better part of his career working on things for the Shuttle. A few months ago when the launched he was invited to Canaveral to be honored for his work at the launch. To put it mildly he loves being onvolved with the shuttle project, and is very well off (but he doesn't break that 5 mill number you propose, maybe 2 or 3 at best).
So anyways back to the dinner, i had just read a story about the Russian 100k sub-orital trip deal, and asked him what he thought. I was pretty surprised to hear how interested he was in it, no doubt he wouldn't risk his life on some crackpot ride... but if there was one available with a fairly proven track record i now know he would jump on the opportunity.
This is a very well educated and well informed person when it comes to space flight, and he loves the idea. It doesn't surprise me one bit that it's a fairly common view.
good question
that is the essence of this game, a basically old school DM game, integrated with the new graphics.
*shrug* beats the heck out of me how pointing out how it has the advantages of both is trolling, but i certainly do like the concept behind the game, can't wait to see how it turns out
Well, when you consider the party that Rosen and Valenti threw for their favorite bought and paid for politicans yesterday, things certainly don't look promising, at least in the short-term.
I wonder why they didn't invite Boucher to the festivities? Frankly until there are more fair-use advocates like him in congress i will be very worried
Now if they just make the next project "novel ways to remove people who don't help us from the gene pool"
;)
Don't worry, im all over that one. You see i figured that considering the current state of the USPTO that i would apply for "a method of using deoxyribonucleic acids to create unique and distinct characteristics among individuals"
after my patent on DNA is approved i shall charge a 1 dollar licensing fee among all humans.
Of course should you choose to not pay my fee, or i refuse to license to you i shall be forced to remove all of your unlicensed DNA... so you see, i shall have exactly the answer to the problem you would like answered
I cannot go patching my software every morning after booting the computer!!
thats one of the things that Windows does rather seamlessly though. I booted to it this morning to take care of a few things, and a little reminder notice popped up in the toolbar saying "a update is available"... all i did was click "Yes" and it was installed, it told me i had to restart to finish the update, and i ignored that part...once i finally do restart my computer it will be fully installed. This process took me a grand total of about 1 second of my time.
There are plenty of valid complaints about MS, but this is one of those cases where they are doing something right.
in reference to his attitude about people who skip ads during shows...
;)
CW: What if you have to go to the bathroom or get up to get a Coke?
JK: I guess there's a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom
jeez how reasonable of him, there is a "certain" tolerance for allowing natural bodily functions by TV viewers, but im guessing that us beer drinkers and people with weak bladders should probably stop watching, because such willy-nilly use of the bathroom is probably thievery
full interview here btw
Do I care if cops are present at my ISP while executing a search warrant? Of course not. As long as a search warrant is required and a judge (with accountability) believed the police presented enough logical reason for the warrant, I certainly don't care.
Exactly, there was a warrant presented and that's what really matters here. If they have a warrant the courts have allready ruled that they have a right to access the data, and it's not like Officer Bag O'Donuts is gonna have the technological skill to glean the data from a server anyways, even if he is present, he will just stand there while a admin goes thru and collects the data and then hands him the printouts of it. He will not have any more of a clue about how the data was collected than if he wasn't present.
There are far more troubling ISP privacy issues than this, such as the Cyber Security Enhancement Act of 2001 that we should be worried about
Taken from a interview With Jamie Kellner (CEO of Turner Broadcasting) here
;)
in reference to his attitude about people who skip ads during shows...
CW: What if you have to go to the bathroom or get up to get a Coke?
JK: I guess there's a certain amount of tolerance for going to the bathroom
So you see there is a "certain amount of tolerance" for normal bathroom users... but beer drinkers who just go around urinating willy-nilly at every commercial break, and people with weak bladders should certainly not be allowed to watch TV
Seems some water flow patterns at the Gilroy Hot Springs may have changed a bit.
This is a beautiful area that many people in the bay area take advantage of, and it is also a very historically significant site.
Following WWII when Japanese-American citizens were released from internment camps many of them spent a good deal of time at Gilroy-Yamato attempting to re-enter society, bit of a overview here
The land was recently sold to the Nature Conservancy (ie. about a month ago), but is still being ran by the seller until the conservancy is ready to take over...
From what i understand they have some serious problems right now tonight, yes no major structures have fallen, and no lives are lost, but this is practically a sacred site to many Japanese-Americans, and a beautifull one in any case to others... would be a shame to see it suffer any ill consequences as are being reported
As i sit back and relax for a good read wearing my tin-foil cap, i'll just have to resort to wrapping my books in tin-foil as well.
It should work fine right up until the courts rule that tin-foil is a circumvention device under the DMCA...
once that happens the aliens will finally control us all!
that the only truly efficient cooling system is liquid nitrogen in a styrofoam cup!
the armadillo aerospace site is full of MPG videos.. low and high bandwidth versions.
;)
this will be the fastest slashdotting in history
sheesh man, if you really want it fire up IRC, get on Efnet do a channel search "VCD" ... you will see a certain number of chans at the top of the list that list it in their comments, coincedentally you will notice that these specific chans also have over 500 people in them probably.
;)
then you can madly try to get in a fserv, or queued up on a xdcc bot, etc like most of the other 500+ plus people in the channel are doing
i dont even download these things and i know that much...if this is to complicated for you im sure it will be a lot easier to get on the mainstream piracy tools like kazaa soon
HP and DEC actually listened to their customers. In particular, I've spoken directly to DEC engineers in reporting/resolving problems - NOT some third-party technical support office.
i wholeheartedly agree, my first job dealing with HP was adminning a HP1000 RTEA system, i lucked into the job when my boss left and they asked me to try to hold down the fort till a replacement could be found, i was far underqualified for the position and in way over my head.
I poured through manuals like a madman and did my best, but honestly it was the great service from HP that allowed me to get by. Funny thing was, about a month later i was doing the same job as the guy i replaced better than he had done it, and managed to keep the job.
If it wasn't for the great guys at HP that got to know me on a first name basis for a few weeks there, i could have never done it. I'm still gratefull to those guys to this day.
taken from this article
Second, administrators that attempted to block the AIM service by blocking the default port of TCP/20379 were in for a shock. The AIM client/server model is extremely versatile and doesn't pay any attention to WKS (Well Known Services); the login server allows connections from every TCP port under the sun, including the ports that are likely permitted for business reasons: TCP/21 (ftp), TCP/80 (http), and TCP/443 (https). While we would never do something nasty like run nmap against login.oscar.aol.com, we think you'd be surprised if you knew just how many AIM-open ports there are.
AIM also runs over proxy; and the client has an "auto-configure" button that makes it really easy for Nancy in Human Resources to bypass your perimeter security. In a nutshell, AIM's a slippery little devil and just about impossible to block unless you're using a perimeter device with content inspection capabilities. We can expect more user toys to start exhibiting these perimeter-security-bypassing traits, which means that you will not know what applications are actually in use on the network layer, since the port number will become meaningless.
Remember when the RIAA did their experiment with those kids downloading a ton of music before the Grammys, well those same kids said they got most of their content with AIM. Shutting down everything except HTTP/SMTP/POP may not even cut it nowadays
What the heck is this supposed to mean? You sit on your ass and drink ale? I can do that without paying $15 a month.
yes, but you would miss out on cyber sexx0ring with a cute little elf that is probably played by a 15 year old pimple faced boy!