Seriously though, I love Amigas (had three of 'em up until a year ago) but the old machines are dying off partly because the batteries are cracking open and ruining the motherboards.
Then DMCA nonsense can be brought to light and this case quoted everytime this stuff comes up.
On the other hand, I run a mailing list for travel agents and although collusion among travel agents is illegal (against the Sherman Antitrust Act) I have the list protected via the DMCA. If a vendor gets his hands on a private email from the mailing list, then it's a violation of DMCA just by possessing it.
Maybe we need to start thinking about ways of using the DMCA to protect ourselves. It's not just for big corporations.
Well maybe you can mention that Cantwell's jackass predecessor Slade Gorton had Microsoft as his biggest contributor.
Here what he got from M$ while he was a senator
First shower with the ThinkGeek ShowerShock then sit down to a nice bowl of Coffee cereal.
Had too much to drink the night before? No problem! Use kahlua instead of milk! It goes GREAT with coffee! You're a geek remember ? Multitask! Get your coffee and the hair of the dog at the same time. Plus the alcohol would act as a nice downer to counteract all that caffeine.
Think about this... you have to nab the head of a religious cult who is known to
leave his compound on occasion. Remember that this megalomaniac (like many others)
has preached that the government will try to bring your beloved, heavily armed,
community to an apocolyptic end. So you make the decision to attack on the Sabbath,
at the heavily armed compound when you know there are children there sending several of your agents
to their death because you thought it was going to be a cakewalk.
Exactly the kind of incompetance that you can now expect from the RIAA. Not that
they were competant before.
First step is to transfer them all to a lower priced registrar: Reason for this is easy, registrars are now a commodity and the lowest price wins. I use godaddy for everything and have found their customer service to be pretty good.
I register everything in my customers names except for the technical contact and then I turn on the AutoRenew option for each one. Godaddy then sends me a few notices as a reminder before actually renewing them. I never worry about losing them.
I actually foot the bill for the auto renew as a bonus for hosting with me and customers like that, it's a good sales point to let the customer know once you have reeled them in. The little things mean a lot.
It is OSS. When you run your entire operation on MS you're having your data infrastructure being controlled
by a foreign government.
OSS is the best thing in the world for those governments
who might be a little suspect of U.S. commercial interests.
The other advantage is that OSS helps to close the gap between
the haves and the have nots. There are those people that romanticize the
developing world and think that bringing technology to them is a bad idea.
Well obviously these people have never been to the developing world and the
lack of technology in these places helps to keep them in the third world.
Ironically a tremendous number of people in Nepal have email access and
the guesthouse I stay in in Kathmandu runs everything on Linux.
whitearyanresistance.com, org and net!
First time I ever got death threats running a website.
Oh the fun to have a random perl redirect script in there. When people would go to whitearyanresistance.com.org, or net they would get redirected to blacksonblondes.com, algore2000.com, NAMBLA and other fun sites.
It was redirecting them to the Southern Poverty Law Center that really sent them over edge though.
2600 has done some neat stuff too....
fuckcbs.com, etc
I worked TDY in our reservations center in London (for my former employer, an airline) and was asking the lady to give me her address so we could mail the tickets. And she said "two ten" and I said "two ten what?" and she said "two ten!" and I said "two ten what?" and she "Tooting! It's Tooting you idiot!"
If you want a REALLY hilarious article regarding cultural differences and language confusion read Jesus Shaves by David Sedaris.
What I am concerned about is whether or not my bank that I use uses Embedded XP for their ATMs. If so then I might have to consider switching banks. Not just because of this but because MS based systems are so notoriously insecure. Yeah yeah mod me down if you must but I'd feel much better having embedded Linux (or some other proven secure system) watching my money thank you.
FYI if you're using Union Federal you might want to start looking around now,... hehe
At least it always did in the past. MS has yet to learn the lesson (and someday it will) that IBM had to learn: you have to evolve from a company that sets standards to a company that contributes to them.
First Palladium and now this?
Certainly cloaked under the "benefits" someone at MS has thought "Oh a way to make *nix useless on PC architecture".
You didn't think this was just going to affect Linux did you?
I go to the container store and buy 20 gallon plastic tubs that
have the lid. I put all my stuff in there. I give it a year and
if I don't dig into it I donate it.
Turns out a charity in my area had several old machines donated to
them from another charity and they could use the 4 speed CD burners
and old memory I had.
So store your stuff, give it a reasonable amount of time and if you
don't use it, donate it. Get some good karma generated in the process.
This has erupted. First USA Bank sued PayPal in September 2002. A year later PayPal countersued the company (now known as Bank One) and Bank One Delaware, also on patent infringement grounds. The companies settled those suits last month without disclosing the terms.
Apparently this would also cover 2checkout and other paying services as well. The question is, can Microsoft and other browser makers be sued for being able to submit credit card info through their browsers? It seems overly broad but then again aren't all tech patents?
Just in case, prepare a plan for migrating to another platform within two years.
Why wait? Migrate now to something less controversial. Really though, this is a well done
paper and really explains it well. Gartner goes into the real dollar concerns of this litigation.
Linux is a commodity and as such can be provided by many companies.
RedHat has pretty good support , flames of hellfire not withstanding their decision to go only enterprise. Then again if you're using SCO you're an enterprise anyway.
Some enterprising cracker is going to encapsulate a key logger into a piece of spyware, it is going to have a logic bomb in it so it will self destruct (the purpose to gather info and then leave no trace) , it will record passwords and other info, and that info will be sent back to some third party possibly a hostile government.
It's going to happen. Here's why it's troublesome and mod me down if you must but our operation has a blind allegiance to Redmond and the IM folks are not particularly bright. We have had network problems in the past. China has opted to bet the farm on Linux after seeing the Windows Source Code.
As one of the few Linux developers here, I fear a nightmare is coming. I would really welcome any ideas that anyone has about how we combat this or put our minds at ease.
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If you port it to the Commodore 64.
Seriously though, I love Amigas (had three of 'em up until a year ago) but the old machines are dying off partly because the batteries are cracking open and ruining the motherboards.
Then DMCA nonsense can be brought to light and this case quoted everytime this stuff comes up.
On the other hand, I run a mailing list for travel agents and although collusion among travel agents is illegal (against the Sherman Antitrust Act) I have the list protected via the DMCA. If a vendor gets his hands on a private email from the mailing list, then it's a violation of DMCA just by possessing it.
Maybe we need to start thinking about ways of using the DMCA to protect ourselves. It's not just for big corporations.
Here what he got from M$ while he was a senator
- 2000 - $147,360
- 1998 - $25,550
Before you start playing a partisan card, do your research.Doesn't everyone eat their Cheerios in out of their coffee cup anyway? Surely I'm not the only one
You are NOT alone!
I eat mine out of this
And don't call me Shirley.......Leslie Nielson
First shower with the ThinkGeek ShowerShock then sit down to a nice bowl of Coffee cereal.
Had too much to drink the night before? No problem! Use kahlua instead of milk! It goes GREAT with coffee! You're a geek remember ? Multitask! Get your coffee and the hair of the dog at the same time. Plus the alcohol would act as a nice downer to counteract all that caffeine.
It's .iq
Impress your friends with http://high.iq
Seriously though, it's a great article and Iraq is SO perfect right now to be the open course society from the get-go.
Adam did a great job writing this.
Donate to it! Pamela is FAST approaching sainthood, support her site.
Anything Amiga?
Andy Warhol. He was all about the manipulation. Wonder where he would have been had he lived long enough to get past the Amiga technology.
Think about this... you have to nab the head of a religious cult who is known to leave his compound on occasion. Remember that this megalomaniac (like many others) has preached that the government will try to bring your beloved, heavily armed, community to an apocolyptic end. So you make the decision to attack on the Sabbath, at the heavily armed compound when you know there are children there sending several of your agents to their death because you thought it was going to be a cakewalk.
Exactly the kind of incompetance that you can now expect from the RIAA. Not that they were competant before.
Some phrases you just can't get used to, like this one.
"I have now had to give the missile to a friend for safe keeping."
Venereal disease!
Ho! ho! ho! errr....... I mean Seasons Greetings!
First step is to transfer them all to a lower priced registrar: Reason for this is easy, registrars are now a commodity and the lowest price wins. I use godaddy for everything and have found their customer service to be pretty good.
I register everything in my customers names except for the technical contact and then I turn on the AutoRenew option for each one. Godaddy then sends me a few notices as a reminder before actually renewing them. I never worry about losing them.
I actually foot the bill for the auto renew as a bonus for hosting with me and customers like that, it's a good sales point to let the customer know once you have reeled them in. The little things mean a lot.
Hope this all helps.
But ultimately one has to worry about the lock that Yahoo! might have on servers once they get it installed all over the place.
Could you imagine this becoming really popular and then Yahoo! getting bought by someone like oh say Microsoft? (or any other big commercial interest)
It is OSS. When you run your entire operation on MS you're having your data infrastructure being controlled by a foreign government.
OSS is the best thing in the world for those governments who might be a little suspect of U.S. commercial interests.
The other advantage is that OSS helps to close the gap between the haves and the have nots. There are those people that romanticize the developing world and think that bringing technology to them is a bad idea. Well obviously these people have never been to the developing world and the lack of technology in these places helps to keep them in the third world.
Ironically a tremendous number of people in Nepal have email access and the guesthouse I stay in in Kathmandu runs everything on Linux.
whitearyanresistance.com, org and net! First time I ever got death threats running a website.
Oh the fun to have a random perl redirect script in there. When people would go to whitearyanresistance.com.org, or net they would get redirected to blacksonblondes.com, algore2000.com, NAMBLA and other fun sites.
It was redirecting them to the Southern Poverty Law Center that really sent them over edge though.
2600 has done some neat stuff too.... fuckcbs.com, etc
Here's a great article originally in the Hindustan Times about a perplexed Indian visiting the states.
I worked TDY in our reservations center in London (for my former employer, an airline) and was asking the lady to give me her address so we could mail the tickets. And she said "two ten" and I said "two ten what?" and she said "two ten!" and I said "two ten what?" and she "Tooting! It's Tooting you idiot!"
If you want a REALLY hilarious article regarding cultural differences and language confusion read Jesus Shaves by David Sedaris.
The same Diebold that has grossly insecure voting machines? The same Diebold that is abusing copyright claims and is being sued by EFF and students.
Well ain't karma a bitch Diebold?
What I am concerned about is whether or not my bank that I use uses Embedded XP for their ATMs. If so then I might have to consider switching banks. Not just because of this but because MS based systems are so notoriously insecure. Yeah yeah mod me down if you must but I'd feel much better having embedded Linux (or some other proven secure system) watching my money thank you.
FYI if you're using Union Federal you might want to start looking around now,... hehe
At least it always did in the past. MS has yet to learn the lesson (and someday it will) that IBM had to learn: you have to evolve from a company that sets standards to a company that contributes to them.
First Palladium and now this?
Certainly cloaked under the "benefits" someone at MS has thought "Oh a way to make *nix useless on PC architecture".
You didn't think this was just going to affect Linux did you?
I run a commercial service hosting customers and my customers have gone positively APESHIT over S.A.. Just an opposing viewpoint.
I go to the container store and buy 20 gallon plastic tubs that have the lid. I put all my stuff in there. I give it a year and if I don't dig into it I donate it.
Turns out a charity in my area had several old machines donated to them from another charity and they could use the 4 speed CD burners and old memory I had.
So store your stuff, give it a reasonable amount of time and if you don't use it, donate it. Get some good karma generated in the process.
This has erupted. First USA Bank sued PayPal in September 2002. A year later PayPal countersued the company (now known as Bank One) and Bank One Delaware, also on patent infringement grounds. The companies settled those suits last month without disclosing the terms.
Apparently this would also cover 2checkout and other paying services as well. The question is, can Microsoft and other browser makers be sued for being able to submit credit card info through their browsers? It seems overly broad but then again aren't all tech patents?
Just in case, prepare a plan for migrating to another platform within two years.
Why wait? Migrate now to something less controversial. Really though, this is a well done paper and really explains it well. Gartner goes into the real dollar concerns of this litigation.
Linux is a commodity and as such can be provided by many companies. RedHat has pretty good support , flames of hellfire not withstanding their decision to go only enterprise. Then again if you're using SCO you're an enterprise anyway.
Some enterprising cracker is going to encapsulate a key logger into a piece of spyware, it is going to have a logic bomb in it so it will self destruct (the purpose to gather info and then leave no trace) , it will record passwords and other info, and that info will be sent back to some third party possibly a hostile government.
/dev/null.
It's going to happen. Here's why it's troublesome and mod me down if you must but our operation has a blind allegiance to Redmond and the IM folks are not particularly bright. We have had network problems in the past. China has opted to bet the farm on Linux after seeing the Windows Source Code.
As one of the few Linux developers here, I fear a nightmare is coming. I would really welcome any ideas that anyone has about how we combat this or put our minds at ease.
Redmond related flames go to
Darl McBride is going for broke. The man is fucking insane and I feel for all the stockholders that are gonna lose big when this falls apart.
Mod me down but I gotta burn some karma sometime.