Actually this IS a research project! For years scientists have pushed poor mice through mazes with little to show (for the mouse), but some cheese and confusion. Here we shoot MP3's down a digital pipe and log the time it takes for "Weasels In Suits" (tm) to come sniffing for money. The abstract for the eventual paper resulting from this might finally explain some of the more perplexing issues surrounding weasel in suits behavior... The paper could have graphs for such things as: "press conference exposure ratio". You could maybe do a full study on the number of times names are reused in Word documents ( W.I.S. are notorious for failing to clear mark-up changes in Word documents). I see doctoral thesis material written large all over this..
Tell ya what: You promise to not reveal trade secrets on your web site about my up coming products, and I will promise not to stream the vid of the interesting things you do with Zelda at the Do_Drop_Inn on Tuseday nights. Both bits of information are uniquely private, both can be recorded and archived without too much trouble these days, and neither is in the public interest or any one else's business. It really is that simple.
My anime files are from various online sources but not IRC...I did indeed get some from the "reputable" sites, others from various P2P sources, and some from a friend's ftp service, and where HE got them is unknown. The series I am mentioning here had www.wellknownanimefangroup.com listed in the credits so I am pretty darn sure it is a real fan-sub.. Seeing that same credit on the "commercial" DVD was what made me disgusted.
Also, speaking as a formerly published, commercial musician, in order to get my stuff published back in the day, I needed to sign a "contract" that basically said I would not have personal rights to anything including my name as long as I was worth something..
Even though that was over two decades ago I am sure that were I to suddenly experience fame today, Weasels in Suits Lawyers) would be stopping by to try and take it from me.
The whole copyright issue from start to finish is a joke, a fraud and a lie.
I am in the States but this brings to mind a recent incident: My son and I are fans of anime. There is one series we both enjoy that so far has only been available in the US in the form of "pirate" "fan-subs". For those not familiar with the Anime world, a fan-sub is a fan created, subtitled version of the anime. These were done strictly for fans and as the banner across the credits says: "NOT FOR COMMERCIAL RESALE". For this particular series we were always missing episode three. Well, the other day we were in a Sam Goodies store in the local mall and there it was. The whole series was now on DVD! I was happy it was out on a commercial release, and plunked down my money for DVD copies of episodes 1 through 4 including my long looked for #3! Get home, rip off shrink-wrap and the anti-theft device (don't you hate those things?) and what do I see but.....THE FAN SUB! only one difference from the "pirate" version: Someone had carefully removed the NOT FOR COMMERCIAL RELEASE banner. So now my choices is as clear as muddy water, and I am sure this applies to music as well as movies: I can do the moral thing and bye the commercial release of a pirate release of a pirate release of a commercial release or I can.....now wait a minute....
As with all issues in current human endeavor, this one must be decided by the W.I.S* only W.I.S. has the insight, only W.I.S. has the power, and only W.I.S. can truly decide our future.
* W.I.S. -acronym denoting a lawyer. Weasels In Suits.
30 some years experience here (as long as we are comparing notes:) And you do what you can with what budget you have, as you probably know.
SP2 breaks the partially commercial, partially contract, and partially in-house developed Apps we use. I am sure we are not alone in this.
I was part of a study to see what would be required to insure a secure upgrade that was complaint with existing systems, on-going contracts, budgetary realities, statutory requirements, and down right grunt work of staff. The conclusion reached was that at the time, we just did not have the money or other resources to do that level of conversion. Battle plan so far has been to manually apply patches as needed using various apps (SMS and others) to push to workstations. In the mean time, all the various areas have groups working on converting systems, performing QA work, and testing testing testing. As I said: You do what you can. Microsoft's little carrot and all stick aproach is not, I believe, all that helpful.
My company is on SP1 because many of our proprietary and in-house developed apps will die on SP2. Since we are in business, and since our business is not being unpaid beta testers for some Redmond engineering firm, we stick with what works. I suppose we could drop every other current (and vital) project, devote our development resources to upgrading all packages, endure the changes, and swallow the lost business due to downtime, crashes, undocumented problems, known incompatibilities that M$ failed to reveal and such. Also the basic human frustration of "well I entered the account number like usual but instead of my normal response I got nnn" user calls...Tell me again exactly WHY I should do this?
I support a 1000 desktop business (not academic) shop and oh by the way: my home box is a G5....
It is all about control. USSR was great at this sort of thing, and yet, a quick trip with an Albanian smuggler could usually get you where you wanted to go and without all the trenchcoats and funny accents that went with Checkpoint Charlie.
America needs to learn a leason or two about freedom from Eastern Europeans...
May I see your Papers Please? - Tyranny, it isn't just for breakfast anymore
In related news, Hillary was last seen driving a moded Patriot throuh Sin City with 26 cop cars and 47 tanks in hot persuit. Don't let the Rasta dreadlocks fool ya, that really is Clinton
One honest citizen + two lawyers, indetermiennt number of law clerks, secretaries, and hangers-on, plus one judge = one broke citizen filing for Chappter 11 REGARDLESS OF THE DECISION.
I am sorry but this evidence against you entered into a court of law is kept in a propriatary format. Unless you and your lawyer purchase a(?) license to use the apropriate reader or datase system, we cannot allow you access to this information in that this would be in violation of our licensure.
I STILL use my Model 100! The battery life is- "all week and no problem", it is feather weight, and the keyboard is full sized. If you are working on a book, magazine article, or other text based work and do not need the distraction of email (now THAT is a distraction!), web, or other nonsense, it is just the ticket. The serial port is slow, but works great for transfering data to a modern machine. The current "do it all in a cell phone" aproach to computing seems to have missed one area: a simple, easy to use, light, text entry tool.
Agreed. I started buying Macs used (far cheaper) some years ago to do some specialized tasks. I learned a lot about the boxes while still using a Windows box as my primary computer. Soon I aquired a lot more Macs from people who had them stored away under the stairs or in the attic. I bought a book "Macweek Upgrading and Repairing Your Mac" by Lisa Lee (Excellent book on older Macs) and learned far more then is healthy about pre System 8.5 Apples.
Still though I was using Windows. Around 2002 I got a G4 dualie due to some fortuitous insurance money and started using OS X 10.2 more then just casually. Soon after this I was given some G3 Beige boxes, and aquired some clone Macs (Daystar, Power Computer etc) and upgraded a few to G3 and OS X via the XPostfacto hack. Still though, I was getting my email, writting letters and interneting mainly from a PC.
About two weeks ago I got a new G5 dual 1.8ghz running OS X 10.3.7. Sure it is new, sure it is interesting, but I have noted somethign that never happened before: Under my desk, tot he left of the G5 is a 2.8ghz P4 Compaq. A very nice basic workstation. What I have noted is: I have not even turned it on for at least a week.
"Indeed too bad", he said, pointing at the slidey, line thing on his slipstick that seems to be stuck in place... "Cursor's foiled again!"
and I SOOO wanted Linux on my iPod gen 1,...and XP on my Newton too..
Its OK,... thanks to the whole MS anti-trust thing, Microsoft now pays BUCKS in lobby fees. Fees they never used to pay. THAT was the plan all along, so in other words: its ok, Microsoft owns 1/2 of the Justice Department too.
This technique, if I am not mistaken, relies on timing, that is as he calls it "clock skews". This raises the question of what clock? Is this referenced to the system clock of the CPU of the machine? is this the timing on the chipset of the NIC? is this NIC specific? Does it work with a modem and dial up? Does this effect all TCP implementations or only the more common modern ones? To give an example: One can connect to the internet via TCP/IP using an Apple IIgs. This is accomplished using the Marinetti TCP/IP stackunder GS/OS 6.0.1 using the Apple Igs 65816 processor. Version 2 of the stack can work using either a modem and a dial up link, or the LANceGS Apple II NIC (or the rare Apple Apple II ethernet card). Version 3 includes the ability to connect using MacIP using a 68k based Macintosh running MacOS 7.5 as a router. In this case the TCP/IP link is translated to serial and therefore the only NIC involved is at the router. Next point: though the Marinetti stack requires the 16bit GS/OS 6.0.1 to operate, the LANceGS ethernet card can be addressed and modified via the included utilities in ProDOS (an 8 bit operating system) and can therefore be run on an Apple IIe. Why is this important? Well, given a TCP link is developed under ProDOS on an Apple IIe using this setup, consider the fact that an Apple IIe DOES NOT HAVE a System Clock. Timing is achieved strictly in software. This example is strictly in the Apple II hobbyist retro-computing world but, I am sure similar examples can be found in embedded systems, among the Commodore 64 aficionados, in CP/M based systems, and quite a number of other systems. . If you want to look any of this up please do, but I am not posting the links because my friends would kill me if they get slash dotted!
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Actually this IS a research project! For years scientists have pushed poor mice through mazes with little to show (for the mouse), but some cheese and confusion. Here we shoot MP3's down a digital pipe and log the time it takes for "Weasels In Suits" (tm) to come sniffing for money. The abstract for the eventual paper resulting from this might finally explain some of the more perplexing issues surrounding weasel in suits behavior... The paper could have graphs for such things as: "press conference exposure ratio". You could maybe do a full study on the number of times names are reused in Word documents ( W.I.S. are notorious for failing to clear mark-up changes in Word documents). I see doctoral thesis material written large all over this..
Tell ya what: You promise to not reveal trade secrets on your web site about my up coming products, and I will promise not to stream the vid of the interesting things you do with Zelda at the Do_Drop_Inn on Tuseday nights. Both bits of information are uniquely private, both can be recorded and archived without too much trouble these days, and neither is in the public interest or any one else's business. It really is that simple.
Rememeber an old TV show: "Nowhere Man"? More and more it seems like a better idea to live off the grid...
I totally agree. 9 years is a horrible sentence for spamming. We should be more caring more, sensitive, more in touch with our inner fetus....
-get a rope......
My anime files are from various online sources but not IRC...I did indeed get some from the "reputable" sites, others from various P2P sources, and some from a friend's ftp service, and where HE got them is unknown. The series I am mentioning here had www.wellknownanimefangroup.com listed in the credits so I am pretty darn sure it is a real fan-sub.. Seeing that same credit on the "commercial" DVD was what made me disgusted.
Also, speaking as a formerly published, commercial musician, in order to get my stuff published back in the day, I needed to sign a "contract" that basically said I would not have personal rights to anything including my name as long as I was worth something..
Even though that was over two decades ago I am sure that were I to suddenly experience fame today, Weasels in Suits Lawyers) would be stopping by to try and take it from me.
The whole copyright issue from start to finish is a joke, a fraud and a lie.
I am in the States but this brings to mind a recent incident: My son and I are fans of anime. There is one series we both enjoy that so far has only been available in the US in the form of "pirate" "fan-subs". For those not familiar with the Anime world, a fan-sub is a fan created, subtitled version of the anime. These were done strictly for fans and as the banner across the credits says: "NOT FOR COMMERCIAL RESALE". For this particular series we were always missing episode three. Well, the other day we were in a Sam Goodies store in the local mall and there it was. The whole series was now on DVD! I was happy it was out on a commercial release, and plunked down my money for DVD copies of episodes 1 through 4 including my long looked for #3! Get home, rip off shrink-wrap and the anti-theft device (don't you hate those things?) and what do I see but.....THE FAN SUB! only one difference from the "pirate" version: Someone had carefully removed the NOT FOR COMMERCIAL RELEASE banner. So now my choices is as clear as muddy water, and I am sure this applies to music as well as movies: I can do the moral thing and bye the commercial release of a pirate release of a pirate release of a commercial release or I can.....now wait a minute....
As with all issues in current human endeavor, this one must be decided by the W.I.S* only W.I.S. has the insight, only W.I.S. has the power, and only W.I.S. can truly decide our future.
* W.I.S. -acronym denoting a lawyer. Weasels In Suits.
30 some years experience here (as long as we are comparing notes :) And you do what you can with what budget you have, as you probably know.
SP2 breaks the partially commercial, partially contract, and partially in-house developed Apps we use. I am sure we are not alone in this.
I was part of a study to see what would be required to insure a secure upgrade that was complaint with existing systems, on-going contracts, budgetary realities, statutory requirements, and down right grunt work of staff. The conclusion reached was that at the time, we just did not have the money or other resources to do that level of conversion. Battle plan so far has been to manually apply patches as needed using various apps (SMS and others) to push to workstations. In the mean time, all the various areas have groups working on converting systems, performing QA work, and testing testing testing. As I said: You do what you can. Microsoft's little carrot and all stick aproach is not, I believe, all that helpful.
My company is on SP1 because many of our proprietary and in-house developed apps will die on SP2. Since we are in business, and since our business is not being unpaid beta testers for some Redmond engineering firm, we stick with what works. I suppose we could drop every other current (and vital) project, devote our development resources to upgrading all packages, endure the changes, and swallow the lost business due to downtime, crashes, undocumented problems, known incompatibilities that M$ failed to reveal and such. Also the basic human frustration of "well I entered the account number like usual but instead of my normal response I got nnn" user calls...Tell me again exactly WHY I should do this? I support a 1000 desktop business (not academic) shop and oh by the way: my home box is a G5....
It is all about control. USSR was great at this sort of thing, and yet, a quick trip with an Albanian smuggler could usually get you where you wanted to go and without all the trenchcoats and funny accents that went with Checkpoint Charlie. America needs to learn a leason or two about freedom from Eastern Europeans... May I see your Papers Please? - Tyranny, it isn't just for breakfast anymore
I lived in Dayton 20 some years ago. While being an improvement; nope, this just ain't good enough. I am NEVER going back!
You mean...the Dancing Monkey Boy...ISN'T President???
In related news, Hillary was last seen driving a moded Patriot throuh Sin City with 26 cop cars and 47 tanks in hot persuit. Don't let the Rasta dreadlocks fool ya, that really is Clinton
She was quoted as saying something about a "Vast Right Lane Conspiracy"....
One honest citizen + two lawyers, indetermiennt number of law clerks, secretaries, and hangers-on, plus one judge = one broke citizen filing for Chappter 11 REGARDLESS OF THE DECISION.
I am sorry but this evidence against you entered into a court of law is kept in a propriatary format. Unless you and your lawyer purchase a(?) license to use the apropriate reader or datase system, we cannot allow you access to this information in that this would be in violation of our licensure.
I STILL use my Model 100! The battery life is- "all week and no problem", it is feather weight, and the keyboard is full sized. If you are working on a book, magazine article, or other text based work and do not need the distraction of email (now THAT is a distraction!), web, or other nonsense, it is just the ticket. The serial port is slow, but works great for transfering data to a modern machine. The current "do it all in a cell phone" aproach to computing seems to have missed one area: a simple, easy to use, light, text entry tool.
Agreed. I started buying Macs used (far cheaper) some years ago to do some specialized tasks. I learned a lot about the boxes while still using a Windows box as my primary computer. Soon I aquired a lot more Macs from people who had them stored away under the stairs or in the attic. I bought a book "Macweek Upgrading and Repairing Your Mac" by Lisa Lee (Excellent book on older Macs) and learned far more then is healthy about pre System 8.5 Apples. Still though I was using Windows. Around 2002 I got a G4 dualie due to some fortuitous insurance money and started using OS X 10.2 more then just casually. Soon after this I was given some G3 Beige boxes, and aquired some clone Macs (Daystar, Power Computer etc) and upgraded a few to G3 and OS X via the XPostfacto hack. Still though, I was getting my email, writting letters and interneting mainly from a PC. About two weeks ago I got a new G5 dual 1.8ghz running OS X 10.3.7. Sure it is new, sure it is interesting, but I have noted somethign that never happened before: Under my desk, tot he left of the G5 is a 2.8ghz P4 Compaq. A very nice basic workstation. What I have noted is: I have not even turned it on for at least a week.
At one point Apple had close to 90% market share, but, that was with a far surperior machine: The Apple ][
With the new color iPods you can even display a Blue screen so Microsoft addicts can feel right at home....
Yeah, and besides.. Who is going to stream old episodes of the Beverly Hillbillies, the Donna Reed Show, or my personal favorite: "My Mother the Car"?
"Indeed too bad", he said, pointing at the slidey, line thing on his slipstick that seems to be stuck in place... "Cursor's foiled again!" and I SOOO wanted Linux on my iPod gen 1, ...and XP on my Newton too..
Its OK,... thanks to the whole MS anti-trust thing, Microsoft now pays BUCKS in lobby fees. Fees they never used to pay. THAT was the plan all along, so in other words: its ok, Microsoft owns 1/2 of the Justice Department too.
actually whe using Windows the word "cluster" has Always come to mind, but is usually followed by another word.
This technique, if I am not mistaken, relies on timing, that is as he calls it "clock skews". This raises the question of what clock? Is this referenced to the system clock of the CPU of the machine? is this the timing on the chipset of the NIC? is this NIC specific? Does it work with a modem and dial up? Does this effect all TCP implementations or only the more common modern ones?
To give an example: One can connect to the internet via TCP/IP using an Apple IIgs. This is accomplished using the Marinetti TCP/IP stackunder GS/OS 6.0.1 using the Apple Igs 65816 processor. Version 2 of the stack can work using either a modem and a dial up link, or the LANceGS Apple II NIC (or the rare Apple Apple II ethernet card). Version 3 includes the ability to connect using MacIP using a 68k based Macintosh running MacOS 7.5 as a router. In this case the TCP/IP link is translated to serial and therefore the only NIC involved is at the router. Next point: though the Marinetti stack requires the 16bit GS/OS 6.0.1 to operate, the LANceGS ethernet card can be addressed and modified via the included utilities in ProDOS (an 8 bit operating system) and can therefore be run on an Apple IIe. Why is this important? Well, given a TCP link is developed under ProDOS on an Apple IIe using this setup, consider the fact that an Apple IIe DOES NOT HAVE a System Clock. Timing is achieved strictly in software. This example is strictly in the Apple II hobbyist retro-computing world but, I am sure similar examples can be found in embedded systems, among the Commodore 64 aficionados, in CP/M based systems, and quite a number of other systems. . If you want to look any of this up please do, but I am not posting the links because my friends would kill me if they get slash dotted!