As you would be acting with wreckless disreguard, the courts could very well hold you legally responsible for what goes on by way of your intentionally unsecured wireless network.
Do you have any case law references to backup this statement?
BTW...anyone know where I can get a large (16 or more port) multiswitch?
Linksys sells 10/100 switches in both the 16 port and 24 port type units. You can find them for under $100 probably if you search around.
Which is even better, because now when that person complains to their credit card company (lets assume Visa), and the Visa goes to investigate the fraud, it will lead them to Fedex. Now Fedex and/or customs knows who the person is, and this guy can go down for credit card fraud!
Unlike traditional P2P, Bittorrent was designed especially for purposes like this: Getting large files out to a lot of a people in a relatively short time. Mirrors simply do not scale for this, and those traditional P2P networks like eDonkey are way too slow for downloading something as large as FC.
I don't know about you, but I actually like being able to download the entire set of ISOs in under 12 hours, rather than waiting the required week for my downloads to finish like on other P2P networks.
Windows probably came preinstalled on the computers. Therefore it is cheaper for them, rather than hiring someone who understands Linux to go and install/configure each one of those machines.
I can understand that, but I don't agree with it. If Microsoft/SCO/whoever sends an army of lawyers marching through the open source world, the strict principles of Debian might make them the only one invulnerable to the attack.
No single distribution is completely invulnerable, so long as software patents exist and continue to be approved for ridiculous 'inventions'. This applies to about every other operating system out there too, including Windows.
IANAL, but I think court sanctioned subpoenas pretty much overrule any sort of confidentiality agreement/contract. Of course, the information will not be made public and will be sealed by the court, but IBM's lawyers will still get to see it.
If you admit to defeat before the war has barely begun, then you've already lost the war.
There will always be some sort of IT department in USA, because for some companies IT is truly a core part of their business (and this is increasing everyday). Those companies need motivated and committed people to work on company projects, not something you are going to get from using an outsourcing company.
Okay, here comes some flamebait, but I think in this case it's justified: the "expert" here is just another blowhard who thinks his generation is superior to the one following it. That's not an uncommon worldview, but it is little better than any other form of bigotry, and it goes without saying that it has no place in actual science.
And by that same extension, it has no place in a respected technology news magazine. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But to represent this particular person as an actual expert on the matter at hand is entirely inappropriate for the writer/reporter.
I bet there would also be some political clout to revamp email to eliminate spam and prevent it from ever occuring again.
Yes, and that would be about the worse thing that could ever happen: the government regulating email. I cannot think of a more frightening scenario, short of the entire Internet being extensively regulated.
Unfortunately, it not always the dumb, drunken hick in his pick-up that ends up dying. It is the mother and her two children, in the minivan he ends up blindsiding.
One of those children might have been the next Albert Einstein.
Longhorn is a bar that literally sits right at the base of both Blackcomb and Whistler Mountain, in Whistler Village. Whistler is also the name of the town there too.
Given enough time and funds, CMI can sure set usability standards for pervasive computing, but manufacturers are likely to ignore or "extend" them to promote their own platform over the competition.
Do you think this is isolated to Sun? This is SOP for companies in the U.S. Unfortunately, Wall Street gets pissy if you don't do things like this; investors have become increasingly dependent upon bling without considering things like products and customer base.
That is a myth. Adn if you want an example of a company that is both frugal and loved by Wall Street, just look towards Wal-Mart. Last I heard, they were still making executives take the cheap seats on most flights.
Not Microsoft. Yahoo. Yahoo is their biggest competitor, and they are going for Yahoo's crown jewels, their premium users who pay for the email service.
I know that, I was replying to the original poster's remark regarding the backbones. It still costs too much money to install fiber to each home. Hopefully this is just the beginning of a series of innovations making fibre-to-the-home a much more feasible option.
Until the pipes coming into the homes are a lot faster (i.e. fiber-to-the-home, or fiber-to-the-neighbourhood), most consumers will not have a use even for 1Gbps Ethernet.
There is so much dark fiber in the ground right now leftover from telecom bust, that we'll be lighting it up for years to come before we run out of it.
Slashdot Mirror
Everytime? So you lock the door when you take the trash outside.. Where do you live, the Bronx?
As you would be acting with wreckless disreguard, the courts could very well hold you legally responsible for what goes on by way of your intentionally unsecured wireless network.
Do you have any case law references to backup this statement?
BTW...anyone know where I can get a large (16 or more port) multiswitch?
Linksys sells 10/100 switches in both the 16 port and 24 port type units. You can find them for under $100 probably if you search around.
Fiber to home, cat5 inhouse.
Anything else, is probably not going to scale for the future.
Learning starts with small steps. This is exactly what he is doing by using the Ask Slashdot forum.
Which is even better, because now when that person complains to their credit card company (lets assume Visa), and the Visa goes to investigate the fraud, it will lead them to Fedex. Now Fedex and/or customs knows who the person is, and this guy can go down for credit card fraud!
Unlike traditional P2P, Bittorrent was designed especially for purposes like this: Getting large files out to a lot of a people in a relatively short time. Mirrors simply do not scale for this, and those traditional P2P networks like eDonkey are way too slow for downloading something as large as FC.
I don't know about you, but I actually like being able to download the entire set of ISOs in under 12 hours, rather than waiting the required week for my downloads to finish like on other P2P networks.
Windows probably came preinstalled on the computers. Therefore it is cheaper for them, rather than hiring someone who understands Linux to go and install/configure each one of those machines.
I can understand that, but I don't agree with it. If Microsoft/SCO/whoever sends an army of lawyers marching through the open source world, the strict principles of Debian might make them the only one invulnerable to the attack.
No single distribution is completely invulnerable, so long as software patents exist and continue to be approved for ridiculous 'inventions'. This applies to about every other operating system out there too, including Windows.
That's pretty hard when most of the NSA's budget is classified material.
IANAL, but I think court sanctioned subpoenas pretty much overrule any sort of confidentiality agreement/contract. Of course, the information will not be made public and will be sealed by the court, but IBM's lawyers will still get to see it.
No. TCP is a different layer than IPv6. It has no effect on IPv6 or IPv4.
If you admit to defeat before the war has barely begun, then you've already lost the war.
There will always be some sort of IT department in USA, because for some companies IT is truly a core part of their business (and this is increasing everyday). Those companies need motivated and committed people to work on company projects, not something you are going to get from using an outsourcing company.
Okay, here comes some flamebait, but I think in this case it's justified: the "expert" here is just another blowhard who thinks his generation is superior to the one following it. That's not an uncommon worldview, but it is little better than any other form of bigotry, and it goes without saying that it has no place in actual science.
And by that same extension, it has no place in a respected technology news magazine. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But to represent this particular person as an actual expert on the matter at hand is entirely inappropriate for the writer/reporter.
I bet there would also be some political clout to revamp email to eliminate spam and prevent it from ever occuring again.
Yes, and that would be about the worse thing that could ever happen: the government regulating email. I cannot think of a more frightening scenario, short of the entire Internet being extensively regulated.
Unfortunately, it not always the dumb, drunken hick in his pick-up that ends up dying. It is the mother and her two children, in the minivan he ends up blindsiding.
One of those children might have been the next Albert Einstein.
The Bootpub is the name of another bar in Whistler. So they could always use that!
But it is also the only strip bar in the town...
Longhorn is a bar that literally sits right at the base of both Blackcomb and Whistler Mountain, in Whistler Village. Whistler is also the name of the town there too.
Given enough time and funds, CMI can sure set usability standards for pervasive computing, but manufacturers are likely to ignore or "extend" them to promote their own platform over the competition.
And consumers can chose the best one..
Do you think this is isolated to Sun? This is SOP for companies in the U.S. Unfortunately, Wall Street gets pissy if you don't do things like this; investors have become increasingly dependent upon bling without considering things like products and customer base.
That is a myth. Adn if you want an example of a company that is both frugal and loved by Wall Street, just look towards Wal-Mart. Last I heard, they were still making executives take the cheap seats on most flights.
There is a flaw in your reasoning. HP is one of the biggest supporters of Linux.
Not Microsoft. Yahoo. Yahoo is their biggest competitor, and they are going for Yahoo's crown jewels, their premium users who pay for the email service.
I know that, I was replying to the original poster's remark regarding the backbones. It still costs too much money to install fiber to each home. Hopefully this is just the beginning of a series of innovations making fibre-to-the-home a much more feasible option.
Until the pipes coming into the homes are a lot faster (i.e. fiber-to-the-home, or fiber-to-the-neighbourhood), most consumers will not have a use even for 1Gbps Ethernet.
There is so much dark fiber in the ground right now leftover from telecom bust, that we'll be lighting it up for years to come before we run out of it.