That is why it would be good if a large part of wireless networks were open. I would be listed on webpages as an open network, I could get plenty of witnesses testifying that they had been using my network, maybe the judge would occasionally have used his PDA on open wireless networks.
I would be in the same position as the commercial, free hotspots are today.
1. Limit bandwidth from unauthorized users to a fraction of the connection the owner is paying for (eg xDSL)
2. Route all traffic from unauthorized users through the gateway (eg xDSL router)
3. Block unauthorized access to port 25 to avoid spam from people on the street.
That way we could all share our internet connections and read our email when travelling without the hassle of commercial hotspots. Guest visiting us could use our networks without exchange of keys and passwords.
This is just the kind of stuff that will fill up any internet connection. Soon a 2Mbit/s ASDL line will feel like a 2400 baud modem line used to. We will all need more bandwidth. This will drive prices down for high bandwidht connections.
Then I will get a 8Mbit/s ASDL line which will actually be much faster because I block all this kind of bandwidht waste.
That real scenario does not have to involve currency.
How about when newspapers and magazines learn to put the right markers on every page of their products, to prevent you from taking a personal copy so you have to order extra copies from them?
And how long would it take to send an email on my home network. Our mail server (which is also our webserver, dhcpserver, etc) is a P133 with 64MByte RAM? It serves about 15 users just fine now.
And how about embedded systems? A wireless accesspoint with mailserver?
The guidelines recommends to optimize for screen resolution and fonts. I think that is a bad idea.
If the statistics that say most people have 800x600 screens are not already outdated, they will be soon. And how do you optimize for peoples eyesight. If I want bigger fonts I set the minimun-font-size in the browser or tell it to ignore font-sizes in webpages even if it breaks the design of some webpages.
How about just making pages that work with any font size and window sizes and then not use absolute font sizes?
>Most home users copy, and even that is starting to change lately, with awareness promoted by the BSA, mostly.
Yes, besides the copying being illegal, why would you go through the trouble of obtaining an illegal copy, CD-codes, getting around product activation and phone-home scemes, worrying about BSA
when you can just download a full office suite from openoffice.org?
802.11 or the most common microwave frequency of 2.45GHz is not the resonating frequency of water.
See: http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/microwave.html
Note: "The frequency for maximum dielectric loss lies higher than the 2.45 GHz (0.0817 cm-1) produced by most microwave ovens. This is so that the radiation is not totally adsorbed by the first layer of water it encounters and may penetrate further into the foodstuff, heating it more evenly; unabsorbed radiation passing through is mostly reflected back, due to the design of the microwave oven, and absorbed on later passes."
So this should work really well when they start using 802.11 in airplanes:-)
Because I have talked to Microsoft Research at a few occasions. I've told them that I use Open Source because it's better and they were not surprised. Some of them even use the vi editor.
Yes there are non-free parts in Lindows. E.g. Staroffice and Netscape (not sure if its still there). But most is normal Debian. Even the Lindows-specific software are deb packages.
I think we can be pretty sure the Lindows source can be compiled to a standard debian package or installed as a linux tarball.
The problem with cost analysis is that they are only reliable on a short time scale. I.e. if you keep basing you decisions on short term (3-5 years) analyses, you can end up wasting the taxpayers money in the long term (10-20 years). It is not uncommon for goverments to spend money to increase competition to save money in the future. The most common example is probably when the goverment itself have a monopoly and try to break it using privatisation. It rarerely save the taxpayer money the first few years.
And it is not only public administrations that have policies like that. I know of big companies that does not allow their suppliers to become too dominant. I.e. they choose to put their orders at a more expensive supplier to make sure that in the future they will have several competetive suppliers.
>what's the reply rate of spam? Something like.0001%
0.0001% is one in a million. So if they spam 20 million adresses in a day, they get 20 responses. Selling those 20 idiots each $50 "worth" of penis enlarging pills make then $1000.
The Nigerians might make $10000 to $100000 on every successful spam, so they just need one fool a year.
OK, I have one for you: Topology. It seems that the internet have gone from a haywire structure to a small set of spanning trees with ISP's at the root. This is obviously much easyer to control. But it could go the other way too. I can already see 802.11 accesspoints from other buildings. In 10 years we could have P2P networks running on cell phones and car computers.
Yes, that like everything else could be regulated and outlawed. But it would have to happen gradually. This means that first they have to sell those TCPA computers to real comsumers. There might be "security benefits" but the this is the comsumers that don't even want to use another browser or mailreaders to avoid virues. And it's not like it can be done behind our backs. How many/. readers in 10 years?
=== In some ways, these Free Software Foundation "enforcement actions" can be more dangerous than a typical copyright spat, because usually copyright holders seek money--say, royalties on the product that infringing companies are selling. ===
So Forbes is saying that a company should be able to violate the copyright of others work if when it is suet it is willing to share some of the profit it made.
The info format is not an official standard. However info documentation is written the texinfo format. texinfo is used to automatically produce documentation in other formats like info, HTML, Postscript, and XML.
So investers pour 30 million dollar into a company without checking out the products of the company.
Of course for all we know maybe some potential investor could have hired a graduate student who told them that at least this product was almost worthless. And maybe that investor decided to just not buy the stocks and keep quiet so they would not get sued for violating the DMCA.
Sunncomm thought they had it easy. If anyone fouln out that their product didn't work the customers and shareholders could not be told.
At least it would be difficult to talk about it without revealing too much. "We fould that the DRM only worked on two operating systems and that it could be defeated permanently by disabling a feature related to CD's or by doing someting very simple when a CD is inserted" does not really wordk.
As other have mentionen you can put together an old computer with linux that will do most of the same tasks and cost less. But it will take up more space and the saving will be eaten by the power bills (appliances like this have longer lifetimes than PC's). You can also get an old laptop for less than $500. It uses ~20Watt (monitor turned off and disk spinned down). 20W is still 1700 kWh in 10 years.
I think their presentation misses a good selling point. It could be a backup server. Although it will not be offsite (unless you use a USB removable disk) a lot of familes could benefit from a backup server at home.
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There are Knoppix DVD's.
The LinuxTAG dvd has Knoppix on it.
I just tried a DVD from a local mag with a Knoppix image on it.
Knoppix is about 2.8 GB so an uncompressed DVD would only double the capacity.
Besides on a DVD a compressed filesystem is probably faster.
A switch does not help you much.
see hunt
That is why it would be good if a large part of wireless networks were open. I would be listed on webpages as an open network, I could get plenty of witnesses testifying that they had been using my network, maybe the judge would occasionally have used his PDA on open wireless networks.
I would be in the same position as the commercial, free hotspots are today.
I would like to see a firmware that would
1. Limit bandwidth from unauthorized users to a fraction of the connection the owner is paying for (eg xDSL)
2. Route all traffic from unauthorized users through the gateway (eg xDSL router)
3. Block unauthorized access to port 25 to avoid spam from people on the street.
That way we could all share our internet connections and read our email when travelling without the hassle of commercial hotspots.
Guest visiting us could use our networks without exchange of keys and passwords.
This is just the kind of stuff that will fill up any internet connection. Soon a 2Mbit/s ASDL line will feel like a 2400 baud modem line used to. We will all need more bandwidth. This will drive prices down for high bandwidht connections.
Then I will get a 8Mbit/s ASDL line which will actually be much faster because I block all this kind of bandwidht waste.
That real scenario does not have to involve currency.
How about when newspapers and magazines learn to put the right markers on every page of their products, to prevent you from taking a personal copy so you have to order extra copies from them?
And especially more computeres have CD-burners than DVD burners. Most knoppixes are downloaded and burned by users.
But if Mandrake plans to sell these a DVD might work better for them.
And how long would it take to send an email on my home network. Our mail server (which is also our webserver, dhcpserver, etc) is a P133 with 64MByte RAM? It serves about 15 users just fine now.
And how about embedded systems? A wireless accesspoint with mailserver?
Cantus:
http://www.debain.org/?project=1
is a nice OSS tagger program
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1580
The guidelines recommends to optimize for screen resolution and fonts. I think that is a bad idea.
If the statistics that say most people have 800x600 screens are not already outdated, they will be soon. And how do you optimize for peoples eyesight. If I want bigger fonts I set the minimun-font-size in the browser or tell it to ignore font-sizes in webpages even if it breaks the design of some webpages.
How about just making pages that work with any font size and window sizes and then not use absolute font sizes?
>Most home users copy, and even that is starting to change lately, with awareness promoted by the BSA, mostly.
Yes, besides the copying being illegal, why would you go through the trouble of obtaining an illegal copy, CD-codes, getting around product activation and phone-home scemes, worrying about BSA
when you can just download a full office suite from openoffice.org?
802.11 or the most common microwave frequency of 2.45GHz is not the resonating frequency of water.
l
:-)
See:
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/microwave.htm
Note:
"The frequency for maximum dielectric loss lies higher than the 2.45 GHz (0.0817 cm-1) produced by most microwave ovens. This is so that the radiation is not totally adsorbed by the first layer of water it encounters and may penetrate further into the foodstuff, heating it more evenly; unabsorbed radiation passing through is mostly reflected back, due to the design of the microwave oven, and absorbed on later passes."
So this should work really well when they start using 802.11 in airplanes
Because I have talked to Microsoft Research at a few occasions. I've told them that I use Open Source because it's better and they were not surprised. Some of them even use the vi editor.
Yes there are non-free parts in Lindows. E.g. Staroffice and Netscape (not sure if its still there). But most is normal Debian. Even the Lindows-specific software are deb packages.
I think we can be pretty sure the Lindows source can be compiled to a standard debian package or installed as a linux tarball.
cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc foo.img
I burned one yesterday with cdrecord 2.01a19 on 2.6-test8
without SCSI emulation
The problem with cost analysis is that they are only reliable on a short time scale. I.e. if you keep basing you decisions on short term (3-5 years) analyses, you can end up wasting the taxpayers money in the long term (10-20 years).
It is not uncommon for goverments to spend money to increase competition to save money in the future. The most common example is probably when the goverment itself have a monopoly and try to break it using privatisation. It rarerely save the taxpayer money the first few years.
And it is not only public administrations that have policies like that. I know of big companies that does not allow their suppliers to become too dominant. I.e. they choose to put their orders at a more expensive supplier to make sure that in the future they will have several competetive suppliers.
>what's the reply rate of spam? Something like .0001%
0.0001% is one in a million. So if they spam 20 million adresses in a day, they get 20 responses.
Selling those 20 idiots each $50 "worth" of penis enlarging pills make then $1000.
The Nigerians might make $10000 to $100000 on every successful spam, so they just need one fool a year.
OK, I have one for you: Topology.
/. readers in 10 years?
It seems that the internet have gone from a haywire structure to a small set of spanning trees with ISP's at the root. This is obviously much easyer to control.
But it could go the other way too. I can already see 802.11 accesspoints from other buildings. In 10 years we could have P2P networks running on cell phones and car computers.
Yes, that like everything else could be regulated and outlawed. But it would have to happen gradually. This means that first they have to sell those TCPA computers to real comsumers. There might be "security benefits" but the this is the comsumers that don't even want to use another browser or mailreaders to avoid virues.
And it's not like it can be done behind our backs. How many
===
In some ways, these Free Software Foundation "enforcement actions" can be more dangerous than a typical copyright spat, because usually copyright holders seek money--say, royalties on the product that infringing companies are selling.
===
So Forbes is saying that a company should be able to violate the copyright of others work if when it is suet it is willing to share some of the profit it made.
The info format is not an official standard.
However info documentation is written the texinfo format. texinfo is used to automatically produce documentation in other formats like info, HTML, Postscript, and XML.
Something like: http://nomadbios.sunsite.dk/
?
So investers pour 30 million dollar into a company without checking out the products of the company.
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Of course for all we know maybe some potential investor could have hired a graduate student who told them that at least this product was almost worthless. And maybe that investor decided to just not buy the stocks and keep quiet so they would not get sued for violating the DMCA.
Sunncomm thought they had it easy. If anyone fouln out that their product didn't work the customers and shareholders could not be told.
At least it would be difficult to talk about it without revealing too much.
"We fould that the DRM only worked on two operating systems and that it could be defeated permanently by disabling a feature related to CD's or by doing someting very simple when a CD is inserted"
does not really wordk.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=STEH.PK&t=6m&l=
20*24*365*0.12/1000 = $21.0
As other have mentionen you can put together an old computer with linux that will do most of the same tasks and cost less. But it will take up more space and the saving will be eaten by the power bills (appliances like this have longer lifetimes than PC's). You can also get an old laptop for less than $500. It uses ~20Watt (monitor turned off and disk spinned down). 20W is still 1700 kWh in 10 years.
I think their presentation misses a good selling point. It could be a backup server. Although it will not be offsite (unless you use a USB removable disk) a lot of familes could benefit from a backup server at home.