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  1. Re:APSL takes away rights on Apple Releases Rendezvous As Open Source · · Score: 2

    If Apple has the moral obligation to release code back, the OSS community has the moral obligation not to bitch about how they fulfill that obligation. They've adopted an OSI license, released a great deal of code and seem to be successfully profitable which means as time goes forward there will continue to be code released as they please. Now isn't the choice of when and how to release code properly the decision of the owner/creator?

  2. Re:Lose the buzzwords on IEEE1394-based Storage Area Network? · · Score: 2

    I thought CDMA was what caused most of the drop-off in efficiency. How are you going to stop that?

  3. Re:Lose the buzzwords on IEEE1394-based Storage Area Network? · · Score: 2

    I hadn't kept up with the 802.3ae working group. You're correct there. However on pricing, try $80k per port.

    Ugh!

    I would expect Firewire-2 to be somewhere in the sub $1 per port range. At that price differential, I would expect Firewire to win out for quite some time.

  4. Re:APSL takes away rights (minor nitpick) on Apple Releases Rendezvous As Open Source · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing the patents on that one were licensed to MS as part of their deal for cash/MS Office development. Nothing left for them to sue MS over but they retain rights for everybody else.

  5. Re:Lose the buzzwords on IEEE1394-based Storage Area Network? · · Score: 2

    Actually, Gigabit Ethernet should sustain something around 400Mbits/sec just like Firewire I. The difference is that next year we're still going to have Gigabit Ethernet but we're much more likely to have 800Mbits/sec sustained Firewire transfers. For some use cases, that's going to be a key feature.

  6. Re:Benefits?? on USDOI Goes 100% Microsoft · · Score: 2

    Group policies date back to at least NT 4 (and probably 3.5.1). I know I had to study them for my MCSE.

    The problem is that MS is so arrogant, so slapdash, and so powerful, that you just can't trust them. When a company spends an appreciable amount of effort at suppressing security flaw reports, it's time to find another company to rely on for your IT infrastructure.

  7. Re:why is this news? on USDOI Goes 100% Microsoft · · Score: 2

    But if they did it that way, Mac would be on the approved list of vendors (as you can get MS Office for the platform). Xserves, with their unlimited license capabilities, generally blow Windows solutions out of the water for file and print (which is a large proportion of what a govt. server does). Since it can fairly easily integrate into an Active Directory infrastructure there's no reason not to include them.

  8. Re:Overestimating the Average User on Being Wireless: Viral Telecommunications · · Score: 2

    cheap/simple only loses out to cheap/simple/better.

    Create a cheap sealed unit that can give you firewall and virus protection, wi-fi, and a one-fee managed service and you'll have the basis for lily pads everywhere. But I'd look for it from people who truly care about user experience, not the geek brigades who are actively user hostile.

  9. Re:Which Lily Pad should the Frog jump to ?? on Being Wireless: Viral Telecommunications · · Score: 2

    1. Frog A and B both have wired servers which they report to everytime they hop to a new pad. These could be servers at home or a text file on your X MB of space you get at Yahoo or AOL or Apple. You're only transmitting via SSH tunneled FTP your account, password, and the current IPv6 address so it shouldn't be too much overhead. If you already have a session open, you transmit an authentication token from your new lily pad directly to all your open sessions (1 per machine in case you have multiple sessions on).

    2. The lily pads themselves would likely know the most efficient pad to pad routes. There would be some sort of router that would handle the functionality.

  10. Re:This guy must be related to George Gilder.... on Being Wireless: Viral Telecommunications · · Score: 2

    That would be illegal. Eventually the govt. would come and shut you down.

  11. Re:Problems with 802.11 on Being Wireless: Viral Telecommunications · · Score: 2

    If I've got 25 users cost sharing with me, my costs are ~$1000/month ($900 for the T-1 and $100 for electricity/equipment repair/etc) which gets you a monthly cost per user of $40 for a better throughput than DSL at a lower cost. What's not to like about this? Sure, it's a pain to set up and there are extra equipment costs but you essentially get a free T-1 to your house! This can be further sold depending on the actual traffic useage on the line.

    Residential DSL can be purchased for $49.95 (directtv dsl) with the right to hook up 5 computers. You can split that off easily and sell each legitimate computer connection for $20, for which they get a nice NAT always on connection that's faster than dialup for the same price. You net $60 in profit/month. There, you now have a legitimate way to do this via DSL.

  12. Re:My thoughts... on Being Wireless: Viral Telecommunications · · Score: 2
  13. Re:Geek-friendly my a** on Firefly Premieres Tonight · · Score: 2

    Fox may be dumb but don't mistake it for ultraconservative. Murdoch goes into a country, looks for a niche and fills it in order to make money. The US, with its 85%+ Democrat newsmen made Murdoch properties head towards the right wing and it's been a financial winner. If you look at Murdoch outlets from other countries, you'll be surprised at how far left some of them go.

  14. Re:change the spec halfway through on Making Changes to an IT Business? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google came up with this as one of its hits for "change order" clause in the search field. It seems like a reasonable starting point.

  15. Re:Here's a few suggestions on Accurate OCR? · · Score: 3

    My guess is that creating a preferred publisher list made up of publishers willing to be "good corporate citizens" by helping with ADA reasonable accomodations might do the trick, especially if you made it a national list for all universities.

    Nobody wants to be viewed as being nasty to the disabled.

  16. Re:Good idea, but try getting people to go along on Should Open Source Content Management Interoperate? · · Score: 2

    Perhaps the solution is to gather a SWAT team of 2nd world programmers and organize a programming equivalent to this. An influx of 10 developers paid at Romania or Ukraine average wages is likely to be of sufficient mass to put through most interoperability changes. This also shouldn't piss off most people because interoperability isn't something that most people care about so if it's just added nicely and is easily maintainable, why not?

    So let's say you take a couple of months to work out a common, extensible standard that should fit all the extant projects, join each project, bolt that model onto the existing code so it works, and then move on to the next project. In a year you get through the main CMS efforts and can then move on to the next set of interoperability challenges.

    All it needs is funding ($400/month/programmer). A large 10 man SWAT team could be put together to solve this for under $50k.

  17. Re:Apple working on a CPU? Not likely... on Apple and IBM Working Together on 64-bit CPUs · · Score: 2

    You mean chip designers like these

    Or this

    Apple does do hardware, and they do have their own chip designers. They're just sensibly not interested in making their own CPU.

  18. Re:Will it have DRM built-in? on Apple and IBM Working Together on 64-bit CPUs · · Score: 2

    I would imagine that DRM is *not* going to end up mandated by law. We would end up having to wreck too much of the US economy to do so.

  19. Re:Could they use Ishikawa's former private ISP? on How The DMCA Is Enforced · · Score: 2

    He likely is.

    He was COO of Superbusiness Net, Inc. which got merged in with Infonent. The ARIN block for sbusiness.net has as its tech email noc@baytsp.com

    So there is some sort of relationship that is ongoing.

  20. Re:BayTSP breaking the DMCA? on How The DMCA Is Enforced · · Score: 2

    So if you use your fair use rights to take a bunch of copyrighted works to make a collage BayTSP's robots are going to kick your file as a multiple copyright violator.

    Oh gooood.

  21. Re:Where do I start? on How The DMCA Is Enforced · · Score: 2

    Who says he's out of the porn business?

    baytsp.com->baytsp.net->sbusiness.net->web1000.c om which redirects 404 traffic to porn adverts. I fished it out of the records and explained it higher in the thread.

  22. Re:Where do I start? on How The DMCA Is Enforced · · Score: 4, Informative

    OK, Baytsp.net (registered by the same Mark Ishikada) has 4 NS entries.

    Two of them are in an IP range owned by garageband.com and two of them are in a range owned by SuperBusiness NET, Inc., a Nevada corporation. The nameservers for SuperBusiness Net's ARIN range are... the identical ones for baytsp.net and the tech email is noc@baytsp.com.

    A google search for "SuperBusiness Net, Inc" yields a link to an ISP who claims credit for the sbusiness.net domain. The sbusiness.net whois record yields... the same Nevada PO Box as the superbusiness Net, Inc. IP range.

    The NS records for sbusiness.net point to web1000.com, a "free hosting service with no ads" that seems to have a strong presence in the porn serving arena.

    What, exactly, is the relationship between SuperBusiness Net, Inc. and web1000.com is unclear but they share phone numbers on their whois addresses, though their PO Boxes are different.

    So, boys and girls, what have we learned?

    Mike Ishikawa is running at least:
    BayTSP.com
    BayTSP.net
    SBusiness.net
    and is probably running
    web1000.com

    His BayTSP.net seems to be more substantial than his BayTSP.com presence but the web1000 infrastructure is truly massive and if, in fact, he runs that corporation, it's via there that he's likely running his scans.

  23. Re:Only probing the address he made public... on How The DMCA Is Enforced · · Score: 2

    Maybe somebody else noted it but I don't see it in the thread.

    Baytsp.com and baytsp.net are both registered by the same nic handle...

  24. Re:Step 1 to Solve Problem Company on How The DMCA Is Enforced · · Score: 2

    Actually it is illegal and generally viewed as the Post Office trying to cream its competition by putting onerous restrictions on them.

    Its a regulation that is generally ignored.

  25. Here's a few suggestions on Accurate OCR? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For longer texts, it might be worth it to call the publisher and ask if they have an electronic version available. Why reinvent the wheel if you don't have to?

    Another solution might be stretching your budget by doing your proof-reading offshore.