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Doesn't the New York Times copyright their online articles? Can I not view them any more for fear of violating Excite's policies?"
fwiw, they are scanning for copyright _violations_, not copyrighted material.
Still what they are doing here is pretty brave (and somewhat demeaning to their customers); you purchased a high-speed connection from us, therefore on that evidence alone we have reason to believe that you are up to no good.:)
Funny thing is they are probably right; anyone want to guess what tiny percentage of high-bandwidth users don't use that connection to illegally retrieve copyrighted items?
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the combined PhD's that GRADUATED COLLEGE at NASA
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>(But Yes, I did start with a 200bps modem. So don't tell me that in your day....I played Tic Tac Toe at a godly 4fps.)
ok, I've gotta ask...where did you find a "200" bps modem? 75, 150, and 300bps modems I've seen (and actively used a 300baud modem), but a 200bps modem?:)
Even without being "y2k" compliant, old Netware 3.x servers are still happy to plod along.
A friend works as an office manager for a small outfit that makes replacement components for the "wear parts" on freight trains. They have a 5v 486dx2 66 running netware 3.11. Drives were duplexed, but one of the SCSI controllers in the array long ago gave out. Now one of the drives that makes up their mirrored "sys:" volume is failing...each time I drop by (153 days since my last visit, according to the server) something new has failed, yet the server admirably continues to perform...all they see is that the system keeps running, so what's up with that computer guy who's hints it may be a good time to consider an upgrade every time he comes by?:) They are using AST 486sx33's for their desktop computers, half the time running a train-industry specific software for DOS, the rest of the time in ms windows 3.11, using ms office 4.3 for general "office" stuff. One person was using AccPac (sp?) accounting software for DOS to manage their payroll, etc...
poking around on the console of that old server and looking around at that network is like going back in time almost a decade.
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Aussie ISP Scans Downloads For Copyright Violation
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Doesn't the New York Times copyright their online articles? Can I not view them any more for fear of violating Excite's policies?"
fwiw, they are scanning for copyright _violations_, not copyrighted material.
Still what they are doing here is pretty brave (and somewhat demeaning to their customers); you purchased a high-speed connection from us, therefore on that evidence alone we have reason to believe that you are up to no good.
Funny thing is they are probably right; anyone want to guess what tiny percentage of high-bandwidth users don't use that connection to illegally retrieve copyrighted items?
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the combined PhD's that GRADUATED COLLEGE at NASA
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Graduated college at NASA? Oh dear.
>(But Yes, I did start with a 200bps modem. So don't tell me that in your day....I played Tic Tac Toe at a godly 4fps.)
:)
ok, I've gotta ask...where did you find a "200" bps modem? 75, 150, and 300bps modems I've seen (and actively used a 300baud modem), but a 200bps modem?
Even without being "y2k" compliant, old Netware 3.x servers are still happy to plod along.
:)
A friend works as an office manager for a small outfit that makes replacement components for the "wear parts" on freight trains. They have a 5v 486dx2 66 running netware 3.11. Drives were duplexed, but one of the SCSI controllers in the array long ago gave out. Now one of the drives that makes up their mirrored "sys:" volume is failing...each time I drop by (153 days since my last visit, according to the server) something new has failed, yet the server admirably continues to perform...all they see is that the system keeps running, so what's up with that computer guy who's hints it may be a good time to consider an upgrade every time he comes by?
They are using AST 486sx33's for their desktop computers, half the time running a train-industry specific software for DOS, the rest of the time in ms windows 3.11, using ms office 4.3 for general "office" stuff. One person was using AccPac (sp?) accounting software for DOS to manage their payroll, etc...
poking around on the console of that old server and looking around at that network is like going back in time almost a decade.