Indeed! People forget that many of the Silent Movies Western Stars such as Tom Mix came to Hollywood straight off the prairie. This was a time when Pat Garrett (of Billy the Kid Fame), Bat Masterson, and many other Wild West "names" were still alive and were being featured in the "penny dreadfuls" as the pulp novels of that day were called. Hollywood was a pure rip-off of the Edison studios in New York. The California politicans, knowing a good thing when it shows up in their pocket (See how times change?), passed the best laws money could buy, and Ala Kazam!! Hollywood is legit.
So, the Music and Movie Pirates should be nice and not try to steal from these good, kind, decent honorable folks. Yeah right!
the IP? Heck, doesn't SCO also own the old Novell IPX protocol?
Looks to me like this is a opertunity to machine OWN Networking compleatly
Heck when Microsoft is done, all Open Source will be left to work with is the old TOPS network or Banyan VINES....
Well....there is always Appletalk.......
A Fine, Fee, Levy, Tariff is collected from a company/ person/ organization because "aggrieved party du juour" is not getting their just dues. "Yeah! we need to sock it to _____ (fill blank) for being a dirty so-and-so!" screams the peepul. Question: Who gets the money? Where do the actual monies collected by the fine/fee/levy/tariff... Go?
Answer: Into the same black hole all monies tainted by the hand of government goes: Away...
"Taxes are never levied for the benifit of the taxed"
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In my mixed platform (PC Mac, and more) network with PCMacLAN loaded, and Appletalk turned on for the PCs, I have found accessing a share and copying files to be far faster using that ancient protocol, even from Windows to Windows.
The one hoped for result of the Microsoft suit was achieved so the feds will have little interest these days. The hoped for result? Opening the Redmond money belt for "contributions" to political funds of course!
Indeed. Seems to me that if this only applies to High Quality TV then, given the current status of the art, there is nothing to block. I stopped watching TV over a decade ago. Only High Quality on TV any more is the drug ads.
If only the proper legislation had been in place before "Ugh! Mog invent wheel!". We could have completely avoided the greatest threat to western civilization: Parking Meters!
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Does anyone here remember the days of the Apple II, Copy protected 5.25 floppy disks, and all the various hardware and software tools developed to circumvent this silliness? Rememeber magazines like "The Computist" with articles describing how to sector edit?
The (still) valid discussion that took place back then was: "I did not purchase the physical media, I licensed the software, and that license explicitly allows for backups". 20 years later and we are now attempting to make the equivelent of the COPYCAT Board, or the Central Point Options Card illegal. In other words: "Here we go again!"
I seem to rememeber from history class that way back in the Middle ages the Church had a lock-down on clerks and copyists till this feller named Gutenberg came along.
Some simple questions: Will it be capped? If so, can I uncap? If it is on a Ham Freq. How about I build a tranceiver that does inductive coupling to the power line and just bleed off your bandwidth? Look Ma! no wires! Also, what of encryption? Cable isn't secure now. Am I to somehow believe that MY datastream magically ends at the breaker box and YOUR data stream and mine are discreet? As Wheatstone said: "We will cross that bridge"...
5 pens in a holder? All the guys in the computer room circa 1975 had that, plus the HP calculator holster on the belt. Does this mean I must re-learn Reverse Polish Notation?
There is a comedy routine put out by a fellow named "Wes" from the group "Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie" (No I am NOT kiding, that IS their name!) called "Internet Help Desk". FUNNY! and it says about the same thing this article does. Several sites for it are out there so I won't post a single one to get slash dotted. You can Google for it. If you have difficulties with that, Please call the Help Desk.
Black Hat gets on plane with faked ID and iris scan; knows the airport screener in Frankfurt is better then the one he left behind in Cyprus. Quick trip to the WC past the harried and underpaid seward, a quickly passed 500 Euro and.... Graft corruption, bribery greed these are the same as they always have been. All these security checks do is placate the cattle. The wolves still feast on the fringes of the herd and occasionally attack the middle. Menwhile, the sheepherd gently leads the rest of us towards the slaughterhouse...
I recall that back in the early 1990s there were many schools that specialized in technical training for those with non-mainstream cultures. An Example: A particular school opened up in Shiprock Arizona teaching all sorts of tech skills to the Navajos: "just sign here and we gaurantee to take all your money and what's more you will also get a free lifetime of debt!" As soon as the loan guarantees were signed and the monies delivered, the school closed up shop and moved on. This was something of a local scandal back then, but I think it was repeated in basic form throughout the country with other local populations. This latest schooling blight is just another form of the same. As long as the lure of student loan money is there, the shysters will come.
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Sturgeon's Law as in Theodore Sturgeon, author and editor of Sci Fi of "The Golden Age" and the period just after that, said it best when staring at the Slush pile (the unsolisited manuscripts) on his desk:
"90% of everything is Crud!"
Win 98 never was designed to be a secure network operating system. It is designed to be an easy to use, User friendly (har har) way of accessing your files and play games (he says looking at a shelf load of now no longer compatable way cool older games like Doom, Heretic, Wolf 3D, etc).
One point I found hilarious was back when Sobig and its kin was flaring as a note on the M$ site. This wee epistle said that since the effected systems included NT, WIN2K, XP and did NOT include 3.1, 95, 98 and ME (and I will paraphrase here, no need to incure Bill's ire by quoting): "While Windows 98 is not effected by this attack we strongly encorage you to upgrade". Huh? The wording of that seemd to say: "Please buy our new POS and DO get hosed instead of staying with our OLD POS and NOT getting hosed". M$ WANTS me to be attacked?
I love my windows... I love my windows... I love my windows...
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Indeed! People forget that many of the Silent Movies Western Stars such as Tom Mix came to Hollywood straight off the prairie. This was a time when Pat Garrett (of Billy the Kid Fame), Bat Masterson, and many other Wild West "names" were still alive and were being featured in the "penny dreadfuls" as the pulp novels of that day were called. Hollywood was a pure rip-off of the Edison studios in New York. The California politicans, knowing a good thing when it shows up in their pocket (See how times change?), passed the best laws money could buy, and Ala Kazam!! Hollywood is legit. So, the Music and Movie Pirates should be nice and not try to steal from these good, kind, decent honorable folks. Yeah right!
the IP? Heck, doesn't SCO also own the old Novell IPX protocol? Looks to me like this is a opertunity to machine OWN Networking compleatly Heck when Microsoft is done, all Open Source will be left to work with is the old TOPS network or Banyan VINES.... Well....there is always Appletalk.......
All right I know I'm in here! If I don't come out with my hands up....I'M COMMING IN TO GET ME!!!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. I am constantly amazed at how really smart people can, and do repeatedly, act so so dumb.
A Fine, Fee, Levy, Tariff is collected from a company/ person/ organization because "aggrieved party du juour" is not getting their just dues. "Yeah! we need to sock it to _____ (fill blank) for being a dirty so-and-so!" screams the peepul. Question: Who gets the money? Where do the actual monies collected by the fine/fee/levy/tariff... Go? Answer: Into the same black hole all monies tainted by the hand of government goes: Away... "Taxes are never levied for the benifit of the taxed"
In my mixed platform (PC Mac, and more) network with PCMacLAN loaded, and Appletalk turned on for the PCs, I have found accessing a share and copying files to be far faster using that ancient protocol, even from Windows to Windows.
The one hoped for result of the Microsoft suit was achieved so the feds will have little interest these days. The hoped for result? Opening the Redmond money belt for "contributions" to political funds of course!
Gives a whole new meaning to the expression "Hands Free"...
Indeed. Seems to me that if this only applies to High Quality TV then, given the current status of the art, there is nothing to block. I stopped watching TV over a decade ago. Only High Quality on TV any more is the drug ads.
Oh so THAT is what all those letters were that my Mac's junk filter dumped. I assumed they were all offical Microsoft advertisements...
Bean counters do not a product make, nor a market make happy. Just ask Mike Eisner about that this very day...
Still lighter then my still functional Osborne 1
If only the proper legislation had been in place before "Ugh! Mog invent wheel!". We could have completely avoided the greatest threat to western civilization: Parking Meters!
Does anyone here remember the days of the Apple II, Copy protected 5.25 floppy disks, and all the various hardware and software tools developed to circumvent this silliness? Rememeber magazines like "The Computist" with articles describing how to sector edit? The (still) valid discussion that took place back then was: "I did not purchase the physical media, I licensed the software, and that license explicitly allows for backups". 20 years later and we are now attempting to make the equivelent of the COPYCAT Board, or the Central Point Options Card illegal. In other words: "Here we go again!" I seem to rememeber from history class that way back in the Middle ages the Church had a lock-down on clerks and copyists till this feller named Gutenberg came along.
I think its a GOOD thing Microsoft makes Operating Systems. It keeps their minds off trying to build airplanes.....
Actually... Wasn't he the guy in the posh designer khaki outfit one step back and to the left of the Iraqi Information Minister?
So much energy out there that your tinfoil beanie becomes the ultimate in Blue-Light Specials!
Some simple questions: Will it be capped? If so, can I uncap? If it is on a Ham Freq. How about I build a tranceiver that does inductive coupling to the power line and just bleed off your bandwidth? Look Ma! no wires! Also, what of encryption? Cable isn't secure now. Am I to somehow believe that MY datastream magically ends at the breaker box and YOUR data stream and mine are discreet? As Wheatstone said: "We will cross that bridge"...
5 pens in a holder? All the guys in the computer room circa 1975 had that, plus the HP calculator holster on the belt. Does this mean I must re-learn Reverse Polish Notation?
There is a comedy routine put out by a fellow named "Wes" from the group "Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie" (No I am NOT kiding, that IS their name!) called "Internet Help Desk". FUNNY! and it says about the same thing this article does. Several sites for it are out there so I won't post a single one to get slash dotted. You can Google for it. If you have difficulties with that, Please call the Help Desk.
Black Hat gets on plane with faked ID and iris scan; knows the airport screener in Frankfurt is better then the one he left behind in Cyprus. Quick trip to the WC past the harried and underpaid seward, a quickly passed 500 Euro and.... Graft corruption, bribery greed these are the same as they always have been. All these security checks do is placate the cattle. The wolves still feast on the fringes of the herd and occasionally attack the middle. Menwhile, the sheepherd gently leads the rest of us towards the slaughterhouse...
I recall that back in the early 1990s there were many schools that specialized in technical training for those with non-mainstream cultures. An Example: A particular school opened up in Shiprock Arizona teaching all sorts of tech skills to the Navajos: "just sign here and we gaurantee to take all your money and what's more you will also get a free lifetime of debt!" As soon as the loan guarantees were signed and the monies delivered, the school closed up shop and moved on. This was something of a local scandal back then, but I think it was repeated in basic form throughout the country with other local populations. This latest schooling blight is just another form of the same. As long as the lure of student loan money is there, the shysters will come.
Sturgeon's Law as in Theodore Sturgeon, author and editor of Sci Fi of "The Golden Age" and the period just after that, said it best when staring at the Slush pile (the unsolisited manuscripts) on his desk: "90% of everything is Crud!"
Win 98 never was designed to be a secure network operating system. It is designed to be an easy to use, User friendly (har har) way of accessing your files and play games (he says looking at a shelf load of now no longer compatable way cool older games like Doom, Heretic, Wolf 3D, etc). One point I found hilarious was back when Sobig and its kin was flaring as a note on the M$ site. This wee epistle said that since the effected systems included NT, WIN2K, XP and did NOT include 3.1, 95, 98 and ME (and I will paraphrase here, no need to incure Bill's ire by quoting): "While Windows 98 is not effected by this attack we strongly encorage you to upgrade". Huh? The wording of that seemd to say: "Please buy our new POS and DO get hosed instead of staying with our OLD POS and NOT getting hosed". M$ WANTS me to be attacked? I love my windows... I love my windows... I love my windows...
Bad Breath? since when is the smell of recently consumed curry a problem?