I know that X million people are playing such games as WoW, but a lot of players sort of keep in their "circles." People who don't play the games don't really know much about them or the "cash value" of the assets. It will be a while, if ever, before there are any issues about this brought up. It will take everyone playing WoW, including the legislators, before anything like this even can happen. But where there's free money, and they know about it, it *WILL* be taxed.
The environmental impact of this law alone made it a preposterous idea to begin with. I'm glad that it was halted. I think that this would have made Japan look really bad in other nations' eyes. They probably didn't want to take any of the US's "credit" in collossal wastefulness.
Yes it does, but until everyone buys a shirt, the funds from it are a drop in the bucket.
I was thinking about getting the one with the "prostitute solicitor" with the cane and the hat and a girl on each side..."Chicks Dig OpenBSD"...I could ward off the remaining few girls that I get here at my tech school...
Why does Diebold design these machines in such a way that they *CAN* be hacked? I think that involving an Operating System and software in the design of such a machine is a critical error. As a computer engineer, I realize that overcomplicating things can lead to errors. DSP's can make hardware extremely cheap, but there are places where analog circuits are cheaper and more realiable!
Why hasn't Diebold designed a hardwired electronic circuit or a mechanical system with failsafes such that the machine can't be hacked, and the wrong candidate will not be selected if the machine fails? There are so many places where their current design can and will go wrong. I believe that it's time for these loonies (or preferrably someone else who has more sense) to come up with a more rudimentary and failsafe design!
Call me an AMD fanboy, but one place where you can be most certain that there's not a bottleneck is where you have fast and innovative access methods. If you're using an amd64-based system, you're probably okay with the CPU and probably motherboard. Integrated memory controller. Relatively short pipeline. It's very nice to have this stuff integrated and be maxing out the speed.
From my experiences, I've noticed that it's never a good idea to change the name of a well-known product unless you have a GOOD grip on the market where people are forced to remember/figure out the new naming. Otherwise, a lot of times, mass confusion occurs when something's name is changed, and customers go and try to find another product because they haven't been told that the name changed and assume that it disappeared (or think that something else might change).
The spirit of the whole concept of Freedom of Speech is speech with no government interference. This includes psychological war-games that the government likes to play with us creating propaganda (if even "merely" justifications) about ideas which it doesn't like and which the people do. I wholeheartedly believe that video game violence does not equate enough with real-life violence to create a correlation strong enough to trigger violent "thought-crimes." From what I've seen in high school and college, 3D games really let the player have a lot of fun and get out frustrations.
But as always with "studies" performed by the government, it's just to support someone's agenda and create publicity. A waste of our tax dollars for some bad politician's attempt to gain an edge.
it's much easier to just get a view of their screen (think PC-Anywhere) than to keep asking them what they see now only to get half answers and useless replies
Absolutely. Nine times out of ten, when we ask a user over the phone to read the error message and title in a dialog box that pops up, we don't get the complete picture, even though we ask for the user to tell us EVERYTHING that is on the screen. That makes telephone troubleshooting annoying. It's why we use remote management whenever possible, and if that is not an option, we explain how to email screen shots. Either way, having a picture of the user's screen is EXTREMELY useful and saves us I.T. workers much time and therefore saves the company big lumps of change.
We simply use the freeware version of RealVNC. When employees first join, they have to give up rights to "privacy" for the I.T. people. We respect official business, but unless it's someone high up in the company is working on some sensitive information, we typically assert our authority as our workers should only be working on official business.
If you are concerned about privacy, I'd look into something simple like VNC if you have the management software to know who's using what computer when. It works VERY well with us and is very versatile--I can't tell you how many times it has saved our butts from having to drive 300 miles when we just put a VNC connection over an SSH tunnel at a remote jobsite.
If I ever live to see the day where cable is obsolete, I'm going to uncap my modem and host something huge to my friends. Anyone care to take a guess on how long I'd be able to keep that up before they shut me down?
You would be able to keep that up for 0 seconds. CM's are a lot more tightened down than they used to be. You used to be able to trick the CM into downloading a config file really easily with SFTP...you can't just go and do that anymore. SNMP is also disabled nowadays because of hacks.
And even if you *could* uncap, concash has been implementing traffic shaping at the head end for well over a year now, and you have absolutely no control over that from your cable modem. Pretty implausible.
Only Apple servers will do the job when the South Park guys decide it's time to play "kick the server."
[Nebraska Train Station]
A guy has Server in hand, ready for a drop kick.
Server: Don't kick the ser...
[Punt]
Server: Ow.
Nebraskan: Would you look at that honey, somebody dropped off a perfectly good trashcan.
The fledging Google instant messaging service known as Google Talk has come under fire from a Delaware corporation that claims that Google is infringing on two of its patents. Rates Technology Inc. claims that Google has violated their patents on methodologies relating to reducing the cost of calls placed over long distance. In a statement yesterday Google said, "We believe the lawsuit is without merit and we will defend against it vigorously."
You've probably never heard of Rates Technology Inc. (RTI), and that wouldn't be surprising since the company has no products and offers no services. By all appearances, RTI is a company that was set up to collect licensing fees and pursue settlements related to the company's patent portfolio. Gerald J. Weinberger, president of Rates technology Inc., once said that the company was "an enterprise based on patent licensing," and that much of its business depended on the courts. Rich Tehrani looked into the company earlier this year, and has provided an interesting profile, to say the least.
The two patents in question date back to 2001 and 1995, and RTI claims to have over 700 licensees of various telecommunications patents that it owns. They have also been to court some 25 times, and in once instance Weinberger warned that a defendant had better be ready to spend at least US$1,000,000 on legal fees, because that's how they roll (paraphrased, of course).
The two patents in question are not for inventions, but processes relating to using a regular telephone to make long distance calls. The patents focus on the use of a centralized database with pricing information for the purposes of determining the cheapest phone call carrier on the fly. The patents do not deal explicitly with the Internet, however, and do not even appear to have VoIP ventures in mind. (I thank my lucky stars every day that I'm not a patent lawyer, however, so my initial reading of the complaint could be incorrect.)
RTI is looking for an injunction, lawyers' fees, damages, royalties, and to be King for day. Google is looking to have the case thrown out.
A copy of the complaint can is available in PDF, hosted by SEW who first broke the story.
In March of this year RTI failed to win a quest against Nortel Networks. Google and RTI will appear before a judge again in early February.
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The topics/products that they are using must be effective because they keep the spammers in business. It's horrible, but since these spammers are in business, a LOT of people must be falling for them.
Has the shift in corporate america really occurred or are activities like the profitability of Red Hat signalling that the CEO's are still holding on to the old way of business?
Not until we have a half decent OSS office suite. Something lean, functional, and efficient. Other functional systems aren't available yet either--at my corporation, we have yet to find anything F/OSS that can come close to doing what MS Exchange does. Until then...
1. IE rises from the dead: After insisting that Internet Explorer was an inextricable part of Windows, Microsoft abruptly changed course and decided to develop and deliver a new standalone version of its browser, after all. Nothing like a little competition to open new doors (and windows).
Doesn't look like much of a surprise to me. If they're going to want to compete with Google with their Web-based Office products, they're going to want to have a semi-proprietary (and predictable since they own and develop it!) platform on which to work on their competitive edge: IE.
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I know that X million people are playing such games as WoW, but a lot of players sort of keep in their "circles." People who don't play the games don't really know much about them or the "cash value" of the assets. It will be a while, if ever, before there are any issues about this brought up. It will take everyone playing WoW, including the legislators, before anything like this even can happen. But where there's free money, and they know about it, it *WILL* be taxed.
How the summary is written...
Steve Jones, the 39-year-old married father of two behind the Lightspeed persona
...before I started reading the comments, I thought that this guy sent his two girls to work in his business.....or two boys (!?!?)
...if only he'd found an agent or studio wanting him. It's much much easier to become famous if millions are already familiar with you...
The environmental impact of this law alone made it a preposterous idea to begin with. I'm glad that it was halted. I think that this would have made Japan look really bad in other nations' eyes. They probably didn't want to take any of the US's "credit" in collossal wastefulness.
Yes it does, but until everyone buys a shirt, the funds from it are a drop in the bucket. I was thinking about getting the one with the "prostitute solicitor" with the cane and the hat and a girl on each side..."Chicks Dig OpenBSD"...I could ward off the remaining few girls that I get here at my tech school...
Why does Diebold design these machines in such a way that they *CAN* be hacked? I think that involving an Operating System and software in the design of such a machine is a critical error. As a computer engineer, I realize that overcomplicating things can lead to errors. DSP's can make hardware extremely cheap, but there are places where analog circuits are cheaper and more realiable! Why hasn't Diebold designed a hardwired electronic circuit or a mechanical system with failsafes such that the machine can't be hacked, and the wrong candidate will not be selected if the machine fails? There are so many places where their current design can and will go wrong. I believe that it's time for these loonies (or preferrably someone else who has more sense) to come up with a more rudimentary and failsafe design!
Call me an AMD fanboy, but one place where you can be most certain that there's not a bottleneck is where you have fast and innovative access methods. If you're using an amd64-based system, you're probably okay with the CPU and probably motherboard. Integrated memory controller. Relatively short pipeline. It's very nice to have this stuff integrated and be maxing out the speed.
From my experiences, I've noticed that it's never a good idea to change the name of a well-known product unless you have a GOOD grip on the market where people are forced to remember/figure out the new naming. Otherwise, a lot of times, mass confusion occurs when something's name is changed, and customers go and try to find another product because they haven't been told that the name changed and assume that it disappeared (or think that something else might change).
Props to Novell. This was the right move.
The spirit of the whole concept of Freedom of Speech is speech with no government interference. This includes psychological war-games that the government likes to play with us creating propaganda (if even "merely" justifications) about ideas which it doesn't like and which the people do. I wholeheartedly believe that video game violence does not equate enough with real-life violence to create a correlation strong enough to trigger violent "thought-crimes." From what I've seen in high school and college, 3D games really let the player have a lot of fun and get out frustrations.
But as always with "studies" performed by the government, it's just to support someone's agenda and create publicity. A waste of our tax dollars for some bad politician's attempt to gain an edge.
it's much easier to just get a view of their screen (think PC-Anywhere) than to keep asking them what they see now only to get half answers and useless replies
Absolutely. Nine times out of ten, when we ask a user over the phone to read the error message and title in a dialog box that pops up, we don't get the complete picture, even though we ask for the user to tell us EVERYTHING that is on the screen. That makes telephone troubleshooting annoying. It's why we use remote management whenever possible, and if that is not an option, we explain how to email screen shots. Either way, having a picture of the user's screen is EXTREMELY useful and saves us I.T. workers much time and therefore saves the company big lumps of change.
We simply use the freeware version of RealVNC. When employees first join, they have to give up rights to "privacy" for the I.T. people. We respect official business, but unless it's someone high up in the company is working on some sensitive information, we typically assert our authority as our workers should only be working on official business.
If you are concerned about privacy, I'd look into something simple like VNC if you have the management software to know who's using what computer when. It works VERY well with us and is very versatile--I can't tell you how many times it has saved our butts from having to drive 300 miles when we just put a VNC connection over an SSH tunnel at a remote jobsite.
I'd be interested to hear from users how well this thing works. Is it powerful enough to be useful? If so, cool!
Any experiences here?
No, this one.
Yes, in Soviet Russia--by a company named Elektronika (the bezel is in Cyrillic)--where time kills you. And it keeps very good time.
If I ever live to see the day where cable is obsolete, I'm going to uncap my modem and host something huge to my friends. Anyone care to take a guess on how long I'd be able to keep that up before they shut me down?
You would be able to keep that up for 0 seconds. CM's are a lot more tightened down than they used to be. You used to be able to trick the CM into downloading a config file really easily with SFTP...you can't just go and do that anymore. SNMP is also disabled nowadays because of hacks.
And even if you *could* uncap, concash has been implementing traffic shaping at the head end for well over a year now, and you have absolutely no control over that from your cable modem. Pretty implausible.
...because you are GAY~!
Only Apple servers will do the job when the South Park guys decide it's time to play "kick the server."
[Nebraska Train Station]
A guy has Server in hand, ready for a drop kick.
Server: Don't kick the ser...
[Punt]
Server: Ow.
Nebraskan: Would you look at that honey, somebody dropped off a perfectly good trashcan.
A recursive one!
default 0 # Default listing to boot
timeout 0 # Timeout before going to the default
title=DupeLoader
root (hd0,0)
kernel=/boot/dupeloader root=/dev/sda0
The fledging Google instant messaging service known as Google Talk has come under fire from a Delaware corporation that claims that Google is infringing on two of its patents. Rates Technology Inc. claims that Google has violated their patents on methodologies relating to reducing the cost of calls placed over long distance. In a statement yesterday Google said, "We believe the lawsuit is without merit and we will defend against it vigorously."
You've probably never heard of Rates Technology Inc. (RTI), and that wouldn't be surprising since the company has no products and offers no services. By all appearances, RTI is a company that was set up to collect licensing fees and pursue settlements related to the company's patent portfolio. Gerald J. Weinberger, president of Rates technology Inc., once said that the company was "an enterprise based on patent licensing," and that much of its business depended on the courts. Rich Tehrani looked into the company earlier this year, and has provided an interesting profile, to say the least.
The two patents in question date back to 2001 and 1995, and RTI claims to have over 700 licensees of various telecommunications patents that it owns. They have also been to court some 25 times, and in once instance Weinberger warned that a defendant had better be ready to spend at least US$1,000,000 on legal fees, because that's how they roll (paraphrased, of course).
The two patents in question are not for inventions, but processes relating to using a regular telephone to make long distance calls. The patents focus on the use of a centralized database with pricing information for the purposes of determining the cheapest phone call carrier on the fly. The patents do not deal explicitly with the Internet, however, and do not even appear to have VoIP ventures in mind. (I thank my lucky stars every day that I'm not a patent lawyer, however, so my initial reading of the complaint could be incorrect.)
RTI is looking for an injunction, lawyers' fees, damages, royalties, and to be King for day. Google is looking to have the case thrown out.
A copy of the complaint can is available in PDF, hosted by SEW who first broke the story.
In March of this year RTI failed to win a quest against Nortel Networks. Google and RTI will appear before a judge again in early February.
You heard it from the right guy, folks! 100% Troll. Bite my butt!!!
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The topics/products that they are using must be effective because they keep the spammers in business. It's horrible, but since these spammers are in business, a LOT of people must be falling for them.
Old way of business = profit. New way of business = ???
New way of business...
1. Steal/Take other company's idea
2. Develop free version of it
3. ?????
4. Profit!
Has the shift in corporate america really occurred or are activities like the profitability of Red Hat signalling that the CEO's are still holding on to the old way of business?
Not until we have a half decent OSS office suite. Something lean, functional, and efficient. Other functional systems aren't available yet either--at my corporation, we have yet to find anything F/OSS that can come close to doing what MS Exchange does. Until then...
1. IE rises from the dead: After insisting that Internet Explorer was an inextricable part of Windows, Microsoft abruptly changed course and decided to develop and deliver a new standalone version of its browser, after all. Nothing like a little competition to open new doors (and windows).
Doesn't look like much of a surprise to me. If they're going to want to compete with Google with their Web-based Office products, they're going to want to have a semi-proprietary (and predictable since they own and develop it!) platform on which to work on their competitive edge: IE.