There you go, now stop buying those darn DVD's and complaining that someone will crack the copy protection anyway. We KNOW, before it's even in stores you can get full DVD rips (yes, you can even get the full 4,7G download's if you look hard enough). And if I buy a DVD that doesn't play in my machine, without going through stuff like MacTheRipper or so (Johnny English for example) I return it to wherever I bought it and say it won't play (I take my PowerBook with me) and demand a refund.
There are great solutions out there for cheap or for free that replace a lot of functionality of Outlook/Exchange. The problem is, compatibility to migrate and user adoption.
The compatibility to migrate is: you can't just copy the data from one server to another because of it's proprietary layout. It was a bad choice in the past and it's now rearing it's ugly head.
The other, user adoption is simple: people don't like change. I've been fired before because I implemented changes in security according to SoX! That company still is not SoX compliant and won't be for a long time, just because the policy changes (disabling auto-login on workstations, locking up after the workday, separating and securing financially sensitive data) are not according to what users want. And it's not the end-user drones, they will accept ANY change, it's the middle-management, people that have been there for 30+ years, micromanaging 10 people, and don't want to change because that would imply that they will actually have to manage something.
I have my personal e-mail and calendar on IMAP, have done it for years. It works on my Mac, Windows, Linux and it works on any system I come. I just point my mailbox to the server and point my calendar to another IMAP folder. Most clients support iCal (Outlook, SharePoint etc. also use iCal, just the wrapper to store it and server-client communication is proprietary). I have implemented similar solutions and it all works, they have shared calendars, e-mail and all the works you can get from Exchange it's open so they can change systems whenever they want, it's cheaper than Exchange and requires less resources.
It is great they found out what caused the problem, but that isn't going to bring the craft back to life. And for all you people that comment here, they should've done this and that... get out of school, find a job in aeronautics and see if you can do it better, if you can they'll happily accept you and still, in your design, you'll make errors.
I have worked for different large and small companies, everybody makes mistakes. I've seen all connections for a large datacenter going down because somebody made a mistake updating a single firewall, I've seen professional cooling solution designers install a triple-redundant system for said datacenter which went down completely because the datacenter didn't produce enough heat yet and one of the regulators had a wrong offset which caused the cooling to freeze.
I have seen people insert commands in a mainframe which hung the whole thing and it took a few IBM engineers to start it up again.
Yes, people make mistakes and hopefully they'll learn from it. We shouldn't be outraged about it or fire them, because those mistakes are basically paid-for education. If you can do it better, they'll hire you, if you can't, STFU. Space is large, and those devices are just like servers, a single mistake can bring them down. The problem is the ping time is 60 minutes, so before you even get a response from a system, it's an hour later. The sun is a powerful source of energy and in an hour you can get sun-burnt in summer on earth, try sunbathing on the planet Mercury or just in outer space, and see the difference after an hour, that's what we're talking about.
The problem is that the Internet IS broke, it doesn't have the money for such overhauls. I agree that we should change something about it, but rebooting is a bit harsh. Rather, start implementing IPv6, force it through, remove DRM & patents and we can start.
Basically you just have to vote for (what you think will be) the lesser evil for a certain time period. As we all know, power corrupts, and in the USA for example, there is only 2 options: democrat (which currently oppose war, but take away your rights) and republican (which currently go into war, and take away your rights). All other options, parties etc. that have any good ideas, don't have a) the money, and b) the people to grab the attention of the main American public.
And again, it takes lots and lots of money to run for any public office, so the money has to come from somewhere, and you don't get anything for free (especially not money) so you'll have to do some 'favors' for your money shooters later on. Congratulations, you have just laid the seeds for all-scale corruption in the government. Imho, people in politics or running for offices shouldn't be allowed to accept or use the money provided to them by others. All of a sudden, you'll have lots of options more and some democracy will be restored. Most countries in Europe, don't have a 2-party system, but rather have a dozen parties or more each with their own ideals. If they don't get a majority of votes with a single party they can decide to fuse 2 or more large parties together for governance, which is not ideal, but at least you'll have a party that represents the balanced ideals (or a version of it) from the majority of the people that voted and you'll still have a bunch of other parties that took 'seats' in the government which could balance them out.
Of course it's always good to have people in both extremities of opposition, so that they don't pass idiotic things. The problem in the US is that there are only 2 parties on either side of the extremities, so either they collude on their benefactors and pass idiotic things or they fight endlessly over minor things.
Maggie makes her picks by spinning the wheel. As you will see from the results, she has an average of 50% correctness (8-7,7-8,...), which would make it a statistically correct random spin. It's not like she's correct 90% of the times, because that would indeed be weird.
I have been thinking of this for a while, but all our brain does is run down a path to make a decision on weighted randoms and re-sort the indexes and weights based on the feedback. Kinda like the PageRanking, but more sophisticated.
For example, to 'decide' whether an object is a ball:
And deciding on the feedback we get: (if positive weight + feedbackstrength else weight - feedbackstrength) we do make more accurate decisions in the future (or hopefully).
Of course such database would become infinitely large and slow (currently at least) compared to our brain, just because of the technology constraints but I think you could pull it off.
I don't know how exactly the bug came above, but don't you think that inputting any UTF-8 text into Word shouldn't crash the system? Ok, I can agree that you don't want to accept bad data, but just reject it then. I mean, Word 2007 is now based on XML (or so they say). If the XML is wrong, it would be simple to detect that using an XML parser, which you could perfect and use for several applications. It's not THAT difficult to create a good set of XML/data parsers which gives you the status OK or NOT OK and then allows it to go into the system.
In software programming, just as much as in web programming, there is a saying: never trust the input, no matter where (you think) it comes from.
If it crashes in any other way (overwriting memory, input through plugins like SOAP or so) the same is true, it is Bad Programming (c) because you either didn't check the input, or didn't protect your share of memory.
They should pull cops over too for speeding. They pull me for doing a little over the limit on the 65mph highway, then I see them speeding by going at least 90mph in a 55mph zone (Buffalo, NY for example) whilst talking on their cell phone, no emergency either because they're just doing rounds on the highway pulling over people that are going 60mph.
I know cops are exempt from the cell phone law, but there is no reason they should be allowed going high speeds in a non-emergency situation calling their girlfriend, or rather anyone that hasn't have to do with the job.
What's so expensive about making a movie? Starting a company costs more or less the same. The problem is that 'actors' demand such high wages, everybody else (the peepz that aren't on tape) just earn as much as you and me. There are plenty of movies out there that made it to the big screen and had cost less than 100k.
There is a convention that space doesn't belong to a certain country and that they won't put WMD's or other weapons in space. Again, this is just a convention/treaty, something that the USGov isn't really keen or good at applying.
... that hashes collide, all the time. It probably won't collide over a large data chunk, but if you split the data chunks into $number chunks and send around MD5's (or other hashes) for that, you'll multiply the possible collisions by $number.
The only solution therefore is to create a one-to-one hash for each chunk, but then you could just as well transfer the data, because the hash size = chunk size.
Therefore, this approach won't work. Because, say you are transferring an OGG file (of your favorite indie band under the CCL of course) and you query for all people (multicast) for a chunk with that hash. A chunk of my LaTeX document could possibly have the same hash, so I send it to you. Since you have programmatically no way of checking the source of my chunk, and the hash is the same, your program will accept it and you'll get a corrupted OGG. Solution, rehash the whole file afterwards to check if it's still good, problem then is that you'll have to restart all the way, since you have no way of checking which chunk was wrong. You can off course, get sub-solutions off that to be more precise and loose less data, but the complexity and cost of such algorithms increases with such rate that it won't be worth implementing it.
A heat pump (pumping hot air out and pumping cold air in) is not an air-conditioning. That's called a fan (albeit very large) and yes, they can move a lot of energy using minimal energy to do so. That's just displacements of air and doesn't work if the exterior temperature is higher than the required internal temperature.
Generating the cold air (by extremely cooling the hot air) as a real air conditioning does is not that efficient. You can't possibly remove more energy out of a system than the energy you put into the system (or my physics have been off a long time and I should be working on a perpetuum mobile right now).
You could use a 'half-open' system, that uses the external air to cool down the systems which is inherently cheaper in energy usage than using a fully-closed system, but the problem is (and I've seen it used in datacenters, don't get me wrong) that on hot summer days, there is a minimal amount of energy to dispense or more heat gets added thus letting the actual cooling work harder or fail and on cold winter days, the circulation freezes and it fails too. Yes, I've seen that system used in an actual large (new) datacenter with those exact problems popping up after a few months.
There is already one car dealer in the US that does it. OK, it's a roadster (Tesla Roadster), it is expensive (as are all roadsters and new technology) and you can just plug it in to the 110V plugs or your 220V plugs (the ones modern homes have for washing machines etc.) the range is reportedly great (100 miles/charge) but I doubt that any ol' gas station is going to let you use their electricity hookup for a few hours to charge your car on a road trip. It's great for local city driving, probably going to work, going to the club and picking up a hot girl, but not for going off to Mexico with that same girl.
It's the other way around with A/C, you have to put 2x-3x the energy into the system to get 1x the cooling energy.
Meaning: if you would heat the area with a 100% efficient heating system, you use the same amount of energy to add 3 degrees, than to cool it 1 degree.
A/C aren't very efficient, since they're basically large dry fridges with the door wide open and a heating element (the servers) near it.
So THAT's why those CRT's are so heavy. They should have put 5-8 pounds of something else that blocks the radiation, would've been much lighter to move.
Well, I guess Pascal Sauvage (movie: Johnny English) had a good idea after all, you could just make England one big prison for all the criminals in the world. Heck, you have the infrastructure already in place.
Really, the article is great in explaining your manager how Unix processes work. It's a down-to-earth introductory explanation of processes and has some interesting information (which we all know, because we're all POSIX guru's) for newbie's and junior sysadmins switching to Linux/Unix/AIX
Yeah, but if you're making $1 million selling illegal drugs, and then putting it on US banks, you're f*in stupid. Usually, if you're that deep in the game, you have a shill company you 'work' for, which gives them a 'legal' income (be it foreign or not) for reported living expenses (house/gas/water/...) while you pay cash or with a foreign credit card for the other unreported necessities and luxuries of life.
The judges/IRS cannot convict you for living very, very cheap or getting 'good deals' on cars/houses. Of course if they catch you bringing in >$10,000 at a time with either the card OR hard cash, you'll have problems, but hey, I never had a problem bringing in foreign money (no, I'm not doing anything illegal, it's just that I had 'foreign' income).
Have you ever used the ASUS website? Any of their websites (the US, the European or the Taiwanese one) is always down, or slowed down to a crawl. It's nigh impossible to get anything (let alone information or drivers) from there. I used to surf around for minutes searching other sites to download their shite and their page was still coming in at 1k/s and they seem to have a 3MB large page.
So yeah, it's already off-line, slashdotting it is not going to help a lot.
You're getting it all wrong. Let me tell you why: So apparently any time you don't want to tell the authorities something that someone else told you, all you have to do is say "but I'm a blogger!".
You don't have to tell the authorities anything, anytime. It is the right to remain silent and everything you say can and will be used against you clause of the rights read to you when you are arrested, it's in the constitution, it's in many other laws.
Journalists are anyone who run newspapers, write for newspapers, or create a piece to be published in a newspaper. Newspapers can also be online, like blogs could be considered the school newspaper, not the best, but still enough for the journalists to write their story in. Do you think that Walter Cronkite cared? No, it was probably just a job where he had a little textarea on his computer screen where he could spew his thoughts or observations about what happened.
Now, the case of point is, if I report on our oppressive government, I should be able to publish that without any reproof from them. If people read what I say they can agree, care, not care, that's up to the viewer/reader and the journalist just hopes that it will have some impact to work against our oppressive government. Now if I do the same thing, but I get put into jail for it, that's not good, since you can't read it nor agree/disagree with my opinion. The government can keep on killing people everywhere and keep spying on us without any exposure, that's not a good idea, since if a person or body of persons thinks they can get away with something, it will become more behaviour than once-in-a-while.
The problem with this person was, that the government tries to spy on us by collecting background information on the leaders of peace-rally's and other conventions of people (which is by the way totally constitutional) so that in the future, might that certain $group-for-$right become big and a threat to the oppressive government (trying to overthrow it or something, which is again, constitutional), they can eliminate it silently and keep on doing their dirty deeds thus undermining the effectiveness of the constitution which people died (and still die) for protecting. Yes, it's our right (empowered by the constitution) to organize and throw over the ruling government and install a new president.
The other problem was, that the legal way apparently wasn't good enough for our dear government, so they tucked him away, hoping it would cool off and he would turn over the 'evidence'. He kept on saying no, he worked with the government as much as possible, even offering the judge to decide whether or not the evidence was to be overturned. Why was that? we can only speculate. Was it not in the governments best interest to let the judge decide? Was there actually no evidence, and were they just looking into collecting more data on our good citizens? Was there certain police action involved that they didn't want the world to see?
Your arguments are moot. We have the right to become a journalist, whether we write for the NY Times, the local paper, a school paper or an online paper, we have the right to observe our governments actions and criticize it. We have the right to remain silent and not incriminate ourselves or the people we interview, so that they, if they are working on a secret plan to overthrow the government, have the opportunity to do so and not get shut down prematurely by 'accident' or other means (being marked as terrorist and shipped of to a country no-one ever heard of).
For some or another reason the lameness filter won't post a list of companies/products I had listed.
WebPhone, CUSeeMe, Net2Phone,... all around 1995
Much dotcom boomers which I even remember using. CUSeeMe for example has been around forever, NeVoT is an example of something that ran on older stuff. I used to do it while messing around with modems. ICQ had it (I don't know when exactly).
NEVOT (NetworkVoice Terminal) is a media agent that provides packet-voice communicationsacross internetworks. It operates in either unicast, simulated multicast or IP multicast environments, using the vat or RTP protocols. NEVOT is part of the SPOKES conferencing systems that allows to create flexible multimedia applications from independent components. This document describes installation, operation and implementation of NEVOT. Copyright 1991-1995 by AT&T Bell Laboratories and GMD Fokus;
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Stranger Than Fiction, Casino Royale, and The Pursuit of Happyness
There you go, now stop buying those darn DVD's and complaining that someone will crack the copy protection anyway. We KNOW, before it's even in stores you can get full DVD rips (yes, you can even get the full 4,7G download's if you look hard enough). And if I buy a DVD that doesn't play in my machine, without going through stuff like MacTheRipper or so (Johnny English for example) I return it to wherever I bought it and say it won't play (I take my PowerBook with me) and demand a refund.
There are great solutions out there for cheap or for free that replace a lot of functionality of Outlook/Exchange. The problem is, compatibility to migrate and user adoption.
The compatibility to migrate is: you can't just copy the data from one server to another because of it's proprietary layout. It was a bad choice in the past and it's now rearing it's ugly head.
The other, user adoption is simple: people don't like change. I've been fired before because I implemented changes in security according to SoX! That company still is not SoX compliant and won't be for a long time, just because the policy changes (disabling auto-login on workstations, locking up after the workday, separating and securing financially sensitive data) are not according to what users want. And it's not the end-user drones, they will accept ANY change, it's the middle-management, people that have been there for 30+ years, micromanaging 10 people, and don't want to change because that would imply that they will actually have to manage something.
I have my personal e-mail and calendar on IMAP, have done it for years. It works on my Mac, Windows, Linux and it works on any system I come. I just point my mailbox to the server and point my calendar to another IMAP folder. Most clients support iCal (Outlook, SharePoint etc. also use iCal, just the wrapper to store it and server-client communication is proprietary). I have implemented similar solutions and it all works, they have shared calendars, e-mail and all the works you can get from Exchange it's open so they can change systems whenever they want, it's cheaper than Exchange and requires less resources.
It is great they found out what caused the problem, but that isn't going to bring the craft back to life. And for all you people that comment here, they should've done this and that... get out of school, find a job in aeronautics and see if you can do it better, if you can they'll happily accept you and still, in your design, you'll make errors.
I have worked for different large and small companies, everybody makes mistakes. I've seen all connections for a large datacenter going down because somebody made a mistake updating a single firewall, I've seen professional cooling solution designers install a triple-redundant system for said datacenter which went down completely because the datacenter didn't produce enough heat yet and one of the regulators had a wrong offset which caused the cooling to freeze.
I have seen people insert commands in a mainframe which hung the whole thing and it took a few IBM engineers to start it up again.
Yes, people make mistakes and hopefully they'll learn from it. We shouldn't be outraged about it or fire them, because those mistakes are basically paid-for education. If you can do it better, they'll hire you, if you can't, STFU. Space is large, and those devices are just like servers, a single mistake can bring them down. The problem is the ping time is 60 minutes, so before you even get a response from a system, it's an hour later. The sun is a powerful source of energy and in an hour you can get sun-burnt in summer on earth, try sunbathing on the planet Mercury or just in outer space, and see the difference after an hour, that's what we're talking about.
The problem is that the Internet IS broke, it doesn't have the money for such overhauls. I agree that we should change something about it, but rebooting is a bit harsh. Rather, start implementing IPv6, force it through, remove DRM & patents and we can start.
Basically you just have to vote for (what you think will be) the lesser evil for a certain time period. As we all know, power corrupts, and in the USA for example, there is only 2 options: democrat (which currently oppose war, but take away your rights) and republican (which currently go into war, and take away your rights). All other options, parties etc. that have any good ideas, don't have a) the money, and b) the people to grab the attention of the main American public.
And again, it takes lots and lots of money to run for any public office, so the money has to come from somewhere, and you don't get anything for free (especially not money) so you'll have to do some 'favors' for your money shooters later on. Congratulations, you have just laid the seeds for all-scale corruption in the government. Imho, people in politics or running for offices shouldn't be allowed to accept or use the money provided to them by others. All of a sudden, you'll have lots of options more and some democracy will be restored. Most countries in Europe, don't have a 2-party system, but rather have a dozen parties or more each with their own ideals. If they don't get a majority of votes with a single party they can decide to fuse 2 or more large parties together for governance, which is not ideal, but at least you'll have a party that represents the balanced ideals (or a version of it) from the majority of the people that voted and you'll still have a bunch of other parties that took 'seats' in the government which could balance them out.
Of course it's always good to have people in both extremities of opposition, so that they don't pass idiotic things. The problem in the US is that there are only 2 parties on either side of the extremities, so either they collude on their benefactors and pass idiotic things or they fight endlessly over minor things.
Maggie makes her picks by spinning the wheel. As you will see from the results, she has an average of 50% correctness (8-7,7-8,...), which would make it a statistically correct random spin. It's not like she's correct 90% of the times, because that would indeed be weird.
I have been thinking of this for a while, but all our brain does is run down a path to make a decision on weighted randoms and re-sort the indexes and weights based on the feedback. Kinda like the PageRanking, but more sophisticated.
For example, to 'decide' whether an object is a ball:
if(object = round){
if(sphere = perfect){
if(pattern = checkered){
random([soccerball,art][weight10,weight1])
}
}
}
And deciding on the feedback we get: (if positive weight + feedbackstrength else weight - feedbackstrength)
we do make more accurate decisions in the future (or hopefully).
Of course such database would become infinitely large and slow (currently at least) compared to our brain, just because of the technology constraints but I think you could pull it off.
I don't know how exactly the bug came above, but don't you think that inputting any UTF-8 text into Word shouldn't crash the system? Ok, I can agree that you don't want to accept bad data, but just reject it then. I mean, Word 2007 is now based on XML (or so they say). If the XML is wrong, it would be simple to detect that using an XML parser, which you could perfect and use for several applications. It's not THAT difficult to create a good set of XML/data parsers which gives you the status OK or NOT OK and then allows it to go into the system.
In software programming, just as much as in web programming, there is a saying: never trust the input, no matter where (you think) it comes from.
If it crashes in any other way (overwriting memory, input through plugins like SOAP or so) the same is true, it is Bad Programming (c) because you either didn't check the input, or didn't protect your share of memory.
They should pull cops over too for speeding. They pull me for doing a little over the limit on the 65mph highway, then I see them speeding by going at least 90mph in a 55mph zone (Buffalo, NY for example) whilst talking on their cell phone, no emergency either because they're just doing rounds on the highway pulling over people that are going 60mph.
I know cops are exempt from the cell phone law, but there is no reason they should be allowed going high speeds in a non-emergency situation calling their girlfriend, or rather anyone that hasn't have to do with the job.
What's so expensive about making a movie? Starting a company costs more or less the same. The problem is that 'actors' demand such high wages, everybody else (the peepz that aren't on tape) just earn as much as you and me. There are plenty of movies out there that made it to the big screen and had cost less than 100k.
There is a convention that space doesn't belong to a certain country and that they won't put WMD's or other weapons in space. Again, this is just a convention/treaty, something that the USGov isn't really keen or good at applying.
Yes they do collide, otherwise it would be called compression and not encryption.
... that hashes collide, all the time. It probably won't collide over a large data chunk, but if you split the data chunks into $number chunks and send around MD5's (or other hashes) for that, you'll multiply the possible collisions by $number.
The only solution therefore is to create a one-to-one hash for each chunk, but then you could just as well transfer the data, because the hash size = chunk size.
Therefore, this approach won't work. Because, say you are transferring an OGG file (of your favorite indie band under the CCL of course) and you query for all people (multicast) for a chunk with that hash. A chunk of my LaTeX document could possibly have the same hash, so I send it to you. Since you have programmatically no way of checking the source of my chunk, and the hash is the same, your program will accept it and you'll get a corrupted OGG. Solution, rehash the whole file afterwards to check if it's still good, problem then is that you'll have to restart all the way, since you have no way of checking which chunk was wrong. You can off course, get sub-solutions off that to be more precise and loose less data, but the complexity and cost of such algorithms increases with such rate that it won't be worth implementing it.
A heat pump (pumping hot air out and pumping cold air in) is not an air-conditioning. That's called a fan (albeit very large) and yes, they can move a lot of energy using minimal energy to do so. That's just displacements of air and doesn't work if the exterior temperature is higher than the required internal temperature.
Generating the cold air (by extremely cooling the hot air) as a real air conditioning does is not that efficient. You can't possibly remove more energy out of a system than the energy you put into the system (or my physics have been off a long time and I should be working on a perpetuum mobile right now).
You could use a 'half-open' system, that uses the external air to cool down the systems which is inherently cheaper in energy usage than using a fully-closed system, but the problem is (and I've seen it used in datacenters, don't get me wrong) that on hot summer days, there is a minimal amount of energy to dispense or more heat gets added thus letting the actual cooling work harder or fail and on cold winter days, the circulation freezes and it fails too. Yes, I've seen that system used in an actual large (new) datacenter with those exact problems popping up after a few months.
There is already one car dealer in the US that does it. OK, it's a roadster (Tesla Roadster), it is expensive (as are all roadsters and new technology) and you can just plug it in to the 110V plugs or your 220V plugs (the ones modern homes have for washing machines etc.) the range is reportedly great (100 miles/charge) but I doubt that any ol' gas station is going to let you use their electricity hookup for a few hours to charge your car on a road trip. It's great for local city driving, probably going to work, going to the club and picking up a hot girl, but not for going off to Mexico with that same girl.
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It's the other way around with A/C, you have to put 2x-3x the energy into the system to get 1x the cooling energy.
Meaning: if you would heat the area with a 100% efficient heating system, you use the same amount of energy to add 3 degrees, than to cool it 1 degree.
A/C aren't very efficient, since they're basically large dry fridges with the door wide open and a heating element (the servers) near it.
So THAT's why those CRT's are so heavy. They should have put 5-8 pounds of something else that blocks the radiation, would've been much lighter to move.
Chances are, if you still can't find it, your girlfriend is a man.
Well, I guess Pascal Sauvage (movie: Johnny English) had a good idea after all, you could just make England one big prison for all the criminals in the world. Heck, you have the infrastructure already in place.
Really, the article is great in explaining your manager how Unix processes work. It's a down-to-earth introductory explanation of processes and has some interesting information (which we all know, because we're all POSIX guru's) for newbie's and junior sysadmins switching to Linux/Unix/AIX
Yeah, but if you're making $1 million selling illegal drugs, and then putting it on US banks, you're f*in stupid. Usually, if you're that deep in the game, you have a shill company you 'work' for, which gives them a 'legal' income (be it foreign or not) for reported living expenses (house/gas/water/...) while you pay cash or with a foreign credit card for the other unreported necessities and luxuries of life.
The judges/IRS cannot convict you for living very, very cheap or getting 'good deals' on cars/houses. Of course if they catch you bringing in >$10,000 at a time with either the card OR hard cash, you'll have problems, but hey, I never had a problem bringing in foreign money (no, I'm not doing anything illegal, it's just that I had 'foreign' income).
Have you ever used the ASUS website? Any of their websites (the US, the European or the Taiwanese one) is always down, or slowed down to a crawl. It's nigh impossible to get anything (let alone information or drivers) from there. I used to surf around for minutes searching other sites to download their shite and their page was still coming in at 1k/s and they seem to have a 3MB large page.
So yeah, it's already off-line, slashdotting it is not going to help a lot.
You're getting it all wrong. Let me tell you why: So apparently any time you don't want to tell the authorities something that someone else told you, all you have to do is say "but I'm a blogger!".
You don't have to tell the authorities anything, anytime. It is the right to remain silent and everything you say can and will be used against you clause of the rights read to you when you are arrested, it's in the constitution, it's in many other laws.
Journalists are anyone who run newspapers, write for newspapers, or create a piece to be published in a newspaper. Newspapers can also be online, like blogs could be considered the school newspaper, not the best, but still enough for the journalists to write their story in. Do you think that Walter Cronkite cared? No, it was probably just a job where he had a little textarea on his computer screen where he could spew his thoughts or observations about what happened.
Now, the case of point is, if I report on our oppressive government, I should be able to publish that without any reproof from them. If people read what I say they can agree, care, not care, that's up to the viewer/reader and the journalist just hopes that it will have some impact to work against our oppressive government. Now if I do the same thing, but I get put into jail for it, that's not good, since you can't read it nor agree/disagree with my opinion. The government can keep on killing people everywhere and keep spying on us without any exposure, that's not a good idea, since if a person or body of persons thinks they can get away with something, it will become more behaviour than once-in-a-while.
The problem with this person was, that the government tries to spy on us by collecting background information on the leaders of peace-rally's and other conventions of people (which is by the way totally constitutional) so that in the future, might that certain $group-for-$right become big and a threat to the oppressive government (trying to overthrow it or something, which is again, constitutional), they can eliminate it silently and keep on doing their dirty deeds thus undermining the effectiveness of the constitution which people died (and still die) for protecting. Yes, it's our right (empowered by the constitution) to organize and throw over the ruling government and install a new president.
The other problem was, that the legal way apparently wasn't good enough for our dear government, so they tucked him away, hoping it would cool off and he would turn over the 'evidence'. He kept on saying no, he worked with the government as much as possible, even offering the judge to decide whether or not the evidence was to be overturned. Why was that? we can only speculate. Was it not in the governments best interest to let the judge decide? Was there actually no evidence, and were they just looking into collecting more data on our good citizens? Was there certain police action involved that they didn't want the world to see?
Your arguments are moot. We have the right to become a journalist, whether we write for the NY Times, the local paper, a school paper or an online paper, we have the right to observe our governments actions and criticize it. We have the right to remain silent and not incriminate ourselves or the people we interview, so that they, if they are working on a secret plan to overthrow the government, have the opportunity to do so and not get shut down prematurely by 'accident' or other means (being marked as terrorist and shipped of to a country no-one ever heard of).
For some or another reason the lameness filter won't post a list of companies/products I had listed.
... all around 1995
D atapoint-Corporation-Company-History.html
WebPhone, CUSeeMe, Net2Phone,
Much dotcom boomers which I even remember using. CUSeeMe for example has been around forever, NeVoT is an example of something that ran on older stuff. I used to do it while messing around with modems. ICQ had it (I don't know when exactly).
NEVOT (NetworkVoice Terminal) is a media agent that provides packet-voice communicationsacross internetworks. It operates in either unicast, simulated multicast or IP multicast environments, using the vat or RTP protocols. NEVOT is part of the SPOKES conferencing systems that allows to create flexible multimedia applications from independent components. This document describes installation, operation and implementation of NEVOT. Copyright 1991-1995 by AT&T Bell Laboratories and GMD Fokus;
Start here: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/384701.html
Also, the H.324 protocol describes a way to get video & audio conferencing over POTS. The Datapoint MINX system was one of the early steps ('80s) and had all the fun-stuff we find in calling systems today. http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/
There you go, have fun in court.