So what? I can now give assent to a contract over the net. But how we can keep others from 'forging' our signature on these new binding declarations is another issue entirely, and is the one we should be asking ourselves.
How can we keep ourselves safe in a time where all but the beefiest encryption schemes are crackable on commodity machines and any determined script kiddy can clone a magstripe?
I don't think there really is a contract. From what I have read, it sounds a lot like Postel and his cronies just rang up some low-level official and a couple of hacks in each initial country and said 'We've got a TLD for you. What abbreviation would you like??'.
If I had just recieved a bill for $1 million USD from a company I had no contract with and no agreed pricing scheme, I'd sure as hell do the same.
ICANN will get their money once they offer up some sort of pricing scheme, and the nations have offered enough to let ICANN meet the budget, so it's not a 'I hate you and I'm not paying'.
What is interesting is the idea that they may want soverign control of their domains. While it does allow a country to do what it wishs with said domain, all it would take is one small whacko nation going for it to screw it up..
A standard getty and a HP term emulator will work great if you need an extensive set of stuff to be run, and you are on a 'secure' system. If you don't care about security on the box, and only need a couple of commands run, there is a getty out there called rungetty that can run other programs instead of login; All you'd need is to 'fake' a serial connection to have it run said program. (I keep one running on a spare serial port that runs reboot; All I needed was a momentary toggle to complete it)
$2,390 for a 4/5 diskless cluster of Celery 500/533 done right.
Go with scrap cases, a crossover cable, used Boomerang cards in a hypercube, cheapo DFI mobos and a smaller SCSI drive and you can get out the door for $1,800. Go for offbrand memory and O/C Celery and you can push it down another $150.
Sorry, I was assuming NO concession stand. A concession stand would obviate the need for Burger King; It is more profitable to expand the meager fare offered by the concession stand than to allow non-exclusive competition, even at outrageous real-estate prices like that! Besides, I carry whatever I want into a movie, don't you? Or has the art of social engineering died? I went to see one last week carrying a 32 oz Styrofoam cup full of coffee. When stopped by the desk lackey, wanting to know what was in the cup, I told him coffee. He told me that they served drinks, and no outside drinks were allowed. "Until you can serve me something Vegan, I will carry whatever I like, thank you." I demanded the manager. It was dropped right there. I am not, nor have I ever been, a Vegan. I wanted coffee, damnit, and I was not about to take no (or 'How about some watered down Coke?') for an answer.
I just don't see it that way. I see this agreement as akin to the movie theatre leasing lobby space at $100/square foot to Burger King, who previously was renting $20/square foot space at the same distance away as McDonalds.
How long will it be before the movie theatre denies entry to people carrying McDonalds in an effort to ensure that they can keep raping the Burger King for rent?
Although I know AOL does this, I don't consider AOL an ISP. They are a dialup content provider, and the only reason they have ever offered access to competitor and non-partner content is because their clueless users would bitch. 'But my freind has that cool Altavista thing on his AOL!!', the same reason they started to offer AOL users outbound connects at all..
Yeah, they kind of lumped onto the bandwagon when it became clear that AT&T, etc, were not about to just give them the same sweetheart deal twice. After all, if you can't have it to yourself you'de better make sure your competition can't either.
A peering agreement says "I got a lot of traffic going your way, you got a lot coming mine. Let's put a pipe between so we can pay the middleman less for a smaller pipe."
This says "I got a lot of users. If you wanna look good to all my users, I'll sell you fat pipe right in. I'm gonna make money hand over fist cuz I can keep making you pay for your pipe, and I can keep cutting the other pipe and paying less."
In a few years, this will say "What?? Altavistas slow?? Yeah, you hafta load them over the cache on the skinny pipe to the Real World. Excite's plenty fast and you better switch soon, 'cuz that pipe's provided as a courtesy to some of our users, and we may not keep it around forever."
I'm reasonably sure our esteemed/. has mistaken the joke. Please, someone back me up on this. While Metallica has shown themselves to be stupid enough to pull a stunt like that, Napster...
Wait.. There are lawyers in this.. Goddamnit, you think people who went to school for a bajillion years would need at least half a brain.. But nooo.. Once you bring in the Armani-wearing sharks, everybody has to flush their brain cells and their common sense..
I'd start with a [x]-camera setup connected to a multiplexer. It's a normal bit of security hardware that condenses [x]-num of video streams into one. Sample with a well-supported TV-card on 1 sec intervals. Jpeg will gime you a few hundred megs a day, but you can condense it greatly based on the input from thermal motion detectors. Most will supply you with a relay connection, you can chain those for a global motion flag. You will be taking a global picture (thanks to the multiplexer). That gets you down to a hundred megs or less in a 9 hour work day. You can either off load them for archival as jpegs, or you can have the server do (some of) the work. Run a mpeg batch compression once a day, or if you're paranoid combine the approaches and offload 'real-time' images AND a daily movie.
Sound is the same ball of wax, except that you could prolly real-time compress. Record the noise[s], add a breif timestamp with Festival, and compress to mono MP3. There's no real way of combining audio streams, but [x]-num low-bitrate mono streams based on motion shouldn't be so bad.
Both their push for 'open-access' and 'pay-us-for-routing' are nothing more than trying to protect their bottom line. Their contract with several of the cable providers is up soon, and there is little incentive to go with them again.
This smells rather funny though. No ISP has tried this in the past, so there must be a rather good reason. I'm guessing everyone is afraid when the 'competition' starts screaming to Congress, Congress will hand down far more 'Thou shalt nots' than are needed to rectify the situation. Congress has shown historically that it not like this sort of thing amongst the telephony and satelite data providers; Why should it like it when e@h does it?
The result? e@h makes a quick buck, and those that paid for 5 years of 'special' routing are going to lose it in a round of regulation.. e@h and the honest ISPs alike are going to have to deal with additional regulation laden on by every SIG waiting for the first ISP regulation test bill to show it's face..
There used to be a project for a Unix runtime environment for VB. It never quite got past the early stages, but even the early snaps were good enough to interpret uncompiled scripts..
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This is not a Gnutella issue. It's a weakness in Windows, one that has been exploited time and time again via email. This 'trojan' just happens to propogate via Gnutella.
Oh, yeah. Kudos to the author. Novel delivery mechanism! Better than ILUVYOU and it's attempt to spread via IRC!
I'm sorry, but this is just one more example of how [l]users make viruses possible. A Visual Basic script virus that needs to be activly run? Sheesh, I'd run it through a scanner and have a look at it before I ran it; Most sane people would! Even if they didn't know what they were looking for, I'm sure they'd recognise evil intent!
But all you hear is "nasty virus writers" from the mass-media, when it's stupid, stupid users to blame.. Reminds me of a lawsuit that started in a local BBS message board back in '87. Someone posted, in jest, that format c: would fix a particular problem. Two lusers tried it, formatted their drives, and promptly retained lawyers because they thought they could sue someone else for their own stupidity. Judge tossed it out, thank God.
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I was hoping for something a little more earth-shatteringly philosophical, or perhaps some insight into the actual dev stages; I know of a dozen MS employees who post here, and at least one worked on the last gen of Visual [stuff].
I'm a former VB/VC++ drone, [it paid the bills] so I'm rather familiar with it in practical use..
Hunh.. Odd.. I think I had a 3; Said something stupid about it and got the obligational +'s..
Then again, I can't seem to find that post, so perhaps I'm mistaken...
Perhaps he snagged the first X-num manually. news.com doesn't pay by clickthru, etc, so an additional audience would make zero sense in the terms of spamming.. The crowd you get here now consists of only the die hards, so they poseted as well [assumption] and someone would have seen the 'spam'..
I posted to the same discussion, and my email was, to the best of my knowledge not spamproofed at the time.. No special email, etc..
He's indoubatibly a/. reader that prolly agreed with you implicitly and felt like pointing you to a [mainstream] news article that shared your viewpoint.. It's a nice thing, not EVIL SPAM.
I own one. (Not from this compamy; A decade older, secondhand from a buddy that need the money, much less expensive)
They're knives, tools. Why anyone would want one at these [assumed] prices is beyond me. I haven't even taken mine out of the Lucite case, because the manufacturer assured me that in order to maintain a high concentration of 'extra-terrestrial' material they needed to make serious comprimises on the usefulness of the implement. Soft, easily dulled, terribly malleable and often in-the-box magnetic [as is mine].
We're all proletarian; Buy yourself a nice Gerber Gatorback or a Leatherman and laugh at any fool who would buy one. The Case C10 is VERY nice, if you can find one. I've carried three, but the price on antique knives is escalating so I've switched to said Gerber.
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So what? I can now give assent to a contract over the net. But how we can keep others from 'forging' our signature on these new binding declarations is another issue entirely, and is the one we should be asking ourselves.
How can we keep ourselves safe in a time where all but the beefiest encryption schemes are crackable on commodity machines and any determined script kiddy can clone a magstripe?
An arrangement for any of their mainframe OS's can easily run you much more than $100K..
They're saying 'We get to keep most of your money'.
I don't think there really is a contract. From what I have read, it sounds a lot like Postel and his cronies just rang up some low-level official and a couple of hacks in each initial country and said 'We've got a TLD for you. What abbreviation would you like??'.
If I had just recieved a bill for $1 million USD from a company I had no contract with and no agreed pricing scheme, I'd sure as hell do the same.
ICANN will get their money once they offer up some sort of pricing scheme, and the nations have offered enough to let ICANN meet the budget, so it's not a 'I hate you and I'm not paying'.
What is interesting is the idea that they may want soverign control of their domains. While it does allow a country to do what it wishs with said domain, all it would take is one small whacko nation going for it to screw it up..
A standard getty and a HP term emulator will work great if you need an extensive set of stuff to be run, and you are on a 'secure' system. If you don't care about security on the box, and only need a couple of commands run, there is a getty out there called rungetty that can run other programs instead of login; All you'd need is to 'fake' a serial connection to have it run said program. (I keep one running on a spare serial port that runs reboot; All I needed was a momentary toggle to complete it)
Hmmm..
$2,390 for a 4/5 diskless cluster of Celery 500/533 done right.
Go with scrap cases, a crossover cable, used Boomerang cards in a hypercube, cheapo DFI mobos and a smaller SCSI drive and you can get out the door for $1,800. Go for offbrand memory and O/C Celery and you can push it down another $150.
If we are comparing this to Meat Space, it's not a forged letter. It's some schmuck sending chain letters in stolen IBM envelopes.
Sorry, I was assuming NO concession stand. A concession stand would obviate the need for Burger King; It is more profitable to expand the meager fare offered by the concession stand than to allow non-exclusive competition, even at outrageous real-estate prices like that! Besides, I carry whatever I want into a movie, don't you? Or has the art of social engineering died? I went to see one last week carrying a 32 oz Styrofoam cup full of coffee. When stopped by the desk lackey, wanting to know what was in the cup, I told him coffee. He told me that they served drinks, and no outside drinks were allowed. "Until you can serve me something Vegan, I will carry whatever I like, thank you." I demanded the manager. It was dropped right there. I am not, nor have I ever been, a Vegan. I wanted coffee, damnit, and I was not about to take no (or 'How about some watered down Coke?') for an answer.
I just don't see it that way. I see this agreement as akin to the movie theatre leasing lobby space at $100/square foot to Burger King, who previously was renting $20/square foot space at the same distance away as McDonalds.
How long will it be before the movie theatre denies entry to people carrying McDonalds in an effort to ensure that they can keep raping the Burger King for rent?
Although I know AOL does this, I don't consider AOL an ISP. They are a dialup content provider, and the only reason they have ever offered access to competitor and non-partner content is because their clueless users would bitch. 'But my freind has that cool Altavista thing on his AOL!!', the same reason they started to offer AOL users outbound connects at all..
Yeah, they kind of lumped onto the bandwagon when it became clear that AT&T, etc, were not about to just give them the same sweetheart deal twice. After all, if you can't have it to yourself you'de better make sure your competition can't either.
Cool! They're even giving the proceeds to charity..
Hey Dr Dre! You get almost four bucks a pop profit from the hats! Sell ten thousand and you'll make more money than another lackluster album!!
This is not per se a peering agreement.
A peering agreement says "I got a lot of traffic going your way, you got a lot coming mine. Let's put a pipe between so we can pay the middleman less for a smaller pipe."
This says "I got a lot of users. If you wanna look good to all my users, I'll sell you fat pipe right in. I'm gonna make money hand over fist cuz I can keep making you pay for your pipe, and I can keep cutting the other pipe and paying less."
In a few years, this will say "What?? Altavistas slow?? Yeah, you hafta load them over the cache on the skinny pipe to the Real World. Excite's plenty fast and you better switch soon, 'cuz that pipe's provided as a courtesy to some of our users, and we may not keep it around forever."
I'm reasonably sure our esteemed /. has mistaken the joke. Please, someone back me up on this. While Metallica has shown themselves to be stupid enough to pull a stunt like that, Napster...
Wait.. There are lawyers in this.. Goddamnit, you think people who went to school for a bajillion years would need at least half a brain.. But nooo.. Once you bring in the Armani-wearing sharks, everybody has to flush their brain cells and their common sense..
I'd start with a [x]-camera setup connected to a multiplexer. It's a normal bit of security hardware that condenses [x]-num of video streams into one. Sample with a well-supported TV-card on 1 sec intervals. Jpeg will gime you a few hundred megs a day, but you can condense it greatly based on the input from thermal motion detectors. Most will supply you with a relay connection, you can chain those for a global motion flag. You will be taking a global picture (thanks to the multiplexer). That gets you down to a hundred megs or less in a 9 hour work day. You can either off load them for archival as jpegs, or you can have the server do (some of) the work. Run a mpeg batch compression once a day, or if you're paranoid combine the approaches and offload 'real-time' images AND a daily movie.
Sound is the same ball of wax, except that you could prolly real-time compress. Record the noise[s], add a breif timestamp with Festival, and compress to mono MP3. There's no real way of combining audio streams, but [x]-num low-bitrate mono streams based on motion shouldn't be so bad.
Both their push for 'open-access' and 'pay-us-for-routing' are nothing more than trying to protect their bottom line. Their contract with several of the cable providers is up soon, and there is little incentive to go with them again.
This smells rather funny though. No ISP has tried this in the past, so there must be a rather good reason. I'm guessing everyone is afraid when the 'competition' starts screaming to Congress, Congress will hand down far more 'Thou shalt nots' than are needed to rectify the situation.
Congress has shown historically that it not like this sort of thing amongst the telephony and satelite data providers; Why should it like it when e@h does it?
The result? e@h makes a quick buck, and those that paid for 5 years of 'special' routing are going to lose it in a round of regulation.. e@h and the honest ISPs alike are going to have to deal with additional regulation laden on by every SIG waiting for the first ISP regulation test bill to show it's face..
There used to be a project for a Unix runtime environment for VB. It never quite got past the early stages, but even the early snaps were good enough to interpret uncompiled scripts..
This is not a Gnutella issue. It's a weakness in Windows, one that has been exploited time and time again via email. This 'trojan' just happens to propogate via Gnutella.
Oh, yeah. Kudos to the author. Novel delivery mechanism! Better than ILUVYOU and it's attempt to spread via IRC!
I'm sorry, but this is just one more example of how [l]users make viruses possible. A Visual Basic script virus that needs to be activly run? Sheesh, I'd run it through a scanner and have a look at it before I ran it; Most sane people would! Even if they didn't know what they were looking for, I'm sure they'd recognise evil intent!
But all you hear is "nasty virus writers" from the mass-media, when it's stupid, stupid users to blame.. Reminds me of a lawsuit that started in a local BBS message board back in '87. Someone posted, in jest, that format c: would fix a particular problem. Two lusers tried it, formatted their drives, and promptly retained lawyers because they thought they could sue someone else for their own stupidity. Judge tossed it out, thank God.
I was hoping for something a little more earth-shatteringly philosophical, or perhaps some insight into the actual dev stages; I know of a dozen MS employees who post here, and at least one worked on the last gen of Visual [stuff].
I'm a former VB/VC++ drone, [it paid the bills] so I'm rather familiar with it in practical use..
Bah. MCSE carry Phillips..
Buth the drop-point GATOR and the C10 have a tapered blade that works perfectly for everything from a T-15 Torx to the tiniest Phillips..
What real geek needs Phillips when they can hack something else into the job, right??
Hunh.. Odd.. I think I had a 3; Said something stupid about it and got the obligational +'s..
Then again, I can't seem to find that post, so perhaps I'm mistaken...
Perhaps he snagged the first X-num manually. news.com doesn't pay by clickthru, etc, so an additional audience would make zero sense in the terms of spamming.. The crowd you get here now consists of only the die hards, so they poseted as well [assumption] and someone would have seen the 'spam'..
Like I said, prolly just a decent 'netizen'.
Slap me. I just used a Marketdroidism..
Don't drop it either.. I dropped one (Early dull finish) and watched it shatter...
I posted to the same discussion, and my email was, to the best of my knowledge not spamproofed at the time.. No special email, etc..
/. reader that prolly agreed with you implicitly and felt like pointing you to a [mainstream] news article that shared your viewpoint.. It's a nice thing, not EVIL SPAM.
He's indoubatibly a
Having seen my terribly weak osm/portman Star Trek suggestion come to life as perfection is better than I imagined..
Great work!! ROFL, LMAO, etc.. Kick ass, and I ain't even been drinkin'...
I own one. (Not from this compamy; A decade older, secondhand from a buddy that need the money, much less expensive)
They're knives, tools. Why anyone would want one at these [assumed] prices is beyond me. I haven't even taken mine out of the Lucite case, because the manufacturer assured me that in order to maintain a high concentration of 'extra-terrestrial' material they needed to make serious comprimises on the usefulness of the implement. Soft, easily dulled, terribly malleable and often in-the-box magnetic [as is mine].
We're all proletarian; Buy yourself a nice Gerber Gatorback or a Leatherman and laugh at any fool who would buy one. The Case C10 is VERY nice, if you can find one. I've carried three, but the price on antique knives is escalating so I've switched to said Gerber.