It doesn't really matter if they scare anyone! If they sue you and win, you are legally responsible to pay the fine or serve the time.
It doesn't matter if you are scared or not. Do you have $15,000 or more on hand to pay the RIAA? Do you look forward to doing prison time of ANY duration?
For some reason it has become unacceptable for people to consider changing the way they work or think. How was Microsoft so successful at making people this way?
There will most certainly be difficulties in converting any enterprise, large or small from MS Office to Open Office and the larger the enterprise the bigger the problem it will be. But, these problems are not insurmountable!
The fact is that many/most corporations have already been through just such a conversion. Before MS Office there was a product called WordPerfect Office and everybody used it. Microsoft came along and offered some better features such as a decent GUI and Object Linking and Embedding(OLE) as well as a competitive price and people started switching. WordPerfect reacted too slowly and allowed a momentum to build. But, not everyone was interested in the new features and countless WordPerfect Office users refused to ever give up venerable office suite. But, as time went on and more and more people started using the incompatible.DOC format, the WordPerfect stalwarts realized that they were going to have to switch.
Most of them did the conversion and for many of them it took years to finish. Some companies still haven't finished converting from WordPerfect to MS Office, even after years of work toward that end. The point is though that they all survived. They all learned the new MS way of doing what they needed to.
Today, Open Office offers a very similar feature set to MS Office. Open Office offers good, though imperfect,.DOC compatibility. Most of all Open Office offers a price that can't be beat. For a company that has just finished a conversion from WordPerfect to MS Office or is still on the throws of such a conversion, switching to Open Office may not make sense yet. But, for most others, refusing Open Office simply because it is not exactly the same as MS Office or because it will take a little while to get used to it is just ludicrous. How did MS convince people that any change is too much trouble?
In my haste to post the above I forgot to note that Brian specifies the camera that he used at the bottom of the large pictures. A Canon Powershot G2. He also includes a link to further information, on his site about the camera.
You should still probably ask him what to use because even though his pictures are fabulous, he may have learned, through his experience, that a different camera would have been better for that particular trip.
Why not ask a professional? You linked to Brian Klimowski's site where he has several fantastic pictures of his trip to Zion National Park. The photos look very nice.Some are even time lapse jewels.
Instead of asking a bunch of inexperienced amateurs on Slashdot, why not ask Brian what he used and what he recommends? He left his email for all to see. Ask him.
Ok. So you think the Lindows IPO is news. It may well be for some people.
But, when you report about IPOs it is usually a good idea to offer a bit more information about the company and its impending IPO. The link to the SEC document doesn't offer any of this information.
How about a bit of information about the company and its present financials? When is the IPO scheduled to occur? I hope for their sake it is nothing like Andover.
But what corpirate type would admit that their company lost 2 million dollars last year? They much prefer to impress people by saying that they had 30 billion in revenue. As for net? Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...
The testing that is being done on these CDs is extreme. If you stored your cassette tapes in 60-80 degrees celsius and 85% humidity, the cassettes would also fail. Neither media is intended to be stored under these conditions. Just as these CDs are failing so do cassettes. There have been numerous times where my cassettes have become unusable because the have spent too much time in a hot car ~60C.
If your CDs are store in a cool dry place, out of direct sunlight they can certainly last 100 years your cassettes probably can too.
Storage is the most liekly reason. With solar-only electric you need large banks of batteries to store the electricity for later use during dark periods. These batteries take a lot of space, must be replaced periodically and their disposal is not environmentally friendly.
By converting the solar to hydrogen you get an efficient fuel that is easily stored in a smaller space. There is no/less need for replacement of the storage vessel and it is very environmentally friendly, making disposal a mute point.
It is indeed a problem with TCP but, it is in no way new. Many people have relied on this "vulnerabillity" for years. This is the technique that many firewalls implement in order to terminate undesirable sessions.
This vulnerabillity impacts the applications that are unable to handle session interruptions. BGP is such an appilication but, its impact on BGP is critical because this attack could seriously impeed BGP and since the internet backbone relies on BGP such an attack could covceivably shut down the internet. This is a known vulnerabillity in BGP, as you said, and it is surprising to me that BGP has not been modified to prevent this from happening.
By and large most applications will be able to deal with this and only minor annoyances such as DoS will occur.
As for earlier posts about OpenBSD being immune, I am very eager to hear how that is possible. No matter what the implementation, it is still possible to reset TCP sessions. This means that OpenBSD is still potentially vulnerable to DoS attacks.
Provided that BGP is modified to make it more fault tolerant, I can't see this problem with TCP being anything more than a short-lived niusance. I'm sure however that many people will try to use this as leverage to force IPv6 migration however, I believe that it too is vulnerable.
but you have to make sure you're speaking the same opinions as those around you. That's one reason I LIKE Slashdot
It seems that you are advocating the concept of Slashthink, something that many people naively deny exists here. None the less it indeed exists and right now you are a proponent of it. So, I must ask, how will you feel when Slashthink turns against you or when you grow up and your views start to deviate from the Slashthink prattle?
I've never been afraid of different or opposing view points. What scares me is when those opposing view points are being stiffled by a system that encourages groupthink, rather like Slashdot or today's "fair and ballanced(TM)" media.
Think about this: You'll probably agree that the world is mostly populated by morons, except you of course (Many/most Slashdotters think this). So, what do you do when the groupthink of all those morons in the world turns against YOU?
There are already a few misguided posts on the matter so hopefully, I can clear this up for you.
Microsoft and many other software makers already address this licensing issue. On this machine Microsoft requires either two licenses for Windows or one Windows license and a Terminal Server Client Access license. For MS Office a license is required for each per seat instance. SO, two users in Word requires two licenses.
This same licensing system is also required by many/most other commercial vendors. Anyone familiar with Terminal services or Citrix should be familiar with this licensing model. If they aren't Microsoft will enjoy speaking with them.
Did you look at Nortel? These guys have been in the phone business for over 100 years and they know how to do it right. They don't offer "low cost" solutions and definitely don't offer free solutions but, you can't go wrong with their products.
One of the products that might fit your needs very well is their Business Communications Manager. It is an all in one box for small businesses and branch offices. The Business Communications Manager(BCM) provides PBX funtionality for IP phones as well as standard analog and digital sets. It offers Interactive Voice Response(IVR), Call Center, Unified Messaging(voice mail, fax email), call routing and much more. Indeed, it offers just about all of the services of a full scale PBX, not a key system, a PBX. On top of all the voice stuff, the BCM also offers WAN routing and internet access features such as firewall, proxy and VPN services. Management is performed via a browser based GUI that is really excellent.
I have used this system on several occassions for international branch offices where, interoffice long distance calls and transfers were done over the internet with good results. Not always perfect results as the internet offers no QoS but good results for the most part. The businesses that use this setup feel that the long distance cost savings have more than made up for the occassional degradation in call quality. By the way, when the internet connection quality degrades to unaccepable levels the system automatically switches to POTS connections for new call setup (not IP calls already in progress). How much does it cost you to route your calls from Canada, South America or Europe to your HQ in the US? For these guys it only costs them the price of the BCM and an internet connection.
Since when is it necessary to identify the vehicle (and its occupant) in order to transmit a warning. There are already car stereo systems that respond to broacast traffic alerts amongst other things. There is no need to identify a specific vehicle.
Here's an idea. Instead of placing RFID sensors all over creation to identify vehicles and "make things safer", how about installing short range transmitters in all of those same locations and only have receivers in the cars. If an accident occurs, simply light up the transmitters in the proximity of the accident and everyone in that area can receive the signal. Is that so complicated? No! In fact it is already done that way in many places.
There is NO safety advantage in identifying the actual vehicle. There is however a tremendous surveilence opportunity as well as the abillity to issue fines remotely. Toll collection costs can be reduced too and then new toll collection schemes can be established. Wonderful things like the UK's congestion surcharge. I can't wait for my chance to pay $20 to drive through downtown!
I hadn't heard about this new feature. It could be rather interesting. But SourceForge has been having too many problems for too long. It seems as though no one is maintaining it, they simply disable a feature when it breaks. Additionally, I have always been concerned about having so many projects and information sites in a single OSDN basket. One never knows what the future holds for OSDN.
Sounds like a great idea especially for home users or some such but, as soon as you look at the bigger picture things start to break down. First of all, what about legitimate mailinglists? Some of them have hundreds of thousands of addresses. You want the administrator to have to go through and click a web page for each and every address on the list? Never gonna happen.
What about corporate use? Many legitimate emails go to a dozen recipients almost like a mailinglist. Think of the lost productivity with the senders clicking webpages for each reply and forward. Think of the dreaded Everyone group. Well, that would be an advantage but, you start to see what I mean.
Your idea is very similar in concept to a few others in that it requires a cost, someone reading a picture and clicking a button for the message to transfer. This scheme is better implemented by the various proposals that invoke a computational cost for each message transferred, like those from AOL Yahoo and Microsoft but, even these proposals all have major drawbacks and no one is rushing to implement them.
Presently the only problem with this is that there are no plug-ins for the MTAs themselves yet. The plug-in is for spamassassin. That means that the message has to be transfered and passed onto Spamassassin before it can be dropped or tagged whereas, the other RBLs allow you to drop the connection before the message is transfered. This problem will be solved once there are plug-ins for the MTAs themselves.
But, I have to ask, why aren't existing RBLs like Spamhaus effective. They should be far more effective than the ~40% that I am experiencing.
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It doesn't really matter if they scare anyone! If they sue you and win, you are legally responsible to pay the fine or serve the time.
It doesn't matter if you are scared or not. Do you have $15,000 or more on hand to pay the RIAA? Do you look forward to doing prison time of ANY duration?
The point is that they get rich!
IANAL but, the RIAA had better win. If they don't win they will then have files 2,454 frivolous lawsuits. That's something the courts frown upon.
Here are the instructions you need to make a speaker.
How many AutoZone customers do you think have ever heard of SCO? For that matter how many do you think would care anyway?
For some reason it has become unacceptable for people to consider changing the way they work or think. How was Microsoft so successful at making people this way?
.DOC format, the WordPerfect stalwarts realized that they were going to have to switch.
.DOC compatibility. Most of all Open Office offers a price that can't be beat. For a company that has just finished a conversion from WordPerfect to MS Office or is still on the throws of such a conversion, switching to Open Office may not make sense yet. But, for most others, refusing Open Office simply because it is not exactly the same as MS Office or because it will take a little while to get used to it is just ludicrous. How did MS convince people that any change is too much trouble?
There will most certainly be difficulties in converting any enterprise, large or small from MS Office to Open Office and the larger the enterprise the bigger the problem it will be. But, these problems are not insurmountable!
The fact is that many/most corporations have already been through just such a conversion. Before MS Office there was a product called WordPerfect Office and everybody used it. Microsoft came along and offered some better features such as a decent GUI and Object Linking and Embedding(OLE) as well as a competitive price and people started switching. WordPerfect reacted too slowly and allowed a momentum to build. But, not everyone was interested in the new features and countless WordPerfect Office users refused to ever give up venerable office suite. But, as time went on and more and more people started using the incompatible
Most of them did the conversion and for many of them it took years to finish. Some companies still haven't finished converting from WordPerfect to MS Office, even after years of work toward that end. The point is though that they all survived. They all learned the new MS way of doing what they needed to.
Today, Open Office offers a very similar feature set to MS Office. Open Office offers good, though imperfect,
In my haste to post the above I forgot to note that Brian specifies the camera that he used at the bottom of the large pictures. A Canon Powershot G2. He also includes a link to further information, on his site about the camera.
You should still probably ask him what to use because even though his pictures are fabulous, he may have learned, through his experience, that a different camera would have been better for that particular trip.
Why not ask a professional? You linked to Brian Klimowski's site where he has several fantastic pictures of his trip to Zion National Park. The photos look very nice. Some are even time lapse jewels.
Instead of asking a bunch of inexperienced amateurs on Slashdot, why not ask Brian what he used and what he recommends? He left his email for all to see. Ask him.
Ok. So you think the Lindows IPO is news. It may well be for some people.
But, when you report about IPOs it is usually a good idea to offer a bit more information about the company and its impending IPO. The link to the SEC document doesn't offer any of this information.
How about a bit of information about the company and its present financials? When is the IPO scheduled to occur? I hope for their sake it is nothing like Andover.
should have taught him that: When you play with fire, you get your fingers burned.
So far he has won and avoided jail. But, if he continues to push his luck, like this, some corporation is going to bury him.
these guys will do a great job but, it isn't going to be cheap. Sykes Help Desk
But what corpirate type would admit that their company lost 2 million dollars last year? They much prefer to impress people by saying that they had 30 billion in revenue. As for net? Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...
You mean that they are again artificially forcing up the price of RAM?
RAM prices are like oil prices, they have nothing to do with supply and demand but instead, are controlled by some secret or not so secret cartel.
I've never heard of any of these "well known" groups.
The testing that is being done on these CDs is extreme. If you stored your cassette tapes in 60-80 degrees celsius and 85% humidity, the cassettes would also fail. Neither media is intended to be stored under these conditions. Just as these CDs are failing so do cassettes. There have been numerous times where my cassettes have become unusable because the have spent too much time in a hot car ~60C.
If your CDs are store in a cool dry place, out of direct sunlight they can certainly last 100 years your cassettes probably can too.
Storage is the most liekly reason. With solar-only electric you need large banks of batteries to store the electricity for later use during dark periods. These batteries take a lot of space, must be replaced periodically and their disposal is not environmentally friendly.
By converting the solar to hydrogen you get an efficient fuel that is easily stored in a smaller space. There is no/less need for replacement of the storage vessel and it is very environmentally friendly, making disposal a mute point.
It is indeed a problem with TCP but, it is in no way new. Many people have relied on this "vulnerabillity" for years. This is the technique that many firewalls implement in order to terminate undesirable sessions.
This vulnerabillity impacts the applications that are unable to handle session interruptions. BGP is such an appilication but, its impact on BGP is critical because this attack could seriously impeed BGP and since the internet backbone relies on BGP such an attack could covceivably shut down the internet. This is a known vulnerabillity in BGP, as you said, and it is surprising to me that BGP has not been modified to prevent this from happening.
By and large most applications will be able to deal with this and only minor annoyances such as DoS will occur.
As for earlier posts about OpenBSD being immune, I am very eager to hear how that is possible. No matter what the implementation, it is still possible to reset TCP sessions. This means that OpenBSD is still potentially vulnerable to DoS attacks.
Provided that BGP is modified to make it more fault tolerant, I can't see this problem with TCP being anything more than a short-lived niusance. I'm sure however that many people will try to use this as leverage to force IPv6 migration however, I believe that it too is vulnerable.
but you have to make sure you're speaking the same opinions as those around you. That's one reason I LIKE Slashdot
It seems that you are advocating the concept of Slashthink, something that many people naively deny exists here. None the less it indeed exists and right now you are a proponent of it. So, I must ask, how will you feel when Slashthink turns against you or when you grow up and your views start to deviate from the Slashthink prattle?
I've never been afraid of different or opposing view points. What scares me is when those opposing view points are being stiffled by a system that encourages groupthink, rather like Slashdot or today's "fair and ballanced(TM)" media.
Think about this: You'll probably agree that the world is mostly populated by morons, except you of course (Many/most Slashdotters think this). So, what do you do when the groupthink of all those morons in the world turns against YOU?
Who ever moderated you as a Troll obviously still does. But, I suspect that fewer and fewer are.
There are already a few misguided posts on the matter so hopefully, I can clear this up for you.
Microsoft and many other software makers already address this licensing issue. On this machine Microsoft requires either two licenses for Windows or one Windows license and a Terminal Server Client Access license. For MS Office a license is required for each per seat instance. SO, two users in Word requires two licenses.
This same licensing system is also required by many/most other commercial vendors. Anyone familiar with Terminal services or Citrix should be familiar with this licensing model. If they aren't Microsoft will enjoy speaking with them.
Slashdot loves these guessing games, doesn't it?
/. Prove me wrong.
Slashdot says; the universe is shaped like a doughnut
Slashdot says; universe is shaped like a soccer ball
I say; the universe is shaped like a
Did you look at Nortel? These guys have been in the phone business for over 100 years and they know how to do it right. They don't offer "low cost" solutions and definitely don't offer free solutions but, you can't go wrong with their products.
One of the products that might fit your needs very well is their Business Communications Manager. It is an all in one box for small businesses and branch offices. The Business Communications Manager(BCM) provides PBX funtionality for IP phones as well as standard analog and digital sets. It offers Interactive Voice Response(IVR), Call Center, Unified Messaging(voice mail, fax email), call routing and much more. Indeed, it offers just about all of the services of a full scale PBX, not a key system, a PBX. On top of all the voice stuff, the BCM also offers WAN routing and internet access features such as firewall, proxy and VPN services. Management is performed via a browser based GUI that is really excellent.
I have used this system on several occassions for international branch offices where, interoffice long distance calls and transfers were done over the internet with good results. Not always perfect results as the internet offers no QoS but good results for the most part. The businesses that use this setup feel that the long distance cost savings have more than made up for the occassional degradation in call quality. By the way, when the internet connection quality degrades to unaccepable levels the system automatically switches to POTS connections for new call setup (not IP calls already in progress). How much does it cost you to route your calls from Canada, South America or Europe to your HQ in the US? For these guys it only costs them the price of the BCM and an internet connection.
Since when is it necessary to identify the vehicle (and its occupant) in order to transmit a warning. There are already car stereo systems that respond to broacast traffic alerts amongst other things. There is no need to identify a specific vehicle.
Here's an idea. Instead of placing RFID sensors all over creation to identify vehicles and "make things safer", how about installing short range transmitters in all of those same locations and only have receivers in the cars. If an accident occurs, simply light up the transmitters in the proximity of the accident and everyone in that area can receive the signal. Is that so complicated? No! In fact it is already done that way in many places.
There is NO safety advantage in identifying the actual vehicle. There is however a tremendous surveilence opportunity as well as the abillity to issue fines remotely. Toll collection costs can be reduced too and then new toll collection schemes can be established. Wonderful things like the UK's congestion surcharge. I can't wait for my chance to pay $20 to drive through downtown!
but sourceforge has started to suck dick lately.
I hadn't heard about this new feature. It could be rather interesting. But SourceForge has been having too many problems for too long. It seems as though no one is maintaining it, they simply disable a feature when it breaks. Additionally, I have always been concerned about having so many projects and information sites in a single OSDN basket. One never knows what the future holds for OSDN.
Sounds like a great idea especially for home users or some such but, as soon as you look at the bigger picture things start to break down. First of all, what about legitimate mailinglists? Some of them have hundreds of thousands of addresses. You want the administrator to have to go through and click a web page for each and every address on the list? Never gonna happen.
What about corporate use? Many legitimate emails go to a dozen recipients almost like a mailinglist. Think of the lost productivity with the senders clicking webpages for each reply and forward. Think of the dreaded Everyone group. Well, that would be an advantage but, you start to see what I mean.
Your idea is very similar in concept to a few others in that it requires a cost, someone reading a picture and clicking a button for the message to transfer. This scheme is better implemented by the various proposals that invoke a computational cost for each message transferred, like those from AOL Yahoo and Microsoft but, even these proposals all have major drawbacks and no one is rushing to implement them.
Presently the only problem with this is that there are no plug-ins for the MTAs themselves yet. The plug-in is for spamassassin. That means that the message has to be transfered and passed onto Spamassassin before it can be dropped or tagged whereas, the other RBLs allow you to drop the connection before the message is transfered. This problem will be solved once there are plug-ins for the MTAs themselves.
But, I have to ask, why aren't existing RBLs like Spamhaus effective. They should be far more effective than the ~40% that I am experiencing.