Last week, we pointed out that NebuAd shares five high-ranking employees in common with notorious spyware outfit Claria Corp. (nee Gator Corp). And now we've learned that they share a sixth. NebuAd's Washington DC counsel, Reed Freeman, was Claria's chief privacy officer.
Don't these politicians voting for the bill realize that these same powers WILL eventually be used to spy on them, for their opponents' political advantages?
I hate to break it to you, but his (?) sig does not contain British spelling (or even "BRITISH SPELLING!!"). It contains a spelling error, viewed from either side of the Atlantic ocean.
And, if you care to read all the parent posts, you will see that I commented already that there are many cheaper alternatives to a real T1 and the only reason that real T1 is more expensive is the cost of renting the wires from the incumbent monopoly telephone company.
I did not claim that there is a monopoly in bandwidth services.
The original claim that I was refuting was that bandwidth is expensive based on T1 charges. I was pointing out that T1 costs had little to do with bandwidth charges.
They need to provide only in case if it was modified. If BusyBox and Linux kernel were *NOT* modified - you can grab them from the busybox.net and linux.org respectively.
I'd like to know where you got that idea from. Specify exactly which section of the GPL allows this.
Section 1 allows distribution of source code only, so not applicable.
Section 2 talks about modified versions, so according to your argument is N/A
Section 3 requires the offer or actual distribution of corresponding source code -- note that section 3.3 does not apply since this is commercial distribution.
What monopoly? T1 service is available from many carriers in most locations.
Yes, but if it is true T1, whose wires connect your location to the POP? The incumbent phone company, who have a monopoly on the wires in the ground. Just because you don't directly contract with the phone company does not mean that the phone company is uninvolved.
Why do you think T1 is hundreds of dollars per month at 1.5 Mb/s? Because of the service guarantee, that is why.
Since one can get the same level of service for a much lower price with alternative technologies, what I infer is that one is really paying the incumbent monopoly for the use of their wires to connect you to the local POP.
The problem is, that a megabit still costs $300/mo or $700/mo. There's no way around that.
Actually, it is something less. I recently put a couple of machines into a Colo facility. For $200/month, I get a bandwidth allowance equivalent to a continuous 1MB. Since I am also paying for space, electricity, overhead, etc., one can assume that the cost to the Colo facility of that 1MB for a month is a lot less than $200.
the trouble with raid is there are a lot of things it doesn't protect against so it must be regarded as a complement to backup not a replacement for it.
And unless you have an unlimited budget, with a set of data that does not change often (as in this case) money is better spent on additonal (preferably offsite) backups rather than RAID.
The main advantage of RAID is uninterrupted access if a disk fails. A memory problem can cause your machine to trash the entire RAID set.
You probably don't really care about uninterrupted access, so instead, have one copy on an internal disk and backup to a drive in external enclosure. This allows you extra options such as being able to store keep the backup in another location (desk at work?) and merely bring it home to update the backup once per week. In case of a fire, you might be able to grab the external enclosure and take it to safety.
While MS may have made the job harder from Lotus than their own internal developers (hiding part of the API from Lotus, etc.), Lotus also shot themselves in the foot.
In my case, I had a spreadsheet which used a fairly complex macro to read in a text document and process it. This worked nicely in 1-2-3/DOS. Guess what -- it did not work in 1-2-3 for Windows. In my example, Lotus gave away the single compelling advantage that they had: compatibility.
I believe it is: "Paper Cartridge, Load Letter Sized Paper". It does not necessarily mean that the paper cartridge is empty, since one gets this message if the paper cartridge is loaded with A4 sized paper and one sends a command to print on US-Letter sized paper.
It's Linus Torvalds explaining why/usr/src/linux actually shouldn't contain the sources of the kernel that is running, but the sources that glibc is linked against.
I don't read it that way. He appears to be complaining about a symbolic link called/usr/include/asm.
The problem I see with it actually being a value in/proc is that this would imply that it's accurate at runtime, which is impossible to ensure. (For example, if a user moves or updates the sources.)
As opposed to say a link in/usr/src, which may or may not be correct? Yes, it's not perfect, but it would be better than what is used today. And, as for "updating the sources" -- the point is that when you want to run one of these scripts that needs to know where the kernel sources are, it doesn't want to know what was the location of the latest kernel version you built was, it wants to know the location of the running version.
I have been thinking of a single contribution to the kernel myself. I would like to see a link somewhere in/proc that points to the location of kernel source code used to build the currently running kernel. This would remove the need to the current hacks of using a link in/usr/src/kernel that may or may not point to the correct kernel source. This would be used by scripts that build kernel modules for code that is not in the normal kernel.
If not a link, then a file whose contents is a file (somewhere in/proc) containing the pathname would also provide a similar capability.
If RMS wants to see more Linux on the market, he's going to have to get used to people trying to make money from it--and for a lot of people, that means working with some form of proprietary license.
So, he should look to the success of *BSD in this market as a model to how GNU software should be licensed? </sarcasm>
In their proposed scenario, the population which first colonised North East Asia also crossed the Bering Strait and eventually made it to South America. This population was subsequently replaced by a population more closely related to modern East Asians. These people also successfully crossed the Bering Strait and contributed to the ancestry of the native North Americans.
So what does this mean for Native Americans? They were aggressive immigrants who displaced the original population?
Wake me when someone acts against real estate agents who are supposed to be representing the buyers stop getting commissions paid by the sellers. This is an obvious and massive conflict of interest.
I saw an item on TV where agents were saying that sellers wanted to place their houses with agents on the basis that the buyer's agent got a larger commission. Now, why would they do that if they did not think it would influence the AGENT of the buyers? If the seller can influence the buyer's agent, there is something deeply wrong.
Can someone explain to me how this obvious conflict of interest has persisted for so long?
And before anyone tells me that a realtor is necessary -- I bought a house in the US (for several hundred thousand dollars) with no agents involved on either side of the deal.
There's no way Autodesk is going to let this ruling stand unappealed,
Autodesk might let it stand, since this is only a lower court verdict and they might consider it prudent to not get a appeals court verdict poking holes in EULAs.
When is there such sensitivity about my health data.
Because healthcare is privately funded and managed in the USA. You don't want to be turned down for a job because of something in your health history, for example. Even in Canada, you probably don't want to be turned down for life insurance because of a history of disease in your family. You may have to disclose this information in order to get life insurance, but you probably want to be very sure that the insurance company has no more information than you really must disclose.
I'd love for test results to be automatically sent to my google profile
Kaiser Permanente has a system that makes test results (and other information) available online.
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Don't these politicians voting for the bill realize that these same powers WILL eventually be used to spy on them, for their opponents' political advantages?
And, if you care to read all the parent posts, you will see that I commented already that there are many cheaper alternatives to a real T1 and the only reason that real T1 is more expensive is the cost of renting the wires from the incumbent monopoly telephone company.
I did not claim that there is a monopoly in bandwidth services.
The original claim that I was refuting was that bandwidth is expensive based on T1 charges. I was pointing out that T1 costs had little to do with bandwidth charges.
The Dark Fiber referred to is used for long haul connections. Not from an office to the POP, but from the POP onwards.
You also referenced people offering metro Ethernet and fiber to the premises, but no-one offers T1 over these -- only T1-like (and greater) speeds.
Section 1 allows distribution of source code only, so not applicable.
Section 2 talks about modified versions, so according to your argument is N/A
Section 3 requires the offer or actual distribution of corresponding source code -- note that section 3.3 does not apply since this is commercial distribution.
So, Cowboy, read the GPL.
You probably don't really care about uninterrupted access, so instead, have one copy on an internal disk and backup to a drive in external enclosure. This allows you extra options such as being able to store keep the backup in another location (desk at work?) and merely bring it home to update the backup once per week. In case of a fire, you might be able to grab the external enclosure and take it to safety.
While MS may have made the job harder from Lotus than their own internal developers (hiding part of the API from Lotus, etc.), Lotus also shot themselves in the foot.
In my case, I had a spreadsheet which used a fairly complex macro to read in a text document and process it. This worked nicely in 1-2-3/DOS. Guess what -- it did not work in 1-2-3 for Windows. In my example, Lotus gave away the single compelling advantage that they had: compatibility.
I have been thinking of a single contribution to the kernel myself. I would like to see a link somewhere in /proc that points to the location of kernel source code used to build the currently running kernel. This would remove the need to the current hacks of using a link in /usr/src/kernel that may or may not point to the correct kernel source. This would be used by scripts that build kernel modules for code that is not in the normal kernel.
If not a link, then a file whose contents is a file (somewhere in /proc) containing the pathname would also provide a similar capability.
Wake me when someone acts against real estate agents who are supposed to be representing the buyers stop getting commissions paid by the sellers. This is an obvious and massive conflict of interest.
I saw an item on TV where agents were saying that sellers wanted to place their houses with agents on the basis that the buyer's agent got a larger commission. Now, why would they do that if they did not think it would influence the AGENT of the buyers? If the seller can influence the buyer's agent, there is something deeply wrong.
Can someone explain to me how this obvious conflict of interest has persisted for so long?
And before anyone tells me that a realtor is necessary -- I bought a house in the US (for several hundred thousand dollars) with no agents involved on either side of the deal.