> What I don't applaud is the blatant gouging. The prices should be roughly 100 times lower than the ones they are offering.
The ISP's costs are still probably about 1GB for maybe $0.01. But this is just simple demand and supply. The demand is increasing and the supply is not. If you are the monopoly and you can control the supply (which they can) then they can dictate the price.
It's not any different than a baseball star limiting the number of signed baseballs he gives to fans every year (say 10) while keeping 10,000 more in his closet.
That's also the reason that startups are usually run by people in their 20's. Once you get above 40, life changes a bit, you begin to worry about heart attacks, prostate cancer and the like, and actually rely upon good medical insurance given by a company.
You need at least $250k in the bank if you have a heart attack and have no insurance. A 20-something doesn't worry about that.
Imagine if the US gets single payer healthcare. Startups won't be for just the 20-somethings anymore.
KDE is slow because GCC 3.X is not an optimized compiler. When the improvement in GCC 4.X are used on KDE you should see a much faster improvement in start up times.
I like FC3 with gnome. Coding gtk with glade rocks.
"It seems more likely that jamming an Iranian satellite signal would come from the American dishes at the Guantanamo installation than from Cubans."
Armchair punditry at it's worst.
If you'd do some research about NITV The TV station is actually broadcasted from the US into Iran. That's right. National Iranian TV (NITV) is produced in the US. And no, I am not making this up.
NITV, not being state run, has government enemies in Iran for doing things like making fun of the leaders there. So the Mullahs in Iran call the Castro gang in Cuba and get them to do a favor for them.
This is something the US military would not want to block.
'cpio' is also a good choice, especially when capturing special files, like those in/dev. I trust this more than the system default tar on many systems (e.g. Solaris).
Supposedly 'afio' is advertised as a better alternative to cpio. It's biggest advantage would be safer creation of compressed archives.
o There doesn't really exist a distro in the Linux realm that has a high focus on security. There are things like Bastille Linux which is a good overall Q&A tool that will really help you, but I eventually ended up learning ipchains from the command line.
o Snort appears to be the defacto Intrusion Detector right now. There are a couple of different snort rulesets that you can use out there. You won't have much luck interpreting them unless you find a TCP/IP book to read them.
o No. I don't know of an easy way. I think it's pretty hard.
o What's the point?
The point was that the HoneyNet leaves holes in their firewalls and their boxes. They turn on sharing in the Win98 box so they can monitor and detect the traffic and the new techniques. A default RedHat 6.2 box not firewalled is pointless. A RedHat 6.2 box with the latest security updates and with a firewall or with some nifty IPchains rules is still pretty good.
The point is that if you use 6.2, you need to lock it down before you go letting it serve your email, or your webpage, or your dns domain. Heck, and it's not just 6.2. Both 7.0 and 7.1 do have security flaws in them.
Why do you want this thing to do DVD? Honestly. I'm looking into doing something very similar, and all I can say is components, components, components.
Well... Sony's not following your suggestion with the PS2. They put a DVD player in a gaming console.
People want digital convergence (no, not the company, the idea). They don't want to unload a few hundred dollars into mp3 hardware only to spend another few hundred to get the same hardware but only in the ogg flavor. It's easier to update software than hardware.
The point is that there's no reason that a 1.4ghz athlon or 1.7 P4 can't do everything that you want out of it. Especially when the video compression is being offloaded on a specific card. If you're willing to take the time to get the software and configure the box, there's no reason you can come up with a solution that meets all of your requirements, as long as you aren't say ripping two tv channels at once.
So if you have the MJPEG card and the MJPEG drivers, you're ready to rock and roll.
IP over Power Lines has been the holy grail for broadband internet for quite some time. Power lines go everywhere, and there's no need for talk of "the last mile", since a computer is hooked into the power grid, unless you're into making your own power.
The problem has been that the idea never really got off the ground. I think that most people believed that they had a hard time justifying why they could get 2.4 gb/s over high voltage powerlines when DSL could barely get over 2mbps over copper wire. The homeplug standard said they could only get 6mbps and that was over lines internal to the house.
They've had quite a long time already to make it work. I've had a suspicion that if it actually worked as intended, that they would've been in the running for broad band service long ago.
I don't want a New World Society if it means not having the freedoms that our forefathers shed blood to gain for themselves. If anything, a New World Society should have more freedoms, not less.
It shouldn't start dictating restrictions. A New World Society should be enumerating freedoms.
A New World Society must at the very least be more democratic than one country's DMCA unilaterally passed and globally enforced. Otherwise, what exactly is the point of a New World Society.
In other words, who in there right minds believes that ANY US congressman from ANY party is going to accept an international court ruling to tell an American web site to take something down?
Sorry, but I disagree. Legislators have done stupid things from time to time. Congressmen get their direction from large companies. If the RIAA wants it, then sure enough, there will be legislators there to support it. It actually benefits the RIAA and the MPAA because then the DCMA becomes worldwide default law for all American made movies and music -- a big win.
But for the vast majority of websites in teh US that DON'T have an international presence
I don't know if it makes much of a difference anymore. I mean, yes in terms of law it does, but only to the extent where you set up your servers, and to which country your marketing to. But, I don't think it makes the entertainment industry execs feel any better that Americans are pirating movies off a server in Russia rather than a server in the USA.
NIH syndrome is what happened when IBM didn't want to use something like C or AT&T Unix and instead chose to use their own in house proprietary tools / OS's instead.
This, my friend, is called competition. Yes, they're going up against the Oracle goliath, but it's competition none the less.
Fine, use MySQL. No, wait, that's largely banked by VA (IIRC)
Okay, then by that logic, Mandrake should never have based their own distribution off the Red Hat version, opting to instead, start completely from scratch. Luckily for Mandrake, they didn't follow your logic.
And maybe RedHat isn't gunning for press coverage. Tney aren't spending marketing money near to the extent that IBM, Oracle, or M$ are. Continuing in the speculation mode, maybe they just want to produce a "Economy Class" database to compete with the "Rolls Royce" Oracle.
In all honesty, while I like bleeding edge stuff like the next guy, I just get tired of trying to keep non-distro software from conflicting with the distro-level rpm packages and revisions.
I would like to be able to modify my system at will, but if I do, I can forget about red_carpet or rhn doing a proper update on conflicting files.
BOY HOWDY did you miss my main argument. You can pick and choose the ones you want to argue with, fine. But in all seriousness, you really need to tend to all the issues I mentioned. (I'll give you a hint, it includes the phrase "Boy Howdy.")
This goes to show how much you are willing to distort the truth as well as other's arguments to support your own propaganda. For future reference,the line I wrote "THE RIAA SHOULD NOT BE PROSECUTING ANYBODY" belongs above "Do we really want the RIAA privacy-invasion scan on our hard drives."
Actually, I really hate people like you. Cause you obviously haven't been reading or participating the whole debate from start to finish. So instead you set your flame throwers to "frag" and point and shoot wildly aiming at various targets -- slashdot editors, napster users, mp3 enthusiasts. AND then you say, "Oh... let's not start a flame fest here."
The whole argument the *cough*Slashdot editors*cough* have been saying is that THE RIAA SHOULD NOT BE PROSECUTING ANYBODY. Jesus, where the hell have you been? In fact, you *sound* like you want people prosecuted. And apparently it's only okay to have a civil discussion with you as long as somebody *is* prosecuted.
The arguments you have paid attention to only bring to light the arguments you have blatantly ignored. Like, should we really be creating artificial scarcity, here? Do we really want the RIAA privacy-invasion scan on our hard drives? What about Fair Use? Remember "Fair Use?" You do, don't you?
Now, here's the argument you really missed. If I kick you in the teeth, I bet you wouldn't want to buy a cd from me.Boy howdy, did you miss it. Let's face it, if you really want to sell your good on an open market, prosecuting the primary users who buy your goods by the millions just ain't the way to do it.
"I grew up on ( insert choice of distribution here ) , and then I grew up."
I have used Slackware 96, RedHat 5.2, and I switched to Mandrake. I thought that Mandrake 6.1 and 6.2 were okay, but then problems with 7 forced me back to RedHat.
But before we go back into a distro war here, each of the distributions does fill a niche. Slackware is nice for developers, RedHat and debian are nice for a production server due to their ease of upgradability. And mandrake... well... yes it's easier to use and setup for the home user. But a serious user will feel short-changed with stability and overal usability.
No, her results do not matter outside the realm of a 2nd grade classroom. No, nothing she could write would ever possibly get her published in a respected journal. It's what she did that deserves credit. She asked a question, and used the scientific method to get an answer.
First, she's only 8 YEARS OLD! And quite frankly, this is above average for someone of her age. You make her sound like she's pushing a particular political agenda when in reality she ran a simple experiment for a science fair.
And second, if I were doing it, I would want a complete breakdown of preference based upon age, wealth, race, nationality or US region, religion, IQ, gender, level of education... you get the idea, and then let people make up their own mind about what the numbers mean. Would rural protestant Texans over 30 making 25k per year really like the white barbie over the black one? A question like this can only be answered by getting hard data.
And for a third, people like you (and me) who became curious at her results started asking questions about what they really mean. And if you want to know, you can and should run a scientific experiment to find out if your hypotheses are true or false. That's the great thing about scientific research in the USA -- you can research freely, and you can freely announce your results to the public at large. Others can freely respond with praise or criticism. Nothing stands between you and academic freedom -- something which she was denied.
Her work was good enough for a school science fair, and it shouldn't have been censored.
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> What I don't applaud is the blatant gouging. The prices should be roughly 100 times lower than the ones they are offering.
The ISP's costs are still probably about 1GB for maybe $0.01. But this is just simple demand and supply. The demand is increasing and the supply is not. If you are the monopoly and you can control the supply (which they can) then they can dictate the price.
It's not any different than a baseball star limiting the number of signed baseballs he gives to fans every year (say 10) while keeping 10,000 more in his closet.
That's also the reason that startups are usually run by people in their 20's. Once you get above 40, life changes a bit, you begin to worry about heart attacks, prostate cancer and the like, and actually rely upon good medical insurance given by a company.
You need at least $250k in the bank if you have a heart attack and have no insurance. A 20-something doesn't worry about that.
Imagine if the US gets single payer healthcare. Startups won't be for just the 20-somethings anymore.
KDE is slow because GCC 3.X is not an optimized compiler. When the improvement in GCC 4.X are used on KDE you should see a much faster improvement in start up times.
I like FC3 with gnome. Coding gtk with glade rocks.
"It seems more likely that jamming an Iranian satellite signal would come from the American dishes at the Guantanamo installation than from Cubans."
Armchair punditry at it's worst.
If you'd do some research about NITV The TV station is actually broadcasted from the US into Iran. That's right. National Iranian TV (NITV) is produced in the US. And no, I am not making this up.
NITV, not being state run, has government enemies in Iran for doing things like making fun of the leaders there. So the Mullahs in Iran call the Castro gang in Cuba and get them to do a favor for them.
This is something the US military would not want to block.
Yup.
"Shave and a haircut... 2 cents."
Obviously, you're sampling, and should pay
thousands of damages.
'cpio' is also a good choice, especially when capturing special files, like those in /dev. I trust this more than the system default tar on many systems (e.g. Solaris).
Supposedly 'afio' is advertised as a better alternative to cpio. It's biggest advantage would
be safer creation of compressed archives.
Whoops. There's an extra space in the URL I posted, it should look like this.
L .h tml
http://www.newswise.com/articles/2001/7/BEER.TU
Doing a quick search on google, I found this article...
L .h tml
http://www.newswise.com/articles/2001/7/BEER.TU
Apparently the metals become trapped in the soil. They can then take an earth mover and scoop it up into dump trucks, and store it "somewhere safe".
Search Engines that display blurbs of matching hits are violating copyright.
Search Engines that keep the data of webpages stored in a database are violating copyright.
What next? Copyrighted URL's?
o There doesn't really exist a distro in the Linux realm that has a high focus on security. There are things like Bastille Linux which is a good overall Q&A tool that will really help you, but I eventually ended up learning ipchains from the command line.
o Snort appears to be the defacto Intrusion Detector right now. There are a couple of different snort rulesets that you can use out there. You won't have much luck interpreting them unless you find a TCP/IP book to read them.
o No. I don't know of an easy way. I think it's pretty hard.
o What's the point?
The point was that the HoneyNet leaves holes in their firewalls and their boxes. They turn on sharing in the Win98 box so they can monitor and detect the traffic and the new techniques. A default RedHat 6.2 box not firewalled is pointless. A RedHat 6.2 box with the latest security updates and with a firewall or with some nifty IPchains rules is still pretty good.
The point is that if you use 6.2, you need to lock it down before you go letting it serve your email, or your webpage, or your dns domain. Heck, and it's not just 6.2. Both 7.0 and 7.1 do have security flaws in them.
Why do you want this thing to do DVD? Honestly. I'm looking into doing something very similar, and all I can say is components, components, components.
Well... Sony's not following your suggestion with the PS2. They put a DVD player in a gaming console.
People want digital convergence (no, not the company, the idea). They don't want to unload a few hundred dollars into mp3 hardware only to spend another few hundred to get the same hardware but only in the ogg flavor. It's easier to update software than hardware.
The point is that there's no reason that a 1.4ghz athlon or 1.7 P4 can't do everything that you want out of it. Especially when the video compression is being offloaded on a specific card. If you're willing to take the time to get the software and configure the box, there's no reason you can come up with a solution that meets all of your requirements, as long as you aren't say ripping two tv channels at once.
So if you have the MJPEG card and the MJPEG drivers, you're ready to rock and roll.
IP over Power Lines has been the holy grail for broadband internet for quite some time. Power lines go everywhere, and there's no need for talk of "the last mile", since a computer is hooked into the power grid, unless you're into making your own power.
The problem has been that the idea never really got off the ground. I think that most people believed that they had a hard time justifying why they could get 2.4 gb/s over high voltage powerlines when DSL could barely get over 2mbps over copper wire. The homeplug standard said they could only get 6mbps and that was over lines internal to the house.
They've had quite a long time already to make it work. I've had a suspicion that if it actually worked as intended, that they would've been in the running for broad band service long ago.
Excuse me, but did you hear me defend them for making slaves 3/5ths human? No.
Just because I believe they were right in fighting their injustices from England, doesn't mean I condoned the enslavement of millions of people.
Yep. Sadly, they'd be the same forefathers. I'm not saying they were perfect.
New World Society
I don't want a New World Society if it means not having the freedoms that our forefathers shed blood to gain for themselves. If anything, a New World Society should have more freedoms, not less.
It shouldn't start dictating restrictions. A New World Society should be enumerating freedoms.
A New World Society must at the very least be more democratic than one country's DMCA unilaterally passed and globally enforced. Otherwise, what exactly is the point of a New World Society.
In other words, who in there right minds believes that ANY US congressman from ANY party is going to accept an international court ruling to tell an American web site to take something down?
Sorry, but I disagree. Legislators have done stupid things from time to time. Congressmen get their direction from large companies. If the RIAA wants it, then sure enough, there will be legislators there to support it. It actually benefits the RIAA and the MPAA because then the DCMA becomes worldwide default law for all American made movies and music -- a big win.
But for the vast majority of websites in teh US that DON'T have an international presence
I don't know if it makes much of a difference anymore. I mean, yes in terms of law it does, but only to the extent where you set up your servers, and to which country your marketing to. But, I don't think it makes the entertainment industry execs feel any better that Americans are pirating movies off a server in Russia rather than a server in the USA.
That's partially my fault for not specifying that "EVERYTHING IS SPECULATION" at this point.
Who knows exactly whether it's a "brand spanking new" database, or whether it's just an optimized MySQL.
It's still not NIH. It's just simple competition.
NIH syndrome is what happened when IBM didn't want to use something like C or AT&T Unix and instead chose to use their own in house proprietary tools / OS's instead.
This, my friend, is called competition. Yes, they're going up against the Oracle goliath, but it's competition none the less.
Fine, use MySQL. No, wait, that's largely banked by VA (IIRC)
Okay, then by that logic, Mandrake should never have based their own distribution off the Red Hat version, opting to instead, start completely from scratch. Luckily for Mandrake, they didn't follow your logic.
And maybe RedHat isn't gunning for press coverage. Tney aren't spending marketing money near to the extent that IBM, Oracle, or M$ are. Continuing in the speculation mode, maybe they just want to produce a "Economy Class" database to compete with the "Rolls Royce" Oracle.
Now maybe Kathie Lee Gifford can return to a normal tanned skin tone instead of the "Orange" color that she radiates now.
Some have held that privacy was an assumption of the "Unreasonable Search and Seizure" clause.
Ergo, if there is no privacy, there's really no need for things like search warrants.
In all honesty, while I like bleeding edge stuff like the next guy, I just get tired of trying to keep non-distro software from conflicting with the distro-level rpm packages and revisions.
I would like to be able to modify my system at will, but if I do, I can forget about red_carpet or rhn doing a proper update on conflicting files.
BOY HOWDY did you miss my main argument.
,the line I wrote "THE RIAA SHOULD NOT BE PROSECUTING ANYBODY" belongs above "Do we really want the RIAA privacy-invasion scan on our hard drives."
You can pick and choose the ones you want to argue with, fine. But in all seriousness, you really need to tend to all the issues I mentioned. (I'll give you a hint, it includes the phrase "Boy Howdy.")
This goes to show how much you are willing to distort the truth as well as other's arguments to support your own propaganda. For future reference
I anxiously await your reply.
Actually, I really hate people like you. Cause you obviously haven't been reading or participating the whole debate from start to finish. So instead you set your flame throwers to "frag" and point and shoot wildly aiming at various targets -- slashdot editors, napster users, mp3 enthusiasts. AND then you say, "Oh... let's not start a flame fest here."
The whole argument the *cough*Slashdot editors*cough* have been saying is that THE RIAA SHOULD NOT BE PROSECUTING ANYBODY. Jesus, where the hell have you been? In fact, you *sound* like you want people prosecuted. And apparently it's only okay to have a civil discussion with you as long as somebody *is* prosecuted.
The arguments you have paid attention to only bring to light the arguments you have blatantly ignored. Like, should we really be creating artificial scarcity, here? Do we really want the RIAA privacy-invasion scan on our hard drives? What about Fair Use? Remember "Fair Use?" You do, don't you?
Now, here's the argument you really missed. If I kick you in the teeth, I bet you wouldn't want to buy a cd from me. Boy howdy, did you miss it. Let's face it, if you really want to sell your good on an open market, prosecuting the primary users who buy your goods by the millions just ain't the way to do it.
"I grew up on ( insert choice of distribution here ) , and then I grew up."
I have used Slackware 96, RedHat 5.2, and I switched to Mandrake. I thought that Mandrake 6.1 and 6.2 were okay, but then problems with 7 forced me back to RedHat.
But before we go back into a distro war here, each of the distributions does fill a niche. Slackware is nice for developers, RedHat and debian are nice for a production server due to their ease of upgradability. And mandrake... well... yes it's easier to use and setup for the home user. But a serious user will feel short-changed with stability and overal usability.
No, her results do not matter outside the realm of a 2nd grade classroom. No, nothing she could write would ever possibly get her published in a respected journal. It's what she did that deserves credit. She asked a question, and used the scientific method to get an answer.
First, she's only 8 YEARS OLD! And quite frankly, this is above average for someone of her age. You make her sound like she's pushing a particular political agenda when in reality she ran a simple experiment for a science fair.
And second, if I were doing it, I would want a complete breakdown of preference based upon age, wealth, race, nationality or US region, religion, IQ, gender, level of education... you get the idea, and then let people make up their own mind about what the numbers mean. Would rural protestant Texans over 30 making 25k per year really like the white barbie over the black one? A question like this can only be answered by getting hard data.
And for a third, people like you (and me) who became curious at her results started asking questions about what they really mean. And if you want to know, you can and should run a scientific experiment to find out if your hypotheses are true or false. That's the great thing about scientific research in the USA -- you can research freely, and you can freely announce your results to the public at large. Others can freely respond with praise or criticism. Nothing stands between you and academic freedom -- something which she was denied.
Her work was good enough for a school science fair, and it shouldn't have been censored.