They only really need one public IP. They can run all 1.3 billion users through a single system. Then the government over there wont have to work so hard at censoring their citizen's view of the outside world and can firewall all the information off so the outside world cant see whats going on inside.
No one _forced_ SCO to release code without checking it, and the fact that they did reflects badly on their professionalism as a software company and even worse on their due diligence that they are meant to exercise in protecting their shareholders. If their code was eaten by the GPL then that was their fault.
"Gee, our UNIX isn't selling well. There is this new thing, Linux, its making money, lets jump on that bandwagon real quick, make some fast cash, build strategic partnerships."
"Damn, someone screwed up and our code is in this Linux thing. Quick, hide the evidence and sue IBM. Hell, everyone sues IBM to cover up mistakes."
If my company doesn't trust its entire bookeeping system to a solely electronic accounting system, what makes me trust that an electronic voting system is infallible? Here in Georgia, we did not see the volume of problems that other states had had with electronic voting. The "success" of the transition is owed to the Georgia Secretary of State's terrific education program. Educate the voters, multiple times. I would have liked to have a nice little receipt stating time and date that I voted. An assurance that the transaction was successful, so to speak.
As an aside, while the objectivity of the NYT in regard to social and political issues can be questioned, their articles on technology are more often on track.
After SAINT the network tool went after the author of Saint (the open source server/service uptime application) over a name/branding dispute, we have stopped recommending their product (the network security tool) entirely.
They were similarly named, however, there was very little chance of them being confused for one another. Apparently SAINT didn't have enough confidence in their own marketing or their customers intelligence to keep their lawyers out of it.
Just my 2 cents worth. But then, my 2 cents has an effect on a few large clients with large budgets. Good Job SAINT.
They aren't copying it "into". They are copying it "onto".
Microsoft is effectively tying the application to a particular OS. By making you agree to not use the older version, they are attempting to negate the existing user base on alternative OS.
The Bill has been read twice on the House floor and has passed into Committee. It is now in the Public Utilities Committee with David Lucas, Chairman.
Upon initial reading of the bill, it is amazing the level of deception being used to change the status quo. The previous bill, which covered cable and pay phone service theft, specified the illegal devices. The new bill removes that entire section (as opposed to changing it) and makes ties the legality of the device to the granting of permission from the service provider.
Example: I have a website. Through that website, I provide a service. Lets just say I pass information along, articles. You have a zip disk. Today, that Zip Drive/Disk. That drive is legal under current Georgia law. However, if I do not EXPRESSLY and SPECIFICALLY grant you permission to store on that Zip drive/disk the articles I, the service provider, deliver to you, your device is now an illegal device under the new law. Absurd, isn't it? Lets go a bit farther. Without proving to a judge the value of damages, I can have an injunction placed on you, seize that drive, and have it held until we all go to court.
"Hello, my name is {Insert Popular Anti-War Opiner Here}, and I have freedom of speech."
Yes, you do. You do have the right to free speech. I also have the right to NOT watch your films, read your books, by your countries product, support your os, or whatever else I want to do. It also does NOT mean that I have to listen to you.
The Freedom of Speech in the constitution applies to the relationship between the US Government and its citizens. (some may argue all persons) You may not stand in my business and denounce my business. You may not stand in my front yard, and denounce me. Stand in a public place, more power to you.
Now, that being stated...All of this chatter over Theo's "contemplation" of the grant being dropped? No official statement from DARPA yet, right?
"And although Theo de Raadt is happy to have more than $2-million (U.S.) in research support from the U.S. military's research and development office, the source of that funding has made him more than a little uneasy."
But, um, not uneasy enough to return the $2 million BEFORE they took it away? What kind of backbone is that?
For those in the State of Georgia interested in putting forth an opposition to this legislature, my office number is 770.719.3852. My email for this will be hsb867@lobosoft.com.
I just called our four representatives for District 48. One of them has called me back so far, and said that honestly, single phone calls are in no way as efffective as collective opposition.
So, if you are a small business owner, a computer consultant, or even just an individual who is looking at a felony record if this passes, email me.
To find out who your representative is Georgia, you can visit Polling Place and Elected Officials finder at the secretary of states website.
Exactly! Additionally, the header implies an infrastructure project, and it ends up being domain name sales? Please.
When the basic needs are supplied, there are plenty of us in the open source world willing to donate time to help native Iraqis rebuild their network infrastructure.
I have to agree with you completely. We run spamassassin in house to filter out spam destined for our employee accounts.
It gets dropped into a very large file. Then once a month, 2 employees go through the messages, if the product is from a large national company, we print out the message, find a PR contact and upper level management for the company, and we have a nice form letter that goes out. The idea is, we know who you are, its YOUR reputation on the line (as anonymous spammers have no reputation) and we are letting you know that we know.
Yeah, it costs some man hours. Is it effective? Can't really tell. Have had some large firms appologize.
This is not like the GPS functionality that the US Phone companies introduced so far. In the US the GPS coordinates are only used for emergencies and not yet for actually providing value to the user in other situations
Um, Nextel has been allowing Java applications access to GPS information for over a year now in the United States.
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They only really need one public IP.
They can run all 1.3 billion users through a single system.
Then the government over there wont have to work so hard at censoring their citizen's view of the outside world and can firewall all the information off so the outside world cant see whats going on inside.
"Gee, our UNIX isn't selling well. There is this new thing, Linux, its making money, lets jump on that bandwagon real quick, make some fast cash, build strategic partnerships."
"Damn, someone screwed up and our code is in this Linux thing. Quick, hide the evidence and sue IBM. Hell, everyone sues IBM to cover up mistakes."
And with you, I will agree.
If my company doesn't trust its entire bookeeping system to a solely electronic accounting system, what makes me trust that an electronic voting system is infallible? Here in Georgia, we did not see the volume of problems that other states had had with electronic voting. The "success" of the transition is owed to the Georgia Secretary of State's terrific education program. Educate the voters, multiple times. I would have liked to have a nice little receipt stating time and date that I voted. An assurance that the transaction was successful, so to speak.
As an aside, while the objectivity of the NYT in regard to social and political issues can be questioned, their articles on technology are more often on track.
Um, like the old grey lady has any credibility at this point.
Troll? No, legitimate comment on the credibility of a "source" of information.
"Appear to be valid copyrighted material" put on the network by the copyright holders/protectors themselves.
So, does this mean that the RIAA is offering copyrighted music for download but made a mistake when they setup their shares?
Does this show intent to distribute?
Does this weaken the copyright claims?
After SAINT the network tool went after the author of Saint (the open source server/service uptime application) over a name/branding dispute, we have stopped recommending their product (the network security tool) entirely.
They were similarly named, however, there was very little chance of them being confused for one another. Apparently SAINT didn't have enough confidence in their own marketing or their customers intelligence to keep their lawyers out of it.
Just my 2 cents worth. But then, my 2 cents has an effect on a few large clients with large budgets. Good Job SAINT.
You dont have to always be zoned commercial to run a business.
Where we are, the customers never come to the house, so all that was required from local government was a $90 a year business license.
State Incorporation ran about $400 with around $30 a year renewal.
They aren't copying it "into".
They are copying it "onto".
Microsoft is effectively tying the application to a particular OS. By making you agree to not use the older version, they are attempting to negate the existing user base on alternative OS.
Give money to the EFF? Please.
They aren't going to pursue each of these at the state level. They failed at the national level.
The only way to defeat these is get your state based trade groups together. En Mas.
http://research.microsoft.com/
Personally, I dont think this warrented a "funny".
Microsoft has a very GOOD research department. The problem is NOT with the researchers, but with the marketing of their ideas.
Ok, thats the best one I'v seen tonight.
Very nice pun.
The Bill has been read twice on the House floor and has passed into Committee. It is now in the Public Utilities Committee with David Lucas, Chairman.
Upon initial reading of the bill, it is amazing the level of deception being used to change the status quo. The previous bill, which covered cable and pay phone service theft, specified the illegal devices. The new bill removes that entire section (as opposed to changing it) and makes ties the legality of the device to the granting of permission from the service provider.
Example: I have a website. Through that website, I provide a service. Lets just say I pass information along, articles. You have a zip disk. Today, that Zip Drive/Disk. That drive is legal under current Georgia law. However, if I do not EXPRESSLY and SPECIFICALLY grant you permission to store on that Zip drive/disk the articles I, the service provider, deliver to you, your device is now an illegal device under the new law. Absurd, isn't it? Lets go a bit farther. Without proving to a judge the value of damages, I can have an injunction placed on you, seize that drive, and have it held until we all go to court.
Ah, you have hit it on the head.
RESPONSIBILITY.
"Hello, my name is {Insert Popular Anti-War Opiner Here}, and I have freedom of speech."
Yes, you do. You do have the right to free speech. I also have the right to NOT watch your films, read your books, by your countries product, support your os, or whatever else I want to do. It also does NOT mean that I have to listen to you.
The Freedom of Speech in the constitution applies to the relationship between the US Government and its citizens. (some may argue all persons) You may not stand in my business and denounce my business. You may not stand in my front yard, and denounce me. Stand in a public place, more power to you.
Now, that being stated...All of this chatter over Theo's "contemplation" of the grant being dropped? No official statement from DARPA yet, right?
But, um, not uneasy enough to return the $2 million BEFORE they took it away? What kind of backbone is that?
I would agree with you, except, I'm not laughing.
The dupes are getting worse.
The content is becoming hum drum.
Apparently so many are paying now, that there is no concern about losing readership now.
MP3z, pirated software....
For those in the State of Georgia interested in putting forth an opposition to this legislature, my office number is 770.719.3852. My email for this will be hsb867@lobosoft.com.
I just called our four representatives for District 48. One of them has called me back so far, and said that honestly, single phone calls are in no way as efffective as collective opposition.
So, if you are a small business owner, a computer consultant, or even just an individual who is looking at a felony record if this passes, email me.
To find out who your representative is Georgia, you can visit Polling Place and Elected Officials finder at the secretary of states website.
Exactly!
Additionally, the header implies an infrastructure project, and it ends up being domain name sales? Please.
When the basic needs are supplied, there are plenty of us in the open source world willing to donate time to help native Iraqis rebuild their network infrastructure.
I would be interested in buying some *.iq address's from an Iraqi owned/based registrar.
I am NOT interested in an auction.
Nor in sending my money to a 3rd party.
Ensure that the profits and control are in the hands of Iraqis, and I'm in.
I have to agree with you completely.
We run spamassassin in house to filter out spam destined for our employee accounts.
It gets dropped into a very large file.
Then once a month, 2 employees go through the messages, if the product is from a large national company, we print out the message, find a PR contact and upper level management for the company, and we have a nice form letter that goes out. The idea is, we know who you are, its YOUR reputation on the line (as anonymous spammers have no reputation) and we are letting you know that we know.
Yeah, it costs some man hours. Is it effective? Can't really tell. Have had some large firms appologize.
Um, Nextel has been allowing Java applications access to GPS information for over a year now in the United States.
Well, I sent mail to Mr Felton after this story posted seeking his source for the claim of a bill on the table here in Georgia. To date, no answer.
I spent a couple of hours last night browsing the general calendar of the House and will take some time this afternoon to scan through the Senate.
Kind of hard to fight a target that isn't found.
Is Felton working off hearsay or what?
Anyone have a link to the bill being referenced for Georgia?
In future generations, this approach will be termed as "UN Action".