What ever happened to the do not call list. I have suddenly been getting a barrage of telemarketing calls. I thought these were illegal with a hefty fine. What happened? Is this like all good government programs: no teeth?
I use my charlie card on a daily basis. I've never had a problem with it or with the the debit card readers that allow me to add value to the card. It's a great system from a users point of view, no lines trying to buy tokens. The fact that the encryption system on the cards was cracked by students from MIT shouldn't surprise anyone what should surprise everyone is that the MBTA management didn't anticipate it and set up a system to track fraudulent cards. I guess they'll have to now.
That's common. I just got a monster package (with lots of peanuts and reusable air packs) containing 4 boxes with 1 paper license in each box. This was for Brocade fiber licenses. It's truly nuts. A FedEx envelope would have been just as secure, cheaper and far more efficient.
When my daughter was in middle school she took first year Latin. At the parent/teacher conference the teacher remarked that our children were very lucky since the school had just purchased the latest edition of the Latin textbook. Dead silence! I finally put my hand up and asked, "Why would you need a new edition of a Latin textbook?" He had no answer other than an incoherent mumble. Don't you love academia.
This is not about having access to a copyrighted work. It's about making the work available for copyright theft. If there is no evidence that anyone has actually made a copy of a copyrighted work on my computer but someone could if so inclined I am guilty of making it available for copy. How is this any different from a library that makes a book available to someone while a copier sits in the vestibule. In the case of my disk it's easy to copy, in the case of the library I need physical possession of the book and access to a copier before I can copy. Just because there is one extra step involved with a physical book does not lesson the fact that the cases are identical with the exception that in determining that I have made a work available on my computer the RIAA must trespass first.
By this argument every library in America is guilty of making copyrighted material available. Since their intent is to "loan" copyrighted material and they make no effort to prevent its subsequent copying and redistribution I think every library in America should be fined billions and billions of dollars.
Given the RIAA's behavior when will the record companies be hit with the RICO statutes? They are obviously organized crime and in the extortion business.
I used to work at Akamai too - they use squid in their caching servers and anycast DNS to yield the topologically local server. Anyone could easily duplicate what they do... with enough cash to buy 10,000 or so cheap boxes.
I've worked for some very good and some really bad CIO's. The one thing every bad CIO had in common was that they were ex-DEC executives. This is not a judgment just an observation.
SG
Way back in the early 1990's someone at MIT wrote an IRC server in postscript that ran (very slowly) on an HP printer. I was never able to stay connected to it for very long but it dis illustrate what you could do with postscript on a postscript enabled printer.
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What ever happened to the do not call list. I have suddenly been getting a barrage of telemarketing calls. I thought these were illegal with a hefty fine. What happened? Is this like all good government programs: no teeth?
I'm just an overclocked ape.
I use my charlie card on a daily basis. I've never had a problem with it or with the the debit card readers that allow me to add value to the card. It's a great system from a users point of view, no lines trying to buy tokens. The fact that the encryption system on the cards was cracked by students from MIT shouldn't surprise anyone what should surprise everyone is that the MBTA management didn't anticipate it and set up a system to track fraudulent cards. I guess they'll have to now.
Did I miss the memo. Has Apple replaced Microsoft now that Bill's retired?
That's common. I just got a monster package (with lots of peanuts and reusable air packs) containing 4 boxes with 1 paper license in each box. This was for Brocade fiber licenses. It's truly nuts. A FedEx envelope would have been just as secure, cheaper and far more efficient.
Or removed the battery.
That would be MIT.
When my daughter was in middle school she took first year Latin. At the parent/teacher conference the teacher remarked that our children were very lucky since the school had just purchased the latest edition of the Latin textbook. Dead silence! I finally put my hand up and asked, "Why would you need a new edition of a Latin textbook?" He had no answer other than an incoherent mumble. Don't you love academia.
This is not about having access to a copyrighted work. It's about making the work available for copyright theft. If there is no evidence that anyone has actually made a copy of a copyrighted work on my computer but someone could if so inclined I am guilty of making it available for copy. How is this any different from a library that makes a book available to someone while a copier sits in the vestibule. In the case of my disk it's easy to copy, in the case of the library I need physical possession of the book and access to a copier before I can copy. Just because there is one extra step involved with a physical book does not lesson the fact that the cases are identical with the exception that in determining that I have made a work available on my computer the RIAA must trespass first.
By this argument every library in America is guilty of making copyrighted material available. Since their intent is to "loan" copyrighted material and they make no effort to prevent its subsequent copying and redistribution I think every library in America should be fined billions and billions of dollars.
I hope they are smart enough to land on the dark side.
Just like libraries did before the Internet.
If they are smart they'll look for the TrueCrypt executable which is a sure fire indication that you've encrypted your data.
just a thought - and a small one at that.
Given the RIAA's behavior when will the record companies be hit with the RICO statutes? They are obviously organized crime and in the extortion business.
No gui management system fro Linux? Ever try webmin?
On my crackberry SMS and email are delivered to the same bin. At first it was disconcerting but now it makes sense.
It's a miracle we can reproduce.
Tim Berners-Lee is on Akamai's board.
I used to work at Akamai too - they use squid in their caching servers and anycast DNS to yield the topologically local server. Anyone could easily duplicate what they do ... with enough cash to buy 10,000 or so cheap boxes.
I've worked for some very good and some really bad CIO's. The one thing every bad CIO had in common was that they were ex-DEC executives. This is not a judgment just an observation. SG
I wonder what the murder rate is in Baghdad where everyone appears to own an AK-47?
SG
Well at least Microsoft's version is still in beta. Oh wait ....
Way back in the early 1990's someone at MIT wrote an IRC server in postscript that ran (very slowly) on an HP printer. I was never able to stay connected to it for very long but it dis illustrate what you could do with postscript on a postscript enabled printer.
For $11.00 Yahoo will give you unlimited bandwidth and storage space. I think W3C should call them on their offering. :)
Something new? How about IRC.