If you can prohibit use of you IP to select organizations or individuals then couldn't you prevent a unfavorable critic from reading your book or watching your movie?
I must be wrong. Anyone?
And doesn't fair use allow the teachers to use the materials anyway? What about
TITLE 17 CHAPTER 1, Sec. 107 the Fair Use limitation says you can reproduce copyrighted material for:
purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.
It's interesting that Bill Gates still touts Microsoft as an "innovative" company.
Yet for the past few years they seem to be more of a "jump on the band wagon" company.
Microsoft is becoming more of a follower than a leader. It uses its leverage to foist
alterantive versions of products innovated by other companies onto a less and less attentive consumer base.
Take almost anything: search, games, music, TV, even book search and you'll find Microsoft has a "me to" version.
There's an old saying, "do one thing and do it well" that applies equally to business.
Justice Department spokesman Paul Bresson says court-authorized electronic surveillance is a critical law enforcement tool. "As communications technologies develop, we must ensure that such progress does not come at the expense of our nation's safety and security," he said.
You know, I hate to use such a corny mantra that if we allow this then the terrrorists have won.
But really, this is exactly what's going on here. Look at the last words in the quote: safety and security
I can't help but think it's not really about that at all. The Feds, having been unable to connect the dots
of 911 now want to make up for lost time with the ability to monitor every Internet conversation and what they don't realize is this will have no effect on organizations like
al Qeada.
Be interesting to see if William Galvin receives any campaign finance contributions from Microsoft when he runs.
If he does, I trust you'll do your duty as a citizen and enlighten the electorate with a few well written letters to the editors of the major Mass. newspapers. Ordinary folks may not know about ODF but they'll certainly know corruption when they see it.
No but they sure can be lazy. I've migrated a lot of systems from Windows to Linux and the main problem I've had is that Windows admins often can't be bothered to read the docs. Many of them have learnt most of what they know by hunting and pecking through a myriad of menus and sub menus to find the right icon to click on. When presented with a man page they throw up their arms in dispair and complain about how complicated Linux is.
This sounds like a great book. I don't won't come across as being too negative but having been a Unix sys admin for nearly 10 years and having run Linux on a loptop as my sole OS for the past five years I think it's important for new folks to not rely too heavily on learning from books.
The great thing about Linux is that all the definitive documentation (including the source code) comes with the OS. It's good practice to get into the habit of using these docs.
Then again I appreciate that everyone has a different approach to learning.
If Rev. Kieran McHugh is prohibiting students from posting online blogs to protect them from predators then the reason every other school is not doing the same is because either a) there's no problem with students posting blogs or b) he's wiser than all the other principals.
If it's really about protecting students I think he'd want educate them about the values of anonymity and the dangers of giving personal information when using the Internet.
See man command for further info on these commands.
Use to ping ip-address to see if you can get to the router and beyond. Make sure "allow ICMP" is enabled in the router.
Use traceroute -n ip-address to see where the traffic is failing.
Is it a DNS problem? Try host some.host.name to make sure you can resolve names.
Is it a DHCP problem? Try dhclient to see if you can get an IP address. (maybe pump on some systems.)
Connect a hub (not a switch) to some strategic place on the network. Give yourself an IP address and
check for excessive traffic with iptraf. This will give you a breakdown of what bandwidth is being used by what services.
You can use commands like nc and telnet to connect to specific ports. e.g. nc -p 53 dns-server to see if the DNS server is open.
You can also automate these commands in a bash script run via a cronjob every minute. Something like:
for x in router1 router2 router3....
do ping $x || echo >>/tmp/failures.txt
done
You may be anticipating a problem you'll never have. i.e. people sucking your bandwidth and sending spam. Why not leave it open. I do with mine. I think it's important to share bandwidth. I worked for a comany in San Francisco with a DS3. I built a Wi-Fi network for them and convinced them to share it with the public. It was't a problem (however, I did put it the DMZ and block port 25 just in case).
If you still think you need to have usernames and passwords try nocat. It handles authentication but I usually use it for a splash page for access points I build from
old laptops.
...for the purpose of conveying, or in a manner reasonably calculated to convey, a false impression of sponsorship or approval by the Government of the United States or by any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof,
The Onion is a parody. They're not seriously conveying the impression of sponsorship or approval. There was a similar law about buring the sacred flag but that was struck down as unconstitutional. I would guess the courts would say people have a right to make fun of the government and the seal.
Not sure where they're coming from with this. The use of the seal is covered in Tile 4, Chap 2, sec 42 of the US Code which reads,
The Secretary of State shall have the custody and charge of such seal. Except as provided by section 2902 (a) of title 5, the seal shall not be affixed to any instrument without the special warrant of the President therefor.
The Onion is obvioulsy a parady which is surely covered by the First Amendment. This is basically a sacred-symbol-protection law which didn't work for flag burning and probably won't for the seal. Be interesting to hear what the courts have to say.
drug manufacturers outlay a truly phenomenal amount of money to develop and test any particular drug.
I thought that was a well established myth? Drug companies like us to believe it costs a lot more to produce new drugs than it actually does.
They also seem more focused on marketing than R&D. IIRC the figures from 2000 were 90,000 marketing jobs vs 40,000 research jobs for US drug companies.
I believe there are provisions in the Patriot Act that give the government the powers of search and seizure without a warrant. Historically there's also civil forfeiture where the cops can take your car, house, boat, etc. with a warrant if they find drugs.
People need to learn not to resond to spam. If we want the government to fight our battles for us then they may aswell go after all the bogus infomercials you see on TV. Next thing you won't be able to claim vitamin C prevents colds (which it doesn't) but, hey, let people figure stuff out for themselves.
All I said was that all bills for raising revenue must originate in the House of Reps as set forth in Article I, sec, 7 of the USC. Is that not the case? If that's not the case, enlighten me. It's more productive to impart knowledge than to accuse one who lacks it of being a fool.
Interesting point but the president can't order congress to do anything. He has hardly any power.
All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives(Article I, sec 7.)
The house often has a substantial number of reps who oppose the president, But if the house passes the bill it goes to the Senate. And anywhere in the process the bill can be filibusted, killed in judicial committees, etc. by either house. If the Senate passes the bill it goes to the president for signature. Sure he signs it into law but I posted the above because I get the impression many people think the president raises or cuts taxes autonomously and that's not the case. Congress has all the power.
If you're interested, oyez is a great website that has many recordings of supreme court decesions. I like to get the names of the plaintiffs and defendants and try to guess who will win. The outcomes and the reasoning behind them are sometimes quite informative.
Bush doesn't initiate tax changes. They come from Congress and have to start in the House of Reps as set forth in Article I, section 7 of the US Constitution. You might wanna read Article II aswell, the limited powers of the presidency, U.S. Constitution.
The way these values are determined is by equating a function like f(taxation) to total GNP or GDP and graphing the results then finding the highest point on a curve where GNP+f(taxation) is a max. Historically large taxes tend to reduce the GDP and small taxes are insuffient for the government to perform its duties as required by the constitution.
The US currently collects about 3 trillion dollars in taxes every year.
For the cost of one chemist or one engineer in the United States, a company can hire about five chemists in China or 11 engineers in India.
Well, the cost of living is a lot lower in these countries. This doesn't tell us anything about the state of American science.
Last year chemical companies shuttered 70 facilities in the United States and have tagged 40 more for closure. Of 120 chemical plants being built around the world with price tags of $1 billion or more, one is in the United States and 50 are in China.
That's because we're outsourcing the production. It's cheaper. Most of the research and development is still done here.
U.S. 12th-graders recently performed below the international average for 21 countries on a test of general knowledge in mathematics and science.
Been hearing how bad American students are at math and science for the past 20 years. I wonder why a disproportionate number of science Nobel Prizes still go to Americans?
In 1999 only 41 percent of U.S. eighth-graders had a math teacher who had majored in mathematics.
Maybe the other 59 percent had teachers who majored in Physics or CS. Doesn't mean they're not qualified to teach high school math.
In 2001 U.S. industry spent more on tort litigation than on research and development.
Now that's cause for concern. Too many lawyers and not enough engineers will be our downfall.
What the article doesn't point out is that the US spends more on science and technology than most of the rest of the world combined and still has great institutions like MIT, Cal Tech, Standford, DARPA, NASA, etc. that are unparallelled anywhere else in the world.
Recently, American 12th graders performed below the international average for 21 countries on general knowledge in math and science.
Hasn't it always been like that? I remember hearing how bad American students are at math and science 20 years ago. But how come a disproportionate number of Nobel Prizes in the sciences go to Americans?
America has institutions like Cal Tech, MIT, Standford, The Institute for Advanced Study and some of the best physics labs in the world like Lawerence Livermore and Los Alamos. It's the country that pioneered space exploration, developed the transistor, integrated circuit, and invented the Internet. It's a country that spends more on science than most countries combined and I would hazard to guess that most of the fundamental discoveries in physics that have paved the way for technology have come from the U.S.
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If you can prohibit use of you IP to select organizations or individuals then couldn't you prevent a unfavorable critic from reading your book or watching your movie?
I must be wrong. Anyone?
And doesn't fair use allow the teachers to use the materials anyway? What about TITLE 17 CHAPTER 1, Sec. 107 the Fair Use limitation says you can reproduce copyrighted material for:
purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.
Title 15, chapter 2, sec 13a of the US Code (Part of the The Clayton Antitrust Act) says it's illegal to:
to sell, or contract to sell, goods at unreasonably low prices for the purpose of destroying competition or eliminating a competitor.
Wonder why they don't spend their time and energy fixing the problem in the first place?
If your house is insecure and you keep getting robbed you can do two things.
1) Go after the people who robbed you. -- Great.
2) Seucure your house so people can't rob you -- Even better.
It's interesting that Bill Gates still touts Microsoft as an "innovative" company. Yet for the past few years they seem to be more of a "jump on the band wagon" company.
Microsoft is becoming more of a follower than a leader. It uses its leverage to foist alterantive versions of products innovated by other companies onto a less and less attentive consumer base.
Take almost anything: search, games, music, TV, even book search and you'll find Microsoft has a "me to" version.
There's an old saying, "do one thing and do it well" that applies equally to business.
Johnson had a War on Poverty, Reagan a War on Drugs, Bush a War on Terror.
What's next? America's War on Violence.
Justice Department spokesman Paul Bresson says court-authorized electronic surveillance is a critical law enforcement tool. "As communications technologies develop, we must ensure that such progress does not come at the expense of our nation's safety and security," he said.
You know, I hate to use such a corny mantra that if we allow this then the terrrorists have won. But really, this is exactly what's going on here. Look at the last words in the quote: safety and security
I can't help but think it's not really about that at all. The Feds, having been unable to connect the dots of 911 now want to make up for lost time with the ability to monitor every Internet conversation and what they don't realize is this will have no effect on organizations like al Qeada.
Be interesting to see if William Galvin receives any campaign finance contributions from Microsoft when he runs.
If he does, I trust you'll do your duty as a citizen and enlighten the electorate with a few well written letters to the editors of the major Mass. newspapers. Ordinary folks may not know about ODF but they'll certainly know corruption when they see it.
Peace
People aren't stupid ....
No but they sure can be lazy. I've migrated a lot of systems from Windows to Linux and the main problem I've had is that Windows admins often can't be bothered to read the docs. Many of them have learnt most of what they know by hunting and pecking through a myriad of menus and sub menus to find the right icon to click on. When presented with a man page they throw up their arms in dispair and complain about how complicated Linux is.
This sounds like a great book. I don't won't come across as being too negative but having been a Unix sys admin for nearly 10 years and having run Linux on a loptop as my sole OS for the past five years I think it's important for new folks to not rely too heavily on learning from books.
The great thing about Linux is that all the definitive documentation (including the source code) comes with the OS. It's good practice to get into the habit of using these docs.
Then again I appreciate that everyone has a different approach to learning.
If Rev. Kieran McHugh is prohibiting students from posting online blogs to protect them from predators then the reason every other school is not doing the same is because either a) there's no problem with students posting blogs or b) he's wiser than all the other principals.
If it's really about protecting students I think he'd want educate them about the values of anonymity and the dangers of giving personal information when using the Internet.
See man command for further info on these commands.
....
Use to ping ip-address to see if you can get to the router and beyond. Make sure "allow ICMP" is enabled in the router.
Use traceroute -n ip-address to see where the traffic is failing.
Is it a DNS problem? Try host some.host.name to make sure you can resolve names.
Is it a DHCP problem? Try dhclient to see if you can get an IP address. (maybe pump on some systems.)
Connect a hub (not a switch) to some strategic place on the network. Give yourself an IP address and check for excessive traffic with iptraf. This will give you a breakdown of what bandwidth is being used by what services.
You can use commands like nc and telnet to connect to specific ports. e.g. nc -p 53 dns-server to see if the DNS server is open.
You can also automate these commands in a bash script run via a cronjob every minute. Something like:
for x in router1 router2 router3
do ping $x || echo >>/tmp/failures.txt
done
See man bash for details.
Good luck.
You may be anticipating a problem you'll never have. i.e. people sucking your bandwidth and sending spam. Why not leave it open. I do with mine. I think it's important to share bandwidth. I worked for a comany in San Francisco with a DS3. I built a Wi-Fi network for them and convinced them to share it with the public. It was't a problem (however, I did put it the DMZ and block port 25 just in case).
If you still think you need to have usernames and passwords try nocat. It handles authentication but I usually use it for a splash page for access points I build from old laptops.
Good luck.
Yeah but read sect a) again, my emphasis:
...for the purpose of conveying, or in a manner reasonably calculated to convey, a false impression of sponsorship or approval by the Government of the United States or by any department, agency, or instrumentality thereof,
The Onion is a parody. They're not seriously conveying the impression of sponsorship or approval. There was a similar law about buring the sacred flag but that was struck down as unconstitutional. I would guess the courts would say people have a right to make fun of the government and the seal.
I could be wrong.
Not sure where they're coming from with this. The use of the seal is covered in Tile 4, Chap 2, sec 42 of the US Code which reads,
The Secretary of State shall have the custody and charge of such seal. Except as provided by section 2902 (a) of title 5, the seal shall not be affixed to any instrument without the special warrant of the President therefor.
The Onion is obvioulsy a parady which is surely covered by the First Amendment. This is basically a sacred-symbol-protection law which didn't work for flag burning and probably won't for the seal. Be interesting to hear what the courts have to say.
drug manufacturers outlay a truly phenomenal amount of money to develop and test any particular drug.
I thought that was a well established myth? Drug companies like us to believe it costs a lot more to produce new drugs than it actually does.
They also seem more focused on marketing than R&D. IIRC the figures from 2000 were 90,000 marketing jobs vs 40,000 research jobs for US drug companies.
I believe there are provisions in the Patriot Act that give the government the powers of search and seizure without a warrant. Historically there's also civil forfeiture where the cops can take your car, house, boat, etc. with a warrant if they find drugs.
This guy is basically harmless. It's only spam. Just delete it. Or better yet use a spam filter or sign up for one of the realtime blackhole lists.
I'd rather the FBI spend my tax dollars on something a bit more serious, like catching some real dangerous folks.
People need to learn not to resond to spam. If we want the government to fight our battles for us then they may aswell go after all the bogus infomercials you see on TV. Next thing you won't be able to claim vitamin C prevents colds (which it doesn't) but, hey, let people figure stuff out for themselves.
white house. Click the satellite button and zoom in.
All I said was that all bills for raising revenue must originate in the House of Reps as set forth in Article I, sec, 7 of the USC. Is that not the case? If that's not the case, enlighten me. It's more productive to impart knowledge than to accuse one who lacks it of being a fool.
Maybe I'm completely wrong. Help me out.
Interesting point but the president can't order congress to do anything. He has hardly any power.
All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives(Article I, sec 7.)
The house often has a substantial number of reps who oppose the president, But if the house passes the bill it goes to the Senate. And anywhere in the process the bill can be filibusted, killed in judicial committees, etc. by either house. If the Senate passes the bill it goes to the president for signature. Sure he signs it into law but I posted the above because I get the impression many people think the president raises or cuts taxes autonomously and that's not the case. Congress has all the power.
If you're interested, oyez is a great website that has many recordings of supreme court decesions. I like to get the names of the plaintiffs and defendants and try to guess who will win. The outcomes and the reasoning behind them are sometimes quite informative.
Bush doesn't initiate tax changes. They come from Congress and have to start in the House of Reps as set forth in Article I, section 7 of the US Constitution. You might wanna read Article II aswell, the limited powers of the presidency, U.S. Constitution.
The way these values are determined is by equating a function like f(taxation) to total GNP or GDP and graphing the results then finding the highest point on a curve where GNP+f(taxation) is a max. Historically large taxes tend to reduce the GDP and small taxes are insuffient for the government to perform its duties as required by the constitution.
The US currently collects about 3 trillion dollars in taxes every year.
How they do it and what their reasoning is is all freely available online
Maybe you can figure out where they're going wrong and run for office.
If I remember correctly anything to the power zero is zero by definition (because we say so). And Googles calculator at least agrees with the result.
Of course I could be completely wrong.
For the cost of one chemist or one engineer in the United States, a company can hire about five chemists in China or 11 engineers in India.
Well, the cost of living is a lot lower in these countries. This doesn't tell us anything about the state of American science.
Last year chemical companies shuttered 70 facilities in the United States and have tagged 40 more for closure. Of 120 chemical plants being built around the world with price tags of $1 billion or more, one is in the United States and 50 are in China.
That's because we're outsourcing the production. It's cheaper. Most of the research and development is still done here.
U.S. 12th-graders recently performed below the international average for 21 countries on a test of general knowledge in mathematics and science.
Been hearing how bad American students are at math and science for the past 20 years. I wonder why a disproportionate number of science Nobel Prizes still go to Americans?
In 1999 only 41 percent of U.S. eighth-graders had a math teacher who had majored in mathematics.
Maybe the other 59 percent had teachers who majored in Physics or CS. Doesn't mean they're not qualified to teach high school math.
In 2001 U.S. industry spent more on tort litigation than on research and development.
Now that's cause for concern. Too many lawyers and not enough engineers will be our downfall.
What the article doesn't point out is that the US spends more on science and technology than most of the rest of the world combined and still has great institutions like MIT, Cal Tech, Standford, DARPA, NASA, etc. that are unparallelled anywhere else in the world.
I wonder if putting your pillow in the microwave for a few seconds would help?
Recently, American 12th graders performed below the international average for 21 countries on general knowledge in math and science.
Hasn't it always been like that? I remember hearing how bad American students are at math and science 20 years ago. But how come a disproportionate number of Nobel Prizes in the sciences go to Americans?
America has institutions like Cal Tech, MIT, Standford, The Institute for Advanced Study and some of the best physics labs in the world like Lawerence Livermore and Los Alamos. It's the country that pioneered space exploration, developed the transistor, integrated circuit, and invented the Internet. It's a country that spends more on science than most countries combined and I would hazard to guess that most of the fundamental discoveries in physics that have paved the way for technology have come from the U.S.
Then again, I could be completely wrong.