And what am I supposed to do? My ISP does not offer a mail server at all. They are not in the business of selling E-mail, they are in the business of selling internet connectivity.
Actually, backup schemes for ISPs is a very complex issue, requiring different retention and destruction protocols for different types of data, that may be difficult to map into filesystems.
I do agree, however, that "none at all" is a piss-poor disaster recovery regimen, and I suspect you were not the only customer to leave them after their disaster-non-recovery.
Well, I think it has something to do with the fact that there are two dimensions that consumers are using to quantify merit.
A processor that emits 1000 cluons per microsecond, but dissipates as much heat as a blow-dryer might be far inferior to a processor that only emits 500 cluons per microsecond, but will run on the electricity from one key lime, depending on the users' application.
As much as consumers want to have a single "figure of merit" to make their shopping easier, it just ain't so.
Actually, this single-number-shopping has always driven me somewhat crazy about the wintel hardware fanboys -- and how the One Metric That Matters changes over time (remember when disk drive vendors proudly published the avg. seek time? Now it seems to be RPM. Next year, I assume it will be specific gravity).
Assuming you were in the United States, you would go to your state public utilities commission, or equivalant, and file for a Certificate of Public Information, Convenience or Necessity
There are specific requirements that vary from state to state
In most of the slashdot penetrating world, we think of dogs primarily as companion animals, and find the thougt of them being blown to bits in mine clearance as "sad" (at least I certainly would)
I suspect from the point of view of the mine-clearing-canine group from Canada (they were recently spotlighted in a television program on National Geographic here) - it is the cost of training the animal that is the more serious loss, than the emotional suffering the handlers may suffer from the loss of a companion. For one project they had on the order of a half-dozen animals. So, losing one in an accident would be a pretty serious reduction in force.
Hopefully with rats, the cost of training, supporting, and getting them into the mine fields would be low enough that the mission would be less adversely impacted by losing one animal.
I am certain my friend who keeps pet rats would be just as horrified imagining a rat being killed ina clearing accident as I would be imagining a dog suffering the same fate.
<mode="pedantic">What auction? The e-bay auction was rescinded, so there could be no fraudulent transaction.</mode>
Since no money changed hands, the buyer cannot claim he did not receive the article he paid for.
As to what was on the customs declaration, your assertion seems likely, but you are arguing facts not in evidence. Maybe the pranksters honestly filled in "p-p-p-powerbook"
My instinct tells me the prof in Terre Haute has nothing to do with it, and just had his name pulled out of a directory to be stuck on a domain registration, as a red herring.
who says the value is far above the real value of goods sent?
As far as the beef with customs goes:
An artist can take ten dollars worth of canvas, smear five dollars of oilpaint on it, and sell it in a gallery for tens of thousands of dollars
By the same token, a sculptor can take a three ring binder, some magic markers, and a broken keyboard and make a sculpture easily worth two thousand.
Art is in the eye of the beholder
Since the eBay transaction never occured, they have no beef with him -- he merely used the contact made with the person who stole the german account to sell some artwork in a separate transaction
who ever said anything about supporting the wheel on the shaft encoder? The idea I had, upon first reading the article was something like this:
Picture of wheel
I realize you were being cutesy, but making a USB ships wheel
sounds about like a one-weekend take-it-apart-and-put-it-together
project, starting with a shaft-encoded driving-game controller.
The hardest part would surely be building the binnacle.
Globalisation is not going away. Outsourcing is not going away.
IT jobs in the US are going away.
Go see Grapes of
Wrath, and get a good understanding of what real hardship is
like. Nasty fact of life: Things change. And no amount of political
posturing, wishing, whining, begging, or threatening is going to
change that.
If you really want to be a coder - that is - if you chose IT
because you genuinely love it (I do), then emigrate.
You cannot change the attractiveness of outsourcing through
fiat. However you can change your situation until
you are more attractive than Ravi's House of Outsourcing and
Tandoori[1] and you will not have trouble finding work.
Just as the dot-com bubble was collapsing, I took my meager savings
and moved to a place where the cost of living is low, but
infrastructure is well developed. There were surely tradeoffs -
learning a new (human) language is substantially more difficult than
learning a new programming language, but to be frank, that was a big
part of the adventure: Throw myself into a foreign culture and see how
well I could adapt.
Now, I have a comfortable, but not lavish
lifestyle - two junior programmers and one artist working on projects
I manage (who make about 150% of what local companies pay for the same
work) - and without hesitation I can say: I have a much better quality
of life than I ever had working in the dot-bomb universe.
And with personal freedom increasingly a joke in my homeland, I have a
strong feeling I will never repatriate.
If you chose IT because you thought it would lead to riches and a
comfortable lifestyle: Well - you should have paid more attention to
your carreer counselor in high school. It is not too late to learn to
be a plumber, or a car mechanic.
1: The one thing I cannot get in Mexico that I really loved
when I was in the Silly-con Valley: Indian food
Bailiff
The first court of Onlineia is now in session, Honorable Judge Foo presiding.
Judge
I have read your complaint. Let's hear from the plaintiff.
Plaintiff
Thank you, your honor. In our case, we intend to prove that the defendant, in violation of our terms of service, removed the viruses we had gone through great trouble to install and operate on a network of computers, leading to considerable monetary damages in the sum of $1.2 million
Judge
You may call your first witness
Plaintiff
Thank you, your honor. We call J. Random Hacker
Bailiff swears in J.R.H.
Plaintiff
Mister Hacker. Did you, on 21 May 2004 rent for exclusive use, twenty-four hours of access to our BotNet DeLuxe service?
JRH
I did
Plaintiff
And what was your intention when you rented use of the cluster?
JRH
Well, at first I just wanted to set up a program to repeatedly check the home page on slasdot, trying to get first post
Plaintiff
And how did you go about that?
JRH
Well, I wrote this monster of a VB Program, but it was really buggy and I could not get it to work, so I decided to switch to Ruby
Plaintiff
And what happened next?
JRH
Well, I chose to install Geekdist Linux 12.11 because it came with the toolchain I was accustomed to
Plaintiff
But, did you not agree, when you rented this exclusive access not to damage our network in any way?
JRH
I guess so...
Plaintiff
And would you not consider removing our access to these machines a form of damage?
JRH
No, sir, I do not. I consider the machines upgradedPlaintiff
No further questions.
... write your own ending.
I think a good path for D. to take would be to show that P. does not have standing to bring the case in the first place, but that probably would have come up in pretrial motions... I have to go work
I am somewhat amazed to see how little/. readers can full comprehend the world outside of first world, mostly-free countries
This should be a wake-up call to the "chilling effect" of government intervention. It is not necessary to have a 100% effective technological solution against the dissemination of "unhealthy" information.
As long as they can keep on top of the "troublemakers" when they are few and far between, and make them "disappear", the deterrent effect will be strong enough to keep others from even trying to evade their control.
The Chinese government is not the RIAA. They don't mail you a friendly summons to a lawsuit. They drag you out in the dead of night for "re-education" or a date with a firing squad.
Until the day the police come knocking at your door to ask you about that unlicensed satellite dish on your roof
I know this has been a problem in other strict theocratic countries, where people were buying DBS Television systems, to get around government interference in news/entertainment programming. And the governments abroad take these issues very seriously.
The supreme court has made a distinction between normal speech and "commercial" speech, and that the latter may be limited in the public interest
SPAM has nothing to do with freedom of speech. If Scott wants to stand on a street-corner and shout his views on why his advertising should be embraced by all users to all passers by, he is invited to do so.
People - the constitution regulates what government can do -- not what private individuals (or/. editors) can do.
Objection, your honor - assuming facts not in evidence!
Assuming for the moment that every article on my person were purchased at Wal*Mart (fortunately for your imagination, I have already left the house this morning once, and therefore am dressed!) the only thing that could be determined is:
The subject is big. Number 31 shoe, 96cm waist, 84cm inseam, xxl t-shirt
based on styles, subject is likely male.
Based on T-Shirt, subject likely is a user of FreeBSD
Based on T-shirt, subject likely speaks English
Subject wears boxers.
Based on leather wallet, subject probably does not belong to PETA.
What do they know they couldn't have known by looking at me? And of the assumptions, #3 is wrong.
I still fail to see the cause for alarm
For what it's worth, much of what I am wearing is even available at Wal*Mart. I got my shoes from the cobbler, the T-shirt I won in a trivia contest, and the trousers came from a tailor around the corner. I suppose the underwear and socks are generic enough that I could have bought them at Wal*mart.
Basically, the way it works is as follows: you send any email with
a picture attached to your TextAmerica account, the email address is
the login/password so it looks like this login.password@tamw.com. When
we set up TinCam, the WebCam application, we will enter this info
in. If you want you can send a test message to your moblog now, simply
send an email and attach a photo, then visit your site to make sure it
all worked. This is also a quick and easy way to post pictures on the
web as well.
If I were doing something like this, I would probably use Perl.
#!/usr/bin/perl5 use Handwave::Camera;
use constant MYUSER => 'notauser'; use constant PASSWORD => 'notmypassword';
while (1) { my $image = Handwave::Camera->new(); # # maybe use some of Image::Magick to transform image # my $message = new MIME::Lite ( To => MYUSER.'.'.MYPASSWORD.'@tincam.com', From => 'notme@example.com', Subject => 'another photo', Type => 'multipart/mixed' ); $message->attach( Type => 'image/jpeg', Encoding => 'quoted-printable', Data => $image ); $message->send; sleep 60; }
Well here we have another RFID Tempest-in-a-teapot.
One of the princiapl tenets of capitalism, is that entities that
supply better value will succeed, to the expense of entities that do
not.
If Wal*Mart has decided that using this technology will allow them
to continue to provide the products that people wish to purchase (and
based on their position in retail marketers, they must be doing
something right) by cutting down on overhead, then so be
it.
I have a fundamental failure to understand why this issue (RFID in
general, and Wal*Mart's decision to use it in particular) brings out
the tin-foil-hat contingent.
I can see some organizations being opposed to it from a
self-preservation standpoint. Consider the following hypothetical example:
Because RFID allows
inventory to be counted more rapidly, and more accurately, Wal*Mart
can eliminate 30% of night-shift merchandise counters - the UCW would
oppose the measure.
Counterargument: Because RFID allows inventory
to be counted more rapidly, and more accurately, Wal*Mart decides to
do shelf-count nightly instead of weekly, this generating a net
increase in associate hours.
(The astute reader will note that I am ignoring alleged impropriety
in Wal*Mart's relationship with their associates for the simple
reason that it is orthogonal to this issue)
Sorry, maybe I was not sufficiently clear (or, you are making a joke and I am excessively dense) - the "bears" in my OP are the copyright holders (or their hired goons).
Which is why I included my first paragraph -- developing Yet Another P2P protocol counts (albeit just barely) as research
I would be much more impressed if they spent this time developing something novel
Clearly the development of this application falls under the
purview and purpose of Internet2 - whereas the use of it probably does not.
No matter how you want to dress it up with rhetoric, the
wide-spread broadcast of other peoples' material without permission is
-- under current statute -- unlawful, and leaves one liable to civil and
possible criminal prosecution.
What never ceases to amaze me is how many students think they can
poke at the bears with impunity, and then come crying when they get a
claw across the face.
Slashdot Mirror
And what am I supposed to do? My ISP does not offer a mail server at all. They are not in the business of selling E-mail, they are in the business of selling internet connectivity.
Actually, backup schemes for ISPs is a very complex issue, requiring different retention and destruction protocols for different types of data, that may be difficult to map into filesystems.
I do agree, however, that "none at all" is a piss-poor disaster recovery regimen, and I suspect you were not the only customer to leave them after their disaster-non-recovery.
Well, I think it has something to do with the fact that there are two dimensions that consumers are using to quantify merit.
A processor that emits 1000 cluons per microsecond, but dissipates as much heat as a blow-dryer might be far inferior to a processor that only emits 500 cluons per microsecond, but will run on the electricity from one key lime, depending on the users' application.
As much as consumers want to have a single "figure of merit" to make their shopping easier, it just ain't so.
Actually, this single-number-shopping has always driven me somewhat crazy about the wintel hardware fanboys -- and how the One Metric That Matters changes over time (remember when disk drive vendors proudly published the avg. seek time? Now it seems to be RPM. Next year, I assume it will be specific gravity).
Here is some information on just that.
Assuming you were in the United States, you would go to your state public utilities commission, or equivalant, and file for a Certificate of Public Information, Convenience or Necessity
There are specific requirements that vary from state to state
In most of the slashdot penetrating world, we think of dogs primarily as companion animals, and find the thougt of them being blown to bits in mine clearance as "sad" (at least I certainly would)
I suspect from the point of view of the mine-clearing-canine group from Canada (they were recently spotlighted in a television program on National Geographic here) - it is the cost of training the animal that is the more serious loss, than the emotional suffering the handlers may suffer from the loss of a companion. For one project they had on the order of a half-dozen animals. So, losing one in an accident would be a pretty serious reduction in force.
Hopefully with rats, the cost of training, supporting, and getting them into the mine fields would be low enough that the mission would be less adversely impacted by losing one animal.
I am certain my friend who keeps pet rats would be just as horrified imagining a rat being killed ina clearing accident as I would be imagining a dog suffering the same fate.
<mode="pedantic">What auction? The e-bay auction was rescinded, so there could be no fraudulent transaction.</mode>
Since no money changed hands, the buyer cannot claim he did not receive the article he paid for.
As to what was on the customs declaration, your assertion seems likely, but you are arguing facts not in evidence. Maybe the pranksters honestly filled in "p-p-p-powerbook"
My instinct tells me the prof in Terre Haute has nothing to do with it, and just had his name pulled out of a directory to be stuck on a domain registration, as a red herring.
who says the value is far above the real value of goods sent?
As far as the beef with customs goes:
An artist can take ten dollars worth of canvas, smear five dollars of oilpaint on it, and sell it in a gallery for tens of thousands of dollars
By the same token, a sculptor can take a three ring binder, some magic markers, and a broken keyboard and make a sculpture easily worth two thousand.
Art is in the eye of the beholder
Since the eBay transaction never occured, they have no beef with him -- he merely used the contact made with the person who stole the german account to sell some artwork in a separate transaction
All of the error codes begin with a two-character error locator ... PC = paper casette
who ever said anything about supporting the wheel on the shaft encoder? The idea I had, upon first reading the article was something like this: Picture of wheel
I realize you were being cutesy, but making a USB ships wheel sounds about like a one-weekend take-it-apart-and-put-it-together project, starting with a shaft-encoded driving-game controller.
The hardest part would surely be building the binnacle.
Globalisation is not going away. Outsourcing is not going away. IT jobs in the US are going away.
Go see Grapes of Wrath, and get a good understanding of what real hardship is like. Nasty fact of life: Things change. And no amount of political posturing, wishing, whining, begging, or threatening is going to change that.
If you really want to be a coder - that is - if you chose IT because you genuinely love it (I do), then emigrate.
You cannot change the attractiveness of outsourcing through fiat. However you can change your situation until you are more attractive than Ravi's House of Outsourcing and Tandoori[1] and you will not have trouble finding work.
Just as the dot-com bubble was collapsing, I took my meager savings and moved to a place where the cost of living is low, but infrastructure is well developed. There were surely tradeoffs - learning a new (human) language is substantially more difficult than learning a new programming language, but to be frank, that was a big part of the adventure: Throw myself into a foreign culture and see how well I could adapt.
Now, I have a comfortable, but not lavish lifestyle - two junior programmers and one artist working on projects I manage (who make about 150% of what local companies pay for the same work) - and without hesitation I can say: I have a much better quality of life than I ever had working in the dot-bomb universe. And with personal freedom increasingly a joke in my homeland, I have a strong feeling I will never repatriate.
If you chose IT because you thought it would lead to riches and a comfortable lifestyle: Well - you should have paid more attention to your carreer counselor in high school. It is not too late to learn to be a plumber, or a car mechanic.
1: The one thing I cannot get in Mexico that I really loved when I was in the Silly-con Valley: Indian food
What car do you drive? Even a Dodge Atos weighs about 800 kg?
... is that they have a version that is licensed as a motorvehicle in California.
Scene: A Courtroom
Bailiff The first court of Onlineia is now in session, Honorable Judge Foo presiding. Judge I have read your complaint. Let's hear from the plaintiff. Plaintiff Thank you, your honor. In our case, we intend to prove that the defendant, in violation of our terms of service, removed the viruses we had gone through great trouble to install and operate on a network of computers, leading to considerable monetary damages in the sum of $1.2 million Judge You may call your first witness Plaintiff Thank you, your honor. We call J. Random HackerBailiff swears in J.R.H.
Plaintiff Mister Hacker. Did you, on 21 May 2004 rent for exclusive use, twenty-four hours of access to our BotNet DeLuxe service? JRH I did Plaintiff And what was your intention when you rented use of the cluster? JRH Well, at first I just wanted to set up a program to repeatedly check the home page on slasdot, trying to get first post Plaintiff And how did you go about that? JRH Well, I wrote this monster of a VB Program, but it was really buggy and I could not get it to work, so I decided to switch to Ruby Plaintiff And what happened next? JRH Well, I chose to install Geekdist Linux 12.11 because it came with the toolchain I was accustomed to Plaintiff But, did you not agree, when you rented this exclusive access not to damage our network in any way? JRH I guess so... write your own ending.
I think a good path for D. to take would be to show that P. does not have standing to bring the case in the first place, but that probably would have come up in pretrial motions... I have to go work
I am somewhat amazed to see how little /. readers can full comprehend the world outside of first world, mostly-free countries
This should be a wake-up call to the "chilling effect" of government intervention. It is not necessary to have a 100% effective technological solution against the dissemination of "unhealthy" information.
As long as they can keep on top of the "troublemakers" when they are few and far between, and make them "disappear", the deterrent effect will be strong enough to keep others from even trying to evade their control.
The Chinese government is not the RIAA. They don't mail you a friendly summons to a lawsuit. They drag you out in the dead of night for "re-education" or a date with a firing squad.
I was insufficiently clear in my previous post. Let me phrase it another way.
Do you really want to play cat and mouse with an organization that has no qualms with decapitating you?
Until the day the police come knocking at your door to ask you about that unlicensed satellite dish on your roof
I know this has been a problem in other strict theocratic countries, where people were buying DBS Television systems, to get around government interference in news/entertainment programming. And the governments abroad take these issues very seriously.
Well, not quite ...
People - the constitution regulates what government can do -- not what private individuals (or /. editors) can do.
Objection, your honor - assuming facts not in evidence!
Assuming for the moment that every article on my person were purchased at Wal*Mart (fortunately for your imagination, I have already left the house this morning once, and therefore am dressed!) the only thing that could be determined is:
What do they know they couldn't have known by looking at me? And of the assumptions, #3 is wrong.
I still fail to see the cause for alarm
For what it's worth, much of what I am wearing is even available at Wal*Mart. I got my shoes from the cobbler, the T-shirt I won in a trivia contest, and the trousers came from a tailor around the corner. I suppose the underwear and socks are generic enough that I could have bought them at Wal*mart.
And it is so secure!
If I were doing something like this, I would probably use Perl.
Well here we have another RFID Tempest-in-a-teapot.
One of the princiapl tenets of capitalism, is that entities that supply better value will succeed, to the expense of entities that do not.
If Wal*Mart has decided that using this technology will allow them to continue to provide the products that people wish to purchase (and based on their position in retail marketers, they must be doing something right) by cutting down on overhead, then so be it.
I have a fundamental failure to understand why this issue (RFID in general, and Wal*Mart's decision to use it in particular) brings out the tin-foil-hat contingent.
I can see some organizations being opposed to it from a self-preservation standpoint. Consider the following hypothetical example:
Because RFID allows inventory to be counted more rapidly, and more accurately, Wal*Mart can eliminate 30% of night-shift merchandise counters - the UCW would oppose the measure.
Counterargument: Because RFID allows inventory to be counted more rapidly, and more accurately, Wal*Mart decides to do shelf-count nightly instead of weekly, this generating a net increase in associate hours.
(The astute reader will note that I am ignoring alleged impropriety in Wal*Mart's relationship with their associates for the simple reason that it is orthogonal to this issue)
Sorry, maybe I was not sufficiently clear (or, you are making a joke and I am excessively dense) - the "bears" in my OP are the copyright holders (or their hired goons).
Which is why I included my first paragraph -- developing Yet Another P2P protocol counts (albeit just barely) as research
I would be much more impressed if they spent this time developing something novel
Clearly the development of this application falls under the purview and purpose of Internet2 - whereas the use of it probably does not.
No matter how you want to dress it up with rhetoric, the wide-spread broadcast of other peoples' material without permission is -- under current statute -- unlawful, and leaves one liable to civil and possible criminal prosecution.
What never ceases to amaze me is how many students think they can poke at the bears with impunity, and then come crying when they get a claw across the face.