Fact 1. Telcos rely almost entirely on public easements to run their business. Fact 2. Lack of public land would destroy almost all current Telcos.
Thus, putting Fact 1 and Fact 2 together, to me, means that the Telcos serve me first before they serve their shareholders. If they want everything deregulated so they can charge more for "premium delivered" bandwidth or whatever their current term-du-jour is, they can alter their business such that they do not rely on public funds or land to build their business.
Exactly. By the time AT&T gets anywhere with filtering, BitTorrent clients will come with encryption enabled by default and will all select a random set of ports.
Is AT&T suggesting they can somehow go up against an encrypted, data-heavy connection using random ports? Or even well-known ports like 443? You can't very well just block long transfers, either. If you do that, P2P clients will be programmed to cycle connections, only transmitting one MB or such per connection before resetting.
Best to build for the capacity you sell to your users. If you can't handle what you sold, downgrade their plans, raise prices, or install new lines.
I'm not for piracy at all, but the ISPs should stay out of criminal and civil matters altogether until they have a public order from a judge instructing them otherwise.
Fixing an arguably broken SMTP system with something like Goodmail isn't the way to go. It has been proposed in several forms to transition e-mail from "push" to "pull". When your computer sends and e-mail through mail.yourisp.com, mail.yourisp.com holds that e-mail and notifies recipient@domain.com "I'm holding a message for you from you@yourisp.com". It is then up to the configuration of domain.com whether the e-mail is downloaded immediately, ignored forever, or downloaded partially. This forces spammers to maintain servers. You can tie some sort of basic encryption/signature that makes each message take a small fraction of computing power to compute a key, probably some combination of sender address+receiver address+current time or something like that. This would force spammers to not only maintain active servers, but also dedicate expensive processing time to create each key individually. Once the abused machine is found, the data center or ISP can simply block mail pickups to that IP address, cutting out any additional spam that hadn't been picked up yet.
If they are unable to operate e-mail for customers based on their current price, they need to raise prices, lower operating costs, or stop providing e-mail altogether. I pay my ISP for a service and I expect to get it without them extorting the websites I chose to do business with for additional "fees" for e-mail delivery or "fees" for preferred content delivery speed (the whole Net Neutrality thing).
If they aren't able to offer the services demanded at the market price, change or get out of the market and make room for someone who can.
But in this case there is nothing illegal about it. It's a file search! There are numerous ways to turn it off, both user-imitated and automated. Google Desktop's installer could simply disable it and replace it.
I like Google tools as much as the next guy, and generally distrust MS... but.. it's a file search. Searching files is something an operating system does.
I can only imagine Google's crying if MS had left their new queryable file system in place.
I doubt many things are recycled wholesale. Instead, they are taken apart by cheap laborers and machines and sorted into material types. For instance, melting all plastics down can create a cheap source of low-grade plastic suitable for things like residential drainage pipes, plastic mesh, non-fire retardant insulation, etc. Metal can be processed using the same metal processing that normal recyclers use after the more valuable pieces are removed. Ceramics, silicone, rubber, and glass can be crushed/melted and used as additives to asphalt or roofing tiles. Most paper can be recycled, too, or at least burnt fairly cleanly.
To those site developers that are having issues with Safari on Windows, you can enable the Safari Debug tools like you can on Mac. On OS X you would do:
The stupid thing is that why should integrating with Windows infringe on patents at all? I paid for software, I should be free to do with it as I please. If they aren't ready to accept me tinkering with it, they should never have sold it in the first place.
When I buy a car, I can take a sludge hammer to it. I can chop it up into tiny pieces and re-sell it. I can repaint it, put new seats in, I can even replace the engine. Why should software be any different? Are there any other industries protected by such a strong veil?
Do not let your district fall for the "laptop for every child" ploy. It's a trap. The productivity gains are none whatsoever. Combine that with even higher IT costs, licensing costs, etc, and it's a taxpayer's nightmare.
Try to push for the library to have laptops instead that students can check out like they do books. Set them up on Linux -- if the student is just typing, they shouldn't need Internet outside of school. Set up an easy system to wipe/re-image the drives upon return. Everyone wins.
If they want it unregulated, they need to use only private land. Since they use public easements, the public has a right to regulate it through the Government. The Government should serve the people. In this case, it is of everyone's interest to allow companies to use the public easements -- companies stay in business and the public gets a valuable service from it. At no time should any concession be given to companies that require public property to operate. If a company disappears because they cannot serve the public appropriately, other companies will quickly fill the void.
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When you are working on a $7,500 contract producing media that will cost the client over $50,000 to print you don't trust your color profiles to some unknown program.
I can tell you that companies get really, really angry when their logo color comes out wrong. Sometimes you can blame the printer, but more typically it's the designer.
Adobe products do have quirks and some features do have steep learning curves, but they all do color extremely well and are very consistent.
I didn't see the last one but I've seen some spectacularly bright ones even as far away as Tampa/St. Pete (on the opposite coast of Florida).
The night launches are always better, but during the summer it can be hard to see due to the general cloudiness and rain patterns of the Florida summer.
Places has a lot more capabilities than just bookmark organization.
Places also introduces the ultra-compact SQLite into the bookmark and history arena. Hopefully as adoption of SQLite continues we can see less Mork files and other file types in the Mozilla applications.
As a system administrator, it would be completely awesome to integrate directly with my users' SQLite files, introducing bookmarks at logon, reorganizing them at logon, etc. Currently I have to parse HTML files and other such atrocities.
And before you scream that a SQL engine is bloat -- SQLite is obscenely small and compact.
When you compare IIS 6 to the comparable Apache version (2.2), they both have the same number of advisories. Note that Apache 2.2 has an unpatched very low risk vulnerability when run on Windows. Interestingly, Apache supports more platforms yet has less bugs considering one of the three bugs only targets one operating system.
I don't question their results, although I'd suspect there are also a high number of Cpanel hosts slammed full of malware, too.
You want access to public easements to run your fiber? You play by common carrier rules. The public owns that land and are granting you temporary, paid rights to use it and reserve the right to revoke it at any time, including seizing ownership of anything on that land. You lose temporary rights when you start serving yourself instead of serving the public.
If you don't like the rules, don't play them. Other companies will step up where you fail and provide the service the public demands and deserves.
XP SP0 ran fine with the computers at the time. In fact, XP Pro runs perfectly fine with 512 MB of RAM and Outlook + OpenOffice + Firefox (with things like browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers set to be very memory conservative). The problem comes in with drivers and other packages that users feel the need to install: overambitious virus protection, spyware detection, image editors, etc -- most of which have features the traditional home or office user don't use or don't need.
HP drivers, for instance, are notoriously gigantic to the point that at least a few people refuse to buy HP printers -- on the order of several hundred MB just to print. The standalone drivers are often incomplete. The HP package insists on installing an auto-updater, too, because if anything needs a 12MB resident program to check for updates, it's your printer.
Write to your reps. Most of them are completely clueless and have been fed unhealthy amounts of FUD that programs like Microsoft Office couldn't be used. They can, in fact, be used, and if an entire state government were to commit to using them in such a manner, Microsoft would be forced to provide improved support or lose them entirely to OpenOffice or alternatives.
From reading the PDF filing, it seems like the president of the company is the only guy there. I don't think you'd get very far with a CPA with only $100k in funding that has to cover salaries and research, too.
Lesson: You don't offer "common stock" to people without following detailed securities regulations and laws. In fact, you don't mention that at all until you've consulted with people that know of these things. The president of Liftport obviously never took an Economics class where you would have learned at least that the whole stock system is very complicated and very regulated.
Good call, Washington (state). Sucks for the idea, though.
If it's a workstation, simply write a script that reboots it after N minutes of inactivity. When you leave your desk (or are being raided...) lock your workstation. By the time they get someone in there that can unlock it, the script will have run and the box would reboot. Besides, many typical "unlock the root password" mechanisms require a reboot anyway.
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Fact 1. Telcos rely almost entirely on public easements to run their business.
Fact 2. Lack of public land would destroy almost all current Telcos.
Thus, putting Fact 1 and Fact 2 together, to me, means that the Telcos serve me first before they serve their shareholders. If they want everything deregulated so they can charge more for "premium delivered" bandwidth or whatever their current term-du-jour is, they can alter their business such that they do not rely on public funds or land to build their business.
Exactly. By the time AT&T gets anywhere with filtering, BitTorrent clients will come with encryption enabled by default and will all select a random set of ports.
Is AT&T suggesting they can somehow go up against an encrypted, data-heavy connection using random ports? Or even well-known ports like 443? You can't very well just block long transfers, either. If you do that, P2P clients will be programmed to cycle connections, only transmitting one MB or such per connection before resetting.
Best to build for the capacity you sell to your users. If you can't handle what you sold, downgrade their plans, raise prices, or install new lines.
I'm not for piracy at all, but the ISPs should stay out of criminal and civil matters altogether until they have a public order from a judge instructing them otherwise.
Fixing an arguably broken SMTP system with something like Goodmail isn't the way to go. It has been proposed in several forms to transition e-mail from "push" to "pull". When your computer sends and e-mail through mail.yourisp.com, mail.yourisp.com holds that e-mail and notifies recipient@domain.com "I'm holding a message for you from you@yourisp.com". It is then up to the configuration of domain.com whether the e-mail is downloaded immediately, ignored forever, or downloaded partially. This forces spammers to maintain servers. You can tie some sort of basic encryption/signature that makes each message take a small fraction of computing power to compute a key, probably some combination of sender address+receiver address+current time or something like that. This would force spammers to not only maintain active servers, but also dedicate expensive processing time to create each key individually. Once the abused machine is found, the data center or ISP can simply block mail pickups to that IP address, cutting out any additional spam that hadn't been picked up yet.
If they are unable to operate e-mail for customers based on their current price, they need to raise prices, lower operating costs, or stop providing e-mail altogether. I pay my ISP for a service and I expect to get it without them extorting the websites I chose to do business with for additional "fees" for e-mail delivery or "fees" for preferred content delivery speed (the whole Net Neutrality thing).
If they aren't able to offer the services demanded at the market price, change or get out of the market and make room for someone who can.
But in this case there is nothing illegal about it. It's a file search! There are numerous ways to turn it off, both user-imitated and automated. Google Desktop's installer could simply disable it and replace it.
I like Google tools as much as the next guy, and generally distrust MS... but.. it's a file search. Searching files is something an operating system does.
I can only imagine Google's crying if MS had left their new queryable file system in place.
Except those damn squirrels. Those things sucked!
I doubt many things are recycled wholesale. Instead, they are taken apart by cheap laborers and machines and sorted into material types. For instance, melting all plastics down can create a cheap source of low-grade plastic suitable for things like residential drainage pipes, plastic mesh, non-fire retardant insulation, etc. Metal can be processed using the same metal processing that normal recyclers use after the more valuable pieces are removed. Ceramics, silicone, rubber, and glass can be crushed/melted and used as additives to asphalt or roofing tiles. Most paper can be recycled, too, or at least burnt fairly cleanly.
in a Terminal window. Obviously that command does not work on Windows.
Instead, open %APPDATA%\Apple Computer\Safari\Preferences.plist in your favorite text editor. Add:
and save it. Restart Safari. You now have a nifty "Debug" menu in the top menu bar, complete with the Javascript Console.
The stupid thing is that why should integrating with Windows infringe on patents at all? I paid for software, I should be free to do with it as I please. If they aren't ready to accept me tinkering with it, they should never have sold it in the first place.
When I buy a car, I can take a sludge hammer to it. I can chop it up into tiny pieces and re-sell it. I can repaint it, put new seats in, I can even replace the engine. Why should software be any different? Are there any other industries protected by such a strong veil?
Do not let your district fall for the "laptop for every child" ploy. It's a trap. The productivity gains are none whatsoever. Combine that with even higher IT costs, licensing costs, etc, and it's a taxpayer's nightmare.
Try to push for the library to have laptops instead that students can check out like they do books. Set them up on Linux -- if the student is just typing, they shouldn't need Internet outside of school. Set up an easy system to wipe/re-image the drives upon return. Everyone wins.
If they want it unregulated, they need to use only private land. Since they use public easements, the public has a right to regulate it through the Government. The Government should serve the people. In this case, it is of everyone's interest to allow companies to use the public easements -- companies stay in business and the public gets a valuable service from it. At no time should any concession be given to companies that require public property to operate. If a company disappears because they cannot serve the public appropriately, other companies will quickly fill the void.
When you are working on a $7,500 contract producing media that will cost the client over $50,000 to print you don't trust your color profiles to some unknown program.
I can tell you that companies get really, really angry when their logo color comes out wrong. Sometimes you can blame the printer, but more typically it's the designer.
Adobe products do have quirks and some features do have steep learning curves, but they all do color extremely well and are very consistent.
I didn't see the last one but I've seen some spectacularly bright ones even as far away as Tampa/St. Pete (on the opposite coast of Florida).
The night launches are always better, but during the summer it can be hard to see due to the general cloudiness and rain patterns of the Florida summer.
Ah, good point, I was off on my release dates on both accounts.
It'll be interesting to look at IIS vs. Apache vs. Other servers once they reach the same general level of maturity/usage.
Places has a lot more capabilities than just bookmark organization.
Places also introduces the ultra-compact SQLite into the bookmark and history arena. Hopefully as adoption of SQLite continues we can see less Mork files and other file types in the Mozilla applications.
As a system administrator, it would be completely awesome to integrate directly with my users' SQLite files, introducing bookmarks at logon, reorganizing them at logon, etc. Currently I have to parse HTML files and other such atrocities.
And before you scream that a SQL engine is bloat -- SQLite is obscenely small and compact.
When you compare IIS 6 to the comparable Apache version (2.2), they both have the same number of advisories. Note that Apache 2.2 has an unpatched very low risk vulnerability when run on Windows. Interestingly, Apache supports more platforms yet has less bugs considering one of the three bugs only targets one operating system.
I don't question their results, although I'd suspect there are also a high number of Cpanel hosts slammed full of malware, too.
You want access to public easements to run your fiber? You play by common carrier rules. The public owns that land and are granting you temporary, paid rights to use it and reserve the right to revoke it at any time, including seizing ownership of anything on that land. You lose temporary rights when you start serving yourself instead of serving the public.
If you don't like the rules, don't play them. Other companies will step up where you fail and provide the service the public demands and deserves.
The interesting part would quickly dwindle as you realize that they only watch reality TV and My Super Sweet 16.
And any clothes would be user-removable under the protections of the GPLv3. No clothing tivoization for me, thanks.
XP SP0 ran fine with the computers at the time. In fact, XP Pro runs perfectly fine with 512 MB of RAM and Outlook + OpenOffice + Firefox (with things like browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers set to be very memory conservative). The problem comes in with drivers and other packages that users feel the need to install: overambitious virus protection, spyware detection, image editors, etc -- most of which have features the traditional home or office user don't use or don't need.
HP drivers, for instance, are notoriously gigantic to the point that at least a few people refuse to buy HP printers -- on the order of several hundred MB just to print. The standalone drivers are often incomplete. The HP package insists on installing an auto-updater, too, because if anything needs a 12MB resident program to check for updates, it's your printer.
Clever. Hiding your kiddie porn encoded in anarchist rants! I'm onto you, buddy!
Write to your reps. Most of them are completely clueless and have been fed unhealthy amounts of FUD that programs like Microsoft Office couldn't be used. They can, in fact, be used, and if an entire state government were to commit to using them in such a manner, Microsoft would be forced to provide improved support or lose them entirely to OpenOffice or alternatives.
From reading the PDF filing, it seems like the president of the company is the only guy there. I don't think you'd get very far with a CPA with only $100k in funding that has to cover salaries and research, too.
Lesson: You don't offer "common stock" to people without following detailed securities regulations and laws. In fact, you don't mention that at all until you've consulted with people that know of these things. The president of Liftport obviously never took an Economics class where you would have learned at least that the whole stock system is very complicated and very regulated.
Good call, Washington (state). Sucks for the idea, though.
If it's a workstation, simply write a script that reboots it after N minutes of inactivity. When you leave your desk (or are being raided...) lock your workstation. By the time they get someone in there that can unlock it, the script will have run and the box would reboot. Besides, many typical "unlock the root password" mechanisms require a reboot anyway.