I really don't think that it's a sinister as all that. Seems to me that all they want to do is get people who would put their internet access on their expense account to have to pay extra for a business account. ________________
I mean, really. That would be like charging someone different phone rates based on having a y-jack for their phone.
And you're talking like this has never been done. The Bad Old Days(tm) weren't that long ago. Before the big Bell break up, when you had to rent your phone from the telco, you also had to pay extra charges if you wanted to have a second phone on the same line.
I think that you are right however, the billing mode is going to have to change. It won't be that long before people start to realize that paying extra to have 2 computers on the internet is just as banal as having to pay extra to have 2 telephones or 2 televisions in the same house. ________________
Possibly one could just network together a cluster of spare 386's to run the video for them. Then use fiber to connect back to a faster machine. I'm sure that you will be able to find a few spare 386s sitting around.:)- ________________
I wouldn't want to be the first one to do it. If your interviewers order drinks then it's probably fine. If you get stuck ordering first go with a coke or dew. Some companies have pretty strict policies about putting alcohol on expense accounts, you don't want your interviewer to get put into a bad situation.
Certianly don't order a beer if they take you out for lunch you really don't want them to think that you're that much of a raging alcoholic.;o) ________________
Hey, not a problem. It'd only take 3 terabytes to hold the uncompressed picture. (You've confused bits and bytes.);o) Compress it to a.jpg and you'd only need about 20% of that space or 600 GB. I'm sure that 600 GB won't be a problem by next week.
None-the-less, it would be really cool to see a device like this with a little bit more resolution. 800x600 at least would be nice. ________________
I don't think that it's a matter of being too cheap to assign IP addresses to the routers but rather that your cable modem has an internal IP address assigned. This makes sense of course. Your cable modem can then be serviced but is not accessable to the 'net at large.
As an example I ran a traceroute from my machine (on @home) to slashdot.org:
1 10.93.48.1 (10.93.48.1) 10.730 ms 9.981 ms 11.672 ms 2 r1-fe1-0-100bt.cdrrpd1.ia.home.net (24.2.240.1) 10.810 ms 11.511 ms 11.434 ms 3 c1-se6-1.desmia1.home.net (24.7.73.213) 12.756 ms 12.432 ms 13.272 ms 4 c1-pos2-0.omahne1.home.net (24.7.64.137) 15.434 ms 15.754 ms 14.473 ms 5 c1-pos9-0.lnmtco1.home.net (24.7.65.146) 23.972 ms 23.505 ms 29.313 ms 6 c1-pos10-0.snjsca1.home.net (24.7.65.141) 46.827 ms 46.892 ms 47.322 ms 7 24.7.70.58 (24.7.70.58) 48.160 ms 47.301 ms 47.816 ms 8 bbr02-g6-0.sntc04.exodus.net (216.34.2.36) 45.951 ms 46.267 ms 50.574 ms 9 bbr02-p3-0.okbr01.exodus.net (216.32.132.149) 56.514 ms 58.588 ms 57.207 ms 10 bbr01-p5-0.wlhm01.exodus.net (216.32.132.210) 78.808 ms 79.173 ms 80.039 ms 11 dcr04-g2-0.wlhm01.exodus.net (64.14.70.66) 79.742 ms 86.283 ms 79.685 ms 12 64.14.80.138 (64.14.80.138) 79.136 ms 80.200 ms 80.701 ms 13 64.28.66.204 (64.28.66.204) 79.840 ms 79.594 ms 83.598 ms 14 slashdot.org (64.28.67.48) 80.183 ms 80.340 ms 81.398 ms
As you can see the only example of an internal IP addy is the first hop from my machine to the modem. From there on all the @home routers have public addresses in the 24.0.0.0 network. ________________
I'm not sure if those words were actually ever spoken, but that was a limitation in MS-DOS at one time. I believe that it was corrected to allow 256MB in ver 3.3. ________________
Wind generation can't be used effectively while the vehicle is in motion. There's just no such thing as a free lunch. The wind generator is less than 100% efficient; so while the vehicle is moving it will take more energy to push it through the air than it produces.
The only case where it would make any sense is if you had a tail wind moving faster than your vehicle. However I think that in that case raising a sail would be more effective than a windmill.:) ________________
Adding the Carnivore task is a simple matter of blind copying every packet to or from a bad guy to a third address at the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, DC. It's at most a few lines of code and requires no additional hardware
I don't see anything about E-mail or any application layer program here. He is infact talking about redirecting at the packet level and that's on the network layer where the ISP routers work. ________________
Does Walmart keep track of every product you buy when you are there?
No, Walmart just wishes that they could. How long do you think it is before they start with the "Preferred Customer Discount^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HBuying history tracking" Cards? All the food stores in my city use them and I think that WalMart is going to be rolling them out now that they are in the grocery business here. ________________
what will prevent Microsoft from registering microsoft.gnu?
Honestly though, who would want microsoft.gnu?
The only thing that I see coming out of adding more TLDs without making any significant changes in the system is that the registration companys will sell more than 3 <insert product name>.TLDs at a time. And it'll cost anyone who wants to protect their product name that much more money each year.
Well I must admit that I'm getting a little bit confused by all this razor/blade talk. But I think that the most fitting analogy for the geek crowd is Windows vs. OS/2. When IBM released OS/2 they realized that more people would be willing to buy their new OS if it were able to run windows/DOS programs. However this entry strategy lead to its eventual demise because no one was willing to learn to develop natively for OS/2. If MS wants to make money in this market they need to independantly develop a must have game that can only be played on the X-Box. After all, why would anyone want to get an X-Box to play PS/2 games?
Overall I'd say that the X-Box looks like a pretty good toy. Much like some other MS products that I can think of.
From toysmart.com the most relevant part of their privacy policy. Seems pretty airtight on the part of the customer to me. For the full text go here. Our promise At toysmart.com, we take great pride in our relationships with our customers and pledge to maintain your privacy while visiting our site. Personal information voluntarily submitted by visitors to our site, such as name, address, billing information and shopping preferences, is never shared with a third party. All information obtained by toysmart.com is used only to personalize your experience online. This information is received via the following areas of our site: My toysmart and the Gift Center. When you place additional orders, our site will update your order history, which you can view in My toysmart. If you sign up for the gift registry, information you submit will be added to your personal profile. Other than these two instances, the information that you provide us is not supplemented in any way.
Well, my campus hasn't had too much of a problem with these things. It is written in our UA that we can't run any kind of file sharing server, but nobody cares if you do. The catch is that at least 75% of the time the other things on this list don't work if you're behind out firewall. So I don't think that my college has anything to fear about net2 phone taking over their monopoly phone service (rates just lowered to $0.15/min ohhhhh), and napster is just a joke when you're behind a firewall everytime you find a song you really want you get the "both parties firewalled" error. grrrr
Good command line programs for these tasks are CD Paranoia for ripping and blade enc. for encoding. You can get both of these from freshmeat.net and there are graphical front-ends for both avaliable for your favorite WM there too.
No way!! Maggie Makes her statement just with the little suck, suck sound. She is already far and away the best character on the show. Ruining her with a new catch phrase would completely kill the vibe of the show.
I don't know about that man. I think that many people are getting OD'd on the new season anyway. I keep parying that it'll be the last season and that they'll go out with some class. But then I watched the "Worst Episode Ever" (their words, the one with Bart as a Jockey) 2 weeks ago and I must admit that it was pretty much true. Actually I think that it may have been worse than some episodes of "Who's the Boss?". Anywho, I still enjoy the midnight reruns or the old (read good or funny) shows.
The reson that/. has been going downhill as of late is because of people like you. Complaining, trolling and bitching about how you don't like the stories only makes/. a less cool place to be. I much prefered the days when I could read comments with my threshold set at 0 and not see anything offensive. This constant spamming and complaining really isn't helping make this a community worth participating in what I am seeing makes me sad.
Sorry, worng answer. If you RTFM you'll notice that the RH prepackaged installs waste everything on the disk and then set up the partitions to cover the entire disk. If you had win/BE partitions they'd be gone unless you did a custom install.
MkLinux only runs on 1st-generation Power Macintoshes with the NuBus architecture
That's almost right just a little bit backwards. Newer machines can run MKLinux (I think everything up to the blue G-3's), but nobody with a newer machine would want to run MKLinux since there are better distro's that don't happen to run on the NuBus systems.
I live in an apartment too. it's really not that bad to string up the whole place. We've got 14 networked machines among the 4 of us. I've got a DSL hookup in the living room, 2 8 port hubs in one bedroom and just a little bit of cat 5 running along the corners of the room. We bought some cable covers for about 8 bucks at radio shack so that's not even a problem.
All I can say is that the networked home thing is pretty darn sweet. The machine on the coffee table is cool. I can check www.tvguide.com and watch on the big screen all without moving an inch. Throw in a bit of X10 and it's really cool. Life is good.
The best way I've found to block them (and also speed download times) is to add a line to your hosts file (/etc/hosts c:\windows\hosts) to direct that domain to the null IP address 0.0.0.0 . Then they won't be able to track you and you won't have to look at the adds.
Sounds like a bad lawsuit to me, because you simply cannot patent a type of marketing and sales, else get-rich-quick-ripoff schemes would not exist.
Well apparently you can patent a type of marketing. That's what Amazon did and people here were really pissed off about that a few weeks ago. IIRC that patent pretty much amounted to the great marketing practice of writing down your customer's name and address so that they only have to tell you once.
Overall I think that the idea of patents is a good thing. However patents should be distinguished from the current practices of patent law. The current state of patent law is not good at all.
Around here we seem to have a real habit of bitching about the greed of corporations that is manifested through the the current miserable state of patent law. I hereby respectfully submit that the problem is not necessarily greed in and of itself (greed being a prime motivator in a capitalish economy, superceeded perhaps only by sloth) but that the system we have in place fails to properly channel that motivation into productive forms. What we should be discussing here is not how greedy corporations are but what kind of system would properly reward those (both individuals and corporations) who have new ideas.
OK everybody Methanol and Ethanol are different! Ethanol (CH3CH2OH) is found in your favorite beverages. Methanol (CH3OH) is a poision and causes blindness.
What I'm curious about is what the airlines/FAA are going to say about people bringing electric devices which carry little vials of combustable poisionous liquid with them onto airplanes? Anyway food (not drink) for thought.
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I really don't think that it's a sinister as all that. Seems to me that all they want to do is get people who would put their internet access on their expense account to have to pay extra for a business account.
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And you're talking like this has never been done. The Bad Old Days(tm) weren't that long ago. Before the big Bell break up, when you had to rent your phone from the telco, you also had to pay extra charges if you wanted to have a second phone on the same line.
I think that you are right however, the billing mode is going to have to change. It won't be that long before people start to realize that paying extra to have 2 computers on the internet is just as banal as having to pay extra to have 2 telephones or 2 televisions in the same house.
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Possibly one could just network together a cluster of spare 386's to run the video for them. Then use fiber to connect back to a faster machine. I'm sure that you will be able to find a few spare 386s sitting around. :)-
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Certianly don't order a beer if they take you out for lunch you really don't want them to think that you're that much of a raging alcoholic. ;o)
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None-the-less, it would be really cool to see a device like this with a little bit more resolution. 800x600 at least would be nice.
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As an example I ran a traceroute from my machine (on @home) to slashdot.org:
1 10.93.48.1 (10.93.48.1) 10.730 ms 9.981 ms 11.672 ms
2 r1-fe1-0-100bt.cdrrpd1.ia.home.net (24.2.240.1) 10.810 ms 11.511 ms 11.434 ms
3 c1-se6-1.desmia1.home.net (24.7.73.213) 12.756 ms 12.432 ms 13.272 ms
4 c1-pos2-0.omahne1.home.net (24.7.64.137) 15.434 ms 15.754 ms 14.473 ms
5 c1-pos9-0.lnmtco1.home.net (24.7.65.146) 23.972 ms 23.505 ms 29.313 ms
6 c1-pos10-0.snjsca1.home.net (24.7.65.141) 46.827 ms 46.892 ms 47.322 ms
7 24.7.70.58 (24.7.70.58) 48.160 ms 47.301 ms 47.816 ms
8 bbr02-g6-0.sntc04.exodus.net (216.34.2.36) 45.951 ms 46.267 ms 50.574 ms
9 bbr02-p3-0.okbr01.exodus.net (216.32.132.149) 56.514 ms 58.588 ms 57.207 ms
10 bbr01-p5-0.wlhm01.exodus.net (216.32.132.210) 78.808 ms 79.173 ms 80.039 ms
11 dcr04-g2-0.wlhm01.exodus.net (64.14.70.66) 79.742 ms 86.283 ms 79.685 ms
12 64.14.80.138 (64.14.80.138) 79.136 ms 80.200 ms 80.701 ms
13 64.28.66.204 (64.28.66.204) 79.840 ms 79.594 ms 83.598 ms
14 slashdot.org (64.28.67.48) 80.183 ms 80.340 ms 81.398 ms
As you can see the only example of an internal IP addy is the first hop from my machine to the modem. From there on all the @home routers have public addresses in the 24.0.0.0 network.
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I'm not sure if those words were actually ever spoken, but that was a limitation in MS-DOS at one time. I believe that it was corrected to allow 256MB in ver 3.3.
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The only case where it would make any sense is if you had a tail wind moving faster than your vehicle. However I think that in that case raising a sail would be more effective than a windmill. :)
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FYI: The url is http://afdcmap.nrel.gov/nrel/
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I don't see anything about E-mail or any application layer program here. He is infact talking about redirecting at the packet level and that's on the network layer where the ISP routers work.
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No, Walmart just wishes that they could. How long do you think it is before they start with the "Preferred Customer Discount^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HBuying history tracking" Cards? All the food stores in my city use them and I think that WalMart is going to be rolling them out now that they are in the grocery business here.
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Honestly though, who would want microsoft.gnu?
The only thing that I see coming out of adding more TLDs without making any significant changes in the system is that the registration companys will sell more than 3 <insert product name>.TLDs at a time. And it'll cost anyone who wants to protect their product name that much more money each year.
Overall I'd say that the X-Box looks like a pretty good toy. Much like some other MS products that I can think of.
From toysmart.com the most relevant part of their privacy policy. Seems pretty airtight on the part of the customer to me. For the full text go here.
Our promise At toysmart.com, we take great pride in our relationships with our customers and pledge to maintain your privacy while visiting our site. Personal information voluntarily submitted by visitors to our site, such as name, address, billing information and shopping preferences, is never shared with a third party. All information obtained by toysmart.com is used only to personalize your experience online. This information is received via the following areas of our site: My toysmart and the Gift Center. When you place additional orders, our site will update your order history, which you can view in My toysmart. If you sign up for the gift registry, information you submit will be added to your personal profile. Other than these two instances, the information that you provide us is not supplemented in any way.
Well, my campus hasn't had too much of a problem with these things. It is written in our UA that we can't run any kind of file sharing server, but nobody cares if you do. The catch is that at least 75% of the time the other things on this list don't work if you're behind out firewall. So I don't think that my college has anything to fear about net2 phone taking over their monopoly phone service (rates just lowered to $0.15/min ohhhhh), and napster is just a joke when you're behind a firewall everytime you find a song you really want you get the "both parties firewalled" error. grrrr
Good command line programs for these tasks are CD Paranoia for ripping and blade enc. for encoding. You can get both of these from freshmeat.net and there are graphical front-ends for both avaliable for your favorite WM there too.
No way!! Maggie Makes her statement just with the little suck, suck sound. She is already far and away the best character on the show. Ruining her with a new catch phrase would completely kill the vibe of the show.
I don't know about that man. I think that many people are getting OD'd on the new season anyway. I keep parying that it'll be the last season and that they'll go out with some class. But then I watched the "Worst Episode Ever" (their words, the one with Bart as a Jockey) 2 weeks ago and I must admit that it was pretty much true. Actually I think that it may have been worse than some episodes of "Who's the Boss?". Anywho, I still enjoy the midnight reruns or the old (read good or funny) shows.
The reson that /. has been going downhill as of late is because of people like you. Complaining, trolling and bitching about how you don't like the stories only makes /. a less cool place to be. I much prefered the days when I could read comments with my threshold set at 0 and not see anything offensive. This constant spamming and complaining really isn't helping make this a community worth participating in what I am seeing makes me sad.
Sorry, worng answer. If you RTFM you'll notice that the RH prepackaged installs waste everything on the disk and then set up the partitions to cover the entire disk. If you had win/BE partitions they'd be gone unless you did a custom install.
That's almost right just a little bit backwards. Newer machines can run MKLinux (I think everything up to the blue G-3's), but nobody with a newer machine would want to run MKLinux since there are better distro's that don't happen to run on the NuBus systems.
All I can say is that the networked home thing is pretty darn sweet. The machine on the coffee table is cool. I can check www.tvguide.com and watch on the big screen all without moving an inch. Throw in a bit of X10 and it's really cool. Life is good.
The best way I've found to block them (and also speed download times) is to add a line to your hosts file (/etc/hosts c:\windows\hosts) to direct that domain to the null IP address 0.0.0.0 . Then they won't be able to track you and you won't have to look at the adds.
Well apparently you can patent a type of marketing. That's what Amazon did and people here were really pissed off about that a few weeks ago. IIRC that patent pretty much amounted to the great marketing practice of writing down your customer's name and address so that they only have to tell you once.
Overall I think that the idea of patents is a good thing. However patents should be distinguished from the current practices of patent law. The current state of patent law is not good at all.
Around here we seem to have a real habit of bitching about the greed of corporations that is manifested through the the current miserable state of patent law. I hereby respectfully submit that the problem is not necessarily greed in and of itself (greed being a prime motivator in a capitalish economy, superceeded perhaps only by sloth) but that the system we have in place fails to properly channel that motivation into productive forms. What we should be discussing here is not how greedy corporations are but what kind of system would properly reward those (both individuals and corporations) who have new ideas.
What I'm curious about is what the airlines/FAA are going to say about people bringing electric devices which carry little vials of combustable poisionous liquid with them onto airplanes? Anyway food (not drink) for thought.