Really no more than already exists. As of now if you want to change cable providers you need to move to a different region. I don't see where it makes much difference to me if the one cable company I can choose from is TW or AT&T or Comcast. They all provide some TV channels, cable modems and poor customer service. The only possible benefit I see coming out of this is that TW's Road Runner has a bit better reputation and somewhat lower prices than AT&T's @home. As long as I don't have to switch to AOL service only from my cable modem I'll be happy.
The deal with Comcast was an unsolicited offer. As such, it probably didn't do enough to make the big shots at AT&T get a lot of money for doing nothing so they said no thanks. The long and the short of it just seems that the offer was a bit too low and AT&T isn't going to spend a lot of time trying to hammer out a deal since they didn't ask for bids in the first place.
Traffic laws should exist for the saftey of all involved. They also should be fairly enforced. However, this is not really the case. Traffic laws (especially speed limits) exist as a way of gathering road use taxes. Too many jurisdictions have come to rely on the revenue generated by traffic fines. The most glaring case being Linndale, OH, which manages to fund the majority of its village budget with monies from traffic fines imposed on non-residents. Though the problem is particularly severe in Linndale it certianly isn't unique to that area. There are many jurisdictions (New Jersey comes to mind) that found it necessare to sharply increase fines to maintian revenue stream upon raising the speed limit above 55MPH.
This is quite revealing as to why traffic laws aren't uniformly enforced and why the general public has such contempt for them. Police officers are simply tax collectors and receive an amount of respect communsurate with that position from most motorists.
This is easy enough to fix. Just set your rules to only forward messages "Sent directly to me" which is Microsoft speak for has my e-mail address on the To: line. This eliminates the vast majority of non-important mail (spam, list-servs, customer courtesy messages and so forth) from being forwarded to your pager or SMS phone.
In other news: Why is it though to be user friendly to use euphamisms? It it really easier for people to understand "Sent directly to me" than "has my address on the To: line"? Can anyone tell me what system resources are? I have a vauge idea that it has something to do with free RAM but the documentation for MS Resource Monitor never specifies exactly what it is...
the prosecution is required to reveal all evidence gathered
The prosecution is required to reveal all evidence gathered to the defendant. They are not required to reveal the evidence to any third party. Typically this evidence will later be revealed in the courtroom and in the records of the court, but this does not occur until after the trial. Both prosecuters and defense lawyers tend to like to keep things on the down-low to keep jury prejudice and such from tainting the proceedings. It's to the advantage of all involved to keep everything quiet until it can be presented within the strict rules of the courtroom rather than being presented in the sensationalist manner of the press.
thus why would they have any ability to prevent those being supoenaed to not discuss the subpoenaed information
They have this ability because someone asked the judge who issued the subpoena for it. A gag order is pretty common in court proceedings, it keeps the trial in the legal courts rather than in the court of public opinion. Voilation of such an order is contempt of court. You don't want to be caught in that situation.
is ever a good answer to a general question. People don't bother to submit to ask/. to get simple information. They submit their questions for ask/. to get advice. If you don't understand the difference, quit posting here.
I challenge anyone to show me a smarter group of "technical support specialists". Perhaps, though, all ISPs hire from the same pool of technical support chimps?
That pool is pretty well defined. It's set forth by the following qualifications.
Must speak some english
It'd be nice if you had a GED
Must be willing to take abuse from irate customers over the telephone
Must do all of the above for $7 an hour.
Naturally, these requirements are listed a bit differently in the the newspaper ads announcing hiring for the position. They read something like this:
Excellent communication skills required
Education: Diploma or GED, Assiciates Degree preferred
Outstanding customer service skills required
Competitive wages and benefits, excellent advancement opportunities
And you're left wondering why these people aren't qualified sys-admins???
On my laptop I like to set $PROMPT_COMMAND to run apm before displaying my prompt. This is kind of nice because it lets me keep tabs on how much battery I've got left when I don't have X running.
If you've transferred to Linux recently and want to the the old C:\> look back you could try this one:
PS1="C:\\ \w>"
With a little bit of fancy bash work you could probably even get it to change to A:\> when pwd is/mnt/floppy or D:\> when pwd is/mnt/cdrom. If anyone has ideas let me know, I think that it's kind of cute.
Do you have the google IE toolbar installed? I know that it does some logging of searches and pages visited and things like that. If you don't have it installed you should. It's realy slick. I like it even better than the address bar Google searches in Konqueror.
What are you talking about? In every part of the United States I've been to, you have exactly ONE cable provider that services your home.
This is changing. I actually have a choice between two different cable TV / cable internet companies. The fact is that they are pretty similar in terms of pricing, services offered and horrible customer service but I do have a choice.
Will safeway start treating certain customers preferentially once it their spending habits show them to be "favored customers."
Of course they do. They quality and quantity of coupons in their mailings are directly related to how much you spent at the store last month. The size of the "free" Thanksgiving turkey or Christmas ham is related to how much you spent at their stores during the months of November and December respectively.
Shucks, these days a guy almost needs a PII/400 just to run the latest windowmanagers, desktop environments, and web browsers. *sigh*
I wouldn't say that it's as bad as all that. I run KDE 2.1 on an old 486-75 laptop and it gets along just fine. Granted, everything is a lot more fun on my Athlon Desktop machine, but it's a little heavy to set on my lap.
Like someone else said, it wouldn't be reasonable to pay $20 to use the internet at 56k speeds. I pay about $30 a month for cable modem at home.. mmm 700 kBytes/sec.
It wouldn't be very reasonable to pay $7 for a cold ham and cheese sandwich either. But wait, this is air travel we're talking about. If they can charge you $7 for a 23c sandwich at the airport, I'm sure that they can charge whatever the fuck they want once you get in the air.
It is a bunch of bunk. The rules about all the RF stuff only applies to planes operated by commercial passenger carriers. It's perfectly legal and common for cargo carriers to use 802.11b devices during flight. I know this because I work for a company that makes wireless 802.11x data terminals and access points and we sell them to people like FedEx for sorting and processing packages during flight. And no, these aren't specially certified devices, it's just standard 802.11 stuff.
Have you had a FedEx plane drop from the sky and land on your house recently? I thought not.
If "looking" was so "passive" you wouldn't need to "transmit" "photons" from your "flashlight" to tell if there was an "open" "door" that might be of interest to you.
Once you move your computer onto a public network you've changed the rules it operates under. Since the door analogy is so popular, I'd say that doing a port scan is akin to walking through a shopping district and pushing on each of the doors. In this way you can determine which shops are open for business and which are closed. The fact that you might later come back and rob some of these shops is an entirely separate matter.
I suspect that said windows licenses are non-transferrable. That is usually the case with corporate/govt. site license arrangements. As a result, it would probably be illegal to sell these computers without removing windows from the drives anyway.
The RIAA is a non-profit organization. It happens that it is an organization of for profit recording companies all of which are quite profitable. It also happens that the major purpose of the RIAA is to protect the profits of the member organizations. Despite all of this, the RIAA itself doesn't actually produce any products besides industry propaganda. Non-profit really doesn't say all that much about an organization either, it's just some accounting practices and more favorable tax regulations that go along with them.
My MD player refuses to copy my own recordings digitally, because by allowing digital copies there is the slight possiblity of maybe me committing a sinister crime (i.e. distributing copyrighted music)!
If this is actually the case, you have a defective minidisc player. The copyright bit should not be set when an analog (I'm assuming that your own music is recorded via microphone or guitar pickup or the like) recording is made and you should be able to make as many generations of digital recordings as you like. Even if it is the case that the no copy bit gets set on your analog recordings you are still free to make as many copies as you like, though you are not able to make copies of those copies.
If you're complaining that your MD player doesn't have a digital out port, you should have forked over a few extra few dollars to get one that does. Yeah, it's stupid that Sony charges an extra $100 to add in a $0.49 laser diode, but that's just the way marketing works. If in doubt, consult any introduction of microeconomics book and check the index for "price discrimination".
The windows version of PGP has a slick little system tray icon. You
click on it and it'll give you a menu that lets you sign and encrypt
or decrypt the current clipboard contents. Works great for webmail or
pretty much anything else (like, this form for example) for that
matter.
In addition, I'd like to complain a little bit. There's an awful lot
of posts on this thread about how great PGP is and how the key
infastructure really isn't all that hard. Why haven't you people
posted your keys to the appropriate section of your user pages? eh?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>
Having a "Rescue" kit laying around is even more dangerous than having a root password.
I'm curious as to why you say this. It would seem to me that it's much easier to physically secure a machine in the DMZ than it would be to secure it from network attacks. If you don't keep your servers in a locked server room you need some serious help.
I'm going to have to agree with other posters here that you probably should be able to create a list of tasks that you actually need to accomplish as root and use sudo. If you're doing things that are greatly out of the ordinary your server probably shouldn't be online anyway. The solution of generating random passwords and placing them in a sealed envalope should cover your root password needs for any production server.
If however, you still feel that it is necessary to have the root passwords avaliable frequently you probably want to use PGP or GPG. Each person will have their own key/password to access the encrypted file. This makes it so that the "meta-password" is not shared and eliminates the need to publically post any changes to the passwords since they will always be found in 'the usual place'. You will also have the ability to easily add or remove people from the list to which the password list is encrypted. Overall, the safest way in which a database of passwords could be kept on the computer.
in order for RISC to make up for the lack of instructions. it has to execute more, becuase the processor know's less. as for x86, there are ton's of pre set instruction's, enabling it to process more important information. and thus performing faster.
Since the others who corrected this statement did so in AC mode, I really thought that I should correct this in a way that will get read.
Most instructions in either a RISC or CISC chip take more than 1 clock cycle to complete. This is why pipelining works. Tyipcally the RISC processor (like MIPS or PPC) will take more machine instructions to accomplish a given task. The advantage here is that the chip can be better optimised for a smaller set of possible instructions and is likely to finish each instruction in a shorter amount of time. The drawback is that the larger number of instructions required to complete a given task is likely to take up a larger amount of space in RAM and on disk.
When dealing with a CISC processor like that x86 family, you have a larger number of instructions to choose from and can thus accomplish a given task in a fewer number of instructions. Because the length of each instruction can vary, the most used instructions are usually the shortest and can therefore save RAM and disk space. The drawback is that the processor is less optimised for each particular task that it knows how to do and may therefore require more clock cycles to execute each instruction.
Please note that my comments above are generalizations. There are a large number of tradeoffs involved in creating a processor. Consideration must be given to cost, power consumption, supported instructions, compatability, clock rate, pipeline length, and so forth. This is not an easy task to achieve because there are so many different variables. This also means that when you are evaluating the finished product you must consider more than just the number of instructions (CISC vs. RISC) or the clock rate or the number of instructions executed per second (MIPS).
Furthermore, the processor in only one part of the whole computing solution. In addition to the processor, you need the supporting motherboard and RAM systems which introduce a whole slew of bottlenecks to the system. You also need a good compiler which optimises appropriately for your priorities (program size vs. execution speed, etc.). Also consider that a system may be well optimised for a problem that you are not trying to solve. Some chips are better at solving floating point problems while others are better at solving mostly interger problems.
Why is it that government funded GPL code is inaccessable to the Apache foundation and OpenBSD??
Because these two projects don't use the GPL to release their work. The Apache foundation uses the ASL which discourages forking in ways that wouldn't quite jive with adding in GPL code and OpenBSD uses the BSDLicense which allows code to be incorporated into non-free programs in ways that don't work with the GPL (though the FSF terms it as a compatable license these days). Basically, the differences aren't all that big of a deal unless you like picking fights with RMS. The little obscure differences between these different licenses are avaliable here if you actually had any interest in learning about these issues.
In my ongoing quest to make on-topic posts of the link you don't want to click. I propose decorating the monument with an image of everyone's favorite enlarged anus. I can almost gaurantee that 100k years from now that image will still be sufficiently repulsive to scare away any beast which might happen near to it.
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Really no more than already exists. As of now if you want to change cable providers you need to move to a different region. I don't see where it makes much difference to me if the one cable company I can choose from is TW or AT&T or Comcast. They all provide some TV channels, cable modems and poor customer service. The only possible benefit I see coming out of this is that TW's Road Runner has a bit better reputation and somewhat lower prices than AT&T's @home. As long as I don't have to switch to AOL service only from my cable modem I'll be happy.
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The deal with Comcast was an unsolicited offer. As such, it probably didn't do enough to make the big shots at AT&T get a lot of money for doing nothing so they said no thanks. The long and the short of it just seems that the offer was a bit too low and AT&T isn't going to spend a lot of time trying to hammer out a deal since they didn't ask for bids in the first place.
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This is quite revealing as to why traffic laws aren't uniformly enforced and why the general public has such contempt for them. Police officers are simply tax collectors and receive an amount of respect communsurate with that position from most motorists.
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In other news: Why is it though to be user friendly to use euphamisms? It it really easier for people to understand "Sent directly to me" than "has my address on the To: line"? Can anyone tell me what system resources are? I have a vauge idea that it has something to do with free RAM but the documentation for MS Resource Monitor never specifies exactly what it is...
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The prosecution is required to reveal all evidence gathered to the defendant. They are not required to reveal the evidence to any third party. Typically this evidence will later be revealed in the courtroom and in the records of the court, but this does not occur until after the trial. Both prosecuters and defense lawyers tend to like to keep things on the down-low to keep jury prejudice and such from tainting the proceedings. It's to the advantage of all involved to keep everything quiet until it can be presented within the strict rules of the courtroom rather than being presented in the sensationalist manner of the press.
thus why would they have any ability to prevent those being supoenaed to not discuss the subpoenaed information
They have this ability because someone asked the judge who issued the subpoena for it. A gag order is pretty common in court proceedings, it keeps the trial in the legal courts rather than in the court of public opinion. Voilation of such an order is contempt of court. You don't want to be caught in that situation.
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apt-get install
is ever a good answer to a general question. People don't bother to submit to ask /. to get simple information. They submit their questions for ask /. to get advice. If you don't understand the difference, quit posting here.
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That pool is pretty well defined. It's set forth by the following qualifications.
- Must speak some english
- It'd be nice if you had a GED
- Must be willing to take abuse from irate customers over the telephone
- Must do all of the above for $7 an hour.
Naturally, these requirements are listed a bit differently in the the newspaper ads announcing hiring for the position. They read something like this:- Excellent communication skills required
- Education: Diploma or GED, Assiciates Degree preferred
- Outstanding customer service skills required
- Competitive wages and benefits, excellent advancement opportunities
And you're left wondering why these people aren't qualified sys-admins???________________________
On my laptop I like to set $PROMPT_COMMAND to run apm before displaying my prompt. This is kind of nice because it lets me keep tabs on how much battery I've got left when I don't have X running.
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PS1="C:\\ \w>"
With a little bit of fancy bash work you could probably even get it to change to A:\> when pwd is /mnt/floppy or D:\> when pwd is /mnt/cdrom. If anyone has ideas let me know, I think that it's kind of cute.
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Do you have the google IE toolbar installed? I know that it does some logging of searches and pages visited and things like that. If you don't have it installed you should. It's realy slick. I like it even better than the address bar Google searches in Konqueror.
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This is changing. I actually have a choice between two different cable TV / cable internet companies. The fact is that they are pretty similar in terms of pricing, services offered and horrible customer service but I do have a choice.
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Of course they do. They quality and quantity of coupons in their mailings are directly related to how much you spent at the store last month. The size of the "free" Thanksgiving turkey or Christmas ham is related to how much you spent at their stores during the months of November and December respectively.
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I wouldn't say that it's as bad as all that. I run KDE 2.1 on an old 486-75 laptop and it gets along just fine. Granted, everything is a lot more fun on my Athlon Desktop machine, but it's a little heavy to set on my lap.
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It wouldn't be very reasonable to pay $7 for a cold ham and cheese sandwich either. But wait, this is air travel we're talking about. If they can charge you $7 for a 23c sandwich at the airport, I'm sure that they can charge whatever the fuck they want once you get in the air.
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Have you had a FedEx plane drop from the sky and land on your house recently? I thought not.
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Once you move your computer onto a public network you've changed the rules it operates under. Since the door analogy is so popular, I'd say that doing a port scan is akin to walking through a shopping district and pushing on each of the doors. In this way you can determine which shops are open for business and which are closed. The fact that you might later come back and rob some of these shops is an entirely separate matter.
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I suspect that said windows licenses are non-transferrable. That is usually the case with corporate/govt. site license arrangements. As a result, it would probably be illegal to sell these computers without removing windows from the drives anyway.
________________________
The RIAA is a non-profit organization. It happens that it is an organization of for profit recording companies all of which are quite profitable. It also happens that the major purpose of the RIAA is to protect the profits of the member organizations. Despite all of this, the RIAA itself doesn't actually produce any products besides industry propaganda. Non-profit really doesn't say all that much about an organization either, it's just some accounting practices and more favorable tax regulations that go along with them.
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If this is actually the case, you have a defective minidisc player. The copyright bit should not be set when an analog (I'm assuming that your own music is recorded via microphone or guitar pickup or the like) recording is made and you should be able to make as many generations of digital recordings as you like. Even if it is the case that the no copy bit gets set on your analog recordings you are still free to make as many copies as you like, though you are not able to make copies of those copies.
If you're complaining that your MD player doesn't have a digital out port, you should have forked over a few extra few dollars to get one that does. Yeah, it's stupid that Sony charges an extra $100 to add in a $0.49 laser diode, but that's just the way marketing works. If in doubt, consult any introduction of microeconomics book and check the index for "price discrimination".
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
i nm FX5yP6JQ8AnAn4
Hash: SHA1
The windows version of PGP has a slick little system tray icon. You
click on it and it'll give you a menu that lets you sign and encrypt
or decrypt the current clipboard contents. Works great for webmail or
pretty much anything else (like, this form for example) for that
matter.
In addition, I'd like to complain a little bit. There's an awful lot
of posts on this thread about how great PGP is and how the key
infastructure really isn't all that hard. Why haven't you people
posted your keys to the appropriate section of your user pages? eh?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>
iQA/AwUBOx06D7fXGCgiKZQGEQKuiQCg4VrQbF1vANOzp14
bC4n80/IQRJcBkzE9KPgDrXV
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I'm curious as to why you say this. It would seem to me that it's much easier to physically secure a machine in the DMZ than it would be to secure it from network attacks. If you don't keep your servers in a locked server room you need some serious help.
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If however, you still feel that it is necessary to have the root passwords avaliable frequently you probably want to use PGP or GPG. Each person will have their own key/password to access the encrypted file. This makes it so that the "meta-password" is not shared and eliminates the need to publically post any changes to the passwords since they will always be found in 'the usual place'. You will also have the ability to easily add or remove people from the list to which the password list is encrypted. Overall, the safest way in which a database of passwords could be kept on the computer.
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Since the others who corrected this statement did so in AC mode, I really thought that I should correct this in a way that will get read.
Most instructions in either a RISC or CISC chip take more than 1 clock cycle to complete. This is why pipelining works. Tyipcally the RISC processor (like MIPS or PPC) will take more machine instructions to accomplish a given task. The advantage here is that the chip can be better optimised for a smaller set of possible instructions and is likely to finish each instruction in a shorter amount of time. The drawback is that the larger number of instructions required to complete a given task is likely to take up a larger amount of space in RAM and on disk.
When dealing with a CISC processor like that x86 family, you have a larger number of instructions to choose from and can thus accomplish a given task in a fewer number of instructions. Because the length of each instruction can vary, the most used instructions are usually the shortest and can therefore save RAM and disk space. The drawback is that the processor is less optimised for each particular task that it knows how to do and may therefore require more clock cycles to execute each instruction.
Please note that my comments above are generalizations. There are a large number of tradeoffs involved in creating a processor. Consideration must be given to cost, power consumption, supported instructions, compatability, clock rate, pipeline length, and so forth. This is not an easy task to achieve because there are so many different variables. This also means that when you are evaluating the finished product you must consider more than just the number of instructions (CISC vs. RISC) or the clock rate or the number of instructions executed per second (MIPS).
Furthermore, the processor in only one part of the whole computing solution. In addition to the processor, you need the supporting motherboard and RAM systems which introduce a whole slew of bottlenecks to the system. You also need a good compiler which optimises appropriately for your priorities (program size vs. execution speed, etc.). Also consider that a system may be well optimised for a problem that you are not trying to solve. Some chips are better at solving floating point problems while others are better at solving mostly interger problems.
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Because these two projects don't use the GPL to release their work. The Apache foundation uses the ASL which discourages forking in ways that wouldn't quite jive with adding in GPL code and OpenBSD uses the BSDLicense which allows code to be incorporated into non-free programs in ways that don't work with the GPL (though the FSF terms it as a compatable license these days). Basically, the differences aren't all that big of a deal unless you like picking fights with RMS. The little obscure differences between these different licenses are avaliable here if you actually had any interest in learning about these issues.
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In my ongoing quest to make on-topic posts of the link you don't want to click. I propose decorating the monument with an image of everyone's favorite enlarged anus. I can almost gaurantee that 100k years from now that image will still be sufficiently repulsive to scare away any beast which might happen near to it.
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