Approporiate fines should be the ones that most people can realistically pay without filling for bancrupcy, going homeless or applying for welfare. Also, as the article mentions, ones people can risk fighting rather than being scared into a settlement.
It's the approporiate laws that should be related to the possibility of enforcement, after some consideration for graveness of the crime, and it's time for some realistic corrections for copyright and some other things like pot or driving speed on a straight, empty road.
Network solutions shouldn't have been allowed to get into any business besides selling domain names and providing DNS. Anything else (like selling ads on their sitefinder) and there is a risk they will do something to DNS to promote their other products rather than improve usability (as they did). They shouldn't even be allowed to send unlimited e-mails to domain name owners.
TLD registrars and DNS providers should be small companies, run by people who are content to do a job and make a small profit, but not have unlimited freedom/growth potential of a private company that doesn't provide any exclusive service to the public.
I hope ICANN moves in that direction right away and not even bother with separate lawsuits for various small points.
Run SMTP over SSL and make all connections that are not listed in DNS MX records login with local username and password. Then, have the server sign the message of a logged-in user with server's key, which is registered with a certificate authority. If enough ISPs adopt that and there are cheap mail-only services, people will have an option to only accept signed messages or at least move unsigned ones to a separate folder.
Then, once all e-mail (that gets read) is tracable to a particular person/company, outlaw spam. No need for a no-spam list, because nobody wants spam. People can always sign up for whatever mailing lists interest them. No need to harvest e-mail addresses given for totally unrelated purposes.
Will it get rid of all unwanted e-mail? By no means. But its irresponsible to just complain or try to pass laws without making simple changes to the software first and seeing how well it works. You don't install a UNIX system with an empty root password and then whine about intruders, do you?
Actually you are not far off the mark if you think about traffic tickets, war on drugs or civil lawsuits ala SCO. But unfortunately there is quite enough spam already for anti-spam ware makers to just chill out.
If the price hike is implicit, manufacturers will have incentive to make products that are easier to recycle, so that they can offer a price cut. Government-standardized fee gives consumer less incentive to recycle or producer to cut costs.
I find it unbelievable that a Pentium that used to cost > $1K several years ago and yet the computer manufacturers can not salvage the working parts and use them elsewhere. Like electonics in a TV, VCR, cable modem, pay phone or refrigirator. In the "worst" case, they can make some cheap PCs for the poor countries.
I think the current situation is just lazy thinking. At minimum, it should be possible for a vendor to pay for shipping and offer a small rebate on the next purchase. For sure, it might mean changes in the design of the PCs so that they are easier to recycle later. For example, modular motherboard with self-test on each module and a diode that lights up if it's still functioning.
They don't have that much stuff yet, but what they have is not bad. It's regular music rather than just "experimental" stuff. Definitely better than what you hear on radio. I am definitely buying a few of their albums.
Now, how long before big labels realize that they have to start making more variety of music? With Apple music store I can already preview, download and burn on CD so they would be making some money.
Actually I hope its the main interface. Want to administer NX server that is down/not working over NX? Kind of like fixing graphics driver under Windows.
Do you mean the school is about learning things that are useless in life and even in professional mathematics? I agree that students should learn to make rough estimates in their head to catch calculation errors. Or understand what is multiplication, division or square root. But after that they should be allowed to bring calculators/laptops to class and use programs as they see fit. Spending years on mindless drills is ridiculous.
CS Students also should know what is assembler for debugging/spot optimization purposes but they shouldn't write insanely large programs in assembler.
You can go faster, but only where Microsoft wants you to go today.
C++ could be compared to a train. Once built, the train runs only on a particular railroad. To travel to another country, with different width between rails, you need a mechanic to do manual adjustments (ever travelled to Russia?).
But I wouldn't want to drive this train, because it crashes if you make the slightest mistake. Laborious effort must be taken to remove CO2 from each component of the engine, otherwise it will displace all the oxygen and the train will grind to a halt.
Java, I think is more like a tank. It doesn't crash much and can go anywhere you want, but much slower than a train or rollercoaster, and only with a batallion of support trucks who bring along its framework. -
So I don't see NAT dominating the Internet. I assume most people will just use a PC with two ethernet cards rather than dedicated routers and use that PC for stuff that requires incoming connections.
I suspect the author is just bitter that his stuff is not popular anymore. Even if it's possible to talk peer-to-peer, instant messangers with hosted servers are more convinient to use.
Well, its a free world, but he should have asked if anyone wants to take over the project and then forward the links to that person.
If you search for Kazaalite, it removes some results and then has a link to the DMCA complaint from Sherman networks that contains the exact list of sites that are supposed to be blocked. Basically, telling us which sites are good.
Of course, yahoo and altavista still return a pleanty of matches, including dangerous and misleading ones like this one.
Why would anyone want to use kazaa lite anyway when Limewire is open source and can be verified to not contain any spyware, hidden P2P networks or forced upgrades?
Basically, request an address from DHCP and then use another one. Or spoof packets from my neighbors PC. Maybe some simple things are blocked, but I don't feel cable modem network is especially secure. At least its not using secure IP and everyone gets to see everyone's packets with tcpdump.
Anyway, if there are some known hacks, won't it be very easy to defend against RIAAs lawsuit by saying it wasn't you?
Not really. If the battery is truly dead, there won't be anything to supply spark, power the electronic fuel injection, electric fuel pump, etc. It's not like the old days of magnetos and carbs..
Huh? The car has a generator. Why won't it supply electricity for all these things? I had a dead battery a few times and drove home just fine after someone gave me a jump.
I don't want my computer to take 15 seconds to open one file, be down a day every week and require a full-time administrator for 5 users. I assume a typical ClearCase system has EMF emission of a nuclear blast, because it sure has a similar effect on productivity.
Hmm.. A crank on a modern car would be very useful when you battery is dead. Perhaps a PC should have a front panel for single-stepping a crashed OS. Seeing how they can make an $20 handheld chess game with programmable logic, one could have an equivalent of debug.exe running on a front panel LCD and completely independent of the main CPU.
Well, it depends on weather the code is really violating the standard or it is, as you say, an interpetation problem. If some part of the standard is not clear to an average programmer and could be interpeted in a certain, useful way, the compiler should try to digest the code rather than showing off author's strict interpetation.
Also, I hope older versions of standard are supported and system header files can somehow indicate their own version so that the old programs actually compile.
Yeah, and there is also kazaalite and windows update to keep the corresponding products free of junk. Do you really want to install hostile software as your operating system and then try to disable it? Besides, figure that future versions might have BannerWM for X windows manager and change some key programs to check for it.
The problem with adware is that (hacking aside) I have to keep getting annoyed by it indefinitely. If they played a one-hour marketing video during install and then made me pass a quiz to activate the system, it would be more acceptable, because I am "paying" for the software with an hour of my time. As it is, they still want me to look at their ads a year later. At that time, even if they didn't get their money back, I lost much more than their software is worth in my time. And I still have to pay the full price for an ad-free version.
If Mandrake itself set to run rpm -ihv noads-1.0mdk.rpm in a couple of months as a cron job, it would be a different story.
Whoever said a business must charge everyone for everything in order to make money? I can watch some free shows on antenna or download some Linux ISOs, but UPN and Redhat are still around
I would guess either Blogger Pro didn't have that many subscribers or they have plans to get free users pay for other things later. Maybe even sell books based on highest-moderated posts. Like every business decision its a gamble, but we don't have enough information to assume that Google is run by a bunch of idiots.
Databases are space-efficient for small objects, have primary keys ("filename as a counted array of bytes) and cerainly support atomic updates. They can also be stored in a raw disk partition if you dislike double overhead. On the other hand, they support atomic updates on a larger scale than writting a single attributes and fast arbitary queries (whereas you would have to search thousand of files to build your symlinks every time the user asks). So why reinvent the wheel?
I bet HP is just offering a box for people who have their own OS (like XP pro) to install and want to avoid paying Microsoft tax for a second copy. This group might be confused by preinstalled Linux and think that Windows, Solaris or FreeBSD are not supported. CDs are just there to appeal to a smaller secondary market and to prevent any claims of encouraging piracy. Of course, Microsoft might regret the Naked PC blurb when they hear about the workaround.
This is a business desktop, so it needs an ethernet card rather than a modem, which it has. As for the brand, winmodems are less expensive, so its no surprise. Hopefully will encourage modem vendor to release the hardware specs.
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Approporiate fines should be the ones that most people can realistically pay without filling for bancrupcy, going homeless or applying for welfare. Also, as the article mentions, ones people can risk fighting rather than being scared into a settlement.
It's the approporiate laws that should be related to the possibility of enforcement, after some consideration for graveness of the crime, and it's time for some realistic corrections for copyright and some other things like pot or driving speed on a straight, empty road.
Network solutions shouldn't have been allowed to get into any business besides selling domain names and providing DNS. Anything else (like selling ads on their sitefinder) and there is a risk they will do something to DNS to promote their other products rather than improve usability (as they did). They shouldn't even be allowed to send unlimited e-mails to domain name owners.
TLD registrars and DNS providers should be small companies, run by people who are content to do a job and make a small profit, but not have unlimited freedom/growth potential of a private company that doesn't provide any exclusive service to the public.
I hope ICANN moves in that direction right away and not even bother with separate lawsuits for various small points.
Run SMTP over SSL and make all connections that are not listed in DNS MX records login with local username and password. Then, have the server sign the message of a logged-in user with server's key, which is registered with a certificate authority. If enough ISPs adopt that and there are cheap mail-only services, people will have an option to only accept signed messages or at least move unsigned ones to a separate folder.
Then, once all e-mail (that gets read) is tracable to a particular person/company, outlaw spam. No need for a no-spam list, because nobody wants spam. People can always sign up for whatever mailing lists interest them. No need to harvest e-mail addresses given for totally unrelated purposes.
Will it get rid of all unwanted e-mail? By no means. But its irresponsible to just complain or try to pass laws without making simple changes to the software first and seeing how well it works. You don't install a UNIX system with an empty root password and then whine about intruders, do you?
Actually you are not far off the mark if you think about traffic tickets, war on drugs or civil lawsuits ala SCO. But unfortunately there is quite enough spam already for anti-spam ware makers to just chill out.
If the price hike is implicit, manufacturers will have incentive to make products that are easier to recycle, so that they can offer a price cut. Government-standardized fee gives consumer less incentive to recycle or producer to cut costs.
I find it unbelievable that a Pentium that used to cost > $1K several years ago and yet the computer manufacturers can not salvage the working parts and use them elsewhere. Like electonics in a TV, VCR, cable modem, pay phone or refrigirator. In the "worst" case, they can make some cheap PCs for the poor countries.
I think the current situation is just lazy thinking. At minimum, it should be possible for a vendor to pay for shipping and offer a small rebate on the next purchase. For sure, it might mean changes in the design of the PCs so that they are easier to recycle later. For example, modular motherboard with self-test on each module and a diode that lights up if it's still functioning.
They don't have that much stuff yet, but what they have is not bad. It's regular music rather than just "experimental" stuff. Definitely better than what you hear on radio. I am definitely buying a few of their albums.
Now, how long before big labels realize that they have to start making more variety of music? With Apple music store I can already preview, download and burn on CD so they would be making some money.
Actually I hope its the main interface. Want to administer NX server that is down/not working over NX? Kind of like fixing graphics driver under Windows.
Do you mean the school is about learning things that are useless in life and even in professional mathematics? I agree that students should learn to make rough estimates in their head to catch calculation errors. Or understand what is multiplication, division or square root. But after that they should be allowed to bring calculators/laptops to class and use programs as they see fit. Spending years on mindless drills is ridiculous.
CS Students also should know what is assembler for debugging/spot optimization purposes but they shouldn't write insanely large programs in assembler.
Its called paperbacks and they pretty much disintegrate if you read them for 6 months.
This was the most amusing thing I saw for long time. A picture that actually makes by brain run an animation! Do you have more links like that?
You can go faster, but only where Microsoft wants you to go today.
C++ could be compared to a train. Once built, the train runs only on a particular railroad. To travel to another country, with different width between rails, you need a mechanic to do manual adjustments (ever travelled to Russia?).
But I wouldn't want to drive this train, because it crashes if you make the slightest mistake. Laborious effort must be taken to remove CO2 from each component of the engine, otherwise it will displace all the oxygen and the train will grind to a halt.
Java, I think is more like a tank. It doesn't crash much and can go anywhere you want, but much slower than a train or rollercoaster, and only with a batallion of support trucks who bring along its framework.
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So I don't see NAT dominating the Internet. I assume most people will just use a PC with two ethernet cards rather than dedicated routers and use that PC for stuff that requires incoming connections.
I suspect the author is just bitter that his stuff is not popular anymore. Even if it's possible to talk peer-to-peer, instant messangers with hosted servers are more convinient to use.
Well, its a free world, but he should have asked if anyone wants to take over the project and then forward the links to that person.
If you search for Kazaalite, it removes some results and then has a link to the DMCA complaint from Sherman networks that contains the exact list of sites that are supposed to be blocked. Basically, telling us which sites are good.
Of course, yahoo and altavista still return a pleanty of matches, including dangerous and misleading ones like this one.
Why would anyone want to use kazaa lite anyway when Limewire is open source and can be verified to not contain any spyware, hidden P2P networks or forced upgrades?
Basically, request an address from DHCP and then use another one. Or spoof packets from my neighbors PC. Maybe some simple things are blocked, but I don't feel cable modem network is especially secure. At least its not using secure IP and everyone gets to see everyone's packets with tcpdump.
Anyway, if there are some known hacks, won't it be very easy to defend against RIAAs lawsuit by saying it wasn't you?
Not really. If the battery is truly dead, there won't be anything to supply spark, power the electronic fuel injection, electric fuel pump, etc. It's not like the old days of magnetos and carbs..
Huh? The car has a generator. Why won't it supply electricity for all these things? I had a dead battery a few times and drove home just fine after someone gave me a jump.
I don't want my computer to take 15 seconds to open one file, be down a day every week and require a full-time administrator for 5 users. I assume a typical ClearCase system has EMF emission of a nuclear blast, because it sure has a similar effect on productivity.
How about a nice CVS mod?
Hmm.. A crank on a modern car would be very useful when you battery is dead. Perhaps a PC should have a front panel for single-stepping a crashed OS. Seeing how they can make an $20 handheld chess game with programmable logic, one could have an equivalent of debug.exe running on a front panel LCD and completely independent of the main CPU.
When I first read this, I thought they wish their code was good enough to copy. Or maybe its exactly what the author meant?
Well, it depends on weather the code is really violating the standard or it is, as you say, an interpetation problem. If some part of the standard is not clear to an average programmer and could be interpeted in a certain, useful way, the compiler should try to digest the code rather than showing off author's strict interpetation.
Also, I hope older versions of standard are supported and system header files can somehow indicate their own version so that the old programs actually compile.
Yeah, and there is also kazaalite and windows update to keep the corresponding products free of junk. Do you really want to install hostile software as your operating system and then try to disable it? Besides, figure that future versions might have BannerWM for X windows manager and change some key programs to check for it.
The problem with adware is that (hacking aside) I have to keep getting annoyed by it indefinitely. If they played a one-hour marketing video during install and then made me pass a quiz to activate the system, it would be more acceptable, because I am "paying" for the software with an hour of my time. As it is, they still want me to look at their ads a year later. At that time, even if they didn't get their money back, I lost much more than their software is worth in my time. And I still have to pay the full price for an ad-free version.
If Mandrake itself set to run rpm -ihv noads-1.0mdk.rpm in a couple of months as a cron job, it would be a different story.
Whoever said a business must charge everyone for everything in order to make money? I can watch some free shows on antenna or download some Linux ISOs, but UPN and Redhat are still around
I would guess either Blogger Pro didn't have that many subscribers or they have plans to get free users pay for other things later. Maybe even sell books based on highest-moderated posts. Like every business decision its a gamble, but we don't have enough information to assume that Google is run by a bunch of idiots.
Databases are space-efficient for small objects, have primary keys ("filename as a counted array of bytes) and cerainly support atomic updates. They can also be stored in a raw disk partition if you dislike double overhead. On the other hand, they support atomic updates on a larger scale than writting a single attributes and fast arbitary queries (whereas you would have to search thousand of files to build your symlinks every time the user asks). So why reinvent the wheel?
I bet HP is just offering a box for people who have their own OS (like XP pro) to install and want to avoid paying Microsoft tax for a second copy. This group might be confused by preinstalled Linux and think that Windows, Solaris or FreeBSD are not supported. CDs are just there to appeal to a smaller secondary market and to prevent any claims of encouraging piracy. Of course, Microsoft might regret the Naked PC blurb when they hear about the workaround.
This is a business desktop, so it needs an ethernet card rather than a modem, which it has. As for the brand, winmodems are less expensive, so its no surprise. Hopefully will encourage modem vendor to release the hardware specs.