I'm an adult, I own a computer. I don't have any "illegal files" on my machine. My kids, the neighbourgh's kids, etc. come at my place and install Kazaa w/o my knowledge. They start downloading files, etc. Heck they (kids) could even be inadvertely sharing legal MP3's that they bought through "insert MP3 seller here".
So a few days later my PC gets "destroyed" suddently. Who's responsible? It's not a valid reason to not know the law but what if you're not even aware that there is a "crime" being commited? What if there is no crime being commited at all but simply a technological mistake? What if legal mp3 files were shared w/o the user's knowledge?
Let's see this on a different side: You go to your local convenient store and you assist at a crime. Can the cops shoot you for just being there? For not doing anything about it? There are many similar (and less controversial) situations where such force would not be acceptable. You can't even kick the azz of a robber trying to steal you. How would "a copyright protector" (RIAA) be allowed to do such a thing?
Unless linksys can come up with T3 links for 49.99, I doubt anything like this will ever work. If it works with current consumer technologies, then you can kiss your 100K+ downloads goodbye.
Even if you have multiple paths, it will be way too slow.
And to answer your question about ISP's and Telco. Yes we need them, or at least we need silly people with cash. Why are a lot of telco's now owning backbones? They have 1 word in mind: VoIP. If they weren't owning the backbones, I bet we'd be counting their days right now. They made a wise move.
More and more products aren't made in USA anymore. They are made directly in China with no distributors. Check on the tags, it says "Made in China for walmart."
You are not forced to buy at walmart and when people will realise that it hurts their local jobs, it will be too late. Do yourself a favor, get in your car, drive your lazy ass to your LOCAL video store (not blockbuster) and help save a local job instead of funding the walton's retirement fund. Ok, you might pay 50 cents more, but you're giving those folks a job after all. Getting cheap goods is a double-edged sword. Besides, you get what you pay for at walmart. I'm not going to jugde the quality of some products, you be the judge...
We willingly and legally paid IBM for an AIX license. I doubt that this license (and all others) will be void for the following reason:
When we bought this software (and license), we agreed to buy a product that was legal at that time. Both companies faithfully engaged in a mutual contract and although there is appearance of a fault now, I believe it shouldn't invalidate this contract. I see that IBM might have to pay a damage fee, but I doubt any judge will invalidate all previous licenses.
One thing for sure is that saturday the 14th, my machines will be up and running AIX whether or not we're "legit".
Offtopic remark: I always thought that SCO sucked but this is beyond me.
Speed doesn't increase during a communication. You have the impression it does. When you init a handshake, you give a window size and the other machine will send you as many bytes as you want. The speed of the connection itself varies depending on the "channel" you take (some links are faster than other, etc). You also have people starting/stopping connections so you have a roller-coaster effect. "Speed increase" is not decided by any host. Only the window size is. And as far as I know, you can't change it once it's set.
Every(most) streets have their own postal code so even if you ONLY write the postal code and the name of the recipient, the letter should reach it's destination. The rest of the address is basically redundent.
Unlike the USA where a ZIP code is usually used for a city(or part of a city), a postal code is often different on the other side of the street. It's that precise.
On another note, I always thought that having a postal ID that is registered through the postal office would prevent lost mail during moves. It would be much faster to write the ID on the letter and it would be the office's jobto print the right address on file back on the enveloppe. Probably not 100% efficient but it would prevent a lot of lost mail as you would keep 1 ID forever. You wouldn't have to notice anyone of your move but the post office... Sorta like hotmail, you can read your email anywhere.
I wouldn't consider it a PDA actually. The Zaurus 5500 is more like a real computer, just small and less powerful (less upgradable too). But nonetheless, it is very powerful and you can have pretty much anything that's compilable.
I'm a linux freak (and admin) so this is a nice tool for me. I can ssh to work from my living room and fix stuff at home:) Or watch movies from my NFS server, etc. I don't use other features like agenda or address book so I can't say about those. On the wireless side though, it's excellent. I guess it also depends on the type of card you have. Just make sure you have one that's supported under either the "stock" Zaurus ROM or OpenZaurus (which is way better)
Also, since it's Linux based, things like Kismet are ported and work real nice. The only drawback is the battery and I consider buying a less powerful 802.11b card as mine is not power-friendly. Other than that, I get good milage with a base at work and at home. I rarely use it for more than 1-2 hours. I can't wait for the Sharp "C" series to be available as it will have a bigger keyboard. Until then, I'm glad I ditched my Palm Vx, it was useless:)
More and more people (like me?) just DON'T have any CD players at all!
I have a DVD player in my living room, which I doubt will be able to play those disks (heck it can't do CDRs/CDRWs).
I usually play my CD's on my computer and then redirect the audio to my home theater system.
Will I have to become a pirate to listen to my future CDs?
I guess this also raises the question whether or not you own the media or the songs on the media? What do you pay for? The right to listen to the songs (if so, can other people around you listen too?) or the right to listen to *that* media only? (then you can't make MP3s for your walkman/car player?)
It seems like the fact that you can't play that CD on some hardware is some sort of discrimination. You can't fully enjoy your CD. Will record companies refund you a part of the price since you can't play it on all your players? If you own the right to listen to the song, would making a copy be legal in that case?
I guess this doesn't really apply to "home usage" but I have to manage a lot of machines over a SAN and if you don't want people screwing up your SAN, you better use something like CXFS.
CXFS uses a sort of token technique and allows multiple file accesses. That way, we get the same files on all the machines but w/o the NFS overhead and network congestion. File read/write are done over the fiber channel switch and the "metadata" is done over a private network. This is WAY much faster than NFS over Gigabit Ethernet. One good thing about CXFS is the redundency possibility. You can have failover servers and other neat things.
The only drawback, is that you need an SGI server but then, you can use Windows and Solaris clients. Very stable but probable not for home use:)
1. Spam would greatly be reduced if people wouldn't allow sendmail to use unresolvable domain names (dfkljdsf.com). There is a flag and it's up to (lazy) admins to fix this problem.
2. Spam would be reduced if the same admin would turn off open relaying on their own machines. It's "ok" to use it internally, but PLEASE not on a mail gateway!
3. Upgrade sendmail and read http://www.sendmail.org/antispam.html - if you're using windows, well hmm I don't know:)
Quit slashdotting and fix your sendmail.cf
PS: Also fix your broken proxy and vulnerable mailto scripts - if you need help, hire me:)
Most spammers fake their domains. I've seen spam coming from big companies like apple.com (probably using a spoofed address).
So what do you do? Other than "white listing" each and every email you get, this will still allow spam to come through...
Beside, even if a challenge is sent, wouldn't you want to make sure those emails are all spam? Maybe (most likely) automated emails (like noreply@store.com or customer@company.com) won't reply to the challenge, thus you won't get those emails. So basically, you'll still have to take a look at the spam just to make sure you get all those emails.
What I see is a similar solution but at the sendmail level. Make it an automatic challenge/response issue. If a sender sends an email, there should be a flag set on the server. When you get an email, the software should check to make sure the flag exists on the remote server. If not, this is a spam (the email was basically spoofed).
How do you charge someone who ILLEGALLY connects to your machine via port 25 and sends loads of emails? Will the "pseudo-sender" get the bill?
That works fine if everyone plays by the rules but spammers uses any way possible to send email, including using broken (mis-configured) proxies and hacks into bad mailto scripts on web sites.
Spammers don't use their personal email to spam, 1st of all, they use something like bigjohn@kjsdhfkjhdsf.com then they find backdoors. That just won't work at all unless the sendmail process is completely re-writen to use tokens to proof the existance of the sender. (recipient can check on the sender's server to confirm the token. No token, no mail) Even this will let "legitimate" spammers, but it will be much easier to control, especially if there is a spammer DB that sendmail can import. I think this is an easy system, it only (!) requires that people accept it. I think it can be run in parallel until most servers are upgraded.
I've played a bit with these and you're somehow right. Most cheap switches/routers treat the wireless and the LAN as 1 net (which is bad!). So you see everything on all the ports. It's very easy to use "arp poisoning" to fool a cheap switch and become a trusted machine.
Better wireless switchs have "dual subnets" and this allows you more flexibility by denying access to the insecure subnet. Unfortunately, most home users can't really afford one, or can't justify the price increase.
Now, home usage and business usage will always differ. You have to weight the value of protecting your data (risk analysis).
What I recommend for small business, which can be applicable to home as well is to have a firewall right behind your ISP modem and your AP (leave those ports unused - treat as insecure!). Behind the firewall, you can install a cheap 5 ports switch (20-50$). I even tell people NOT to buy one of those multi-purpose switches and rather buy a simple gateway. That way, you can't go wrong by mistakenly hooking a machine on the insecure side. Now make sure the wireless traffic can only connect via an encrypted VPN (easy done with the firewall. Discard anything not going to the right port).
The major key is to consider an AP just like a connection to the Internet: INSECURE!
That's why you have to put the AP before the FW!
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If you put the AP inside your network, you're an idiot looking for trouble. If you put it outside, it's basically like anyone on the net. You have to treat an AP as insecure! You still need a firewall to allow traffic from the internet or the AP to flow in. Just like you don't want people to "direct connect" to your servers, you have to use an encrypted VPN over your AP (as WEP is crackable if you want and MAC access can be spoofed). If you have problems with security, you can hire me:)
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I'm an adult, I own a computer. I don't have any "illegal files" on my machine. My kids, the neighbourgh's kids, etc. come at my place and install Kazaa w/o my knowledge. They start downloading files, etc. Heck they (kids) could even be inadvertely sharing legal MP3's that they bought through "insert MP3 seller here".
So a few days later my PC gets "destroyed" suddently. Who's responsible? It's not a valid reason to not know the law but what if you're not even aware that there is a "crime" being commited? What if there is no crime being commited at all but simply a technological mistake? What if legal mp3 files were shared w/o the user's knowledge?
Let's see this on a different side: You go to your local convenient store and you assist at a crime. Can the cops shoot you for just being there? For not doing anything about it? There are many similar (and less controversial) situations where such force would not be acceptable. You can't even kick the azz of a robber trying to steal you. How would "a copyright protector" (RIAA) be allowed to do such a thing?
Unless linksys can come up with T3 links for 49.99, I doubt anything like this will ever work. If it works with current consumer technologies, then you can kiss your 100K+ downloads goodbye.
Even if you have multiple paths, it will be way too slow.
And to answer your question about ISP's and Telco. Yes we need them, or at least we need silly people with cash. Why are a lot of telco's now owning backbones? They have 1 word in mind: VoIP. If they weren't owning the backbones, I bet we'd be counting their days right now. They made a wise move.
More and more products aren't made in USA anymore. They are made directly in China with no distributors. Check on the tags, it says "Made in China for walmart."
You are not forced to buy at walmart and when people will realise that it hurts their local jobs, it will be too late. Do yourself a favor, get in your car, drive your lazy ass to your LOCAL video store (not blockbuster) and help save a local job instead of funding the walton's retirement fund.
Ok, you might pay 50 cents more, but you're giving those folks a job after all. Getting cheap goods is a double-edged sword. Besides, you get what you pay for at walmart. I'm not going to jugde the quality of some products, you be the judge...
Wasn't this recently updated? Like a few weeks/months ago?? I thought the old act dated from the 30's
We willingly and legally paid IBM for an AIX license. I doubt that this license (and all others) will be void for the following reason:
When we bought this software (and license), we agreed to buy a product that was legal at that time. Both companies faithfully engaged in a mutual contract and although there is appearance of a fault now, I believe it shouldn't invalidate this contract. I see that IBM might have to pay a damage fee, but I doubt any judge will invalidate all previous licenses.
One thing for sure is that saturday the 14th, my machines will be up and running AIX whether or not we're "legit".
Offtopic remark: I always thought that SCO sucked but this is beyond me.
Move your company to Canada where it won't affect your loyal customers.
Speed doesn't increase during a communication. You have the impression it does. When you init a handshake, you give a window size and the other machine will send you as many bytes as you want. The speed of the connection itself varies depending on the "channel" you take (some links are faster than other, etc). You also have people starting/stopping connections so you have a roller-coaster effect. "Speed increase" is not decided by any host. Only the window size is. And as far as I know, you can't change it once it's set.
Wasn't it like 3 feet and then improved to 1 feet? I doubt that even if they have 1cm precision, this won't be precise enough for them..?
I thought I had FP :(
Every(most) streets have their own postal code so even if you ONLY write the postal code and the name of the recipient, the letter should reach it's destination. The rest of the address is basically redundent.
Unlike the USA where a ZIP code is usually used for a city(or part of a city), a postal code is often different on the other side of the street. It's that precise.
On another note, I always thought that having a postal ID that is registered through the postal office would prevent lost mail during moves. It would be much faster to write the ID on the letter and it would be the office's jobto print the right address on file back on the enveloppe. Probably not 100% efficient but it would prevent a lot of lost mail as you would keep 1 ID forever. You wouldn't have to notice anyone of your move but the post office... Sorta like hotmail, you can read your email anywhere.
SCO should sue his mother for giving birth to such an evil! Giving away software for free, what kind of idea is that! :)
Xerox already has such a thing in their copiers.
Tripod, well do you carry a tripod when you go to a convention? Probably not?
Stop complaining and enjoy this premiere. I enjoyed it.
I wouldn't consider it a PDA actually. The Zaurus 5500 is more like a real computer, just small and less powerful (less upgradable too). But nonetheless, it is very powerful and you can have pretty much anything that's compilable.
:) Or watch movies from my NFS server, etc. I don't use other features like agenda or address book so I can't say about those. On the wireless side though, it's excellent. I guess it also depends on the type of card you have. Just make sure you have one that's supported under either the "stock" Zaurus ROM or OpenZaurus (which is way better)
:)
I'm a linux freak (and admin) so this is a nice tool for me. I can ssh to work from my living room and fix stuff at home
Also, since it's Linux based, things like Kismet are ported and work real nice. The only drawback is the battery and I consider buying a less powerful 802.11b card as mine is not power-friendly. Other than that, I get good milage with a base at work and at home. I rarely use it for more than 1-2 hours. I can't wait for the Sharp "C" series to be available as it will have a bigger keyboard. Until then, I'm glad I ditched my Palm Vx, it was useless
anyone ran into that issue? I have never...
More and more people (like me?) just DON'T have any CD players at all!
I have a DVD player in my living room, which I doubt will be able to play those disks (heck it can't do CDRs/CDRWs).
I usually play my CD's on my computer and then redirect the audio to my home theater system.
Will I have to become a pirate to listen to my future CDs?
I guess this also raises the question whether or not you own the media or the songs on the media? What do you pay for? The right to listen to the songs (if so, can other people around you listen too?) or the right to listen to *that* media only? (then you can't make MP3s for your walkman/car player?)
It seems like the fact that you can't play that CD on some hardware is some sort of discrimination. You can't fully enjoy your CD. Will record companies refund you a part of the price since you can't play it on all your players? If you own the right to listen to the song, would making a copy be legal in that case?
I guess this doesn't really apply to "home usage" but I have to manage a lot of machines over a SAN and if you don't want people screwing up your SAN, you better use something like CXFS.
:)
CXFS uses a sort of token technique and allows multiple file accesses. That way, we get the same files on all the machines but w/o the NFS overhead and network congestion. File read/write are done over the fiber channel switch and the "metadata" is done over a private network. This is WAY much faster than NFS over Gigabit Ethernet. One good thing about CXFS is the redundency possibility. You can have failover servers and other neat things.
The only drawback, is that you need an SGI server but then, you can use Windows and Solaris clients. Very stable but probable not for home use
1. Spam would greatly be reduced if people wouldn't allow sendmail to use unresolvable domain names (dfkljdsf.com). There is a flag and it's up to (lazy) admins to fix this problem.
:)
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2. Spam would be reduced if the same admin would turn off open relaying on their own machines. It's "ok" to use it internally, but PLEASE not on a mail gateway!
3. Upgrade sendmail and read http://www.sendmail.org/antispam.html - if you're using windows, well hmm I don't know
Quit slashdotting and fix your sendmail.cf
PS: Also fix your broken proxy and vulnerable mailto scripts - if you need help, hire me
Most spammers fake their domains. I've seen spam coming from big companies like apple.com (probably using a spoofed address).
So what do you do? Other than "white listing" each and every email you get, this will still allow spam to come through...
Beside, even if a challenge is sent, wouldn't you want to make sure those emails are all spam? Maybe (most likely) automated emails (like noreply@store.com or customer@company.com) won't reply to the challenge, thus you won't get those emails. So basically, you'll still have to take a look at the spam just to make sure you get all those emails.
What I see is a similar solution but at the sendmail level. Make it an automatic challenge/response issue. If a sender sends an email, there should be a flag set on the server. When you get an email, the software should check to make sure the flag exists on the remote server. If not, this is a spam (the email was basically spoofed).
SGI has a 128 CPU machine on Itanium2
How do you charge someone who ILLEGALLY connects to your machine via port 25 and sends loads of emails? Will the "pseudo-sender" get the bill?
That works fine if everyone plays by the rules but spammers uses any way possible to send email, including using broken (mis-configured) proxies and hacks into bad mailto scripts on web sites.
Spammers don't use their personal email to spam, 1st of all, they use something like bigjohn@kjsdhfkjhdsf.com then they find backdoors. That just won't work at all unless the sendmail process is completely re-writen to use tokens to proof the existance of the sender. (recipient can check on the sender's server to confirm the token. No token, no mail) Even this will let "legitimate" spammers, but it will be much easier to control, especially if there is a spammer DB that sendmail can import. I think this is an easy system, it only (!) requires that people accept it. I think it can be run in parallel until most servers are upgraded.
My 2 cents...
I've played a bit with these and you're somehow right. Most cheap switches/routers treat the wireless and the LAN as 1 net (which is bad!). So you see everything on all the ports. It's very easy to use "arp poisoning" to fool a cheap switch and become a trusted machine.
Better wireless switchs have "dual subnets" and this allows you more flexibility by denying access to the insecure subnet. Unfortunately, most home users can't really afford one, or can't justify the price increase.
Now, home usage and business usage will always differ. You have to weight the value of protecting your data (risk analysis).
What I recommend for small business, which can be applicable to home as well is to have a firewall right behind your ISP modem and your AP (leave those ports unused - treat as insecure!). Behind the firewall, you can install a cheap 5 ports switch (20-50$). I even tell people NOT to buy one of those multi-purpose switches and rather buy a simple gateway. That way, you can't go wrong by mistakenly hooking a machine on the insecure side. Now make sure the wireless traffic can only connect via an encrypted VPN (easy done with the firewall. Discard anything not going to the right port).
The major key is to consider an AP just like a connection to the Internet: INSECURE!
If you put the AP inside your network, you're an idiot looking for trouble. If you put it outside, it's basically like anyone on the net. You have to treat an AP as insecure! You still need a firewall to allow traffic from the internet or the AP to flow in. Just like you don't want people to "direct connect" to your servers, you have to use an encrypted VPN over your AP (as WEP is crackable if you want and MAC access can be spoofed). If you have problems with security, you can hire me :)
Feasibility through simplicity:
I wrote a very simple script that I pushed to all the workstation that will call scp and push the files they want to the right workstation.
Never had 1 complain.
The key is to keep users informed! -> Training...!
The cellular companies told us so... Why worry?