The only problem I found with your proposal is that Microsoft can develop their file formats/protocols/APIs internally and then implement them without releasing them until they release their product.
The solution would be a 'chinese wall' type setting where file formats/protocols/APIs have to be designed by one part of Microsoft and implemented by another part only with information that is publically available.
Better yet would be to force all these file formats/protocols/APIs to go through an open standards committee before changes can be made. And of course better file formats/protocols/APIs should be designed in the long run as many of these are poorly designed (Microsoft Word Documents are a perfect example).
I have the same problem with commenting on this case as yourself because I am located in Australia. However I am eligible to apply for a UK citizenship which I am going to do so ASAP. Hopefully this means that I will be eligible to comment on the EU case if the opputunity should arise.
there'd probably be counteries where 555 is a real telephone prefix. I'm not sure if it's a real prefix in Victoria, Australia. But it's definately not directory assistance.
When Optus@home first came out I thought the broadband market here was finally getting somewhere but I was going to wait until ADSL came out. Telstra also claimed to be coming about with a new plan to compete with Optus, but as I expected this was a load of bullshit.
But I got sick of waiting so I contacted Cable and Wireless Optus (C&WO) to inquire about Optus@home. They got back to me a week later to say that they couldn't install to my house because there is more than one dwelling on one block. After hours of phonecalls and the fact that they installed it to one of my neighbours in the same block of townhouses they agreed to install it but then the land lord had changed her mind.
At this stage, Telstra's Cable was capped at 400kbit/sec, compared to C&WO Optus@Home cable capped at 3-4Mbps for downloads. When Telstra ADSL came out they increased this cap to 512kbit/sec and I decided that this still wasn't worth it.
Finally in late November 2000 I got an email from Primus offering me ADSL for $115 a month at 1.5Mbps with no download limit. I was a bit weary about using them from a reliability point of view but I figured that anything would be better than dialup which wasn't 100% reliable anyway. So I got it and they are about the only provider without a cap so far. Unfortunatly they don't seem to be offering the same deal anymore to new subscribers. It has had it's outages as well, but we got the first 3 months for free to comphensate for that.b
I don't see how a busienss model like this will work!
Real ISPs won't buy into it. And free ISPs can already do it. And probably don't need the consultation of another company to do it for them.
And then there are people like me who have their own mail servers.
But still, what gives... anyone in Melbourne want to help me track down this Pickup guy? And with name like that I would have thought he would have had more success running a pickup truck business!
If it falls under copyright at all, then in Australia you won't be needing the X-Copyright header as everything you write is copyrighted unless you specifically specify it to be in the public domain.
You could use perl's Tail::File module to notify you in real time when your child has gone to a site that matches certain keywords in the URL or something. That would allow you to walk in on them without them knowing you were spying on them.
The other thing you could do is monitor the logs manually while you know they are using the net.
Why not port Linux to the Xbox?
Unless of course it's already PC hardware. But I am guessing that it's only a matter of time before someone has it worked out.
I have heard stories about a friend of mine hinding a packet sniffer in the seiling space at Melbourne University before. It would probably still be there if it wasn't for a cat having kittens in the same seiling space.
Australian law doesn't apply overseas. Meaning it would be perfectly legal for you to cache an Australian website. But not for an Australian to cache your website (assuming that article isn't bullshit!).
I can't beleive they've managed to sneak something out so quiet and behind our backs!
Just shows how gay our current Federal Government is! First they scare is with censorship which died down. Then they loose their popularity with Quarterly BAS (Business Activity Statement) and now this. This government is surely going to have to loose the next election!
But making proxy cache illegal? That is just crazy. The whole idea of proxying isn't to make some site loose money. I don't really see anyone sueing over this unless they think there is allot of money to be made by it.
Well, surely you'd want to provide some form of security for patient details. Like have it behind several layers of security. And you'd want to be sure that the wrong person can't get access to anything that patients can access online. The other thing is you'd want a way for your patients to verify that they are speaking to their doctor and not some poster, as well as having a way for the doctor to verify that they are talking to their patients.
If there is to be any involvement with the internet then I suggest your number one priority be security. You don't want people leaking confidential data about your patients.
While I can't really help answer you question because I don't ever buy anything online simply because I don't have a credit card (not entirely true because I've used sites where they bill me by other means, but still not very often).
But anyway more to the point is that it's in these sites best interest to openly publish their security model on their website. Customers like to know their data is safe. If you don't tell them that their details are going into a backup database beyond many layers of security, they might as well pressume that their details are being published elsewhere on their website where the world can view it.
I don't see the point of using this as a backup as others have pointed out, the battery is likely to die like that of a UPS. So it's only job would be to backup a UPS which shouldn't die anyway.
What seems more likely is to use it for replacements of hard disks. And this made me remember that it already is used like that. For example Electronic Organisers. But you'd want to have good battery testing and hot swapple battery so you can replace the battery while the machine is up. I wouldn't want to rely on a battery to protect my data as they aren't very failsafe.
Well I'm 16 and I must say that I agree with you and allot of others who replied to this thread.
I don't know how it differs overseas, but generally commercial radio here in Australia is polluted. You go to listen to a commercial station that specialises in rock, and they still play crap, some crap that I can't even figure out how they figured it was rock.
I used to like quite a variety of music, however the most mainstream radio stations play the most crap of them all, therefore I have been icolated in a way and only hear rock music.
The bands I like most are older ones, including:
Hunters & Collectors - I got their album Cut, it's very good. Holy Grail is a classic. These guys were really talented and they didn't just use the same old boring instruments that rock bands use. In addition to the usual instruments they used trumpet, french horn and trombone.
U2 - most of you should know them. I just got their latest album which is reasonably good, but I must say it's not the best they've released. Achtung Baby from 1991 is pretty good. But my favourite songs by them are "When the Streets have no names", "I still haven't found what I'm looking for", "The Unforgettable Fire" etc. I have them on the Best of 1980-1990 cd. October is also pretty good.
Apart from those, I also like INXS, Midnight Oil, Hoodoo Gurus, THe Screaming Jets, barenaked ladies, pink floyd, led zepplin, paul kelly, noiseworks just to name a few. Some of those bands will be well worth downloading mp3s of if you haven't heard of them:)
Slashdot Mirror
The only problem I found with your proposal is that Microsoft can develop their file formats/protocols/APIs internally and then implement them without releasing them until they release their product.
The solution would be a 'chinese wall' type setting where file formats/protocols/APIs have to be designed by one part of Microsoft and implemented by another part only with information that is publically available.
Better yet would be to force all these file formats/protocols/APIs to go through an open standards committee before changes can be made. And of course better file formats/protocols/APIs should be designed in the long run as many of these are poorly designed (Microsoft Word Documents are a perfect example).
I have the same problem with commenting on this case as yourself because I am located in Australia. However I am eligible to apply for a UK citizenship which I am going to do so ASAP. Hopefully this means that I will be eligible to comment on the EU case if the opputunity should arise.
When can I get that?
without paying the earth!
I believe you can get a phone like this out of your local toy store!
there'd probably be counteries where 555 is a real telephone prefix. I'm not sure if it's a real prefix in Victoria, Australia. But it's definately not directory assistance.
It gives spammers another thing to spam about as well.
Country codes are enough. How would you be meant to know where in the world that region truely is?
LCD? or could they read it from the heat in that case?
When Optus@home first came out I thought the broadband market here was finally getting somewhere but I was going to wait until ADSL came out. Telstra also claimed to be coming about with a new plan to compete with Optus, but as I expected this was a load of bullshit.
But I got sick of waiting so I contacted Cable and Wireless Optus (C&WO) to inquire about Optus@home. They got back to me a week later to say that they couldn't install to my house because there is more than one dwelling on one block. After hours of phonecalls and the fact that they installed it to one of my neighbours in the same block of townhouses they agreed to install it but then the land lord had changed her mind.
At this stage, Telstra's Cable was capped at 400kbit/sec, compared to C&WO Optus@Home cable capped at 3-4Mbps for downloads. When Telstra ADSL came out they increased this cap to 512kbit/sec and I decided that this still wasn't worth it.
Finally in late November 2000 I got an email from Primus offering me ADSL for $115 a month at 1.5Mbps with no download limit. I was a bit weary about using them from a reliability point of view but I figured that anything would be better than dialup which wasn't 100% reliable anyway. So I got it and they are about the only provider without a cap so far. Unfortunatly they don't seem to be offering the same deal anymore to new subscribers. It has had it's outages as well, but we got the first 3 months for free to comphensate for that.b
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
Real ISPs won't buy into it. And free ISPs can already do it. And probably don't need the consultation of another company to do it for them.
And then there are people like me who have their own mail servers.
But still, what gives... anyone in Melbourne want to help me track down this Pickup guy? And with name like that I would have thought he would have had more success running a pickup truck business!
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
Unless of course it's already PC hardware. But I am guessing that it's only a matter of time before someone has it worked out.
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
Just shows how gay our current Federal Government is! First they scare is with censorship which died down. Then they loose their popularity with Quarterly BAS (Business Activity Statement) and now this. This government is surely going to have to loose the next election!
But making proxy cache illegal? That is just crazy. The whole idea of proxying isn't to make some site loose money. I don't really see anyone sueing over this unless they think there is allot of money to be made by it.
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
If there is to be any involvement with the internet then I suggest your number one priority be security. You don't want people leaking confidential data about your patients.
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
But anyway more to the point is that it's in these sites best interest to openly publish their security model on their website. Customers like to know their data is safe. If you don't tell them that their details are going into a backup database beyond many layers of security, they might as well pressume that their details are being published elsewhere on their website where the world can view it.
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
What seems more likely is to use it for replacements of hard disks. And this made me remember that it already is used like that. For example Electronic Organisers. But you'd want to have good battery testing and hot swapple battery so you can replace the battery while the machine is up. I wouldn't want to rely on a battery to protect my data as they aren't very failsafe.
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
Well I'm 16 and I must say that I agree with you and allot of others who replied to this thread.
I don't know how it differs overseas, but generally commercial radio here in Australia is polluted. You go to listen to a commercial station that specialises in rock, and they still play crap, some crap that I can't even figure out how they figured it was rock.
I used to like quite a variety of music, however the most mainstream radio stations play the most crap of them all, therefore I have been icolated in a way and only hear rock music.
The bands I like most are older ones, including:
Hunters & Collectors - I got their album Cut, it's very good. Holy Grail is a classic. These guys were really talented and they didn't just use the same old boring instruments that rock bands use. In addition to the usual instruments they used trumpet, french horn and trombone.
U2 - most of you should know them. I just got their latest album which is reasonably good, but I must say it's not the best they've released. Achtung Baby from 1991 is pretty good. But my favourite songs by them are "When the Streets have no names", "I still haven't found what I'm looking for", "The Unforgettable Fire" etc. I have them on the Best of 1980-1990 cd. October is also pretty good.
Apart from those, I also like INXS, Midnight Oil, Hoodoo Gurus, THe Screaming Jets, barenaked ladies, pink floyd, led zepplin, paul kelly, noiseworks just to name a few. Some of those bands will be well worth downloading mp3s of if you haven't heard of them :)
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837