The FCC rules regarding payola started as a reaction to cheating on TV gameshows. There was a big scandal in 1958 because many of the hugely popular TV quiz shows were rigged. One big factor was that, in the minds of many people at the time, is that quiz shows were a type of gambling and were therefore 'dirty'. The US Supreme court had just four years earlier removed TV quiz shows from the category of gambling. The draconian FCC rules that were designed to prevent TV gameshow cheating also got applied to radio airplay. Have you ever wondered why some TV shows say something to the effect that somebody gave promotional consideration (they either paid or provided merchandise in exchange for mention on the show), when it is perfectly obvious that they must have given them something for the on-air plugs? The same FCC rules apply to both TV and radio. Illegal payola is essentially the giving of money or merchandise in exchange for airtime if the giving of the money or merchandise is not disclosed. TV shows can get into trouble for "product placement" items if there is no mention of the product being provided and the items are not returned. This is the reason that some older TV shows have a notice saying who provided the cars used on the show, as the cars were provided by the manufacturer and they were not returned. This is also part of the reason that some TV shows say who provided the clothing worn by the actors.
I doubt that they pay rack rates for the advertising, and two paid plays at four in the morning just might be worth a couple free plays during drive time.
In the US, it is currently not illegal to spam or to advertise using spam. The CAN-spam law ALLOWS spamming. There are certain things that are commonly used by spammers that are illegal, such as credit card fraud, using improper headers or not having a functioning opt-out process. And then there is the problem that users should NEVER opt-out of spam as spammers use it to confirm that an address is deliverable (and thus more valuable). I don't think that it is even illegal to harvest the email addresses of those people who opt out. The spammers sure got their money's worth with this law.
The ownership of the System V copyright is in dispute. The owner of the System V copyright has certain rights and those rights probably apply to portions of Solaris. Both SCO and Novell claim that they own those rights, it is now up to a court to decide who actually owns them.
How can you be sure that the backdoor ID to your gear isn't batman and that the passward isn't 46386124? I realize that any proprietary software can have backdor passwords in it. Netgear has shown that at least one of their products has a backdoor. When Netgear was given the chance to act horrified that somebody put a backdoor in one of their products and remove it, they decided to just change the backdoor name and password. This gives me LOTS of confidence in the security awareness of Netwgear products. You are trusting the security of your wireless connectivity to a company that knowingly maintains a backdoor in at least one of it's products.
With OSS, just make the "home" of the project in a friendly or neutral country. This was done with several security projects when the US was trying to enforce crypto export laws.
Running afoul of health and safety regulations should not trigger the FBI and a grand jury. Historically, the enforcement of the regulations that you are speaking of result in negotiated token fines -- and no admission of guilt.
Cool, watch the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) folks have a field day when theaters fry patrons' wheel chair electronics, pacemakers, and hearing aids. A mag field big enough to fry camcorders would also fry cellphones, pagers, many watches, PDAs, calculators, and most any other electronic device.
I believe that most people use BIND because it is already used by most people. For the most part, people are afraid of being different. There are some things the people just use blindly even though there may be superior alternatives available; such as BIND, MS Windows, MS Office, Sendmail.
I synchronize each user's particular browser bookmarkarks across different machines by have the users' home directories centralized and using NFS (this is actually a by-product of solving a different problem). It can also be done by using thin clients or by running the browsers on a centralised server and exporting the display.
I am not a fan of anime, but I have seen some of it and I am VERY impressed. I couldn't care less about the story, characters, or plot but the ARTWORK was totally amazing. The anime series (Escaflowne?, perhaps) that I saw had GORGEOUS animation with many layers of cells. The series included a video of the writer and other creators on stage with a Japanese audience (it may have been opening night for the series). The reaction of the audience to the anime creators was totally wild. The audience reaction reminded of the films of the audience reactions at Elvis and Beatles concerts.
THe term "engineer" has become meaningless. In Saudi Arabia, I saw incompetent electricians being called "engineers". Some non tech qualified sales droids are given "engineer" titles. Most telecoms call their tech people "engineers".
When I saw fully loaded BUFFs they were on SAC alert pads or taxying; fully fueled and fully armed (with nukes). I think that I also saw them in that condition during SAC alerts. We didn't have streat cleaning equipment, FOD (crap on the taxiways and runways) was picked up by hand, by an elbow to elbow line of Airmen. There was so much crap INSIDE BUFFs (fluids, hardware, bits of safety wire and other stuff) that there was a juke about turning the planes over and shaking them to get the junk out. BUFFS were also the loudest aircraft I have ever heard, an F4 with afterburner didn't hold a candle to a BUFF. The most annoying noise around BUFFs was the MD-5 power cart. MD-5's were piston engine driven generators and put out so much low frequency noise that earplugs and earmuffs did almost nothing to lessen the noise.
Ever had a taxying B-52 appear out of nowhere right behind your Step Van? Was the modification that you speak of the one that stiffened the wings? Back in my day, a fully fueled and loaded B-52 whould have it's outrigger wheels touching the ground; the wingtips would be just a couple feet off the ground. An empty B-52's wingtips would WAY off the ground (over 10 feet). Watching a B-52 take off was wierd too, it took off nose down.
Not necessarily contradictory. It is possible that in the first quoted paragraph that he was referring to massive amounts of code taken from one project (Minix) and copied into another project (Linux). It is possible that in the second quoted paragraph that he was referring to the lifting of small amounts of code from one project to another. Example: heart and lung transplants -- messy and rare, vs. blood transfusions -- usually not as messy and done frequently.
I assume that by homegrown you are speaking of the US as "Snotty Scotty" is a Yank. Steve Linford, who is helping US authorities to track spammers, is a Brit. International help is needed because the Internet is international. One other group that needs to provide MUCH more help right now is the North American broadband providers. I believe that all of the spam that the notorious American (and some other English speaking nationalities) spam is sent either through non-US mail servers or through infected broadband connected home computers.
The American spammers have gotten so notorious that they are unable to get connectivity from American providers. A quote from Steve Linford, March, 2003: "Alan Ralsky, Carl Henderson, Bill Waggoner, etc., are the bottom of the barrel of human society, they'll never be able to run a legitimate Internet-based business anywhere in the US again. We keep their history and will bust them with it for the rest of their working careers. By moving offshore they confirmed their intentions and burnt their futures. So they have to keep on the move and will need to find an alternative to China very soon...".
I don't think that the EVD standard (or any other Chinese standard) is necessarily doomed to failure. It depends upon how far the Chinese central government wants to go to enforce their unique standards inside China. The Chinese government could simply decree that all video players sold in China must comply with the EVD standard. As stated elsewhere, China is a HUGE market. How long do you think that the Euro/US movie studios will refuse to release movies in EVD format if potentially 20% (or more) of the world market follows the EVD standard and not the DVD standard? Even if movie studios refuse to provide movies in the EVD format, how long do you think it will take for entepreneurs to fill that gap? I think that the real question may be how badly the US industro-government complex wants to stop EVD players and other electronics conforming to Chinese standards from being sold in the US. Considering current global politics, it is also not too far fetched to believe that other governments may encourage the adoption of Chinese developed standards within their own countries. Although EVD players will cost more than DVD players at first, I suspect that the price advantage will eventually go to EVD. As China would be the world's producer of both EVD and low end DVD players, I suspect that China could easily manipulate the price difference between EVD and DVD players.
Grandma was senile and had a habit of smearing shit on walls. I found that getting shit off of painted drywall was almost impossible. If you put vinyl wallpaper on the walls, the shit is MUCH easier to clean off.
"Can you stand outside the door to KB Toys and hand out ads that say go to Toys R Us instead?"
It would depend upon who owns the area outside of KB Toys' door and the local laws concerning the distribution of said ads. If the door opens onto a public sidewalk, there may be laws concerning the distribution of the ads (no matter whose door you were near). In a shopping mall (private property) there is usually a posted policy against distributing literature of any sort. In theory there would be nothing to prohibit anyone from standing outside the door to KB Toys and handing out ads that say go to Toys R Us instead. There may be other laws too, such as loitering laws that would prevent somebody from doing that.
Nike found out about that in the US, corporations have different standards for frea speach than people do. A California court said that "commercial speech" designed to promote its products is not protected speech. The US Supreme court declined to hear an appeal.
See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3023950.stm and http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2569
I believe that history shows that connecting any computer running any version of MS Windows (whether fully patched or not) to the Internet requires the use of a firewall. An internal software based "firewall" does not count as a firewall. Yeah, I see a big problem with this, and a work around to the problem is to require that any computer that comes with MS Windows be equiped with an internal hardware based firewall.
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This reminds me of the scripts that did silly things like playing chess using Procomm or Crosstalk scripts.
The FCC rules regarding payola started as a reaction to cheating on TV gameshows. There was a big scandal in 1958 because many of the hugely popular TV quiz shows were rigged. One big factor was that, in the minds of many people at the time, is that quiz shows were a type of gambling and were therefore 'dirty'. The US Supreme court had just four years earlier removed TV quiz shows from the category of gambling. The draconian FCC rules that were designed to prevent TV gameshow cheating also got applied to radio airplay. Have you ever wondered why some TV shows say something to the effect that somebody gave promotional consideration (they either paid or provided merchandise in exchange for mention on the show), when it is perfectly obvious that they must have given them something for the on-air plugs? The same FCC rules apply to both TV and radio. Illegal payola is essentially the giving of money or merchandise in exchange for airtime if the giving of the money or merchandise is not disclosed. TV shows can get into trouble for "product placement" items if there is no mention of the product being provided and the items are not returned. This is the reason that some older TV shows have a notice saying who provided the cars used on the show, as the cars were provided by the manufacturer and they were not returned. This is also part of the reason that some TV shows say who provided the clothing worn by the actors.
I doubt that they pay rack rates for the advertising, and two paid plays at four in the morning just might be worth a couple free plays during drive time.
In the US, it is currently not illegal to spam or to advertise using spam. The CAN-spam law ALLOWS spamming. There are certain things that are commonly used by spammers that are illegal, such as credit card fraud, using improper headers or not having a functioning opt-out process. And then there is the problem that users should NEVER opt-out of spam as spammers use it to confirm that an address is deliverable (and thus more valuable). I don't think that it is even illegal to harvest the email addresses of those people who opt out. The spammers sure got their money's worth with this law.
What, exactly would they be buying? The ownership of the only valuable IP that they claim to own is in dispute.
The ownership of the System V copyright is in dispute. The owner of the System V copyright has certain rights and those rights probably apply to portions of Solaris. Both SCO and Novell claim that they own those rights, it is now up to a court to decide who actually owns them.
How can you be sure that the backdoor ID to your gear isn't batman and that the passward isn't 46386124? I realize that any proprietary software can have backdor passwords in it. Netgear has shown that at least one of their products has a backdoor. When Netgear was given the chance to act horrified that somebody put a backdoor in one of their products and remove it, they decided to just change the backdoor name and password. This gives me LOTS of confidence in the security awareness of Netwgear products. You are trusting the security of your wireless connectivity to a company that knowingly maintains a backdoor in at least one of it's products.
With OSS, just make the "home" of the project in a friendly or neutral country. This was done with several security projects when the US was trying to enforce crypto export laws.
Running afoul of health and safety regulations should not trigger the FBI and a grand jury. Historically, the enforcement of the regulations that you are speaking of result in negotiated token fines -- and no admission of guilt.
Cool, watch the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) folks have a field day when theaters fry patrons' wheel chair electronics, pacemakers, and hearing aids. A mag field big enough to fry camcorders would also fry cellphones, pagers, many watches, PDAs, calculators, and most any other electronic device.
I believe that most people use BIND because it is already used by most people. For the most part, people are afraid of being different. There are some things the people just use blindly even though there may be superior alternatives available; such as BIND, MS Windows, MS Office, Sendmail.
I synchronize each user's particular browser bookmarkarks across different machines by have the users' home directories centralized and using NFS (this is actually a by-product of solving a different problem). It can also be done by using thin clients or by running the browsers on a centralised server and exporting the display.
I am not a fan of anime, but I have seen some of it and I am VERY impressed. I couldn't care less about the story, characters, or plot but the ARTWORK was totally amazing. The anime series (Escaflowne?, perhaps) that I saw had GORGEOUS animation with many layers of cells. The series included a video of the writer and other creators on stage with a Japanese audience (it may have been opening night for the series). The reaction of the audience to the anime creators was totally wild. The audience reaction reminded of the films of the audience reactions at Elvis and Beatles concerts.
THe term "engineer" has become meaningless. In Saudi Arabia, I saw incompetent electricians being called "engineers". Some non tech qualified sales droids are given "engineer" titles. Most telecoms call their tech people "engineers".
When I saw fully loaded BUFFs they were on SAC alert pads or taxying; fully fueled and fully armed (with nukes). I think that I also saw them in that condition during SAC alerts. We didn't have streat cleaning equipment, FOD (crap on the taxiways and runways) was picked up by hand, by an elbow to elbow line of Airmen. There was so much crap INSIDE BUFFs (fluids, hardware, bits of safety wire and other stuff) that there was a juke about turning the planes over and shaking them to get the junk out. BUFFS were also the loudest aircraft I have ever heard, an F4 with afterburner didn't hold a candle to a BUFF. The most annoying noise around BUFFs was the MD-5 power cart. MD-5's were piston engine driven generators and put out so much low frequency noise that earplugs and earmuffs did almost nothing to lessen the noise.
Ever had a taxying B-52 appear out of nowhere right behind your Step Van? Was the modification that you speak of the one that stiffened the wings? Back in my day, a fully fueled and loaded B-52 whould have it's outrigger wheels touching the ground; the wingtips would be just a couple feet off the ground. An empty B-52's wingtips would WAY off the ground (over 10 feet). Watching a B-52 take off was wierd too, it took off nose down.
Not necessarily contradictory. It is possible that in the first quoted paragraph that he was referring to massive amounts of code taken from one project (Minix) and copied into another project (Linux). It is possible that in the second quoted paragraph that he was referring to the lifting of small amounts of code from one project to another. Example: heart and lung transplants -- messy and rare, vs. blood transfusions -- usually not as messy and done frequently.
I assume that by homegrown you are speaking of the US as "Snotty Scotty" is a Yank. Steve Linford, who is helping US authorities to track spammers, is a Brit. International help is needed because the Internet is international. One other group that needs to provide MUCH more help right now is the North American broadband providers. I believe that all of the spam that the notorious American (and some other English speaking nationalities) spam is sent either through non-US mail servers or through infected broadband connected home computers. The American spammers have gotten so notorious that they are unable to get connectivity from American providers. A quote from Steve Linford, March, 2003: "Alan Ralsky, Carl Henderson, Bill Waggoner, etc., are the bottom of the barrel of human society, they'll never be able to run a legitimate Internet-based business anywhere in the US again. We keep their history and will bust them with it for the rest of their working careers. By moving offshore they confirmed their intentions and burnt their futures. So they have to keep on the move and will need to find an alternative to China very soon...".
I don't think that the EVD standard (or any other Chinese standard) is necessarily doomed to failure. It depends upon how far the Chinese central government wants to go to enforce their unique standards inside China. The Chinese government could simply decree that all video players sold in China must comply with the EVD standard. As stated elsewhere, China is a HUGE market. How long do you think that the Euro/US movie studios will refuse to release movies in EVD format if potentially 20% (or more) of the world market follows the EVD standard and not the DVD standard? Even if movie studios refuse to provide movies in the EVD format, how long do you think it will take for entepreneurs to fill that gap? I think that the real question may be how badly the US industro-government complex wants to stop EVD players and other electronics conforming to Chinese standards from being sold in the US. Considering current global politics, it is also not too far fetched to believe that other governments may encourage the adoption of Chinese developed standards within their own countries. Although EVD players will cost more than DVD players at first, I suspect that the price advantage will eventually go to EVD. As China would be the world's producer of both EVD and low end DVD players, I suspect that China could easily manipulate the price difference between EVD and DVD players.
Grandma was senile and had a habit of smearing shit on walls. I found that getting shit off of painted drywall was almost impossible. If you put vinyl wallpaper on the walls, the shit is MUCH easier to clean off.
"Can you stand outside the door to KB Toys and hand out ads that say go to Toys R Us instead?" It would depend upon who owns the area outside of KB Toys' door and the local laws concerning the distribution of said ads. If the door opens onto a public sidewalk, there may be laws concerning the distribution of the ads (no matter whose door you were near). In a shopping mall (private property) there is usually a posted policy against distributing literature of any sort. In theory there would be nothing to prohibit anyone from standing outside the door to KB Toys and handing out ads that say go to Toys R Us instead. There may be other laws too, such as loitering laws that would prevent somebody from doing that.
Nike found out about that in the US, corporations have different standards for frea speach than people do. A California court said that "commercial speech" designed to promote its products is not protected speech. The US Supreme court declined to hear an appeal. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3023950.stm and http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2569
Sort of. A year ago Nike found out about that. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3023950.stm and http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2569
Very cool, and very much needed.
I believe that history shows that connecting any computer running any version of MS Windows (whether fully patched or not) to the Internet requires the use of a firewall. An internal software based "firewall" does not count as a firewall. Yeah, I see a big problem with this, and a work around to the problem is to require that any computer that comes with MS Windows be equiped with an internal hardware based firewall.