I wonder if they're logging the email addresses that are being sent?
"2.4 Monitoring and Communication
VeriSign actively monitors all traffic associated with Site Finder, including DNS queries matching the wildcard entries in.com and.net and associated responses, and all traffic sent to the response server. This traffic is correlated and monitored in real time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, by VeriSign's Network Operations Centre... complete traffic stream to the.com and.net name servers and the response server, as well as rolled up statistics, are stored for analysis."
"2.4 Monitoring and Communication
VeriSign actively monitors all traffic associated with Site Finder, including DNS queries matching the wildcard entries in.com and.net and associated responses, and all traffic sent to the response server. This traffic is correlated and monitored in real time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, by VeriSign's Network Operations Centre... complete traffic stream to the.com and.net name servers and the response server, as well as rolled up statistics, are stored for analysis."
Ehm, well I don't agree to your Terms and Conditions, thank you very much. Please stop storing my typo data Please.
According to this article in The Times, easyCinema is trying to get the big moovies by paying a fixed fee with the distributors. This is apparently what the legal deal is all about.
The original BBC article has been edited since its first post and no longer talks about the problems faced by easyCinema. However, there is more writeup on easyCinema's problems in a separate report. The report states that in the UK, the studios take up around 90% of the box office proceeds. This practise was ruled upon in 1994 in Britain as "reasonable". It looks like for Stelios's venture to succeed bigtime, he needs to have the studios change their way they recuperate their costs ie with fixed prices for the cinema's. Fixed pricing though puts more of the movie flop expense on to the cinemas, who would have to become more careful as to which movies they pick. I doubt he will have success with fixed cost movie reels from the studios.
Still, he has managed to swing a deal with Sony (Columbia Tristar) to pay 1.30GBP (~$2.00) per person for two of their films. I think the guy is going to have a very tough uphill struggle to make this succeed. The French film financing board, the CNC are looking closely at their success.
Sorry.
But when it comes to typos, there's a big difference between an iMac and an eMac. IMO, the eMac still represents everything the iMac stands for, and should be its replacement even for educational establishements, which was the point I was trying to make originally. Now, I've been labelled twice as trolling:(
Yup, but then they should preload those 600MHz G3's with OS 9 and not OS X imho
My humble Performa, running OS 8.6 is still a VERY adequate web, email, and word processing (among other things) station. Hmmm, now where are those machines on the Apple for Education site?
If I've already got (say) forty-five eMacs and I get the funds to add five more to my lab, is it inconceivable that I'd want to get five more like the ones I have...
I'd say that if you had the budget, you'd want to buy 5 more eMacs, and not 5 discontinued iMacs.
Damn, then why am I trying to flog this darn Performa on eBay for 100 Euros!
Yes, fair enough and Apple have always had their entry level Macs for many a school to whip up, and I suppose the eMac will take centre stage on that front, but there's a big difference between entry level and discontinued.
...but still avalailable to educational establishments.
What's with that? They think that schools are so used to old equipment, they can continue to flog their discontiued lines to them???!
We actively monitor our networks, but looking for congestion spikes. If certain subnets appear to be showing bottlenecks, we track down the source and sort it out. More often than not it's a router that's going gaga, but sometimes it's a lab server that someone has set up to fileshare. That then gets closed down prompto, and we leave it upto whoever is in charge of the dorms to track down who is responsible.
The dorms however are a different kettle of fish. One quick peak at network activity during university hours (when network usage should be at a minimum) tells us that filesharing is going on in there. We throttle now and then when there's a slack in the workload and even set up port filters for the well known sharing servers, but to try and prevent it would involve employing a group of netadmins whose sole job is to prevent it (or report those responsible)
If the government is going to implement these laws, then they are going to have to subsidise the universities with federal money to pay the extra manpower required.
belongs to some 'company' called The Apple Agency. It's not a bricks 'n mortar company as far as I can tell. Strange that every page brings up a Microsoft Server 404 page linking to Microsoft Support for more information.
Damn, I went to that site to buy a G4 Powerbook, but instead of getting the Apple Store, UK, I'm told to go to Microsoft for further support.
Shame that Aussie guy didn't hold the rights to apple.com.au - to point it to microsoft.com.au
but that doesn't stop the bug guns with the $$$ from screwing you. Why is this any different from Visa blocking the use of eVisa.com who offered internet help on travel visas?
...please permit me to go off topic for 1 second...
I hate the attitude of cops in general. Damn cops!
I am in agreement - they should spend more in improving their image and attidute. While the attitude of UK bobbies is on the whole better than their US-counterparts, some are bloody down-right rude
Get this - I got pulled over 2 weeks ago for running a red light in London (it was frikkin orange, but never mind). I was on my way from work to the hospital, where my 2.5 month-old son lay with a 40.3oC temperature, so I was in a bit of a hurry. I really was, and I was all panicky. Anyway, the cop was sympathetic and let me go on my way without issuing a ticket, and putting god-knows how many points on my license.
Yesterday, I got a letter with a 600 GBP fine and an issue to go in front of a Police tribunal for failing to stop after being flagged down by a policeman for running a red light. WT friggin F??? The b'stard took my license number and issued a failing-to-stop-for-police notice. I'm frikkin fuming - So hah, Metropolitan police. Pay your frikkin huge court bill, because now I have to get a bloody solicitor to defend me in a my-word-against-your-word case, because I didn't ask for the policemans number after he was so 'kind' to let me go.
What the hell did K-9 actually do anyway? Yes, he was the doc's trusty friend, but he just buzzed and wheeled around the TARDIS all day doing sod all.
Shees, I mean the thing never even trundled his way off to the door wagging his antenna when the Doc returned home. Not much of an 'old faithful was he?
Come to think of it, I think the Doc didn't really like him either - you never saw him stroking the box-o-bolts or say hello to it.
Maybe he was supposed to have been a guard dog for the TARDIS, since there were'nt any locks on the front door, and that thing oftern found it way into pretty hostile territory. If so, he could have developed a more fierce attitutude. What would he have done if an intruder got in? Pee'd oil on him?
The statistics regarding the World Wildlife Fund's footprint are accurate for TODAY the 'ecological footprint' is defined as the 'area of productive land and water that people need to support their consumption and to dispose of waste'. London's footprint is 120 times as big as the land it covers, and as extrapolated by the WWF, Earth's ecological footprint is in danger of growing larger than the entire planet.
The problem is, this 'footprint' statistic, while accurate, is only accurate for today (ok, tomorrow as well). But people (eg the WWF) are using it to extrapolate 50 years in the future. The WWF say we will need between 1.8 and 2.2 Earth-sized planets to meet our needs by 2050 - this is using an ecological snapshot of the footprint today. The prediction holds true if we continue our current trend of fossil-fuel consumption, but statistics have shown that we are beginning the hard process of moving over to renewable or alternative energy sources - hybrid cars as a good example.
Thus, if we continue to invest in alternative energy sources, the ecological footprint will decrease, something the WWF didn't even consider in their statement
Also, there are a lot of factors to consider when drawing up the size of a footprint, especially a global one. Every time you collapse lots of diverse information you lose something, and that loss will increase the bigger your evaluation. Still, as a yardstick for measuring human consumption per capita, it's not bad (so long as you don't use it to predict!)
Indeed - a very good description summary of the original (May, 2000) quantum cryptography is described in this Nature news section. The story in point here is similar crpyptography techniques without the physical constraints of a fibre optic line.
In the UK, a number of lawyers (solicitors) go on a 'no win, no fee' premise, so it's in their interest to do well in court. More often than not, the lawyers hold free consultation days were you can present your position to them for free, and then they decide whether to tak it or not (on the no win, no fee basis or not).
Cops can't keep up with all of the speeders, but that doesn't mean they can shoot the tires out of parked Ferraris because they suspect that the owners might use them to speed
hehe, you gave me a chuckle with that one. Cheers.
You're right on though with the analysis that you can't just go making new laws because the old laws don't work efficiently enough. Why doesn't the government just slap a *REQUEST DENIED* sticker on this whole thing and tell those a$$es to use the current laws like everyone else has to.
Slashdot Mirror
run a competition and let others do the coding for you.
oh and don't forget to through in a t-shirt or to for all the hard work
white paper
Forgot to add, that comes from VeriSign's white paper
"2.4 Monitoring and Communication VeriSign actively monitors all traffic associated with Site Finder, including DNS queries matching the wildcard entries in .com and .net and associated responses, and all traffic sent to the response server. This traffic is correlated and monitored in real time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, by VeriSign's Network Operations Centre... complete traffic stream to the .com and .net name servers and the response server, as well as rolled up statistics, are stored for analysis."
"2.4 Monitoring and Communication .com and .net and associated responses, and all traffic sent to the response server. This traffic is correlated and monitored in real time, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, by VeriSign's Network Operations Centre... complete traffic stream to the .com and .net name servers and the response server, as well as rolled up statistics, are stored for analysis."
VeriSign actively monitors all traffic associated with Site Finder, including DNS queries matching the wildcard entries in
Ehm, well I don't agree to your Terms and Conditions, thank you very much. Please stop storing my typo data Please.
The original BBC article has been edited since its first post and no longer talks about the problems faced by easyCinema. However, there is more writeup on easyCinema's problems in a separate report. The report states that in the UK, the studios take up around 90% of the box office proceeds. This practise was ruled upon in 1994 in Britain as "reasonable". It looks like for Stelios's venture to succeed bigtime, he needs to have the studios change their way they recuperate their costs ie with fixed prices for the cinema's. Fixed pricing though puts more of the movie flop expense on to the cinemas, who would have to become more careful as to which movies they pick. I doubt he will have success with fixed cost movie reels from the studios.
Still, he has managed to swing a deal with Sony (Columbia Tristar) to pay 1.30GBP (~$2.00) per person for two of their films.
I think the guy is going to have a very tough uphill struggle to make this succeed. The French film financing board, the CNC are looking closely at their success.
Sorry. But when it comes to typos, there's a big difference between an iMac and an eMac. IMO, the eMac still represents everything the iMac stands for, and should be its replacement even for educational establishements, which was the point I was trying to make originally. Now, I've been labelled twice as trolling :(
My humble Performa, running OS 8.6 is still a VERY adequate web, email, and word processing (among other things) station. Hmmm, now where are those machines on the Apple for Education site?
I'd say that if you had the budget, you'd want to buy 5 more eMacs, and not 5 discontinued iMacs.
Damn, then why am I trying to flog this darn Performa on eBay for 100 Euros!
Yes, fair enough and Apple have always had their entry level Macs for many a school to whip up, and I suppose the eMac will take centre stage on that front, but there's a big difference between entry level and discontinued.
...but still avalailable to educational establishments.
What's with that? They think that schools are so used to old equipment, they can continue to flog their discontiued lines to them???!
The dorms however are a different kettle of fish. One quick peak at network activity during university hours (when network usage should be at a minimum) tells us that filesharing is going on in there. We throttle now and then when there's a slack in the workload and even set up port filters for the well known sharing servers, but to try and prevent it would involve employing a group of netadmins whose sole job is to prevent it (or report those responsible)
If the government is going to implement these laws, then they are going to have to subsidise the universities with federal money to pay the extra manpower required.
It's not that good a review.
Strange that every page brings up a Microsoft Server 404 page linking to Microsoft Support for more information.
Damn, I went to that site to buy a G4 Powerbook, but instead of getting the Apple Store, UK, I'm told to go to Microsoft for further support.
Shame that Aussie guy didn't hold the rights to apple.com.au - to point it to microsoft.com.au
but that doesn't stop the bug guns with the $$$ from screwing you. Why is this any different from Visa blocking the use of eVisa.com who offered internet help on travel visas?
What, you mean like Marvin? :D
it was yellow if it helps any... ;)
...please permit me to go off topic for 1 second...
I hate the attitude of cops in general. Damn cops!
I am in agreement - they should spend more in improving their image and attidute. While the attitude of UK bobbies is on the whole better than their US-counterparts, some are bloody down-right rude
Get this - I got pulled over 2 weeks ago for running a red light in London (it was frikkin orange, but never mind). I was on my way from work to the hospital, where my 2.5 month-old son lay with a 40.3oC temperature, so I was in a bit of a hurry. I really was, and I was all panicky. Anyway, the cop was sympathetic and let me go on my way without issuing a ticket, and putting god-knows how many points on my license.
Yesterday, I got a letter with a 600 GBP fine and an issue to go in front of a Police tribunal for failing to stop after being flagged down by a policeman for running a red light. WT friggin F??? The b'stard took my license number and issued a failing-to-stop-for-police notice. I'm frikkin fuming - So hah, Metropolitan police. Pay your frikkin huge court bill, because now I have to get a bloody solicitor to defend me in a my-word-against-your-word case, because I didn't ask for the policemans number after he was so 'kind' to let me go.
Grrrrrr
What the hell did K-9 actually do anyway? Yes, he was the doc's trusty friend, but he just buzzed and wheeled around the TARDIS all day doing sod all.
Shees, I mean the thing never even trundled his way off to the door wagging his antenna when the Doc returned home. Not much of an 'old faithful was he?
Come to think of it, I think the Doc didn't really like him either - you never saw him stroking the box-o-bolts or say hello to it.
Maybe he was supposed to have been a guard dog for the TARDIS, since there were'nt any locks on the front door, and that thing oftern found it way into pretty hostile territory. If so, he could have developed a more fierce attitutude. What would he have done if an intruder got in? Pee'd oil on him?
The statistics regarding the World Wildlife Fund's footprint are accurate for TODAY the 'ecological footprint' is defined as the 'area of productive land and water that people need to support their consumption and to dispose of waste'. London's footprint is 120 times as big as the land it covers, and as extrapolated by the WWF, Earth's ecological footprint is in danger of growing larger than the entire planet.
The problem is, this 'footprint' statistic, while accurate, is only accurate for today (ok, tomorrow as well). But people (eg the WWF) are using it to extrapolate 50 years in the future. The WWF say we will need between 1.8 and 2.2 Earth-sized planets to meet our needs by 2050 - this is using an ecological snapshot of the footprint today. The prediction holds true if we continue our current trend of fossil-fuel consumption, but statistics have shown that we are beginning the hard process of moving over to renewable or alternative energy sources - hybrid cars as a good example.
Thus, if we continue to invest in alternative energy sources, the ecological footprint will decrease, something the WWF didn't even consider in their statement
Also, there are a lot of factors to consider when drawing up the size of a footprint, especially a global one. Every time you collapse lots of diverse information you lose something, and that loss will increase the bigger your evaluation. Still, as a yardstick for measuring human consumption per capita, it's not bad (so long as you don't use it to predict!)
live and neutral are of course plastic, but the earth is a regular pin
That sinlge earthing cable landed me my wife, since she thought I was such a crazy ass to wire myself to the electrics to fix her computer.
Lesson be learned - save hardware, get a woman.Indeed - a very good description summary of the original (May, 2000) quantum cryptography is described in this Nature news section. The story in point here is similar crpyptography techniques without the physical constraints of a fibre optic line.
As more and more crimes become committed on the internet, what is your take on how it should be policed?
Should the law of the country where the servers are held be applied, or the law of the country of the guilty party?
Who should be the police?
In the UK, a number of lawyers (solicitors) go on a 'no win, no fee' premise, so it's in their interest to do well in court. More often than not, the lawyers hold free consultation days were you can present your position to them for free, and then they decide whether to tak it or not (on the no win, no fee basis or not).
Does nothing like that occur in the US?
hehe, you gave me a chuckle with that one. Cheers.
You're right on though with the analysis that you can't just go making new laws because the old laws don't work efficiently enough. Why doesn't the government just slap a *REQUEST DENIED* sticker on this whole thing and tell those a$$es to use the current laws like everyone else has to.