Mr. Stallman, and other commentators here, have fine points w/r/t civil liberties being compromised.
One argument, however, is especially hard to swallow, esp. coming from a "software guy:"
RMS wrote:
"Given that the human face recognition performed by the check-in agents did not keep the hijackers out, there is no reason to think that computer face recognition would help."
Does this mean Mr. Stallman believes a baggage clerk can do as good a job as software can with matching a face to an entry on a list of offenders?
(I'll keep it on that level, and not get into why it seems in his view to be OK for the human agent to do run this check, but not a software one...)
If I wanted to read under-informed/-thought-out, left-leaning military commentary, there are a gagillion (that's a 1 followed by a bazillion zeros) other sites to go to instead.
The threat from hand-carried nukes is less than that from missile-based ones if only in that we have to worry about fewer simultaneous carriers with the former.
And someone said "I'm pretty sure that this is just another way for the US government to justify its huge military budget and stimulate the economy by buying heaps of stuff" as if this end was a Bad Thing. Hint: We all live in "The Economy." It's not some ficticious ideal like "Good Universal Public Education under the current system," or "Canadian." It's real, and stimulating the economy, when that's called for, is Good for all Earthlings.
But that point begs the question that spending on an anti-missile defense system is worthless. I don't buy it: If we can develop a system that's even 20% effective against mid-launch ICBMs for less than a few hundred billion, we should go for it, IMO.
And, since we should mostly be here for the technology aspect of this all, let's hear some discussion on that.
Yours from one of the cities they'll protect with 5 or 10 of these puppies -
Reckon this is all pretty redundant when there's http://www.DSLReports.com to be had, but...
I'm going through my second round of dsl installation (i moved):
First one through Flashcom:
Took ~5 months from order date. Flashcom folks were good; Covad folks were great; Verizon nee Bell Atlantic folks sucked donkey.
BA came to my home three times; first two, they spent about 2 minutes, then left citing some shear nonsense. Third time, they drilled two holes through a bed room window about 50' feet away rather than one 7' from where my computer was. The tech also used swear words and smelled of something unpleasant.
This second time - Earthlink has been decent; Covad has been good; Verizon has sucked. They've so far cancelled my order because they spelled my name incorrectly as Stephen rather than Steven. But they had the right phone number and address, and they never seem to have problems cashing payments from Steven-not-Stephen...
They're all animals anyway; let them loose their souls.
Hiring a PR firm might work, but a monthly retainer can be expensive if you - the company - aren't sure what you're getting out of it. In working with PR firms (who hire me consult with their current & potential tech/software clients), I've found the best way for both sides is to start off the relationship with a real project with an actual "deliverable" at the end of it: A product brochure and letter of introduction to be snail-spammed out to a list of target clients, some marketing materials for your web site, a booth at a trade show.
Part of the project would include the PR outfit, then, calling appropriate editors / reporters to pitch your story, lining them up to meet you, etc. This isn't on an ongoing basis, but for a specific time period and as part of a specific project for which you pay a fee.
You can maybe do this all yourself, but if you met with an agency and worked out agreeable terms, you can instead do what you do best and let them do their job. If the agency doesn't deliver on your initial project, don't use them again.
Folks here mentioned the importance of hiring a salesforce; that can be expensive, too, but you have to figure that any successful PR campiagn will require visits and follow-ups to prospective clients.
this was the start of the clusterfuck that is this whole AIM steaming shitpile: AOL published the spec a couple of years ago, then when clients started appearing that used it, AOL blocked them claiming "network security."
- it was really Bell Atlantic (BA) who f'ed the whole thing up so badly; BA showed up at my place 3 different times and did jack doink (besides work really hard to figure out why they *shouldn't/couldn't* complete the install).
This is why I didn't hold the ISP fully accountable for a few months. But finally I cancelled. A few weeks after that, BA showed up to work, and I let them. They installed a second line. Then Covad came and I let them finish.
Since then, I've been running at 300+KBps up and down...and this on a service I'd CANCELLED (i'm experimenting now to see when they'll start billing me...).
whether they "make it hard" or not, you're right - the majority of these folks (20+ million and counting [maybe close to double that by the time this deal closes]) will likely spend the majority of their time within AOL-Time Warner's bounds.
The idea of this isn't appealing, and it seems clear that this will have a big effect on a good deal of the "mainstream" for some time to come. And not a positive one, but - as Dr. Katz insinuates - one that'll further "vanillize" general society.
Not to say that this won't all-out suck, but interesting things have a way of happening at the fringes - if it's a big fringe, there's more chance for the interesting. Plus the pendulum: When it swings back (3 years? 5?), shit could get good...
The DIY bug is out there and will likely get stronger as more banal crap is posted at "Pathfinder II." Even if AOL-TW owned 98% of the eyeballs and content, it's still any bastard with $15 bucks (or less) a month can post their own site and get Slashdotted if it's worth seeing.
(oy... hope Steve Case isn't thinking "now *that's* over with, onto Andover.net...)
Horse Hockey! The apps I develop with Domino are all accessible via web browser... I think there're one or two of those available on the non-Win platform.
Also, if you *need* a Notes client (like if you're a developer), there're clients available for HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, etc...and quit bellyachin' - the server's the more important thing to have on Linux - they should get to the client quickly enough (as stated, they already have the client for a number of unices).
Slashdot Mirror
it's at the end of the "supported" phase -
don't know if it's actually "open,"
but
what of HP's "OpenMail?"
supposedly does Calandaring & Scheduling, supports clients on different platforms, etc.
(there's also Domino, which runs on all sorts of *nixes ... not 'open' by any stretch, but pretty powerful)
but the error message is accurate / good:
...
HTTP 403.9 - Access Forbidden: Too many users are connected Internet Information Services
403.9, eh
S
Mr. Stallman, and other commentators here, have fine points w/r/t civil liberties being compromised.
...)
One argument, however, is especially hard to swallow, esp. coming from a "software guy:"
RMS wrote:
"Given that the human face recognition performed by the check-in agents did not keep the hijackers out, there is no reason to think that computer face recognition would help."
Does this mean Mr. Stallman believes a baggage clerk can do as good a job as software can with matching a face to an entry on a list of offenders?
(I'll keep it on that level, and not get into why it seems in his view to be OK for the human agent to do run this check, but not a software one
S
Just because they (may) have stopped further development of the platform, does that negate the value of what'd already been developed?
For ~$10 million in STOCK, they got a trove of IP and first-shot at some incredible engineers. Not bad at all. Steve
Greetings, all -
...)
What's the latest on the migration from FreeBSD to W2000? Is that totally complete?
If not, were any BSD boxes compromised?
(No mention of that on 'securityfocus.com', either
Steve
Just FYI -
Don't know if it's online, too, but there's a nice piece of page 1, Section B on Ogg V. and C. Montgomerey.
Are there user reviews of any of these packages?
I'm still using a Mac and Deck or ProTools for multitracking / hard disk recording and would love a stabler, though just-as-able alternative ...
BeOS looked real good for awhile - especially Pebbles - but things have way slacked off. Any additional, personal usage info would be great.
Steve
If I wanted to read under-informed/-thought-out, left-leaning military commentary, there are a gagillion (that's a 1 followed by a bazillion zeros) other sites to go to instead.
The threat from hand-carried nukes is less than that from missile-based ones if only in that we have to worry about fewer simultaneous carriers with the former.
And someone said "I'm pretty sure that this is just another way for the US government to justify its huge military budget and stimulate the economy by buying heaps of stuff" as if this end was a Bad Thing. Hint: We all live in "The Economy." It's not some ficticious ideal like "Good Universal Public Education under the current system," or "Canadian." It's real, and stimulating the economy, when that's called for, is Good for all Earthlings.
But that point begs the question that spending on an anti-missile defense system is worthless. I don't buy it: If we can develop a system that's even 20% effective against mid-launch ICBMs for less than a few hundred billion, we should go for it, IMO.
And, since we should mostly be here for the technology aspect of this all, let's hear some discussion on that.
Yours from one of the cities they'll protect with 5 or 10 of these puppies -
Jack
Reckon this is all pretty redundant when there's http://www.DSLReports.com to be had, but ...
...
I'm going through my second round of dsl installation (i moved):
First one through Flashcom:
Took ~5 months from order date. Flashcom folks were good; Covad folks were great; Verizon nee Bell Atlantic folks sucked donkey.
BA came to my home three times; first two, they spent about 2 minutes, then left citing some shear nonsense. Third time, they drilled two holes through a bed room window about 50' feet away rather than one 7' from where my computer was. The tech also used swear words and smelled of something unpleasant.
This second time - Earthlink has been decent; Covad has been good; Verizon has sucked. They've so far cancelled my order because they spelled my name incorrectly as Stephen rather than Steven. But they had the right phone number and address, and they never seem to have problems cashing payments from Steven-not-Stephen
They're all animals anyway; let them loose their souls.
Steve
Hiring a PR firm might work, but a monthly retainer can be expensive if you - the company - aren't sure what you're getting out of it. In working with PR firms (who hire me consult with their current & potential tech/software clients), I've found the best way for both sides is to start off the relationship with a real project with an actual "deliverable" at the end of it: A product brochure and letter of introduction to be snail-spammed out to a list of target clients, some marketing materials for your web site, a booth at a trade show.
Part of the project would include the PR outfit, then, calling appropriate editors / reporters to pitch your story, lining them up to meet you, etc. This isn't on an ongoing basis, but for a specific time period and as part of a specific project for which you pay a fee.
You can maybe do this all yourself, but if you met with an agency and worked out agreeable terms, you can instead do what you do best and let them do their job. If the agency doesn't deliver on your initial project, don't use them again.
Folks here mentioned the importance of hiring a salesforce; that can be expensive, too, but you have to figure that any successful PR campiagn will require visits and follow-ups to prospective clients.
Steve
this was the start of the clusterfuck that is this whole AIM steaming shitpile: AOL published the spec a couple of years ago, then when clients started appearing that used it, AOL blocked them claiming "network security."
just because something is "relegated to the sidelines as an obsolete tool," doesn't mean you couldn't use it if you wanted to.
just because it isn't mainstream, doesn't mean it's not worthwhile - and, even though it *is* mainstream, it still might be.
Covad was pretty good - the RBOC sucked -
...).
- it was really Bell Atlantic (BA) who f'ed the whole thing up so badly; BA showed up at my place 3 different times and did jack doink (besides work really hard to figure out why they *shouldn't/couldn't* complete the install).
This is why I didn't hold the ISP fully accountable for a few months. But finally I cancelled. A few weeks after that, BA showed up to work, and I let them. They installed a second line. Then Covad came and I let them finish.
Since then, I've been running at 300+KBps up and down...and this on a service I'd CANCELLED (i'm experimenting now to see when they'll start billing me
is now all over my friggin spreadsheet and databases -
An Emmy? Oy ... Are most shows you watch emmy-winners? Does it prove anything? (Didn't "Erkle" win an emmy?)
David Lynch was the Director (and he kicks ass), but got screwed on the deal. Even so, the released film is OK if you know the story.
I've been told the "directors cut" is actually pretty good (and like 6 hours long, though still not complete).
Hey, LizardK:
...
... hope Steve Case isn't thinking "now *that's* over with, onto Andover.net ...)
whether they "make it hard" or not, you're right - the majority of these folks (20+ million and counting [maybe close to double that by the time this deal closes]) will likely spend the majority of their time within AOL-Time Warner's bounds.
The idea of this isn't appealing, and it seems clear that this will have a big effect on a good deal of the "mainstream" for some time to come. And not a positive one, but - as Dr. Katz insinuates - one that'll further "vanillize" general society.
Not to say that this won't all-out suck, but interesting things have a way of happening at the fringes - if it's a big fringe, there's more chance for the interesting. Plus the pendulum: When it swings back (3 years? 5?), shit could get good
The DIY bug is out there and will likely get stronger as more banal crap is posted at "Pathfinder II." Even if AOL-TW owned 98% of the eyeballs and content, it's still any bastard with $15 bucks (or less) a month can post their own site and get Slashdotted if it's worth seeing.
(oy
Horse Hockey! The apps I develop with Domino are all accessible via web browser ... I think there're one or two of those available on the non-Win platform.
Also, if you *need* a Notes client (like if you're a developer), there're clients available for HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, etc...and quit bellyachin' - the server's the more important thing to have on Linux - they should get to the client quickly enough (as stated, they already have the client for a number of unices).