You most probably missed how I put "voluntary" in quotes. How hard is it to take a "voluntary" or a "non enforced" tax and make it madatory and enforced? Not as difficult as it is to implement a mandatory and enforced tax from scratch.
The french are saying that finding and publishing expolit code is illegal. If someone finds an exploit and does not publish it, and the exploit eventually gets out into the wild, who is ultimately responsible for the damages? Is it the hackers who wrote the code, the company for not finding and patching the vulnerability, the person who found and did not publish the exploit, or is it the french gov't for gross legal mismanagement?
I think Harvards reaction was quite appropriate. Just because they "can" do something, doesn't mean they should. For instance, I can walk out of my office with equipment and none would be the wiser, but I choose not to because it is illegal and unethical.
Ethics is sorely lacking in the business world, and I for one am quite pleased that 119 potential business persons have received their first practical lesson on ethics: "If its wrong, don't do it."
There is alot of work being done on creating 6502 based systems, and I'm sure that an especially industrious designer could emulate the entire Apple I in a single FGPA chip.
It helps that I work in telecommunications. Only regulations can force the ISPs to ensure a QoS which will make VoIP viable for 3rd party providers, and the lack of regulations is the one key component which makes VoIP so cheap when compared to the traditional phone companies. Its a catch 22, and this is why I'm not worried about watching the company I work for go bankrupt.
The smart ones throttle back the quality of the connection. Thanks to the bursty nature of the internet, they can get away with making the quality total shit for 3rd party VoIP providers, while allcocating the necessary bandwidth and priority to their own VoIP services.
By your logic, I guess Linux is a rip off and a slapdash clone of Minix. Does this mean that if anyone makes that assertion, that Professor Tannenbaum is going to sue for defamation?
Yes, because we all know that having someone talk on a cel phone while simultaneously scrolling through their playlist on a tiny electronic device is an inherently safe thing to do.
Now you can be rocking out to "I can't drive 55" while you are driving and chatting on your cel phone.
I wonder what other features they can stuff into a cel phone which could make it a more dangerous device to use while driving? DVD player? Dildo? Oh wait, a waterproof cel on vibrate can double as one.....
I predict that in a week, we'll be seeing articles about how they are stuffing mobile VoIP systems into pizza boxes with neon lights illuminating the insides.
OH COME ON. Report things which are relevant and unique, not 'omg its a wireless link that works at 80mph!'. Cel service works at speeds far faster than that (just ask anyone who used a cel phone on a plane before the ban).
And I've worked extensively with both NDS and then AD over the last 9 years. Does that make me more of an expert than you because I'm multifaceted instead of being a help desk support person for the largest AD install in the world? Big deal. I wasn't talking about the AD setup, I was talking about the feel of AD, and how MS implemented it. Next time, read.
Oh hey, its a flat domain security model with a tree view. Dude, AD is nothing more than a bloated upgrade to their NT4 security model with a few token ldap hooks. I'm being simplistic, but thats the feel I get from it every time I have to do any sort of administration.
what is the difference between intercepting and storing chat room conversations, and taking photos of him smooching his mistress? Neither are methods which the target has consented to.
You bought a used copy, therefore you are transferring ownership from one person or entity to another. This logic does not apply to a retail store, because the ownership is not being transferred as the auth key is unused.
A stupid analogy would be buying used milk. If you bought the milk used from someone other than grocery store and it expired prior to the "best before" date, it is not the groceries store or the milk producers responsibility for the bad milk.
The only thing I see here is that you are using biased reasoning to justify your disgust at a fundamentally flawed licensing scheme.
The first question you have to ask yourself is what you want to get out of the network. Do you want full roaming capabilities, or do you want localized points of presence in every greenhouse? Are you wanting to implement VoIP? Network aware control and monitoring systems?
If you are looking for a setup like what I had (points of presence in every greenhouse), all you need are some cheap(ish) base stations for the endpoints, and a kick ass 24dB omnidirectional antenna for the master base station at the head office. Build small networks at each pop and bango. If you want roaming in a few areas, throw in a small consumer wireless base stations and hook it up to the pop.
If, however, you are looking at using the network for business critical voice services or control and monitoring systems, then you had better look seriously at fiber (fiber ring preferably). You never know when some bird lays a massive shit on the antenna. Wireless is simply not as reliable as wired.
Thats nice, now lets see more than one manufacture producing Zigbee compliant components.
If you are in the manufacturing sector, you know darn well that you do not adopt ANYTHING until it is being made by at least 2 manufacturers. That way, you are not at the mercy of the chip maker in the event of a catastrophic failure, fab error, or manufacturer greed.
Back in 1993/4, I remember reading the data sheets from Texas Instruments about this cool new serial standard called "FireWire". How long did it take to gain widespread adoption? Several years. This is no different.
This is nothing but a smoke show until we start seeing some serious silicon being manufactured. Once they start pumping out single chip solutions for under $5.00USD in quantity, THEN it is something to be taken seriously. Until then, its nothing more than a potential pump 'n dump stock scam.
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Well, I guess we'll be seeing alot of duplicate projects posted there.
You most probably missed how I put "voluntary" in quotes. How hard is it to take a "voluntary" or a "non enforced" tax and make it madatory and enforced? Not as difficult as it is to implement a mandatory and enforced tax from scratch.
And yes, my spelling sucks. Me bad.
While the while "voluntary" part of the bill seems to be quite silly, it is an insideous attempt to give an "internet tax" a legal foothold.
It is difficult to implement a mandatory tax from scratch. It is much easier to take an existing "voluntary" tax and make it mandatory.
The french are saying that finding and publishing expolit code is illegal. If someone finds an exploit and does not publish it, and the exploit eventually gets out into the wild, who is ultimately responsible for the damages? Is it the hackers who wrote the code, the company for not finding and patching the vulnerability, the person who found and did not publish the exploit, or is it the french gov't for gross legal mismanagement?
I think Harvards reaction was quite appropriate. Just because they "can" do something, doesn't mean they should. For instance, I can walk out of my office with equipment and none would be the wiser, but I choose not to because it is illegal and unethical.
Ethics is sorely lacking in the business world, and I for one am quite pleased that 119 potential business persons have received their first practical lesson on ethics: "If its wrong, don't do it."
So if I got instructions on how to read another persons acceptance letter, I could get them refused entry into Harvard?
Right on, I've always wanted to stick it to one of those yuppy bastards.
Take Two would love this if they have a dedicated set of instructions which cover the finer aspects of running over hookers.
Ooops, typo :(
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Fun fact: I'm currently using a Spartan3 eval board to emulate the 6502 core. Works like a hot damn
http://www.6502.org/homebuilt/
There is alot of work being done on creating 6502 based systems, and I'm sure that an especially industrious designer could emulate the entire Apple I in a single FGPA chip.
I dont read his articles that often. I am merely stating what is the obvious to anyone in the industry.
It helps that I work in telecommunications. Only regulations can force the ISPs to ensure a QoS which will make VoIP viable for 3rd party providers, and the lack of regulations is the one key component which makes VoIP so cheap when compared to the traditional phone companies. Its a catch 22, and this is why I'm not worried about watching the company I work for go bankrupt.
The smart ones throttle back the quality of the connection. Thanks to the bursty nature of the internet, they can get away with making the quality total shit for 3rd party VoIP providers, while allcocating the necessary bandwidth and priority to their own VoIP services.
By your logic, I guess Linux is a rip off and a slapdash clone of Minix. Does this mean that if anyone makes that assertion, that Professor Tannenbaum is going to sue for defamation?
Yes, because we all know that having someone talk on a cel phone while simultaneously scrolling through their playlist on a tiny electronic device is an inherently safe thing to do.
Now you can be rocking out to "I can't drive 55" while you are driving and chatting on your cel phone.
I wonder what other features they can stuff into a cel phone which could make it a more dangerous device to use while driving? DVD player? Dildo? Oh wait, a waterproof cel on vibrate can double as one.....
I predict that in a week, we'll be seeing articles about how they are stuffing mobile VoIP systems into pizza boxes with neon lights illuminating the insides.
OH COME ON. Report things which are relevant and unique, not 'omg its a wireless link that works at 80mph!'. Cel service works at speeds far faster than that (just ask anyone who used a cel phone on a plane before the ban).
And I've worked extensively with both NDS and then AD over the last 9 years. Does that make me more of an expert than you because I'm multifaceted instead of being a help desk support person for the largest AD install in the world? Big deal. I wasn't talking about the AD setup, I was talking about the feel of AD, and how MS implemented it. Next time, read.
Oh hey, its a flat domain security model with a tree view. Dude, AD is nothing more than a bloated upgrade to their NT4 security model with a few token ldap hooks. I'm being simplistic, but thats the feel I get from it every time I have to do any sort of administration.
NDS (Netware/Novell Directory Services) has been around since 1990. I guess they're calling it by an edgier, more marketable name these days.
what is the difference between intercepting and storing chat room conversations, and taking photos of him smooching his mistress? Neither are methods which the target has consented to.
You bought a used copy, therefore you are transferring ownership from one person or entity to another. This logic does not apply to a retail store, because the ownership is not being transferred as the auth key is unused.
A stupid analogy would be buying used milk. If you bought the milk used from someone other than grocery store and it expired prior to the "best before" date, it is not the groceries store or the milk producers responsibility for the bad milk.
The only thing I see here is that you are using biased reasoning to justify your disgust at a fundamentally flawed licensing scheme.
Have you considered exposing him to products from Computer Associates?
Oh wait, you want to expose him to software written for retards, not software written BY retards.
The first question you have to ask yourself is what you want to get out of the network. Do you want full roaming capabilities, or do you want localized points of presence in every greenhouse? Are you wanting to implement VoIP? Network aware control and monitoring systems?
If you are looking for a setup like what I had (points of presence in every greenhouse), all you need are some cheap(ish) base stations for the endpoints, and a kick ass 24dB omnidirectional antenna for the master base station at the head office. Build small networks at each pop and bango. If you want roaming in a few areas, throw in a small consumer wireless base stations and hook it up to the pop.
If, however, you are looking at using the network for business critical voice services or control and monitoring systems, then you had better look seriously at fiber (fiber ring preferably). You never know when some bird lays a massive shit on the antenna. Wireless is simply not as reliable as wired.
Thats nice, now lets see more than one manufacture producing Zigbee compliant components.
If you are in the manufacturing sector, you know darn well that you do not adopt ANYTHING until it is being made by at least 2 manufacturers. That way, you are not at the mercy of the chip maker in the event of a catastrophic failure, fab error, or manufacturer greed.
Back in 1993/4, I remember reading the data sheets from Texas Instruments about this cool new serial standard called "FireWire". How long did it take to gain widespread adoption? Several years. This is no different.
This is nothing but a smoke show until we start seeing some serious silicon being manufactured. Once they start pumping out single chip solutions for under $5.00USD in quantity, THEN it is something to be taken seriously. Until then, its nothing more than a potential pump 'n dump stock scam.