I think Bell South's argument is that they're in the middle somewhere, and not necessarily on one end or the other, so they deserve a slice of the revenue for providing the pipeline in the middle.
I'm not saying they *do* deserve it, just that they *think* they do.
I don't know how much it costs to lay fibre, but apart from that, couldn't Google lay their own and cut out the middle man?? Point to point across the country, with wireless AP's, or something...
If any of the queries reported include government IP addresses or Google-Ids of government employees, they should be highlighted. Especially if those porn queries are being made by Senators and/or Congressmen... "The public has a right to know" after all...
I don't know about Vintella, but we've had some bad experiences with SeOS. It gets in between the OS and the user, validating every disk access against a policy. It also has a password store on the policy server, so if you mistype 3 times in a row you can lock yourself out of a whole group of servers in one go. It used to be next to impossible to bring a server up in single user mode to fsck the disks - dunno if that's still true. The sysadmins were not allowed to have the root password, either, so they had to get a manager to "break" the sealed envelope if the root password was required. For day to day root usage, you'd use "sesu", which is a lot like 'su', except it checks against the policy server. I figure "sesu" made the system *less* secure - an attacker would only need to break a user's password, then "sesu" to root with the same password, instead of breaking a user's password, then breaking root's password (leaving out other ways of getting root access).
Of course, when companies get nonsensical security policies, they force people into horribly inefficient and/or insecure workarounds.
Changing passwords every 30 days, on 1800 systems, only *some* of which have a password syncing mechanism. Seems like there's several different criteria used for deciding what passwords are good and bad, too - one system recently wouldn't let me have several perfectly good words that were combinations of dictionary words, even though those words were OK elsewhere, but it would let me use a1b2c3d4...
If I was to keep all those passwords updated all the time, assuming 1 minute per machine I'd be burning 30 hours a month changing passwords. Luckily I don't need to access all those machines all the time, or I'd be running a password update script out of cron, with all my passwords written down in an encrypted file, and an automated login script to get to each machine.
Xen runs a kernel per virtual machine instance, OpenVZ runs one kernel but maintains separate process spaces for each virtual system (or whatever they call it). So, with OpenVZ, *all* the virtual systems are running the same distro of Linux, but with Xen you can run several different distros (RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake), as well as a completely different OS such as NetBSD or FreeBSD.
Sure, for many in the creationist camp, science and God have no business mixing. But there are also those who believe as I do. Why do God and Science have to be mutually exclusive?
I think I'd go a bit further than that. I think it's incredibly arrogant of the creationist camp to deny the possibility that God could create a system that could adapt over time - i.e. evolve. It seems to me that they're claiming to know the mind of God to an extent not possible for mortal man...
I've yet to hear of any other remotely workable solution to riders yet.
Have you heard of the "Read the Bills Act of 2005"?? It'll probably never get passed, but if it does every Congress-critter would be held personally responsible for reading every word of every bill. It may not stop riders completely, but at least there wouldn't be any "secret" amendments added in committee *after* the reading but *before* the vote.
I'd be willing to work with people who want to challenge this statute.
Don't just challenge this statute - challenge every time Congress passes some "must pass" legislation with riders that are totally unrelated to the main intent of the bill. In this case, a DoJ appropriations bill is no place to be sliding in legislation about anonymity on the Internet. The RealId rider that was attached to a "troops & tsunami victims" appropriation bill is another one. Wasn't that rider rejected twice as a standalone bill??
were to think he had permission under the warrant to search the family
Except that, if the warrant actually names a single, adult male, why the hell would any "reasonable" person make the mistake of reading that as saying "and any other person in the house"?? The family should sue, and have the cop(s) involved sent to reading comprehension classes.
Yep! I just found it in "100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories", edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Green Berg & Joseph D Olander. Printed in 1980 by Pan Books, ISBN: 0 330 26155 X.
I've got that story at home, in a short-story book. I *think* it might be in Larry Niven's "Limits", but I'm not sure, and I can't dig up a list of the contents, and I'm not at home right now...
Well, whatever floats your boat. Personally, I was thinking that the starving masses in various Third World countries would benefit. But then, you'll probably bitch and moan about population explosions in those Third World countries if they conquered the food supply problem...
Talking of the rubber meeting the road, aren't cars a bit obsolete by now?? Where the hell's my personal flying machine or teleporter?? And Star-Trek-style food synthesizers would be *really* useful...
Would that still be true if Dell started edging away from Microsoft?? Dell could lose (or have to "renegotiate") their volume discount. Which would be stupid if Microsoft did it, because they'd drive Dell further away, but they might just do it to slow down any other manufacturers that looked antsy.
Don't lose sight of the fact that there's some company that's pushing for *their* tax-calculating software to be adopted by all the states. Supposedly, internet taxation hasn't happened yet because it puts too big a burden on the e-stores to calculate all the different states, citiy & municipalities taxes. I don't have time to look up who it is, but this company has the idea that if they can get their software legislated into a certain number of states for e-commerce taxation, then *all* the states would have to adopt them, and they'd get an instant lifetime monopoly.
Well, the plates are *supposed* to be unique, which would allow usage as a database reference. A camera in one place would see a plate and update the record with the location. A camera elsewhere would see the duplicate (or maybe the original) and go to update the same record. If the old location is compared to the new location right before the update, it shouldn't be too hard to spot the which plates have been cloned. Spotting which one was the clone would be harder, but if a plate appears to move even as little as one mile in under 45 seconds, I'm sure the traffic cops would be interested in discussing speeding tickets with the registered owner, at the very least...
You're forgetting that the studios are writing the legislation. They'll simply write in exceptions for their own equipment. To give it a *slight* illusion of legality, it'll be worded so that in theory anyone could buy the equipment, but in practice it would cost far too much in dollars and time to buy licensing to own and operate it.
If I'm reading this right, you wouldn't need to take a soldering iron to your DVR. Digital-to-analogue seems to be OK, right?? It's converting back to digital that's the issue, so the cable going *into* the DVR could be fitted with an inline filter. Your nice, shiny new DVR with "don't re-record" technology won't see the "don't re-record" flag or signal, so it'll happily record anything.
Not only does the article refer to the gigantic cesspool of really bad bands, almost the entire article talked about the lack of good tracks/albums being published, and consumers thinking prices are too high. The word piracy was only mentioned once, which I thought was rather refreshing, actually.
As other says, 4 computers, DSL/Cable access and wifi, somehow this user seems a bit over the average Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
That's not so far fetched, actually. Around here, Cox Cable would come out and install a home network package for you, with cable modem and multiport firewall/router. I didn't read TFA, but 4 computers could easily be one each for him, his wife, and 2 kids. Or one or more might be virus-ridden junk that were "upgraded" rather than being wiped. The one that was wiped could have been taken back to the store for reinstallation.
Computers have approached commodity status these days - you can get a reasonable PC for around $300 and non-tech-savvy folks wouldn't necessarily know that they get dog slow when loaded with viruses and spyware. They'd assume that, just like a fridge or TV or cooker, the PC is wearing out...
As the writing got worse, the in-show ads got bigger and flashier.
Maybe the writing got worse because the writers are being told to insert in-show ads that don't really fit the natural flow of the show??
I mean, if a character is reaching into a fridge for a drink, it might as well be Coke or Pepsi, and that's fine, but if the writers have to get the character to *say* something about the Coke or Pepsi, that may well not fit easily into the dialogue.
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I'm not saying they *do* deserve it, just that they *think* they do.
I don't know how much it costs to lay fibre, but apart from that, couldn't Google lay their own and cut out the middle man?? Point to point across the country, with wireless AP's, or something...
If any of the queries reported include government IP addresses or Google-Ids of government employees, they should be highlighted. Especially if those porn queries are being made by Senators and/or Congressmen... "The public has a right to know" after all...
How well would a Fresnel lens work?? 10" x 7" with focal length of just over 10" is $6 at sci-toys.com
I don't know about Vintella, but we've had some bad experiences with SeOS. It gets in between the OS and the user, validating every disk access against a policy. It also has a password store on the policy server, so if you mistype 3 times in a row you can lock yourself out of a whole group of servers in one go. It used to be next to impossible to bring a server up in single user mode to fsck the disks - dunno if that's still true. The sysadmins were not allowed to have the root password, either, so they had to get a manager to "break" the sealed envelope if the root password was required. For day to day root usage, you'd use "sesu", which is a lot like 'su', except it checks against the policy server. I figure "sesu" made the system *less* secure - an attacker would only need to break a user's password, then "sesu" to root with the same password, instead of breaking a user's password, then breaking root's password (leaving out other ways of getting root access).
Changing passwords every 30 days, on 1800 systems, only *some* of which have a password syncing mechanism. Seems like there's several different criteria used for deciding what passwords are good and bad, too - one system recently wouldn't let me have several perfectly good words that were combinations of dictionary words, even though those words were OK elsewhere, but it would let me use a1b2c3d4...
If I was to keep all those passwords updated all the time, assuming 1 minute per machine I'd be burning 30 hours a month changing passwords. Luckily I don't need to access all those machines all the time, or I'd be running a password update script out of cron, with all my passwords written down in an encrypted file, and an automated login script to get to each machine.
Xen runs a kernel per virtual machine instance, OpenVZ runs one kernel but maintains separate process spaces for each virtual system (or whatever they call it). So, with OpenVZ, *all* the virtual systems are running the same distro of Linux, but with Xen you can run several different distros (RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Mandrake), as well as a completely different OS such as NetBSD or FreeBSD.
Have you heard of the "Read the Bills Act of 2005"?? It'll probably never get passed, but if it does every Congress-critter would be held personally responsible for reading every word of every bill. It may not stop riders completely, but at least there wouldn't be any "secret" amendments added in committee *after* the reading but *before* the vote.
Don't just challenge this statute - challenge every time Congress passes some "must pass" legislation with riders that are totally unrelated to the main intent of the bill. In this case, a DoJ appropriations bill is no place to be sliding in legislation about anonymity on the Internet. The RealId rider that was attached to a "troops & tsunami victims" appropriation bill is another one. Wasn't that rider rejected twice as a standalone bill??
Except that, if the warrant actually names a single, adult male , why the hell would any "reasonable" person make the mistake of reading that as saying "and any other person in the house"?? The family should sue, and have the cop(s) involved sent to reading comprehension classes.
These days, it wouldn't even take an Act of Congress for Amazon's databases to become FBI databases...
As someone else mentioned, it's called FTA.
I've got that story at home, in a short-story book. I *think* it might be in Larry Niven's "Limits", but I'm not sure, and I can't dig up a list of the contents, and I'm not at home right now...
Well, whatever floats your boat. Personally, I was thinking that the starving masses in various Third World countries would benefit. But then, you'll probably bitch and moan about population explosions in those Third World countries if they conquered the food supply problem...
Talking of the rubber meeting the road, aren't cars a bit obsolete by now?? Where the hell's my personal flying machine or teleporter?? And Star-Trek-style food synthesizers would be *really* useful...
Would that still be true if Dell started edging away from Microsoft?? Dell could lose (or have to "renegotiate") their volume discount. Which would be stupid if Microsoft did it, because they'd drive Dell further away, but they might just do it to slow down any other manufacturers that looked antsy.
Don't lose sight of the fact that there's some company that's pushing for *their* tax-calculating software to be adopted by all the states. Supposedly, internet taxation hasn't happened yet because it puts too big a burden on the e-stores to calculate all the different states, citiy & municipalities taxes. I don't have time to look up who it is, but this company has the idea that if they can get their software legislated into a certain number of states for e-commerce taxation, then *all* the states would have to adopt them, and they'd get an instant lifetime monopoly.
Well, the plates are *supposed* to be unique, which would allow usage as a database reference. A camera in one place would see a plate and update the record with the location. A camera elsewhere would see the duplicate (or maybe the original) and go to update the same record. If the old location is compared to the new location right before the update, it shouldn't be too hard to spot the which plates have been cloned. Spotting which one was the clone would be harder, but if a plate appears to move even as little as one mile in under 45 seconds, I'm sure the traffic cops would be interested in discussing speeding tickets with the registered owner, at the very least...
You're forgetting that the studios are writing the legislation. They'll simply write in exceptions for their own equipment. To give it a *slight* illusion of legality, it'll be worded so that in theory anyone could buy the equipment, but in practice it would cost far too much in dollars and time to buy licensing to own and operate it.
Or maybe I've missed the point...
Not only does the article refer to the gigantic cesspool of really bad bands , almost the entire article talked about the lack of good tracks/albums being published, and consumers thinking prices are too high. The word piracy was only mentioned once, which I thought was rather refreshing, actually.
That's exactly what these people are saying, and trying to prevent...
That's not so far fetched, actually. Around here, Cox Cable would come out and install a home network package for you, with cable modem and multiport firewall/router. I didn't read TFA, but 4 computers could easily be one each for him, his wife, and 2 kids. Or one or more might be virus-ridden junk that were "upgraded" rather than being wiped. The one that was wiped could have been taken back to the store for reinstallation.
Computers have approached commodity status these days - you can get a reasonable PC for around $300 and non-tech-savvy folks wouldn't necessarily know that they get dog slow when loaded with viruses and spyware. They'd assume that, just like a fridge or TV or cooker, the PC is wearing out...
Maybe the writing got worse because the writers are being told to insert in-show ads that don't really fit the natural flow of the show??
I mean, if a character is reaching into a fridge for a drink, it might as well be Coke or Pepsi, and that's fine, but if the writers have to get the character to *say* something about the Coke or Pepsi, that may well not fit easily into the dialogue.