Be glad that the AG's office is going to compile the porn list - the ISPs don't have to do it. All the ISPs need to do is write a little Perl script to parse it into a hosts file.
As I understand it, the law requires the ability to filter on request or the software to filter on request - so put the hosts file on your web site. There is no need to make an overly complicated solution - it doesn't have to be impervious, or perfect, or completely hacker proof. It is a bad law, so provide a bad solution and be done with it...
Doesn't matter - it will (on the surface) comply with the law and then the Gov will leave you alone. The law doesn't state that the system must impervious or totally fool and hacker proof. It just says that the ISP must provide the ability or the software - so provide the software - in this case just a data file - then the problem is out of your hands - the buck is passed...
What is the big deal? Just compile the official list into a hosts file with all addresses set to 127.0.0.1 and make it available on your web site for download. That is about 30 minutes of work and then you comply with the damn law and can get on with your business. It isn't worth arguing about this crap.
Not the internet. This is a jukebox patent - the patent describes the machinery behind the network as part of the method. This is old shit that isn't used anymore.
No, if you are a biz traveller and check your email, you should establish a VPN session to your corporation, or use a webmail service with https capability. The point is that if a crook really wants to get your data, then half-assed security measures are not going to help the least bit.
I'm not sure, but I think SSL protects against that concern and any important online activity should be via some form of VPN, be it as simple as HTTPS or as complex as IPSEC.
At least there is one good spin off from extending copyrights. It makes copyrights much stronger and more desirable than patents, which is good for software development.
Regarding your VoIP hype:
Go try and turn off my phone service...
Regarding WiFi Hotspots:
What is the point in encrypting the WiFi link, when the whole public internet in unencrypted? To work, encryption must be end to end and who needs general browsing to be encrypted anyway? It will just slow things down. Encryption on public hotspots is plain stupid.
The problem is the average secretary isn't too bright and yet (s)he has access to the boss' data.
I have also noticed that viruses usually start to spread from the boss' computers, so the bosses usually aren't too bright either.
No, he is perfectly clued in. MS doesn't own an army. There is no way that MS can force Indonesia to do anything.
MS can't charge Indonesia anything without indonesia wanting to be charged and any MS official who pisses them off sufficiently could be jailed indefinitely, without being charged too...
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Easier if you put spaces between the letters - then you can double click and middle click...
Be glad that the AG's office is going to compile the porn list - the ISPs don't have to do it. All the ISPs need to do is write a little Perl script to parse it into a hosts file.
As I understand it, the law requires the ability to filter on request or the software to filter on request - so put the hosts file on your web site. There is no need to make an overly complicated solution - it doesn't have to be impervious, or perfect, or completely hacker proof. It is a bad law, so provide a bad solution and be done with it...
Doesn't matter - it will (on the surface) comply with the law and then the Gov will leave you alone. The law doesn't state that the system must impervious or totally fool and hacker proof. It just says that the ISP must provide the ability or the software - so provide the software - in this case just a data file - then the problem is out of your hands - the buck is passed...
Well, an Apple machine does everything with a single mouse button...
What is the big deal? Just compile the official list into a hosts file with all addresses set to 127.0.0.1 and make it available on your web site for download. That is about 30 minutes of work and then you comply with the damn law and can get on with your business. It isn't worth arguing about this crap.
KDE3.4, udev, OOo1.9.xxx
Yah, those guys will go far in IT. Expect to see them on the cover of Fortune any day now.
Not the internet. This is a jukebox patent - the patent describes the machinery behind the network as part of the method. This is old shit that isn't used anymore.
Evolution is great on Linux and Novel is working on a Windows port. It works better with Outlook than Outlook works with Outlook...
Maorong Zou's Webcal: http://www.math.utexas.edu/users/mzou/webCal/index .html
There are at least 3 programs going by the name of Webcal, but this one actually works...
Evolution? Do give it a try. I have found Evolution to be really, really slick.
Maorong Zou's Webcal:x .html
http://www.math.utexas.edu/users/mzou/webCal/inde
It runs on Apache and it works. Need I say more?
First MS announce some vapourware and then they reschedule their vapourware, to make it even more vapous - what would it be now? Mirageware?
At last MS is anouncing something that actually exists. Cool.
No, if you are a biz traveller and check your email, you should establish a VPN session to your corporation, or use a webmail service with https capability. The point is that if a crook really wants to get your data, then half-assed security measures are not going to help the least bit.
These people are totally clueless, but I hope there were some nice chicks amongst them, else it could be really, really scary...
I'm not sure, but I think SSL protects against that concern and any important online activity should be via some form of VPN, be it as simple as HTTPS or as complex as IPSEC.
At least there is one good spin off from extending copyrights. It makes copyrights much stronger and more desirable than patents, which is good for software development.
Regarding your VoIP hype: Go try and turn off my phone service... Regarding WiFi Hotspots: What is the point in encrypting the WiFi link, when the whole public internet in unencrypted? To work, encryption must be end to end and who needs general browsing to be encrypted anyway? It will just slow things down. Encryption on public hotspots is plain stupid.
The problem is the average secretary isn't too bright and yet (s)he has access to the boss' data. I have also noticed that viruses usually start to spread from the boss' computers, so the bosses usually aren't too bright either.
MS has been announcing an awful lot of vapourware lately, with stuff scheduled years into the future - weird.
"If Apple really works on shining up Wine" Why bother? On a dual processor, you can run Windoze and OS X simultaneously at native speed.
No, he is perfectly clued in. MS doesn't own an army. There is no way that MS can force Indonesia to do anything. MS can't charge Indonesia anything without indonesia wanting to be charged and any MS official who pisses them off sufficiently could be jailed indefinitely, without being charged too...
According to Democritus (circa 300BC), a thing is worth whatever someone is prepared to pay for it.
I also think $1 for an old copy of Windoze is fair.