The RIAA puts the finishing touches to its' upcoming suit against the entire population of the world, citing "ears" and "memory" as devices which render the owner capable of not only listening to material for which they have not paid royalties, but committing to memory said material for later playback.
"One stumbling block has been in determining how much the deaf should pay, since clearly much of the material will be unavailable to them, but they can still feel the beat"... "We are not without heart, however, and we are seriously considering waiving any fees for those who are deaf AND blind, but only for those afflicted since birth" an RIAA spokesman said Wednesday.
"The fin will only grow so far before the inherent weakness in its structure, along with gravity, causes it to collapse. Since the current volcanic activity began in October, 2004, there have been several fins and spires that have grown and collapsed. However, this is the first one visible from the VolcanoCam.
What's with the picture in tfa? For $120,000 I'd expect something a little more aesthetic than the insides of a $10 webcam superglued to a pair of sunglasses innit?
Tell it to my mailserver... I was running an ISP for a few years so I know a thing or two about accurately tracing mail and ignoring forged headers.
The "from:" address can, of course, be completely ignored. But you can't ignore the IP of the server that delivered it to yours, extremely difficult to spoof. The highest percentage of these come from open relays, followed by open relays via open proxies, followed by spam friendly hosts (whether they realise/care or not). By the time you reach the 2nd or 3rd IP in the headers, the information becomes less and less likely to be accurate.
But you're right, the vast majority of it eminates out of the US, a significant (in my case) portion of it was relayed through open relay servers in China. A quick telnet session confirmed this with the worst of them, which then got null routed at the edge. Yes, we used to do a lot of it manually, which was very much a case of taking one step forwards and two backwards but we had little choice at the time. MAPS had just gone commercial around they very time we were trying to get a BGP feed from them. After they went commercial I couldn't even get them to answer mails trying to BUY into their service, they're not my favourite SBL.
More recently I tried to persuade the beancounters to buy a Baraccuda box, without success. I've since left that ISP, they made their bed now they can lie in it.
Been out of that game for a couple of years, so this experience is far from current perhaps there's less open relays now that there were then, but I assure you it was a significant problem.
Interesting to note, that many spam mails can be traced back to.cn domains hosted on open relay mailservers in China. Not to mention all the spam that comes in Chinese... What's with that, if they're so "locked down"?
I don't recall rich people anywhere in the world giving a fuck, generally speaking.
Revolution? Yeah, that'll work. Gather up every cent in the country, and redistribute it, bring the entire population up to $100 a month instead of $50. I can see how that would help.
Another bunch of do-gooders who think developing nations need cheap PCs. I'm in Africa, my local hardware store's damn near as cheap as I can find on Pricewatch.
The people you're targeting get paid $50 a month, my friend, and their kids go to a school which is basically 4 walls, a floor, and a roof if they're lucky.
Oh yes, a server and some thin clients is really what's needed there.
Not paper and pens. Text books. Teachers. Electricity (what are they planning to plug these things into?).
The thing about developing nations, is not that they're poor, it's that the divide between the rich and the poor is vast.
At the other end of the scale, here, you have your rich, your ex-pats, etc - and you have your $5,000/term "International School" organisations who have wireless internet, computer labs, international standard teachers, and they don't need this. Nor do the businesses, most of which are thriving, thank you very much.
I'm sitting here next to a 3Tb server in my office and a server room full of Dual Xeons next door reading about how developing nations need some sort of solution for cheap computing?
These people have so lost direction they couldn't find it with both hands and a map.
It actually looks like a nice system, that would be ideal for reducing costs in schools and some businesses world-wide, I have NO idea what they're doing thinking they're doing this for the good of the "third world".
If they really want to do something "not for profit", try volunteering for an aids project, a humanitarian project, or a teaching project.
Sometimes I look at my driver - I pay him $65 a month, and I wonder what he would have been if he'd had the education I did. HE would be sitting in this chair, for a start. I could teach him in front of this PC for a month of Sundays, and it wouldn't make up for the fact he has no basic education.
As somebody who's been stuck in sand a few times, it's actually not such a bad idea.
If you get the momentum right, rocking back and forth will often "jump" you out of it as long as you haven't been a complete dummy and run full throttle digging yourself as deep as you an go...
Dunno why they don't just pull it out with the tractor beam from the other Rover, though.
As a few have pointed out... a day late and a dollar short... Wireless... GigE... Not to mention 12w doesn't go far...
I'd rather see much more effort in developing cheap (as in similar in price to deploying PC's) blade systems - stick a box with 64 cards in it in the server room and just run the monitor and keyboard over an ethernet cable... Already available I know but man, the prices...
It gets perpetrated, because people like you read one thing and understand another. I don't recall saying that Xerox invented the GUI, yet here you are jumping up and down perpetrating the idea that people do think Xerox "invented" it.
In fact, I gave Engelbart an honorary mention in a subsequent post. But wasn't his mouse (and NLS) first presented to the public a full 5 years after MIT's Sutherland's dissertation in '63, which has equal if not more claim to be one of the roots of the "gui" concept?
You've also neglected to mention Vannevar Bush (1945), who Engelbart himself acknowledges as having given him the idea in the first place - possibly because you've made your mind up that SRI invented the gui...
It would only take 247.73274987316083206494165398275 years. I wish these articles would check their facts. 247.73274987316083206494165398275 I could live with. I think at 250 I'd start to get impatient...
I had a visitor last week who brought her new Nikon with her. She had filled up the memory stick so she asked me to empty it for her...
It was full of.NEF files (no, I haven't RTFA so I don't know if these are the files in question) so I emptied them off and she went back to taking pictures.
Thing is, the CD's she had with her that she'd got with the camera, were full of crippled software - "lite" versions you have to purchase the full version, etc.
I didn't have the time or inclination to look into it fully so maybe other Nikon owners will point out that I'm talking out my ass, which is a possibility.
Seems to me, though, that the Nikon "format" is far from user friendly, nor their software adequate or intuitively obvious to install...
You're absolutely right, I used the word stealing out of context (actually I think I put it in quotes to suggest it as a concept, not a crime).
I was using it somewhat loosely in the context of the whole "who copied who" story...
In fact the concept of GUIs have been around since the early 60's:- Englebart's mouse and Sutherland's "sketchpad" before Jobs and Woz grew their first pubic hairs...
To argue about these things would be like some descendant of Mr Fay (patented the paperclip) coming forward to claim that all other paperclips are a "copy"...
Didn't this argument do the rounds in the early 80's already?
And didn't they establish then, that the whole damn lot of them "stole" the idea from Xerox.
The Apple GUI was derived from Xerox's original idea and by some of the Xerox team who defected. Meanwhile, we got GSX/GEM when yet another team member broke away from Xerox, and if memory serves Apple did battle with Gem over IP issues.
It could be argued (I stand to be corrected), that Windows was the only GUI not led by, or written by someone from Xerox...
Incidentally, Jobs started his "IT" career selling Wozniak's blue boxes designed to allow free lobg distance phone calls...
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With added padding for those who feel inadequate with a microcup...
See, what happens when you put the tinfoil aside for even a moment...
Or better, one way ticket for those who don't
Is this story 50 days late or 315 days early?
The RIAA puts the finishing touches to its' upcoming suit against the entire population of the world, citing "ears" and "memory" as devices which render the owner capable of not only listening to material for which they have not paid royalties, but committing to memory said material for later playback.
"One stumbling block has been in determining how much the deaf should pay, since clearly much of the material will be unavailable to them, but they can still feel the beat"... "We are not without heart, however, and we are seriously considering waiving any fees for those who are deaf AND blind, but only for those afflicted since birth" an RIAA spokesman said Wednesday.
"The fin will only grow so far before the inherent weakness in its structure, along with gravity, causes it to collapse. Since the current volcanic activity began in October, 2004, there have been several fins and spires that have grown and collapsed. However, this is the first one visible from the VolcanoCam.
This image was taken on May 5, 2006, at 10:45 am PDT. You may click on the image to view it full-size."
There's already a webcam up there...
What's with the picture in tfa? For $120,000 I'd expect something a little more aesthetic than the insides of a $10 webcam superglued to a pair of sunglasses innit?
Tell it to my mailserver... I was running an ISP for a few years so I know a thing or two about accurately tracing mail and ignoring forged headers.
The "from:" address can, of course, be completely ignored. But you can't ignore the IP of the server that delivered it to yours, extremely difficult to spoof. The highest percentage of these come from open relays, followed by open relays via open proxies, followed by spam friendly hosts (whether they realise/care or not).
By the time you reach the 2nd or 3rd IP in the headers, the information becomes less and less likely to be accurate.
But you're right, the vast majority of it eminates out of the US, a significant (in my case) portion of it was relayed through open relay servers in China. A quick telnet session confirmed this with the worst of them, which then got null routed at the edge. Yes, we used to do a lot of it manually, which was very much a case of taking one step forwards and two backwards but we had little choice at the time. MAPS had just gone commercial around they very time we were trying to get a BGP feed from them. After they went commercial I couldn't even get them to answer mails trying to BUY into their service, they're not my favourite SBL.
More recently I tried to persuade the beancounters to buy a Baraccuda box, without success. I've since left that ISP, they made their bed now they can lie in it.
Been out of that game for a couple of years, so this experience is far from current perhaps there's less open relays now that there were then, but I assure you it was a significant problem.
Interesting to note, that many spam mails can be traced back to .cn domains hosted on open relay mailservers in China. Not to mention all the spam that comes in Chinese... What's with that, if they're so "locked down"?
They're probably thinking they're getting DDos'd, I wonder if anyone warned them about getting /.'d
I'm sure I'm not the only one who immediately thought "Titanic" when I saw the headline...
I don't recall rich people anywhere in the world giving a fuck, generally speaking.
Revolution? Yeah, that'll work. Gather up every cent in the country, and redistribute it, bring the entire population up to $100 a month instead of $50. I can see how that would help.
The people you're targeting get paid $50 a month, my friend, and their kids go to a school which is basically 4 walls, a floor, and a roof if they're lucky.
Oh yes, a server and some thin clients is really what's needed there.
Not paper and pens. Text books. Teachers. Electricity (what are they planning to plug these things into?).
The thing about developing nations, is not that they're poor, it's that the divide between the rich and the poor is vast.
At the other end of the scale, here, you have your rich, your ex-pats, etc - and you have your $5,000/term "International School" organisations who have wireless internet, computer labs, international standard teachers, and they don't need this. Nor do the businesses, most of which are thriving, thank you very much.
I'm sitting here next to a 3Tb server in my office and a server room full of Dual Xeons next door reading about how developing nations need some sort of solution for cheap computing?
These people have so lost direction they couldn't find it with both hands and a map.
It actually looks like a nice system, that would be ideal for reducing costs in schools and some businesses world-wide, I have NO idea what they're doing thinking they're doing this for the good of the "third world".
If they really want to do something "not for profit", try volunteering for an aids project, a humanitarian project, or a teaching project.
Sometimes I look at my driver - I pay him $65 a month, and I wonder what he would have been if he'd had the education I did. HE would be sitting in this chair, for a start. I could teach him in front of this PC for a month of Sundays, and it wouldn't make up for the fact he has no basic education.
If you get the momentum right, rocking back and forth will often "jump" you out of it as long as you haven't been a complete dummy and run full throttle digging yourself as deep as you an go...
Dunno why they don't just pull it out with the tractor beam from the other Rover, though.
Oh, wait... wrong reality...
I'd rather see much more effort in developing cheap (as in similar in price to deploying PC's) blade systems - stick a box with 64 cards in it in the server room and just run the monitor and keyboard over an ethernet cable...
Already available I know but man, the prices...
And then take away their torrent access...
Is this what they call "Chinese Torture"?
Seems to me from the series, they could transcode a DVD in about 30ms...
Is it just me, the headline made me think "Alien vs Predator?"
In fact, I gave Engelbart an honorary mention in a subsequent post. But wasn't his mouse (and NLS) first presented to the public a full 5 years after MIT's Sutherland's dissertation in '63, which has equal if not more claim to be one of the roots of the "gui" concept?
You've also neglected to mention Vannevar Bush (1945), who Engelbart himself acknowledges as having given him the idea in the first place - possibly because you've made your mind up that SRI invented the gui...
Ah, but the picture was taken after it was rotated 90 degrees the other way
I will NEVER buy anything I can't play on ANY of my pc's or standalone players, anywhere I want, any time I want.
^^^^^^^^^^^^Read it again
Clear enough?
It would only take 247.73274987316083206494165398275 years. I wish these articles would check their facts. 247.73274987316083206494165398275 I could live with. I think at 250 I'd start to get impatient...
It was full of .NEF files (no, I haven't RTFA so I don't know if these are the files in question) so I emptied them off and she went back to taking pictures.
Thing is, the CD's she had with her that she'd got with the camera, were full of crippled software - "lite" versions you have to purchase the full version, etc.
I didn't have the time or inclination to look into it fully so maybe other Nikon owners will point out that I'm talking out my ass, which is a possibility.
Seems to me, though, that the Nikon "format" is far from user friendly, nor their software adequate or intuitively obvious to install...
I was using it somewhat loosely in the context of the whole "who copied who" story...
In fact the concept of GUIs have been around since the early 60's:- Englebart's mouse and Sutherland's "sketchpad" before Jobs and Woz grew their first pubic hairs...
To argue about these things would be like some descendant of Mr Fay (patented the paperclip) coming forward to claim that all other paperclips are a "copy"...
And didn't they establish then, that the whole damn lot of them "stole" the idea from Xerox.
The Apple GUI was derived from Xerox's original idea and by some of the Xerox team who defected. Meanwhile, we got GSX/GEM when yet another team member broke away from Xerox, and if memory serves Apple did battle with Gem over IP issues.
It could be argued (I stand to be corrected), that Windows was the only GUI not led by, or written by someone from Xerox...
Incidentally, Jobs started his "IT" career selling Wozniak's blue boxes designed to allow free lobg distance phone calls...
Here endeth the history lesson...