Being one of those lucky few that got singled out for everything short of a public rectal exam on my last flight, I have decided that I will drive everywhere I need to go that is less than 1,000 miles and simply not go on longer trips short of something like a death in the family.
I'd rather the old way with a few common sense precautions like strong and locked cockpit doors as well as a coded deadman switch (living pilots enter a code every 15 minutes) and just take my chances!
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.Ben Franklin (1759)
These modifications will have no immediate effect on Linux users as Linux will simply ignore the additional parts. The problem will come when the new IDE interfaces start to depend on the functionality to be there before they will function properly. And sound cards. And video cards. I have no doubt that slashdotters will continue to work their way around such issues for as long as it is possible. The problem that I see is when M$, with the help of Hollwood, starts to get people to expect things that their new Media Player 9+ can do. They are going to want to keep up with the Jones' and that may involve buying the newest hardware so that they can run the newest software. This will shift the majority of home purchases into the DRM camp and make it harder for those of us that want to protect our privacy to do it.
What the government is having a hard time doing, keeping an eye on all of us, the Wintel alliance is going to do for them. After the PIII id disaster they will move cautiously at first. Then, once there is a critical mass of people dependant upon the new features of the computers, they can move over to the new systems completely. Our only real hope is Free Software / Open Source! If the businesses that are deploying it right now realize that it may not work on future versions of hardware then they may demand systems that it can work on. If they don't then their investment in these new systems will be a temporary thing as they will have to migrate back to the proprietary world to use the hardware of the future. After that has happened it will be an easy matter for government to get their hands on everything.
First they will propose a bill so far out of line that everyone will cry foul. Second there will be public outrage; that will be followed by mettings, discussions, and finally amendments to make the bill less draconian. They will amend the bill and then say "see how much we compromised?" In reality they will end up with exactly what they wanted from the beginning. And we will be stuck with exactly what we feared: government having the ability to know everything that we have done through one simple subpeona. And now days it doesn't even take a judge to sign it - just a Federal Prosecuter.
For my part I will buy the biggest baddest machine that I can a generation behind the new "secure Computing" systems so that I can have a sense of security - and then NOT upgrade for as long as possible. It could even become the most valuable possession that I leave for my kids. Now there is a scary thought. And people didn't think that we would ever have the two way TVs that George Orwell predicted in "1984".
Actually, if you read the study, they have concluded that steel is better suited to the ice-caps and wind stresses in the ocean environment. Not that the smelting process is any less cruel to the environment.
Well here comes Sony again. Do we trust them and their proprietary formats? Is this system going to be open to playing/tweaking. Tivo doesn't officially encourage it but they don't stop you either. Sony's interest lie in content protection as many of the coments from the article will attest to. If you slashdotters are serious in promoting their "fair use" rights then they shouldn't forget them just becasue a company that disagrees with them comes out with a new toy.
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You state: "He was later convicted for another rape and then stabbed to death in a fight". This is wrong! Ernesto Miranda was given a new trial and convicted without the use of his confession on the original rape and kidnapping charges.
He was stabbed after his parole and when the police picked up a suspect he exercised his Miranda Rights and was released.
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(And Religion and The Press)
Protecting 'Freedom of Speech' is not really about having the right to go to your favorite church and listen to what your preacher/pastor/cleric/minister/etc has to say.Most people just expect that. Fighting for freedom of speech is hearing someone say the most vile and disgusting thing that you ever heard and standing op for his/her right to say it - not necessarily agreeing with it. Just defending their right to say what they want.
That means if your black standing up for the rights of the KKK to speak their mind. If your American standing up for the rights of others throughout the world to call us tyrants and other kinds of vile crap!!
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They used to be when I went to High School - Graduated in 1985.
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Frame Relay SWITCHING fabric -- this is called a frame cloud.
World Com screws you not by using Frame Relay but by giving you ATM over IP. In other words your new T1 has a capacity of 1.36 Mb/s after the ATM overhead. I know this because my ass still hurts from getting screwed by them! You know what? They didn't even kiss me first!
In reality WorldDom gives you a true T1 into their National Frame Cloud. This part works as advertised. You are correct when you state that it is their frame cloud that will get you in the end - although I have to give them credit - they did not deceive me when I set up my business. They told me all of this. I just didn't know how to route around it at the time. They throttle their bandwidth with ATM which consumes the extra bandwidth. Perhaps my salesperson was more honest than some of the others or perhaps I knew enough lingo that they didn't bait me. I just didn't know enough about my choices.
A service tech with a line tester should be able to tell you if the T1 works, what its error/re-transmitance rate is etc. This can easily be done by having your router (or hub as you called it) flood ping your provider's router on the other end. This should transmit and receive simultaneously at 1.54 Mb/s (ping packets have to get back don't they). You should be able to check the router logs for the throughput. If everything is working right then you have done the EASY part.
What the competitors are telling you is that this particular provider has a DS3 circuit that has basically 45 Mb/s of throughput. In other words it can support 29.22 T1 users running at full throttle. In reality if you are using your full bandwidth then you are not!!! VERY IMPORTANT HERE!!! If your T1 is loaded then the routers on each end are dropping packets since they don't have very big buffers. This causes packets to be retransmitted, messages to be sent requesting TCP connections throttle down, timeouts, etc. Remeber that the real goal is how many WWW pages, email messages, FTP files, etc. that you can move. It is NOT how many bits per second you can send! If you are running at about 90% capacity then you can consider the line MAXED out. The same thing goes for your provider on his DS3 line.
If you throw in the burstyness of TCP/IP traffic your traffic really maxes out bouncing around somewhere between 65% and 90% of its max rated load. When you add in the fact that people like to have headroom and the size steps between T1 and T3 or partial T3 nobody uses their max bandwidth all of the time. This is something that your provider uses to his advantage by selling more than 29.22 T1's. In reality that provider may have 1000 dial up customers, many more DSL customers, people with dedicated 56K connections, and maybe even some old ISDN connections on top of the other T1's that he has sold. It is fairly safe for a provider to oversell a connection somewhere between 5x and 20x. Especially if you consider that people that have DSL's usually leave them on but don't use them for that many hours in the day. Headroom is defined as being prepared for the slashdot effect!
You need to figure out if your provider speciallizes in retail (home) customers or business customers. If it is home customers then his load will spike in the evening when poeple get home from work and on the weekend. If it is business customers then his load will spike during business hours. Also consider if your provider is hosting very much traffic beyond home users personal WWW pages. If he is then that is bandwidth that is not available to resell.
The only real way to tell is to look at your provider's router logs. Don't just look at averages for a day! Look at averages generated at least every hour over the course of at least a week so you can see when his network (which you will be a part of) loads up. If he consistantly stays below 80% of his upstream bandwidth and will upgrade his upstream connection if it passes that then you are fairly safe. On the other hand if he routinely pushes his max then that is exactly what his competitors are warning you about! If he loads up then everyone downstream from him will slow down as that will become the bottleneck.
Another thing to consider is that it sounds like he has a single DS3 upstream connection. Ask him if that is true and if he has any plans to become multi-homed. This has two major advantages over a single fat pipe: redundancy and load balancing. If he connects to two or more of the backbone providers then the traffic can most likely pick the shortest route to its destination while still having the other one available if one of the DS3 lines goes down. I'm sure the people @/. have more than one connection if they are served from their business. It is more likely that they are hosted by a large hosting company that is already multi-homed though. A final thing to ask is if this provider does any traffic shaping. This can throttle users that are consuming more than their fair share. But if you are paying for a T1 you should get all of it. Sometimes though a customer will have a partial T1 (this requires a full T1 connection from their site to the provider though) and get to use any excess if it is available.
This is what I used to do for a living so I know a little bit about what I'm talking about! Once again his logs can tell you if he has oversold his service as his competitors suggest. But put some value on a provider that has more than one connection to the upstream Internet regardless of how large their single pipe is. If you want to have some fun ask him how much an OC196 would cost. 8-)
This subject really pisses me off. I read about this stuff all of the time and the bottom line is that the police can and will do anything and everything that they want to until they are challenged in a court of law. Thank god for the ACLU! The real problem is that people do not know what their rights are, when they are allowed to assert them, and how to go about doing it. Taking the police to court is cost prohibitive but a well drafted complaint to the right people and agencies can at least help people reclaim their rights. Start by sending copies to your local news papers, the State Attorney General's Office, the police department, the FBI (as they investigate the police for civil rights violations), and the US Department of Justice (as they prosecute the police for civil rights violations).
Most of these rights were the main casualties in the War on Drugs. See US: This Is Your Bill of Rights, On Drugs for some other egregious examples of the police getting out of hand. You do not have to tell the police your name, address or let them photograph you. Since this is America the police have the right to ask you anything that they want; and you have the right to ignore them. These rights are laid out in the ACLU 's web site. I think that the best place to read about what the police can and cannot do when they approach you is a study by the New York Attorney General's Office entitled The New York City Police Department's "Stop & Frisk" Practices. This article goes on to site case law supporting things like "civilians are not required to answer or to provide proof of identity":
See De Bour, 40 N.Y.2d at 219, 386 N.Y.S.2d at 382 n.1; see also People v. Powell, 246 A.D.2d 366, 667 N.Y.S.2d 725 (1st Dep't 1998)
Some of this information is specific to the state of New York but much of it is applicable for people in every state. This report goes on to explain things like Federal law provides a floor for state standards. This means that states may enact tougher restrictions on their police departments but that they cannot give the police more lattitude to do things like question citizens.
The practice mentioned in the article will stand until someone sues to have it stopped. Here we are back with the ACLU again. They seem to be about the only organization that has deep enough pockets to pursue things like this. And the worst that is going to happen is they are told to stop. In reality the state and federal prosecutors are probably right when they say that the collecting of this information is legal. This is because the people that got into this file didn't walk away from the police in the manner that is outlined in the Supreme Court's decision in Terry v. Ohio and subsequent case law. For the police to detain you - meaning that you cannot just ignore them and walk away - they must first reasonably concluded that the suspect is engaged in criminal activity. The article in question says that the people were detained for loitering so the police have found what they say is a criminal activity. Make them prove it! Make them file a detailed report of the stop. File your complaints with the entities I listed above and make them justify their stop to their superiors. Make their superiors justify the stop to the local paper and the federal authorities. If everyone that was annoyed would push just a little then it would work more than one or two people pressing really hard.
Unfortunately the police are rarely required to justify their actions much less defend them in an official inquiry. Police enjoy something called qualified indemnity that protects them from the consequences of their actions in all but the most severe of circumstances. And even then they get off with a slap on the wrist instead of the punishment that they deserve. Case in point:
I used to live Colorado where they have a law similiar to that in many other states called capital murder. It states that if someone dies while in the commission of a felony that all people committing that felony can be charged with first degree murder. Perjury is a felony; that is what swearing out a false affidavit is. So when an officer lies while asking a judge for a search warrant they have committed a felony. When an innocent person dies in the execution of that search warrant it should be capital murder. If the person that lies is a police officer then it works out differently. They can even get their job back and the opportunity to lie again. This was not his first mistake. The FBI has even been critized for that very same offense.
We MUST stand up for our rights or we will loose them.
Regards, Tres.
The "Everything you always wanted to know about xyz in twenty seconds flat" seminars have value in teaching you what xyz is capable of doing if thaught by someone with some knowledge about the topic and most importantly is NOT boring. If the course is really good it will give me enough information so I know where to go to learn more. If not there's always Google!
And if its really, really good (this is seldom the case) then I end up with one of those handouts that always seems to stay somewhere near the top of the desk. I use the Desktop Chronological Filing System (TM). The one where items are sorted by their last access times. The deeper it is then the older and more irrelevant it is.
Real learning comes from use. Sit down and start doing it. A good seminar should be able to teach you if the tool is the right tool for the job first. Second, it should be able to get you to the "Hello World" stage. Trying to do much more than this usually causes information overload and I tend to just take notes without mentally registering what is said.
Back when I had an awesome job and could afford some really nice things I spent about $10K on a stereo system. It is an awesome toy and even though I didn't think I'd buy Sony walking in to the store I ended up with a rack of Sony ES (Elevated Standard) stuff. Except for the CD player everything has worked pretty good. That was 12 years ago and it was one of the first digital preamps out there: TAE 1000ESD.
A few years ago I was researching which DVD player to buy when I discovered the extent that Sony goes to to make sure my rights are as limited as possible. If you want to make your DVD player a region 0 player (it'll play everything from all over the world) then DON'T buy a sony. It requires soldering a new chip on the board for most of their modles.
Then I looked at the extent that they went through to make their mini-disc system not play nicely with others. The extent that they went to to make DAT's not play well with others and I came to the same conclusion that you have.
Although they make some good stuff it doesn't always play well with your other toys. I will not buy anything that says Sony on it ever again. This includes everything from new toys to blank VHS tapes. Nothing that says Sony! Ever!
This is ironic from the company that established the fair use of time-shifting, and thus enabled VCR's and their proprietary Betamax format to record TV programs, by taking the MPAA all the way to the Supreme Court. I guess they're a content company now!!!
This is also ironic coming from a company that created a Linux distribution for their PS/2 console. By the way...Doesn't IBM have a trademark on PS/2? You remember the computers that had that micro-channel architecture.
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I'd rather the old way with a few common sense precautions like strong and locked cockpit doors as well as a coded deadman switch (living pilots enter a code every 15 minutes) and just take my chances!
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin (1759)
3 years and we're all dead!! It kinda casts some doubt on the rest of your figures! Perhaps you meant 1/3 of people die in car accidents.
What the government is having a hard time doing, keeping an eye on all of us, the Wintel alliance is going to do for them. After the PIII id disaster they will move cautiously at first. Then, once there is a critical mass of people dependant upon the new features of the computers, they can move over to the new systems completely. Our only real hope is Free Software / Open Source! If the businesses that are deploying it right now realize that it may not work on future versions of hardware then they may demand systems that it can work on. If they don't then their investment in these new systems will be a temporary thing as they will have to migrate back to the proprietary world to use the hardware of the future. After that has happened it will be an easy matter for government to get their hands on everything.
First they will propose a bill so far out of line that everyone will cry foul. Second there will be public outrage; that will be followed by mettings, discussions, and finally amendments to make the bill less draconian. They will amend the bill and then say "see how much we compromised?" In reality they will end up with exactly what they wanted from the beginning. And we will be stuck with exactly what we feared: government having the ability to know everything that we have done through one simple subpeona. And now days it doesn't even take a judge to sign it - just a Federal Prosecuter.
For my part I will buy the biggest baddest machine that I can a generation behind the new "secure Computing" systems so that I can have a sense of security - and then NOT upgrade for as long as possible. It could even become the most valuable possession that I leave for my kids. Now there is a scary thought. And people didn't think that we would ever have the two way TVs that George Orwell predicted in "1984".
Actually, if you read the study, they have concluded that steel is better suited to the ice-caps and wind stresses in the ocean environment. Not that the smelting process is any less cruel to the environment.
Think about it!
Well here comes Sony again. Do we trust them and their proprietary formats? Is this system going to be open to playing/tweaking. Tivo doesn't officially encourage it but they don't stop you either. Sony's interest lie in content protection as many of the coments from the article will attest to. If you slashdotters are serious in promoting their "fair use" rights then they shouldn't forget them just becasue a company that disagrees with them comes out with a new toy.
Nice tactical rebuttal!
He was stabbed after his parole and when the police picked up a suspect he exercised his Miranda Rights and was released.
Read about it.
Protecting 'Freedom of Speech' is not really about having the right to go to your favorite church and listen to what your preacher/pastor/cleric/minister/etc has to say.Most people just expect that. Fighting for freedom of speech is hearing someone say the most vile and disgusting thing that you ever heard and standing op for his/her right to say it - not necessarily agreeing with it. Just defending their right to say what they want.
That means if your black standing up for the rights of the KKK to speak their mind. If your American standing up for the rights of others throughout the world to call us tyrants and other kinds of vile crap!!
They used to be when I went to High School - Graduated in 1985.
World Com screws you not by using Frame Relay but by giving you ATM over IP. In other words your new T1 has a capacity of 1.36 Mb/s after the ATM overhead. I know this because my ass still hurts from getting screwed by them! You know what? They didn't even kiss me first!
In reality WorldDom gives you a true T1 into their National Frame Cloud. This part works as advertised. You are correct when you state that it is their frame cloud that will get you in the end - although I have to give them credit - they did not deceive me when I set up my business. They told me all of this. I just didn't know how to route around it at the time. They throttle their bandwidth with ATM which consumes the extra bandwidth. Perhaps my salesperson was more honest than some of the others or perhaps I knew enough lingo that they didn't bait me. I just didn't know enough about my choices.
What the competitors are telling you is that this particular provider has a DS3 circuit that has basically 45 Mb/s of throughput. In other words it can support 29.22 T1 users running at full throttle. In reality if you are using your full bandwidth then you are not!!! VERY IMPORTANT HERE!!! If your T1 is loaded then the routers on each end are dropping packets since they don't have very big buffers. This causes packets to be retransmitted, messages to be sent requesting TCP connections throttle down, timeouts, etc. Remeber that the real goal is how many WWW pages, email messages, FTP files, etc. that you can move. It is NOT how many bits per second you can send! If you are running at about 90% capacity then you can consider the line MAXED out. The same thing goes for your provider on his DS3 line.
If you throw in the burstyness of TCP/IP traffic your traffic really maxes out bouncing around somewhere between 65% and 90% of its max rated load. When you add in the fact that people like to have headroom and the size steps between T1 and T3 or partial T3 nobody uses their max bandwidth all of the time. This is something that your provider uses to his advantage by selling more than 29.22 T1's. In reality that provider may have 1000 dial up customers, many more DSL customers, people with dedicated 56K connections, and maybe even some old ISDN connections on top of the other T1's that he has sold. It is fairly safe for a provider to oversell a connection somewhere between 5x and 20x. Especially if you consider that people that have DSL's usually leave them on but don't use them for that many hours in the day. Headroom is defined as being prepared for the slashdot effect!
You need to figure out if your provider speciallizes in retail (home) customers or business customers. If it is home customers then his load will spike in the evening when poeple get home from work and on the weekend. If it is business customers then his load will spike during business hours. Also consider if your provider is hosting very much traffic beyond home users personal WWW pages. If he is then that is bandwidth that is not available to resell.
The only real way to tell is to look at your provider's router logs. Don't just look at averages for a day! Look at averages generated at least every hour over the course of at least a week so you can see when his network (which you will be a part of) loads up. If he consistantly stays below 80% of his upstream bandwidth and will upgrade his upstream connection if it passes that then you are fairly safe. On the other hand if he routinely pushes his max then that is exactly what his competitors are warning you about! If he loads up then everyone downstream from him will slow down as that will become the bottleneck.
Another thing to consider is that it sounds like he has a single DS3 upstream connection. Ask him if that is true and if he has any plans to become multi-homed. This has two major advantages over a single fat pipe: redundancy and load balancing. If he connects to two or more of the backbone providers then the traffic can most likely pick the shortest route to its destination while still having the other one available if one of the DS3 lines goes down. I'm sure the people @ /. have more than one connection if they are served from their business. It is more likely that they are hosted by a large hosting company that is already multi-homed though. A final thing to ask is if this provider does any traffic shaping. This can throttle users that are consuming more than their fair share. But if you are paying for a T1 you should get all of it. Sometimes though a customer will have a partial T1 (this requires a full T1 connection from their site to the provider though) and get to use any excess if it is available.
This is what I used to do for a living so I know a little bit about what I'm talking about! Once again his logs can tell you if he has oversold his service as his competitors suggest. But put some value on a provider that has more than one connection to the upstream Internet regardless of how large their single pipe is. If you want to have some fun ask him how much an OC196 would cost. 8-)
Regards, Tres
Most of these rights were the main casualties in the War on Drugs. See US: This Is Your Bill of Rights, On Drugs for some other egregious examples of the police getting out of hand. You do not have to tell the police your name, address or let them photograph you. Since this is America the police have the right to ask you anything that they want; and you have the right to ignore them. These rights are laid out in the ACLU 's web site. I think that the best place to read about what the police can and cannot do when they approach you is a study by the New York Attorney General's Office entitled The New York City Police Department's "Stop & Frisk" Practices. This article goes on to site case law supporting things like "civilians are not required to answer or to provide proof of identity":
See De Bour, 40 N.Y.2d at 219, 386 N.Y.S.2d at 382 n.1; see also People v. Powell, 246 A.D.2d 366, 667 N.Y.S.2d 725 (1st Dep't 1998)
Some of this information is specific to the state of New York but much of it is applicable for people in every state. This report goes on to explain things like Federal law provides a floor for state standards. This means that states may enact tougher restrictions on their police departments but that they cannot give the police more lattitude to do things like question citizens.
The practice mentioned in the article will stand until someone sues to have it stopped. Here we are back with the ACLU again. They seem to be about the only organization that has deep enough pockets to pursue things like this. And the worst that is going to happen is they are told to stop. In reality the state and federal prosecutors are probably right when they say that the collecting of this information is legal. This is because the people that got into this file didn't walk away from the police in the manner that is outlined in the Supreme Court's decision in Terry v. Ohio and subsequent case law. For the police to detain you - meaning that you cannot just ignore them and walk away - they must first reasonably concluded that the suspect is engaged in criminal activity. The article in question says that the people were detained for loitering so the police have found what they say is a criminal activity. Make them prove it! Make them file a detailed report of the stop. File your complaints with the entities I listed above and make them justify their stop to their superiors. Make their superiors justify the stop to the local paper and the federal authorities. If everyone that was annoyed would push just a little then it would work more than one or two people pressing really hard.
Unfortunately the police are rarely required to justify their actions much less defend them in an official inquiry. Police enjoy something called qualified indemnity that protects them from the consequences of their actions in all but the most severe of circumstances. And even then they get off with a slap on the wrist instead of the punishment that they deserve. Case in point:
I used to live Colorado where they have a law similiar to that in many other states called capital murder. It states that if someone dies while in the commission of a felony that all people committing that felony can be charged with first degree murder. Perjury is a felony; that is what swearing out a false affidavit is. So when an officer lies while asking a judge for a search warrant they have committed a felony. When an innocent person dies in the execution of that search warrant it should be capital murder. If the person that lies is a police officer then it works out differently. They can even get their job back and the opportunity to lie again. This was not his first mistake. The FBI has even been critized for that very same offense.
We MUST stand up for our rights or we will loose them.
Regards, Tres.
And if its really, really good (this is seldom the case) then I end up with one of those handouts that always seems to stay somewhere near the top of the desk. I use the Desktop Chronological Filing System (TM). The one where items are sorted by their last access times. The deeper it is then the older and more irrelevant it is.
Real learning comes from use. Sit down and start doing it. A good seminar should be able to teach you if the tool is the right tool for the job first. Second, it should be able to get you to the "Hello World" stage. Trying to do much more than this usually causes information overload and I tend to just take notes without mentally registering what is said.
Tres
A photon has mass - it must have for it to be affected by gravity as per your following statement.
Light is bent by strong gravitational fields.
Did you mean Prophet or Profit???
A few years ago I was researching which DVD player to buy when I discovered the extent that Sony goes to to make sure my rights are as limited as possible. If you want to make your DVD player a region 0 player (it'll play everything from all over the world) then DON'T buy a sony. It requires soldering a new chip on the board for most of their modles.
Then I looked at the extent that they went through to make their mini-disc system not play nicely with others. The extent that they went to to make DAT's not play well with others and I came to the same conclusion that you have.
Although they make some good stuff it doesn't always play well with your other toys. I will not buy anything that says Sony on it ever again. This includes everything from new toys to blank VHS tapes. Nothing that says Sony! Ever!
This is ironic from the company that established the fair use of time-shifting, and thus enabled VCR's and their proprietary Betamax format to record TV programs, by taking the MPAA all the way to the Supreme Court. I guess they're a content company now!!!
This is also ironic coming from a company that created a Linux distribution for their PS/2 console. By the way...Doesn't IBM have a trademark on PS/2? You remember the computers that had that micro-channel architecture.
No SONY .. No More
Regards, tres