Since I suspect the answer is that at least some of these institutions do block porn, I have to wonder how much they can really be said to be standing up for 'online freedom' at all. They're not standing up for freedom unless they stand up for all freedoms.
I attended a school that I assume will take the same stance as these four and when I left in June there was no blocking of porn or anything else on the Internet. There were policies forbidding using the network for any illegal (or even commercial) purposes, but you were free to access any host on the Internet that would accept a connection from your machine.
Our local Usenet feed did not include newsgroups that catered to the trading of bianries, but I believe that was largely a result of the school's desire not to spend more $$$ on disks for the news server, though they may have been avoiding having actual porn on a server that they administer.
First off, people who are saying that the purpose of I2 is not your personal pleasure. If you're doing research, go to Sudikof which is 100Mbps.
That said, there is a noticeable difference in the download speeds that you will see between I2 sites and sites on the commercial Internet, even in your dorm room. You mentioned in another post that the school's link to I2 is generally under 50% utilization and that the commercial link is often saturated. The campus LAN is rarely saturated, so the bottleneck when accessing commercial sites is usually at connection to the outside world (it was a 12Mbps link the last time I checked, but as I already mentioned, it's often completely saturated).
So what I'm saying is that I2 isn't for the MP3 and porn downloading pleasure of students, but it does speed it up for a lot of them.
My understanding is that the parody exemption for IP rights violations applies only to copyrighted works; trademark violations cannot use this defense.
I don't think that's true but if it were McDonalds could go after PETA. Check out PETA's Unhappy Meal campaign. I wasn't sure what I though of this decision until I saw this page. If PETA is using parody campaigns like this to promote their cause, I don't see what business they have complaining about parodies of their own organization.
seriously. How many other people saw 3113 and tried to read it. It took me a few seconds to realize that it was just a number and not some cryptic reference to a fashion magazine.
I heard that they would multitask much better in OS X, yet... that is being delayed..
OS X is being delayed, but these machines aren't available yet either. The demo they just showed at the WWDC was running OS X, and it would be a good bet that these machines, when released, will require OS X.
Ok, so this program can ask some simple questions and provide a verdict and suggested sentence. What I don't understand is how it's saving time. The article cited questions like did he run a red light, or was his BAC above legal levels. How long does it really take to deal with cases to which the answers to questions like this are clear.
Now, I must admit that I know nothing about the Brazilian legal system and I am asking questions that may be grounded in my own views, which are based on my knowledge of laws in the United States. It would seem to me that in the US, if a person is accused of running a red light, and they admit to that, then they will be pleading guilty. This leaves sentencing, and I find it hard to believe that an experienced judge would really need much time to senetnce a person for running a red light or littering.
So, I would think that the time savings would be in slightly more complex cases, but I don't see how this program is going to deal with this, at least not based on the examples provided in the article. What if the suspect and the arresting officer disagree as to what happened? How does this program reconcile the different accounts of the events that took place. It would seem to me that more than yes/no questions would be necessary. As for witnesses, can the program assess their credibility? There are just so many factors that are taken into account by a human judge in a real court that I can't see this helping much, unless the judges really have trouble keeping track of all of the laws that pertain to the situation.
There is no difference between posting about an IPO and posting about the Linux stock tumble - they are both of interest to certain Slashdotters.
This is not a "Linux stock tumble." The entire market is dropping, and almost every tech stock out there is getting hammered. If a Linux company were having problems along the lines of Microstrategy where part of the drop is directly related to a downward correction of past revenues, then it would be a story. The fact that Linux stocks fall when tech stocks fall is not at all surprising. Now, the fact that the stock markets crashed may or may not belong on Slashdot, but this is not some sort of Linux-related event.
Is there more information available? What are the implications of this?
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Well, no they don't.
It is just that there are so few people and they have a relatively even population distribution. Thus making a phone call to your neighbour can be long distance.
Have you lived in Vermont recently? You are wrong about the phone service in most of the state (at least in the parts I am most familiar with). In the state of Vermont residents are charged for local calls. The charges are small and there is a monthly limit on these charges, but it is not simply a matter of paying for local service and making all of the calls you want at no additional cost. I lived in Vermont briefly a couple of years ago and I now live a mile over the border in New Hampshire. It never bothered me that much, but I left the house every morning before 8 and rarely returned before midnight (being at home was rather boring), so my phone bill was minimal.
I have also never heard of a situation in Vermont where calling ones' neighbor would incur long-distance charges. Not all in-state calls are local, but calling a few houses down the road should always be a local call.
According to this article on C|Net, it will be powered by an Intel CPU and a Nvidia graphics chip. This is a complete change over everything I had heard about the subject before I read the C|Net article.
Either way we're talking about a systems that isn't scheduled to ship for almost two years. Who knows when we'll actually see them on store shelves. I feel like they're hyping this thing in an attempt to damage Playstation 2 sales so that the market isn't compltely controlled by Sony by the time the Xbox sees the inside of a retail store.
I think things are great the way they are right now. AMD and Intel are pretty much tied. If it stays that way, then you know both companies will be on the ball.
tied? AMD's market cap is about $6 billion. Intel's is over $350 billion. While their chips may be similar in performance, thse companies are not equal. Intel is quite profitable while AMD is usually losing money. AMD's profitability is slowly changing as a result of Athlon, but they are still not on equal footing with Intel.
I think that the x86 cpu market would be served well by a somewhat larger AMD. I'm not saying I want them to dominate the market, but I think that if they were closer in size to Intel they could build more fabs and spend more on R & D (though they seem to be doing quite well on the R & D front these days). I would also like to see competition from other companies. Via and Transmeta are starting to provide that competition. It will be interesting to see where things go in the next couple of years.
how did this comment get posted hours before the story was submitted?
The comments.pl script will give you a list of discuusions, some of them for articles that have not yet been posted. I'm not sure if allowing public access was intentional or merely oversight on somebody's part. Anywho, at times is is possibele to see an article before it gets posted to the main page. It obviously follows that some articles are post-dated when the poster puts them into the system. I'm not really sure why they do this.
it gets rid of the unique doubleclick cookie in your browser by replacing it with OPT_OUT, and then leaves it there. Hopefully, they won't find other ways to track you once you no longer have a unique cookie.
You can also delete the cookie(s) yourself. When I first heard about this story I went through my cookies and deleted a lot of them (including all of them from doubleclick). I also configured my browser to reject cookies from a number of ad networks. I tried doubleclick's opt-out and I am happy to say that it didn't work because they couldn't place another cookie on my system, which seems a lot better that trusting them to keep the opt-out cookie in place.
The second problem, maybe we can work on - compiling a list of decent web hosts, and keeping track of problems and sucesses. Any thoughts?
I definitely agree with you. It's really tough to pick a provider for web hosting.
I'm currently using pair, and I've been pretty happy with them. That said, they're not perfect, though they seem to be honest. They recently moved into a new facility, which involved some downtime for their entire network. While I would have liked to have seen the move made at an off-peak time (they started it early on a business morning), they did a very good job of keeping information about the status of their network available. They set up and externally hosted site specifically for this purpose and they posted to it regularly until they were back online. While the move didn't go as smoothly as they had hoped, they didn't try to keep their customers in the dark.
Back to your point, a completely unbiased site that rated service providers would be a great resource.
very true. I went to look at the expo, but I was only able to go because I happened to be at my parents house just outside NYC and I wasn't doing anything when I heard about it. I actually took a shower and hopped on a train as soon as I realized that it was taking place so close to where I was sitting around doing nothing. I made it there late on the second day. Had it not been for the full page ad in the business section of the New York Times, I would have missed it completely (I was having breakfast and reading the paper at noon when I found out about the date & location).
The ad in the Times was nice as far as reaching the business community (though the Journal would have been better for that, I don't read it so I don't know if the ad ran there as well), but some ads targeted at geeks would have been a good idea. A run of banner ads on Slashdot a month beforehand probably would have gotten my attention.
Unless the stock market comes to its senses in the next few months, I rather suspect they'll get a little more than $100 million (given absurdly high IPOs we've been seeing)!
I believe that $100 million figure is just for the 20% of the company that will be sold to the public. According to this New York Times article, the figure is actually a bit under 20%. That said, they're shooting for something closer to a $500 million market cap, though I'd say that still leaves plenty of room for the share price to jump to insanely wild heights in the first few days of trading.
I'll second that. I have three computers on my desk right now, each with a different type of pointing device. The most comfortable of them is the Logitech TrackMan Marble attached to my mac. When I'm using it I feel like I'm just resting my hand on something that's nicely fitted to my hand.
My pc has a normal mouse, which isn't nearly as comfortable. On the other hand, I feel like I have more precise control with the mouse than I do with the TrackMan, but I use the mouse a lot more frequently (it's attached to the machine that I do most of my work on).
I also have a laptop with a trackpad, which is ok. If I'm using it much I always plug a mouse in. I wouldn't want to use a trackpad all the time.
Quicktime, the proprietary player is just so cool. I mean, who cares about the fact that it's ugly, sucks CPU like a cheap whore, and is no better than mpeg for movies.
This is kind of offtopic, but I felt a need to comment on this. Quicktime is a proprietary and I don't care for the new interface, but the performance only sucks on Windows. If you're running the Mac OS it pretty much rocks (as in works well and isn't as much of a CPU hog as it is under Windows). That said, I think it says something that Quicktime only exists for two platforms and imho it is less than adequate on one of those platforms. just my $0.02
There's a free version, but there's also an enhanced version (RealJukeBox Plus) that costs $29.99.
Whats wrong with the provider of a service/good/program knowing what you do with it.
I do have a problem with the "provider" of a program knowing exactly what I do with it. What makes this worse is that the user is never informed that the "provider" is harvesting data on what they are doing, as well as what interesing files they have on their system (the article says it actually collects data on all the realmedia and mp3 audio files on the user's drive) If I chose to use Visual C++ , would Microsoft be entitled to grab a copy of my source code, or even of the names of my source files without telling me? Maybe they could better serve the market if they had some idea of exactly what every single copy of their software product was being used for. No thanks.
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The point is that he got Linux to boot on a 31 processor alpha box. That's it.
I attended a school that I assume will take the same stance as these four and when I left in June there was no blocking of porn or anything else on the Internet. There were policies forbidding using the network for any illegal (or even commercial) purposes, but you were free to access any host on the Internet that would accept a connection from your machine.
Our local Usenet feed did not include newsgroups that catered to the trading of bianries, but I believe that was largely a result of the school's desire not to spend more $$$ on disks for the news server, though they may have been avoiding having actual porn on a server that they administer.
First off, people who are saying that the purpose of I2 is not your personal pleasure. If you're doing research, go to Sudikof which is 100Mbps.
That said, there is a noticeable difference in the download speeds that you will see between I2 sites and sites on the commercial Internet, even in your dorm room. You mentioned in another post that the school's link to I2 is generally under 50% utilization and that the commercial link is often saturated. The campus LAN is rarely saturated, so the bottleneck when accessing commercial sites is usually at connection to the outside world (it was a 12Mbps link the last time I checked, but as I already mentioned, it's often completely saturated). So what I'm saying is that I2 isn't for the MP3 and porn downloading pleasure of students, but it does speed it up for a lot of them.
This is true of so many technologies. Imagine someone patenting delivering goods with a motor vehicle (as opposed to on foot or horse).
My understanding is that the parody exemption for IP rights violations applies only to copyrighted works; trademark violations cannot use this defense.
I don't think that's true but if it were McDonalds could go after PETA.
Check out PETA's Unhappy Meal campaign . I wasn't sure what I though of this decision until I saw this page. If PETA is using parody campaigns like this to promote their cause, I don't see what business they have complaining about parodies of their own organization.
why couldn't it have been HR 31337?
seriously. How many other people saw 3113 and tried to read it. It took me a few seconds to realize that it was just a number and not some cryptic reference to a fashion magazine.
I heard that they would multitask much better in OS X, yet... that is being delayed..
OS X is being delayed, but these machines aren't available yet either. The demo they just showed at the WWDC was running OS X, and it would be a good bet that these machines, when released, will require OS X.
joe
Ok, so this program can ask some simple questions and provide a verdict and suggested sentence. What I don't understand is how it's saving time. The article cited questions like did he run a red light, or was his BAC above legal levels. How long does it really take to deal with cases to which the answers to questions like this are clear.
Now, I must admit that I know nothing about the Brazilian legal system and I am asking questions that may be grounded in my own views, which are based on my knowledge of laws in the United States. It would seem to me that in the US, if a person is accused of running a red light, and they admit to that, then they will be pleading guilty. This leaves sentencing, and I find it hard to believe that an experienced judge would really need much time to senetnce a person for running a red light or littering.
So, I would think that the time savings would be in slightly more complex cases, but I don't see how this program is going to deal with this, at least not based on the examples provided in the article. What if the suspect and the arresting officer disagree as to what happened? How does this program reconcile the different accounts of the events that took place. It would seem to me that more than yes/no questions would be necessary. As for witnesses, can the program assess their credibility? There are just so many factors that are taken into account by a human judge in a real court that I can't see this helping much, unless the judges really have trouble keeping track of all of the laws that pertain to the situation.
-joe
There is no difference between posting about an IPO and posting about the Linux stock tumble - they are both of interest to certain Slashdotters.
This is not a "Linux stock tumble." The entire market is dropping, and almost every tech stock out there is getting hammered. If a Linux company were having problems along the lines of Microstrategy where part of the drop is directly related to a downward correction of past revenues, then it would be a story. The fact that Linux stocks fall when tech stocks fall is not at all surprising. Now, the fact that the stock markets crashed may or may not belong on Slashdot, but this is not some sort of Linux-related event.
Is there more information available?
What are the implications of this?
Well, no they don't.
It is just that there are so few people and they have a relatively even population distribution. Thus making a phone call to your neighbour can be long distance.
Have you lived in Vermont recently? You are wrong about the phone service in most of the state (at least in the parts I am most familiar with). In the state of Vermont residents are charged for local calls. The charges are small and there is a monthly limit on these charges, but it is not simply a matter of paying for local service and making all of the calls you want at no additional cost. I lived in Vermont briefly a couple of years ago and I now live a mile over the border in New Hampshire. It never bothered me that much, but I left the house every morning before 8 and rarely returned before midnight (being at home was rather boring), so my phone bill was minimal.
I have also never heard of a situation in Vermont where calling ones' neighbor would incur long-distance charges. Not all in-state calls are local, but calling a few houses down the road should always be a local call.
joe
did it have an intel or amd chip damnit?
According to this article on C|Net, it will be powered by an Intel CPU and a Nvidia graphics chip. This is a complete change over everything I had heard about the subject before I read the C|Net article.
Either way we're talking about a systems that isn't scheduled to ship for almost two years. Who knows when we'll actually see them on store shelves. I feel like they're hyping this thing in an attempt to damage Playstation 2 sales so that the market isn't compltely controlled by Sony by the time the Xbox sees the inside of a retail store.
joe
I think things are great the way they are right now. AMD and Intel are pretty much tied. If it stays that way, then you know both companies will be on the ball.
tied? AMD's market cap is about $6 billion. Intel's is over $350 billion. While their chips may be similar in performance, thse companies are not equal. Intel is quite profitable while AMD is usually losing money. AMD's profitability is slowly changing as a result of Athlon, but they are still not on equal footing with Intel.
I think that the x86 cpu market would be served well by a somewhat larger AMD. I'm not saying I want them to dominate the market, but I think that if they were closer in size to Intel they could build more fabs and spend more on R & D (though they seem to be doing quite well on the R & D front these days). I would also like to see competition from other companies. Via and Transmeta are starting to provide that competition. It will be interesting to see where things go in the next couple of years.
joe
how did this comment get posted hours before the story was submitted?
The comments.pl script will give you a list of discuusions, some of them for articles that have not yet been posted. I'm not sure if allowing public access was intentional or merely oversight on somebody's part. Anywho, at times is is possibele to see an article before it gets posted to the main page. It obviously follows that some articles are post-dated when the poster puts them into the system. I'm not really sure why they do this.
joe
it gets rid of the unique doubleclick cookie in your browser by replacing it with OPT_OUT, and then leaves it there. Hopefully, they won't find other ways to track you once you no longer have a unique cookie.
You can also delete the cookie(s) yourself. When I first heard about this story I went through my cookies and deleted a lot of them (including all of them from doubleclick). I also configured my browser to reject cookies from a number of ad networks.
I tried doubleclick's opt-out and I am happy to say that it didn't work because they couldn't place another cookie on my system, which seems a lot better that trusting them to keep the opt-out cookie in place.
joe
The second problem, maybe we can work on - compiling a list of decent web hosts, and keeping track of problems and sucesses. Any thoughts?
I definitely agree with you. It's really tough to pick a provider for web hosting.
I'm currently using pair, and I've been pretty happy with them. That said, they're not perfect, though they seem to be honest. They recently moved into a new facility, which involved some downtime for their entire network. While I would have liked to have seen the move made at an off-peak time (they started it early on a business morning), they did a very good job of keeping information about the status of their network available. They set up and externally hosted site specifically for this purpose and they posted to it regularly until they were back online. While the move didn't go as smoothly as they had hoped, they didn't try to keep their customers in the dark.
Back to your point, a completely unbiased site that rated service providers would be a great resource.
joe
very true.
I went to look at the expo, but I was only able to go because I happened to be at my parents house just outside NYC and I wasn't doing anything when I heard about it. I actually took a shower and hopped on a train as soon as I realized that it was taking place so close to where I was sitting around doing nothing. I made it there late on the second day. Had it not been for the full page ad in the business section of the New York Times, I would have missed it completely (I was having breakfast and reading the paper at noon when I found out about the date & location).
The ad in the Times was nice as far as reaching the business community (though the Journal would have been better for that, I don't read it so I don't know if the ad ran there as well), but some ads targeted at geeks would have been a good idea. A run of banner ads on Slashdot a month beforehand probably would have gotten my attention.
joe
Unless the stock market comes to its senses in the next few months, I rather suspect they'll get a little more than $100 million (given absurdly high IPOs we've been seeing)!
I believe that $100 million figure is just for the 20% of the company that will be sold to the public. According to this New York Times article, the figure is actually a bit under 20%. That said, they're shooting for something closer to a $500 million market cap, though I'd say that still leaves plenty of room for the share price to jump to insanely wild heights in the first few days of trading.
Is that Trackman Marble on the ADB?
Mine is ADB. I bought it about a year ago, but I haven't seen one like it for sale since.
I'll second that. I have three computers on my desk right now, each with a different type of pointing device. The most comfortable of them is the Logitech TrackMan Marble attached to my mac. When I'm using it I feel like I'm just resting my hand on something that's nicely fitted to my hand.
My pc has a normal mouse, which isn't nearly as comfortable. On the other hand, I feel like I have more precise control with the mouse than I do with the TrackMan, but I use the mouse a lot more frequently (it's attached to the machine that I do most of my work on).
I also have a laptop with a trackpad, which is ok. If I'm using it much I always plug a mouse in. I wouldn't want to use a trackpad all the time.
that's just my $.02
Someone must be running a world time clock on their desktop who can quickly post times around the world that correlate to 12.00 PST?
Here's a web site that does time conversions:
http://www.timeanddate.com/wor ldclock/fixedform.html
Here is a link to times around the world at noon today, PST
joe
Quicktime, the proprietary player is just so cool. I mean, who cares about the fact that it's ugly, sucks CPU like a cheap whore, and is no better than mpeg for movies.
This is kind of offtopic, but I felt a need to comment on this. Quicktime is a proprietary and I don't care for the new interface, but the performance only sucks on Windows. If you're running the Mac OS it pretty much rocks (as in works well and isn't as much of a CPU hog as it is under Windows). That said, I think it says something that Quicktime only exists for two platforms and imho it is less than adequate on one of those platforms.
just my $0.02
joe
It's "free". That about says it all.
There's a free version, but there's also an enhanced version (RealJukeBox Plus) that costs $29.99.
Whats wrong with the provider of a service/good/program knowing what you do with it.
I do have a problem with the "provider" of a program knowing exactly what I do with it. What makes this worse is that the user is never informed that the "provider" is harvesting data on what they are doing, as well as what interesing files they have on their system (the article says it actually collects data on all the realmedia and mp3 audio files on the user's drive) If I chose to use Visual C++ , would Microsoft be entitled to grab a copy of my source code, or even of the names of my source files without telling me? Maybe they could better serve the market if they had some idea of exactly what every single copy of their software product was being used for. No thanks.
joe
The coop's website claims $220/mo for a local loop (but I don't see what city "local" is). Sunnyvale is $350/mo, SF $500/mo.
The Coop's website implies that Sunnyvale is local ($220). The $350 figure is for San Jose. SF is $500.
Looks like they've been Slashdotted already. (Gosh, that was fast.)
It seems fine now. As great as slashdot it, I'd seriously doubt that a link from slashdot would make cnnfn's servers unreachable.
just my $0.02