I know for a fact that within Syracuse University dorms, Time Warner Cable's Road Runner is in fact available along the cable TV system. In fact, if a dorm dwelling student signs up during the start of a semester, they can claim the same university-connected discount that they offer to off-campus students.
I can't say I know of anybody who has actually done it because the university's service is now included in the price of a dorm room communcations fee that also pays for basic cable and phone service, and before that the university service was cheaper than the cable rate anyway. However, that option continues to exist for anybody who wants to pay for it.
Most schools have a "free resources" policy that states that no class can require students to have to provide materials or resources unless get the exception approved and noted on the class listing announcements at sign-up time.
To that end, at most schools you theoretically can complete all of your coursework without having a computer of your own since every program you need will be available at the computer clusters at which you have a vaild logon to reach those programs.
At that point, having network access connected to your dorm room computer is not an accademic need. Sure, it makes course work a whole lot easier to get accomplished, but you officially can survive without it.
In short, you have to play by the house rules when you're living in a dorm, and so does your computer.
Which is something the universities will have to do the moment that it becomes technically possible for them to do so. I can just picture the first court to grant the RIAA's request to force a school to add that capability to their already required-to-run programs...
I think the fair policy would be that it's the student's responsiblity to keep their computer up to date. If they'd like to fly on autopilot, they can trust the university's perfered software vendor to do it for them for free or a low-cost... if they'd rather secure their box themselves they're welcome to do it, but if they blow it they risk losing access to the network when they need it most.
MAC banning is ineffective since nearly every card these days can have it's MAC address reprogramed. Real solutions are tied to the student's university login account which is associated with their other student records.
The Rhode Island nightclub tragedy was touched off by a fireworks display inside a nightclub next to flamable soundproofing foam that no licensed technician in their right mind would have ever had ever let happen. It wasn't a case of international terrorism, it was a case of domestic stupidity. The lawsuits over who's legally responsible are still ongoing, because there were so many people who shoulda/coulda stopped this that didn't.
Anybody who's touching off a pryotechnic device of any kind should have to file a document showing that they've thought out the safety issues and are confident that it's safe.
The fear isn't over the terrorists using hobby rockets so much as the fact that terrorists like to use explosives, and rockets need explosive compounds in order to get off the ground. The regulations around the use of explosives are are catching the rocket clubs in red tape.
Take a model rocket engine, grind it up and repackage it, and it quickly converts to a general purpose bomb. That's what we're affraid of.
Target already sells a line of Napster-branded music accessories such as CDs and CD wallets along with the gift cards. I suspect that whole product line is coming to a Best Buy near you too.
Related topic: Is there any known quality difference between the various brands of CDs... or do they all do equally as well?
Presently, Best Buy stores are marketing Real Rhapsody in their stores and online... they mention online that they offer Napster 15-song gift cards for $14.85 (99 cents times 15) but they can't sell those online.
I have a feeling that one of the side terms of this new deal is that the other deal isn't gonna get renewed.
Please don't confuse intellectual property with actual property. You cannot steal IP.
Correct, but in this case IP has a parellel to stolen property called stolen trade secrets. Basically, since this is information obtained by illegal means, it's illegal to use this information for profit.
The newest threat for spamming are now machines that aren't meant to be mail servers being turned into relays by viruses and worms. They aren't open per se because they work for only one master, but they end up putting the full resources of the computer to sending spam and that's not good.
Maybe some sort of "reconnection fee" from the ISP in the $35-50 range would be a good enough speedbump to make consumers aware that this kind of threat exists and it will be their problem if they don't protect themselves from it. Afterall, there isn't much real cost for a bank to bounce a check, but they're allowed to charge so much because a bounced check is a preventable situation that is very annoying... the fee is there mostly to discurage people from trying to write a bad check.
There may be no monitary value trading hands, but by using a Hotmail account, you're depending on Hotmail to reliably deliver to you messages that have been sent to them marked for final delivery to your account.
If Hotmail breaks that trust too often, then they won't have anybody in their right mind using the service. Oh, wait, anybody who cares about their e-mail has already left...
It's a bit creepy that somebody was able to register a new Hotmail account, send nothing, and then get it closed by sending a spam complaint. Even the dumbest safety check would have proven the alligation to be false because Microsoft should be able to tell from logs that zero messages were ever sent from the account, so even if that was 100% spam that's still zero spam messages!
The risk of having an account stripped from you because somebody who knows your address falsely accuses you of being a spamer is a bit high to take. Then again, anybody who takes their e-mail seriously shouldn't be on Hotmail anyway...
doesn't real-time streaming count as re-broadcasting?
Nope. Broadcasting by defintion means making the content available to many people if they wish to pull it in. A one-person's-eyes-only stream would not count. Re-transmission might fit, but re-broadcasting certainly doesn't.
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You do realize that you're effectively creating a race of genitic slaves among your offspring. What if one of your great grandchildren don't wish to be covered by the LGPL?
In case of emergency... break IP rights.
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This is so simple...
"Intellectual Property" is not real property. It's a set of rights granted by law that can be taken back by another law.
So, if some bio-hacker ever does release a wheat plauge with the intent of profiting on sales of Wheat 2.0, that plan can very easily be foiled simply by passing the Wheat Fraud Prevention Act of 20xx that voids the Wheat 2.0 patent. Problem solved.
SP2 represents a big change in Microsoft's security vs. ease-of-use stance.
In the past, Windows shipped with many unlikely-to-be-useful services such as the NetBIOS Messenger service turned on by default installations, meaning that a user who wanted to use the service just needs to start using it and it'll already be there ready to work. Of course, we all know how this has been exploited by spammers.
Now, such non-essential services will default to the "off" position, and the user will have to take a step to affirmatively activate the services they want to use. This makes plug-and-play operation a little harder to accomplish, but Microsoft has finally decided that the security gained is worth more than the ease lost.
Furthermore, having a common UserID opens the door for sites that have fragments of your personal info to merge the pieces together to get a more complete picture.
All that simple program really does is stop the Windows Service in question and set it to not start again when the system restarts. Gibson's "Shoot the Messenger" works on the same concept, just a different service. So does his "Unplug n' Pray" program.
In short, these are three rarely-useful-to-home-users services that were turned on by default in XP Home that shouldn't have been. Microsoft has since reversed their policy and now start only essential services on default installs, but Windows XP Home and Pro have yet too see this happen. We're still waiting for SP2...
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I know for a fact that within Syracuse University dorms, Time Warner Cable's Road Runner is in fact available along the cable TV system. In fact, if a dorm dwelling student signs up during the start of a semester, they can claim the same university-connected discount that they offer to off-campus students.
I can't say I know of anybody who has actually done it because the university's service is now included in the price of a dorm room communcations fee that also pays for basic cable and phone service, and before that the university service was cheaper than the cable rate anyway. However, that option continues to exist for anybody who wants to pay for it.
Most schools have a "free resources" policy that states that no class can require students to have to provide materials or resources unless get the exception approved and noted on the class listing announcements at sign-up time.
To that end, at most schools you theoretically can complete all of your coursework without having a computer of your own since every program you need will be available at the computer clusters at which you have a vaild logon to reach those programs.
At that point, having network access connected to your dorm room computer is not an accademic need. Sure, it makes course work a whole lot easier to get accomplished, but you officially can survive without it.
In short, you have to play by the house rules when you're living in a dorm, and so does your computer.
Which is something the universities will have to do the moment that it becomes technically possible for them to do so. I can just picture the first court to grant the RIAA's request to force a school to add that capability to their already required-to-run programs...
I think the fair policy would be that it's the student's responsiblity to keep their computer up to date. If they'd like to fly on autopilot, they can trust the university's perfered software vendor to do it for them for free or a low-cost... if they'd rather secure their box themselves they're welcome to do it, but if they blow it they risk losing access to the network when they need it most.
MAC banning is ineffective since nearly every card these days can have it's MAC address reprogramed. Real solutions are tied to the student's university login account which is associated with their other student records.
The Rhode Island nightclub tragedy was touched off by a fireworks display inside a nightclub next to flamable soundproofing foam that no licensed technician in their right mind would have ever had ever let happen. It wasn't a case of international terrorism, it was a case of domestic stupidity. The lawsuits over who's legally responsible are still ongoing, because there were so many people who shoulda/coulda stopped this that didn't.
Anybody who's touching off a pryotechnic device of any kind should have to file a document showing that they've thought out the safety issues and are confident that it's safe.
The fear isn't over the terrorists using hobby rockets so much as the fact that terrorists like to use explosives, and rockets need explosive compounds in order to get off the ground. The regulations around the use of explosives are are catching the rocket clubs in red tape.
Take a model rocket engine, grind it up and repackage it, and it quickly converts to a general purpose bomb. That's what we're affraid of.
Target already sells a line of Napster-branded music accessories such as CDs and CD wallets along with the gift cards. I suspect that whole product line is coming to a Best Buy near you too.
Related topic: Is there any known quality difference between the various brands of CDs... or do they all do equally as well?
Presently, Best Buy stores are marketing Real Rhapsody in their stores and online... they mention online that they offer Napster 15-song gift cards for $14.85 (99 cents times 15) but they can't sell those online.
I have a feeling that one of the side terms of this new deal is that the other deal isn't gonna get renewed.
Please don't confuse intellectual property with actual property. You cannot steal IP.
Correct, but in this case IP has a parellel to stolen property called stolen trade secrets. Basically, since this is information obtained by illegal means, it's illegal to use this information for profit.
What exactly can AOL do anyway? Retire 92 million usernames?
The newest threat for spamming are now machines that aren't meant to be mail servers being turned into relays by viruses and worms. They aren't open per se because they work for only one master, but they end up putting the full resources of the computer to sending spam and that's not good.
Maybe some sort of "reconnection fee" from the ISP in the $35-50 range would be a good enough speedbump to make consumers aware that this kind of threat exists and it will be their problem if they don't protect themselves from it. Afterall, there isn't much real cost for a bank to bounce a check, but they're allowed to charge so much because a bounced check is a preventable situation that is very annoying... the fee is there mostly to discurage people from trying to write a bad check.
There may be no monitary value trading hands, but by using a Hotmail account, you're depending on Hotmail to reliably deliver to you messages that have been sent to them marked for final delivery to your account.
If Hotmail breaks that trust too often, then they won't have anybody in their right mind using the service. Oh, wait, anybody who cares about their e-mail has already left...
It's a bit creepy that somebody was able to register a new Hotmail account, send nothing, and then get it closed by sending a spam complaint. Even the dumbest safety check would have proven the alligation to be false because Microsoft should be able to tell from logs that zero messages were ever sent from the account, so even if that was 100% spam that's still zero spam messages!
The risk of having an account stripped from you because somebody who knows your address falsely accuses you of being a spamer is a bit high to take. Then again, anybody who takes their e-mail seriously shouldn't be on Hotmail anyway...
doesn't real-time streaming count as re-broadcasting? Nope. Broadcasting by defintion means making the content available to many people if they wish to pull it in. A one-person's-eyes-only stream would not count. Re-transmission might fit, but re-broadcasting certainly doesn't.
You do realize that you're effectively creating a race of genitic slaves among your offspring. What if one of your great grandchildren don't wish to be covered by the LGPL?
This is so simple...
"Intellectual Property" is not real property. It's a set of rights granted by law that can be taken back by another law.
So, if some bio-hacker ever does release a wheat plauge with the intent of profiting on sales of Wheat 2.0, that plan can very easily be foiled simply by passing the Wheat Fraud Prevention Act of 20xx that voids the Wheat 2.0 patent. Problem solved.
SP2 represents a big change in Microsoft's security vs. ease-of-use stance.
In the past, Windows shipped with many unlikely-to-be-useful services such as the NetBIOS Messenger service turned on by default installations, meaning that a user who wanted to use the service just needs to start using it and it'll already be there ready to work. Of course, we all know how this has been exploited by spammers.
Now, such non-essential services will default to the "off" position, and the user will have to take a step to affirmatively activate the services they want to use. This makes plug-and-play operation a little harder to accomplish, but Microsoft has finally decided that the security gained is worth more than the ease lost.
Furthermore, having a common UserID opens the door for sites that have fragments of your personal info to merge the pieces together to get a more complete picture.
It seems like this project is only implemented on one site called mastergoon.com, and the /. post comes from a user named "mastergoon". Hmm...
Seems like a one-person project. Very easy to declare standards without all those annoying other people!
They have the most useless FAQ in recorded history...
The API is also decidedly undocumented.
Please come back when there's actually something to show us...
But Mona would have to pay her bill eventually and therefore pay the fee...
Furthermore, deadbeats would not likely know that the payment system was down since they would not have attempted to pay and been denied.
All that simple program really does is stop the Windows Service in question and set it to not start again when the system restarts. Gibson's "Shoot the Messenger" works on the same concept, just a different service. So does his "Unplug n' Pray" program.
In short, these are three rarely-useful-to-home-users services that were turned on by default in XP Home that shouldn't have been. Microsoft has since reversed their policy and now start only essential services on default installs, but Windows XP Home and Pro have yet too see this happen. We're still waiting for SP2...
NAT makes a very good poor man's firewall. Unsolicited packets get dropped... and services you didn't realize you had listening can't be reached.