I have spoken with an ISP repairman who told me that they actually prefer customers that run linux because they are generally more savvy about how to run a computer and won't call in and waste tech support time when they can as easily fix their own problems.
The issue of lazy / nonexistant admins is difficult to balance with the potential for DDoS attacks. I think an adequate compromise would be to email the address 1 week in advance of delivery of a self-patching worm. Therefore, if the system has been patched in that time, the worm-patch will not be able to operate because the system has already been fixed.
The article conspicuously lacks any link to the website of John Young, although it references it in the article. So the two that I found are here and here.
The article conspicuously lacks any link to the website of John Young, although it references it in the article. So the two that I found are here and here.
What secrets are they keeping that the public will benefit from the exposure of on their patent application?
The point of a patent is that it is not secret. If a company wanted to keep a secret that is known as a trade secret and is an entirely different matter.
It's bleeding obvious, and the first time you hear of it...
The Chinese have a saying that goes something along the lines, 'I have a secret that is worth a fortune, but if I told it to you, you would think it was worthless'
It seems to me that we should start suing the people that pay the spammers. They should be relatively easy to find, since they are apparently making money off of the advertising that they purchased, after all. If you stop the flow of money to spammers and make the cost / risk of funding spam great, then you would inevitably reduce the spam that gets put out.
The University of Western Australia publishes a report located here.
The basic conclusion that they reached was that genetic migration from their GM canola plants was only about.03%. I guess you could still make a fuss over that, but it doesn't sound like these GM plants are 'over-running' their 'native' counterparts.
I do not know if there are any working models to go by, but I have heard about the use of timestamped encryption, that would somehow unencrypt the data after a certain date. Unfortunately, I cannot remember where I saw that...
I think that sounds like a great idea, but I think that the additional options of using both hands require their use. However, I would like to see something like mice/keyboards. It would be like have a mouse for both hands, with different key combo's or whatever for typing. I know it sounds complicated, but typing IS complicated, but it still becomes easy with enough practice.
Wars fought by space enabled groups would clearly be very different, but I see no reason to think that they would be vastly more expensive or impractical than current war efforts. In fact, when all it takes to wipe out a city/state/society, is to divert the course of a large and carefully selected asteroid, combat could be made much more destructive and indefensible.
One reason that the prices are arranged as they are is to force the cashier to open the register so that the transaction is recorded. Odd prices ensure that change will be necessary on most purchases. This helps to cut down on employees stealing from customers and owners.
Well, I was intrigued by this because I had thought that they had been running apache for a while. However, I went over to netcraft and found this page, http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.micr osoft.com Seems IIS is able to take the load. I'm no microsoft fan, but I was impressed.
I have this same problem with using my tv tuner card. It runs fast and smooth under gentoo linux, but the whole computer slows down if I try to watch tv in windows 2000.
These cards are voluntary just like the dillon's cards were at the supermarket. They start with a big fanfare to get people to sign up. They promise coupons for people that have signed up. Then once a reasonable number of people have the cards, they jack the price up for the people that don't.
Give me break, it doesn't make sense to standardize something if you don't expect to be able to make people use it.
I really thought that winamp was on to something when they made it easy to publish playlists onto a website that could be viewed by everyone. What was missing was a reasonable way to listen to these playlists, besides going out and trying to download all of the songs. I can think of no better way to discover new music than to find some other individuals who have similar tastes and see what they have found.
Maybe instead of getting $200 off of the computer price, they should include some sort of training seminar or online class on using linux. Just a thought.
You're telling me that if a high school kid who messes around with with Photoshop occasionally downloads a pirated copy off IRC, that Adobe loses 500 bucks?
I believe that the issue for software vendors is when software pirates make copies of some piece of software, label it to make it appear legit, and then sell it as if new. This is what makes companies loose money, not kids trading files.
That being said, I would agree with others who have posted, in saying that Intellectual Property is best suited to a gift economy. I do not agree with these strongarm tactics against people who are not selling the pirated software.
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I have spoken with an ISP repairman who told me that they actually prefer customers that run linux because they are generally more savvy about how to run a computer and won't call in and waste tech support time when they can as easily fix their own problems.
The issue of lazy / nonexistant admins is difficult to balance with the potential for DDoS attacks. I think an adequate compromise would be to email the address 1 week in advance of delivery of a self-patching worm. Therefore, if the system has been patched in that time, the worm-patch will not be able to operate because the system has already been fixed.
ROBIN: Ask me the questions, bridgekeeper. I'm not afraid.
BRIDGEKEEPER: What... is your name?
ROBIN: 'Sir Robin of Camelot'.
BRIDGEKEEPER:What... is your quest?
ROBIN: To seek the Holy Grail.
BRIDGEKEEPER: What... is the capital of Assyria?
[pause]
ROBIN: I don't know that! Auuuuuuuugh!
The article conspicuously lacks any link to the website of John Young, although it references it in the article. So the two that I found are here and here.
The article conspicuously lacks any link to the website of John Young, although it references it in the article. So the two that I found are here and here.
What secrets are they keeping that the public will benefit from the exposure of on their patent application?
The point of a patent is that it is not secret. If a company wanted to keep a secret that is known as a trade secret and is an entirely different matter.
It's bleeding obvious, and the first time you hear of it...
The Chinese have a saying that goes something along the lines, 'I have a secret that is worth a fortune, but if I told it to you, you would think it was worthless'
It seems to me that we should start suing the people that pay the spammers. They should be relatively easy to find, since they are apparently making money off of the advertising that they purchased, after all. If you stop the flow of money to spammers and make the cost / risk of funding spam great, then you would inevitably reduce the spam that gets put out.
The University of Western Australia publishes a report located here.
.03%. I guess you could still make a fuss over that, but it doesn't sound like these GM plants are 'over-running' their 'native' counterparts.
The basic conclusion that they reached was that genetic migration from their GM canola plants was only about
Wow, and I thought I was the only one to use heroin to improve my typing skills!
UHF- "Hey kids, who wants to drink from the Fire Hose!!!"
I do not know if there are any working models to go by, but I have heard about the use of timestamped encryption, that would somehow unencrypt the data after a certain date. Unfortunately, I cannot remember where I saw that...
I think that sounds like a great idea, but I think that the additional options of using both hands require their use. However, I would like to see something like mice/keyboards. It would be like have a mouse for both hands, with different key combo's or whatever for typing. I know it sounds complicated, but typing IS complicated, but it still becomes easy with enough practice.
Wars fought by space enabled groups would clearly be very different, but I see no reason to think that they would be vastly more expensive or impractical than current war efforts. In fact, when all it takes to wipe out a city/state/society, is to divert the course of a large and carefully selected asteroid, combat could be made much more destructive and indefensible.
One reason that the prices are arranged as they are is to force the cashier to open the register so that the transaction is recorded. Odd prices ensure that change will be necessary on most purchases. This helps to cut down on employees stealing from customers and owners.
Wow, I have read some great cost comparisons before, but this one takes the cake,
"Unix can be 80 percent cheaper than Unix."
Thats the kind of TCO that I like to see.
Well, I was intrigued by this because I had thought that they had been running apache for a while. However, I went over to netcraft and found this page, http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?host=www.micr osoft.com Seems IIS is able to take the load. I'm no microsoft fan, but I was impressed.
How long until Microsoft files suit for Windows(r) trademark infringement?
I have this same problem with using my tv tuner card. It runs fast and smooth under gentoo linux, but the whole computer slows down if I try to watch tv in windows 2000.
These cards are voluntary just like the dillon's cards were at the supermarket. They start with a big fanfare to get people to sign up. They promise coupons for people that have signed up. Then once a reasonable number of people have the cards, they jack the price up for the people that don't.
Give me break, it doesn't make sense to standardize something if you don't expect to be able to make people use it.
I really thought that winamp was on to something when they made it easy to publish playlists onto a website that could be viewed by everyone. What was missing was a reasonable way to listen to these playlists, besides going out and trying to download all of the songs. I can think of no better way to discover new music than to find some other individuals who have similar tastes and see what they have found.
Maybe instead of getting $200 off of the computer price, they should include some sort of training seminar or online class on using linux. Just a thought.
You're telling me that if a high school kid who messes around with with Photoshop occasionally downloads a pirated copy off IRC, that Adobe loses 500 bucks?
I believe that the issue for software vendors is when software pirates make copies of some piece of software, label it to make it appear legit, and then sell it as if new. This is what makes companies loose money, not kids trading files.
That being said, I would agree with others who have posted, in saying that Intellectual Property is best suited to a gift economy. I do not agree with these strongarm tactics against people who are not selling the pirated software.