These universities are stupid. By engaging in any kind of content control, i.e. saying "You're not allowed to run a P2P application," they are both admitting that they are aware of the fact that there is piracy going on on their network and also accepting responsibility. They're giving up "common carrier" status and taking on immense shared liability. By working so hard to keep "common carrier" status, ISPs can blissully say "hey, it's none of our business what our customers use our networks for, we have no idea what's going on" and avoid any kind of liability.
The RIAA suit about subpoena power was not about going after individual uploaders, it was about dragging big wealthy ISPs (competitors of AOL, which is also a giant media company, at least it was) into the liability circus and putting them out of business through litigation. That way, AOL could be big again.
The mere fact that Universities snoop their networks makes them partially liable for the illegal stuff that goes on. Knowledge of any illegal act makes you responsible for reporting that act to the authorities. If you witness a crime, you're technically required by law to roll over on everyone involved.. anything else is obstruction of "justice"
1) Patent something completely obvious 2) Don't tell anyone about it 3) Wait 19 years for READING A FSCKING CD to gain widespread use 4) Sue everything in sight
I think Patents should be treated just like trademarks. If you don't enforce your patent rights IMMEDIATELY, you LOSE them, NO EXCEPTIONS.
I run several websites off of my three DSL connections. Two of the connections are with dca.net and the third is with speakeasy. They both know I run servers and even encourage it. So, ie-ap.org, bikephilly.org, rcmsg.ie-ap.org, lovemypets.org, and my ftp site consume gigabytes per day unimpeded.
When I signed up with speakeasy this week for the 1.5/768 on my third line, I asked if they had caps and the guy actually laughed out loud at the prospect...
unlimited ( P ) Pronunciation Key (n-lm-td) adj. Having no restrictions or controls: an unlimited travel ticket. Having or seeming to have no boundaries; infinite: an unlimited horizon. Without qualification or exception; absolute: unlimited self-confidence.
Just a small correction. Your creditors did not take it in the A**. Your creditors' other customers, who pay their bills on time, took it in the A** for you, because that's how your creditors made up for the loss.
I picked up a 51U Rittal 26" deep cabinet for well under a grand delivered to me.. it certainly took a lot less time and headache than building my own, which probably would have looked like ass given my lack of aptitude in a machine/woodworking shop...
As far as inexpensive rackmount hardware, unfortunaly simply adding the word "rackmount" to a product name doubles its price. Adding "XU" where X is a number 2 or less doubles it again.
I like Chenbro rackmount cases, but they're very expensive. Enlight makes a 5U/pedestal server case that sells for $128 (search pricewatch for 'enlight 8950') online w/o power supply. Be sure to get the rack kit (another $120).. see? double..
D-link makes a bunch of cheap rackmount switches.. see APC for UPSes.. but be prepared to pay...
Check out local music stores - musicians cabinets are the same 19" that industrial uses, but they're FAR less expensive. I think I saw a 28U cabinet for about $300 at a local store a while back.
Longhorn Steakhouse is also suing microsoft over the hijacking of their name... Longhorn Steakhouse is afraid people will stop eating there, thinking they'll just be served yet another piece of CRAP product by Microsoft...
Microsoft has already sued the makers of Windex for causing confusion and exploiting the goodwill of the Microsoft Windows Shutdown feature, which as you know ALSO goes through and cleans all the windows... by closing them...
What's funny here is that Magnavox TVs really were often referred to as "Magnetbox" in the past. They were of such low image quality (still are) that people often joked that they were full of magnets to make the tube distort on purpose.
I don't care... I won't use Lindows, nor will I recommend that anyone else use Lindows. Lindows is in bed with SCO, so therefore they can rot in hell for all I care.
Because $50M is chump change to a big bank like that... they're thinking that if SCO actually wins, it'll pay off like 20 to 1... if you had some extra cash, you'd put a little bit of it you didn't care if you lost into an extremely high-risk investment with the potential for an extremely high return, too...
This doesn't surprise me since it's an MSNBC article, but:
Sun has sought to distribute its own Java virtual machine through court proceedings and in distribution agreements with PC manufacturers.
Doesn't this paint Sun in the light of being the bad guy (like SCO) who just wants to get ahead through litigation?
Nowhere does the article mention that Sun invented Java and that it is THEIR technology, nor do they mention that M$ Misappropriated Sun's trade secrets, stole their intellectual property, infringed upon their patents, and otherwise defrauded Sun out of money they would have otherwise earned off of their Java product...
I bought a Minolta STSi a few years ago. Granted, it was a bit more than your $200 figure, but it was well worth the money. It's a fully-automatic manual camera, which means that you can choose to either set the exposure time and aperture manually, or have the computer do it for you. It also has built-in light metering that actually works really well, and will tell you if your current manual settings will be over or underexposed. That feature is great for beginners who may not have the intuition just yet. After a while, you probably won't even use the computer settings.
We had the same thing under Clinton for 8 long years, and we're still not recovered from it. A gas-bloated mouse with a match could pummel our military at this point... just point, fart, and strike... BOOM, we're dead...
Jackbooted thugs breaking down your door with machine guns drawn... just because your 12-year old daughter just had to have the latest britney spears tune...
First, the teaser commercial during the simpsons "RUN FOR THE HILLS, THE SKY IS FALLING!!!! In the form of snow, tonight at 11"
Then, when the news begins, in the most emphatic voice "Heavy snow is falling as we speak all over the Philadelphia area. Some areas * could see 12 inches of snow before it's all over" Of course, neglecting to put the "near Buffalo" where the * is, and not bothering to tell you that they're really expecting 12 inches over the next 3 days.
Always making a big event out of nothing... case and point this weekend...
I'd be happy with a prejudicial dismissal to prevent SCO filing this claim in a higher court. Let the free market kill SCO, it requires no help from the courts.
3) Once SCO discloses what code they believe to be infringing, it will be removed from the Kernel within days or weeks. There will then be a definitive "safe" Linux for everyone to use.
I put "safe" in quotes because Linux is already Safe, as SCO released their own code under the GPL.
That "news" you see isn't actually news reported by a journalist. It's simply a BusinessWire of their press releases. So naturally it's all pro-SCO since it's all written by SCO PR Chimps...
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These universities are stupid. By engaging in any kind of content control, i.e. saying "You're not allowed to run a P2P application," they are both admitting that they are aware of the fact that there is piracy going on on their network and also accepting responsibility. They're giving up "common carrier" status and taking on immense shared liability. By working so hard to keep "common carrier" status, ISPs can blissully say "hey, it's none of our business what our customers use our networks for, we have no idea what's going on" and avoid any kind of liability.
The RIAA suit about subpoena power was not about going after individual uploaders, it was about dragging big wealthy ISPs (competitors of AOL, which is also a giant media company, at least it was) into the liability circus and putting them out of business through litigation. That way, AOL could be big again.
The mere fact that Universities snoop their networks makes them partially liable for the illegal stuff that goes on. Knowledge of any illegal act makes you responsible for reporting that act to the authorities. If you witness a crime, you're technically required by law to roll over on everyone involved.. anything else is obstruction of "justice"
Uh, it's called "Allow only those on my buddy list"
1) Patent something completely obvious
2) Don't tell anyone about it
3) Wait 19 years for READING A FSCKING CD to gain widespread use
4) Sue everything in sight
I think Patents should be treated just like trademarks. If you don't enforce your patent rights IMMEDIATELY, you LOSE them, NO EXCEPTIONS.
I run several websites off of my three DSL connections. Two of the connections are with dca.net and the third is with speakeasy. They both know I run servers and even encourage it. So, ie-ap.org, bikephilly.org, rcmsg.ie-ap.org, lovemypets.org, and my ftp site consume gigabytes per day unimpeded.
When I signed up with speakeasy this week for the 1.5/768 on my third line, I asked if they had caps and the guy actually laughed out loud at the prospect...
unlimited ( P ) Pronunciation Key (n-lm-td)
adj.
Having no restrictions or controls: an unlimited travel ticket.
Having or seeming to have no boundaries; infinite: an unlimited horizon.
Without qualification or exception; absolute: unlimited self-confidence.
Just a small correction. Your creditors did not take it in the A**. Your creditors' other customers, who pay their bills on time, took it in the A** for you, because that's how your creditors made up for the loss.
Damn skippy, eh?
I picked up a 51U Rittal 26" deep cabinet for well under a grand delivered to me.. it certainly took a lot less time and headache than building my own, which probably would have looked like ass given my lack of aptitude in a machine/woodworking shop...
As far as inexpensive rackmount hardware, unfortunaly simply adding the word "rackmount" to a product name doubles its price. Adding "XU" where X is a number 2 or less doubles it again.
I like Chenbro rackmount cases, but they're very expensive. Enlight makes a 5U/pedestal server case that sells for $128 (search pricewatch for 'enlight 8950') online w/o power supply. Be sure to get the rack kit (another $120).. see? double..
D-link makes a bunch of cheap rackmount switches.. see APC for UPSes.. but be prepared to pay...
Check out local music stores - musicians cabinets are the same 19" that industrial uses, but they're FAR less expensive. I think I saw a 28U cabinet for about $300 at a local store a while back.
If they're not taking punitive action against SCO for what they're currently doing, then they're a party to it.
Longhorn Steakhouse is also suing microsoft over the hijacking of their name... Longhorn Steakhouse is afraid people will stop eating there, thinking they'll just be served yet another piece of CRAP product by Microsoft...
Microsoft has already sued the makers of Windex for causing confusion and exploiting the goodwill of the Microsoft Windows Shutdown feature, which as you know ALSO goes through and cleans all the windows... by closing them...
What's funny here is that Magnavox TVs really were often referred to as "Magnetbox" in the past. They were of such low image quality (still are) that people often joked that they were full of magnets to make the tube distort on purpose.
I don't care... I won't use Lindows, nor will I recommend that anyone else use Lindows. Lindows is in bed with SCO, so therefore they can rot in hell for all I care.
Because $50M is chump change to a big bank like that... they're thinking that if SCO actually wins, it'll pay off like 20 to 1... if you had some extra cash, you'd put a little bit of it you didn't care if you lost into an extremely high-risk investment with the potential for an extremely high return, too...
This doesn't surprise me since it's an MSNBC article, but:
Sun has sought to distribute its own Java virtual machine through court proceedings and in distribution agreements with PC manufacturers.
Doesn't this paint Sun in the light of being the bad guy (like SCO) who just wants to get ahead through litigation?
Nowhere does the article mention that Sun invented Java and that it is THEIR technology, nor do they mention that M$ Misappropriated Sun's trade secrets, stole their intellectual property, infringed upon their patents, and otherwise defrauded Sun out of money they would have otherwise earned off of their Java product...
Assholes..
I bought a Minolta STSi a few years ago. Granted, it was a bit more than your $200 figure, but it was well worth the money. It's a fully-automatic manual camera, which means that you can choose to either set the exposure time and aperture manually, or have the computer do it for you. It also has built-in light metering that actually works really well, and will tell you if your current manual settings will be over or underexposed. That feature is great for beginners who may not have the intuition just yet. After a while, you probably won't even use the computer settings.
We had the same thing under Clinton for 8 long years, and we're still not recovered from it. A gas-bloated mouse with a match could pummel our military at this point... just point, fart, and strike... BOOM, we're dead...
A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state; the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
:) Time to get to work!
Cruise missiles are arms, aren't they?
Jackbooted thugs breaking down your door with machine guns drawn... just because your 12-year old daughter just had to have the latest britney spears tune...
Yes, yes it does...
"special nets have been placed below the path of the beam to catch the falling roast duck, to protect it from being splattered on the interstate"
I think that's what they meant...
How the F! do you protect birds that might fly into the beam?
First, the teaser commercial during the simpsons "RUN FOR THE HILLS, THE SKY IS FALLING!!!! In the form of snow, tonight at 11"
Then, when the news begins, in the most emphatic voice "Heavy snow is falling as we speak all over the Philadelphia area. Some areas * could see 12 inches of snow before it's all over" Of course, neglecting to put the "near Buffalo" where the * is, and not bothering to tell you that they're really expecting 12 inches over the next 3 days.
Always making a big event out of nothing... case and point this weekend...
Imagine a beowulf cluster of weather prediction nodes!
Doesn't quite have the same effect as "Imagine a beowulf cluster of these" in a story about a new MicroLinux-drive wristwatch, does it?
I'd be happy with a prejudicial dismissal to prevent SCO filing this claim in a higher court. Let the free market kill SCO, it requires no help from the courts.
You forgot one:
3) Once SCO discloses what code they believe to be infringing, it will be removed from the Kernel within days or weeks. There will then be a definitive "safe" Linux for everyone to use.
I put "safe" in quotes because Linux is already Safe, as SCO released their own code under the GPL.
That "news" you see isn't actually news reported by a journalist. It's simply a BusinessWire of their press releases. So naturally it's all pro-SCO since it's all written by SCO PR Chimps...