IANAL It wouldn't be illegal to receive this stuff no matter what the format. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy for transmissions in this band (it is not even intended for communications use). One really cool thing about this band is that no license is required to operate in the band and there are tons of perfectly good 500 to 1000 watt 2.4 MHz magnetrons with power supplies discarded every year -- free for the taking from dumpsters and the sides of residential streets. You can even buy a new 2.4 MHz magnetron with power supply for almost nothing.
It's not translated at all, it is written in Old (or is it Middle?) English. I seriously doubt that the grammar or spelling is wrong as Chaucer is a raher famous writer and is regarded by many English professors as the "father of English Literature". For a sort of dictionary see http://www.towson.edu/~duncan/glossary.html
I have never heard of "NFL Sunday Ticket" and the jargon dictionary does not list "NFL" Is it an off-peak pricing program or does it give you better speed or shorten the latency on Sundays?
No, in this case the lawbreakers are political representatives for large corporations and the laws that you are referring to do not apply to them. Remember that in the US, politicians and corporate executives above a certain level (the level and the degrees of immunity largely depend upon how much the corporation has donated to the politicians) are immune from most laws. In some states there are some exceptions to this immunity, such as when a politician in South Dakota was unable to cover up that he was speeding, ran a stop sign and killed a motorcyclist (although he did try).
I know of one Network Service Provider (NSP) that keeps call detail records (CDRs) for six months and another ASP that retains CDRs for up to one year. An NSP is a provider that sells dialup services to ISPs, which typically are billed on either a per port basis or per hour. There are NO US laws that specify minimum CDR retention times, the retention times are based upon billing requirements. Some NSPs do not retain CDRs for customers that are billed per port for any longer than a few days to generate reports and to track network abusers (think abuse@whatever.net). The reason that an NSP keeps CDRs is in case there is a billing dispute with one of the customer ISPs. An ISP that provides it's own POPs (which is rare) and does not charge for usage shouldn't need to keep records for more than a week or so (to generate various internal reports and to identify network abusers).
There are seems to be many people who hate SPEWS, presumably because their IP addresses got listed by a SPEWS escalation/expansion due to the ISP not shutting down spammers. If a significant number of mail server admins believed that SPEWS doesn't work that the admins would ignore SPEWS and SPEWS would be a non-issue. This venomous hatred of SPEWS is very useful. It is difficult or impossible to know how many ISPs are using SPEWS, however, from the number of REALLY pissed off people listed in SPEWS, it is possible to infer that a significant number of mail admin are using SPEWS. From what I understand, even Spamcop doesn't recommend the use of the Spamcop deny list. Neither Google nor I am aware of a list named "orb". If you are referring ORBS, ORBS is not a comprehensive list of spammers, ORBS is a useful supplemental list because it lists open relays.
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I may be getting my three letter publisher names mixed up, but doesn't IDG do nice reviews for Microsoft? This whole scenario seems to be tailor written as FUD promoting the Trusted Computing model and it's successors. The winners of this ficticious version of Perl Harbor are very easy to pick; Microsoft, RIAA, MPAA, and the studios.
Not only is the new SCO pissing people off with it's legal bullshit, they are eviscerating the former Santa Cruz Operation's fine name and then dragging the corpse through the streets. I suspect that the vast majority of non-geeks who are following this thing don't even realize that the new SCO is the antithesis of the old SCO.
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IANAL It wouldn't be illegal to receive this stuff no matter what the format. There is no reasonable expectation of privacy for transmissions in this band (it is not even intended for communications use). One really cool thing about this band is that no license is required to operate in the band and there are tons of perfectly good 500 to 1000 watt 2.4 MHz magnetrons with power supplies discarded every year -- free for the taking from dumpsters and the sides of residential streets. You can even buy a new 2.4 MHz magnetron with power supply for almost nothing.
It's not translated at all, it is written in Old (or is it Middle?) English. I seriously doubt that the grammar or spelling is wrong as Chaucer is a raher famous writer and is regarded by many English professors as the "father of English Literature". For a sort of dictionary see http://www.towson.edu/~duncan/glossary.html
I have never heard of "NFL Sunday Ticket" and the jargon dictionary does not list "NFL" Is it an off-peak pricing program or does it give you better speed or shorten the latency on Sundays?
No, in this case the lawbreakers are political representatives for large corporations and the laws that you are referring to do not apply to them. Remember that in the US, politicians and corporate executives above a certain level (the level and the degrees of immunity largely depend upon how much the corporation has donated to the politicians) are immune from most laws. In some states there are some exceptions to this immunity, such as when a politician in South Dakota was unable to cover up that he was speeding, ran a stop sign and killed a motorcyclist (although he did try).
I know of one Network Service Provider (NSP) that keeps call detail records (CDRs) for six months and another ASP that retains CDRs for up to one year. An NSP is a provider that sells dialup services to ISPs, which typically are billed on either a per port basis or per hour. There are NO US laws that specify minimum CDR retention times, the retention times are based upon billing requirements. Some NSPs do not retain CDRs for customers that are billed per port for any longer than a few days to generate reports and to track network abusers (think abuse@whatever.net). The reason that an NSP keeps CDRs is in case there is a billing dispute with one of the customer ISPs. An ISP that provides it's own POPs (which is rare) and does not charge for usage shouldn't need to keep records for more than a week or so (to generate various internal reports and to identify network abusers).
There are seems to be many people who hate SPEWS, presumably because their IP addresses got listed by a SPEWS escalation/expansion due to the ISP not shutting down spammers. If a significant number of mail server admins believed that SPEWS doesn't work that the admins would ignore SPEWS and SPEWS would be a non-issue. This venomous hatred of SPEWS is very useful. It is difficult or impossible to know how many ISPs are using SPEWS, however, from the number of REALLY pissed off people listed in SPEWS, it is possible to infer that a significant number of mail admin are using SPEWS. From what I understand, even Spamcop doesn't recommend the use of the Spamcop deny list. Neither Google nor I am aware of a list named "orb". If you are referring ORBS, ORBS is not a comprehensive list of spammers, ORBS is a useful supplemental list because it lists open relays.
I may be getting my three letter publisher names mixed up, but doesn't IDG do nice reviews for Microsoft? This whole scenario seems to be tailor written as FUD promoting the Trusted Computing model and it's successors. The winners of this ficticious version of Perl Harbor are very easy to pick; Microsoft, RIAA, MPAA, and the studios.
Not only is the new SCO pissing people off with it's legal bullshit, they are eviscerating the former Santa Cruz Operation's fine name and then dragging the corpse through the streets. I suspect that the vast majority of non-geeks who are following this thing don't even realize that the new SCO is the antithesis of the old SCO.