I never "got" why people fell all over themselves about GMail and getting a GMail account. AJAX makes gmail easily one of the best user interfaces as far as webmail goes. Unlimited space, for all intents and purposes as an e-mail account goes. Free POP (and now IMAP) access. Solid spam filtering. The webmail interface is entirely searchable using Google's fast and easy search engine technology.
In short, it's everything free e-mail providers like Yahoo and Hotmail promised, but never delivered on.
On topic: I think this shows that we need some concrete fair use rights spelled out there. Frustrated with the existing bullshit system of "intellectual property" I think many people just turn away. I know; I'm one of them and I'm a Linux geek for cripes sake. I think the problem is that copyright law left it fairly vague so that it could apply to any future media, real or imagined.
But I think an 'Fair Use Bill of Rights' or something along those lines would be useful. But I don't think it's only part of the solution.
For instance, you say:
Thats right, if BSD copy and pasted all of those GPLed drivers and stripped the license and labled it BSD I wouldn't be heartbroken at all.:D Fair use, though, isn't to allow you to take parts of a copyrighted work and use it in another work wholesale. Fair use is all about using things for purposes of critique -- parody being an acceptable form of critique.
Education is extremely important. All those saying "well, what they really need is better medicine, food, etc." what I have to say is: Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for the rest of his life.
Indeed. A guy named Isaac Bayes would stand between two of the towers and every time he spotted a reference to making your penis larger, he would create a lot of thick black smoke so as to block the transmission between two towers.
And to this day, most spam filters are still called 'Bayesian filters.'
Why is it that people can't put on their critical thinking cap for 5 seconds when it comes to bashing anyone?
Look: EFF is a political entity. They might not take the case because there's no precedents to set or whatnot -- parody has all been covered before. But they sure as fsck wouldn't just tell him to get bent. They might point him to a lawyer and at least give him some pamphlets or list of resources about the law and parody.
And Apple's lawyers? Working on the weekend? Before Christmas?
These are lawyers. Ever try to contact a lawyer on a holiday weekend? Yeah, good luck. Lawyers don't work holiday weekends unless the courts make them. And the courts won't make them 'cause judges don't work holiday weekends, either, considering all of them used to be lawyers.:)
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. A store selling 18+ games to twelve-year-olds should be punished Have you ever worked in a store that sells cigarettes and/or alcohol? It's not selling to 12 year olds that's the problem when you have laws like that. It's the edge cases: 16 and 17 year olds, 18+ buying for underage, etc. It's difficult because people give you all kinds of crap for demanding ID and you can only say "Well, I just have to follow the law and the law says I have to ID you."
And even when you're trying to follow the law, you get hosed. In some states, they set up sting operations where they have underage try to buy with a fake ID (good ones, too!) or send an 18+ year old in with valid ID who passes it off to an underage person standing outside or what have you and then you, the store worker, get fined. Not the store. You get fined for being tricked.
Yeah. Let's all vote for a police state. I just love it when they take away my rights.
$ whois -H chucknorris.com [snip]
Registrant:
Top KIck Productions,Inc
Top KIck Productions,Inc Top KIck Productions,Inc
2001 Ross Ave., Suite 3000
Dallas, TX 75201
US
Email: mforshey@pattonboggs.com
Registrar Name....: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: www.register.com
Domain Name: chucknorris.com
Created on..............: Thu, Jul 17, 1997
Expires on..............: Sat, Oct 16, 2010
Record last updated on..: Sat, Jan 27, 2007
Administrative Contact:
Patton Boggs, LLP
Michael Forshey
2001 Ross Ave. Suite 3000
Dallas, TX 75201
US
Phone: 214-758-1500
Email: mforshey@pattonboggs.com
Technical Contact:
Patton Boggs, LLP
Michael Forshey
2001 Ross Ave. Suite 3000
Dallas, TX 75201
US
Phone: 214-758-1500
Email: mforshey@pattonboggs.com
DNS Servers:
ns2.virtupoint.com
ns1.virtupoint.com
[snip]
$ whois -H chucknorrisfacts.com [snip] Registrant:
www.pattonboggs.com
2001 Ross Ave. - Suite 3000
Dallas, TX 75201
US
Registrar: DOTSTER
Domain Name: CHUCKNORRISFACTS.COM
Created on: 20-DEC-05
Expires on: 20-DEC-16
Last Updated on: 03-DEC-07
Administrative, Technical Contact:
Forshey, Michael mforshey@pattonboggs.com
www.pattonboggs.com
2001 Ross Ave. - Suite 3000
Dallas, TX 75201
US
214-758-1500
214-758-1550
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.ROOT-SERVICES.US
NS2.ROOT-SERVICES.US
Mostly they can't do that with the fob keys because most of them tend to be laser-cut high-security keys as well. And even when they're not, the hardware stores usually don't have the blanks.
Wal*Mart can copy the fob keys, but they use fob blanks -- still not good for the wallet.
Have you ever locked your keys in your car? Got lost and tried calling someone, only to discover they don't know where you're at either or you can't through to anyone?
As others pointed out, you get lockout assistance without ever calling a tow truck and directions from a real, live person via GPS tracking.
Also, if you get your car stolen, OnStar automatically notifies the police.
OnStar can also be used as a hands-free cellphone service.
Think of it as a combination of every gadget you could ever want for your car with the simplicity of a single-button user interface.
If the army is using it for that reason then you know the Chinese, Russians, and any other tech savvy nation will now point their hackers at Macs. Goddammit! MOD PARENT UP!!! Is anyone in this argument even realizing that we're talking about the friggin' United friggin' States friggin' Military here?
I'm a professional UNIX (and Linux) systems administrator.
There's nothing wrong with supporting more than one OS. Just don't think that adding Mac OS X (or any OS, for that matter) to your roster makes you automatically more secure. 'Cause it don't. That's all I'm saying.
Well, speaking for personal experience, this is what I do at home:
1) I run a reasonably current version of Ubuntu and keep my patches up-to-date. 2) CMS are just fine on a dedicated Web server box. I'd never have one running publicly on my own box. Since I do sometimes do web dev at home, I do run Apache and install several CMSes in it. But none of the ports Apache is running on are exposed to the Web. They're blocked by my firewall/router. 3) The only service I have open on my firewall is OpenSSH with all current patches running on two different ports, poked through to different machines. Neither of these OpenSSH daemons are configured to accept passwords. RSA or DSA authentication only. No other auth method is enabled. 4) My firewall/router is setup with fully-customized passwords. WPA-PSK is enabled. Hard MAC filtering is enabled. Router config is not allowed access from the wireless or from the Internet -- you have to physically be connected to the switch to get to the router config. 5) DHCP on the firewall is also disabled and running on a different box using ISC DHCPD with latest patches -- also not exposed to the Internet. 6) No insecure protocols are running inside the firewall, either. 7) Even with all of this, I still monitor logs for suspicious activity and run an IDS.
See what I mean by "the skill of the administrator?"
Nowhere. Mac isn't popular enough to warrant the attention of script-kiddy like prepackaged exploit tools. Nine times out of ten, if you hit up a residential IP, you'll find Windows boxes at the other end. Why bother wasting time with Mac-related crap? Those same things you said about Linux? Yeah, they apply to Mac OS X, too.
How many times do I have to keep telling people that security is more about the skill of the IT staff than it is about the operating system it runs on?
Yes, Windows has vulnerabilities. Windows sucks as far as security goes. That goes for Vista, too. But waving around an OS like it was some magic bullet that's going to somehow fix your security problems is, well, insanity.
Me + Joke == Wooosh!
I'm actually a bit horrified if this shit is going to be used in a serious election processes. Who said it was serious? The latest controversies are over Hillary's wrinkles, the Romney's Mormonism, Huckabee's sexist and bigotted statements, and Giuliani's divorces.
This is about as serious as an episode of Guiding Light.
Send me mail with some job openings. I'll send a resume to whomever I need to. I currently live in the Tampa Bay area in FL, so Melbourne isn't that much of a big move for me. morgan***dot***greywolf***at***gmail***dot***com
...that the US (especially the Bush administration) is going to even pay out a measly 21 million dollars a year? There's a certain arrogance on behalf of the US - to pay out on a ruling like this is akin to being pushed around. Because they have to or face WTO sanctions, that's why.
Solar isn't clean, that's for sure. The 3 solar-panel investors we speak with have told us of the ecological burdens of producing solar panels. Solar panels last, on average, about 35 years. So there's an ecological impact, but it's not like coal where you're constantly trashing the Earth. Keep in mind the real costs of burning coal. It's not just the pollution, it's the strip mining and other BS associated with coal, too.
I also don't feel safe in some of the lighter cars. My favorite car happens to be a diesel Land Rover, but it's outside of my price range. I do like feeling safe, and I like something that can handle Chicago winters. Unless you have a more than a kid or two, get a Ranger with extended cab. Manual transmission is a must, too. Mine gets about 25 MPG in urban traffic, and close to 30 MPG on the highway. Not bad for a truck.
On many of these electrics, you do need to plug-in to get your initial charge. Isn't that causing just as much, if not more, pollution than burning oil locally? Someone really committed to save the planet will want to use one of the many alternative energy sources available. It's possible to live almost completely off the grid and still have plenty of electricity. For the average person, solar panels or wind turbine power will allow you to get energy from renewable sources. When you get good power from these, you sell your excess back to the grid and then pay for energy from the grid when these aren't putting out enough juice. Everybody wins. You get cheap power, the plant produces less power for you, reducing your carbon footprint, so the planet gets saved too.
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In short, it's everything free e-mail providers like Yahoo and Hotmail promised, but never delivered on.
But I think an 'Fair Use Bill of Rights' or something along those lines would be useful. But I don't think it's only part of the solution.
For instance, you say: Thats right, if BSD copy and pasted all of those GPLed drivers and stripped the license and labled it BSD I wouldn't be heartbroken at all.
Education is extremely important. All those saying "well, what they really need is better medicine, food, etc." what I have to say is: Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for the rest of his life.
Indeed. A guy named Isaac Bayes would stand between two of the towers and every time he spotted a reference to making your penis larger, he would create a lot of thick black smoke so as to block the transmission between two towers.
And to this day, most spam filters are still called 'Bayesian filters.'
Why is it that people can't put on their critical thinking cap for 5 seconds when it comes to bashing anyone?
:)
Look: EFF is a political entity. They might not take the case because there's no precedents to set or whatnot -- parody has all been covered before. But they sure as fsck wouldn't just tell him to get bent. They might point him to a lawyer and at least give him some pamphlets or list of resources about the law and parody.
And Apple's lawyers? Working on the weekend? Before Christmas?
These are lawyers. Ever try to contact a lawyer on a holiday weekend? Yeah, good luck. Lawyers don't work holiday weekends unless the courts make them. And the courts won't make them 'cause judges don't work holiday weekends, either, considering all of them used to be lawyers.
Sheesh. Think for yourself.
It's a frickin' joke.
And even when you're trying to follow the law, you get hosed. In some states, they set up sting operations where they have underage try to buy with a fake ID (good ones, too!) or send an 18+ year old in with valid ID who passes it off to an underage person standing outside or what have you and then you, the store worker, get fined. Not the store. You get fined for being tricked.
Yeah. Let's all vote for a police state. I just love it when they take away my rights.
It's called whois.
$ whois -H chucknorris.com
[snip]
Registrant:
Top KIck Productions,Inc
Top KIck Productions,Inc Top KIck Productions,Inc
2001 Ross Ave., Suite 3000
Dallas, TX 75201
US
Email: mforshey@pattonboggs.com
Registrar Name....: REGISTER.COM, INC.
Registrar Whois...: whois.register.com
Registrar Homepage: www.register.com
Domain Name: chucknorris.com
Created on..............: Thu, Jul 17, 1997
Expires on..............: Sat, Oct 16, 2010
Record last updated on..: Sat, Jan 27, 2007
Administrative Contact:
Patton Boggs, LLP
Michael Forshey
2001 Ross Ave. Suite 3000
Dallas, TX 75201
US
Phone: 214-758-1500
Email: mforshey@pattonboggs.com
Technical Contact:
Patton Boggs, LLP
Michael Forshey
2001 Ross Ave. Suite 3000
Dallas, TX 75201
US
Phone: 214-758-1500
Email: mforshey@pattonboggs.com
DNS Servers:
ns2.virtupoint.com
ns1.virtupoint.com
[snip]
$ whois -H chucknorrisfacts.com
[snip]
Registrant:
www.pattonboggs.com
2001 Ross Ave. - Suite 3000
Dallas, TX 75201
US
Registrar: DOTSTER
Domain Name: CHUCKNORRISFACTS.COM
Created on: 20-DEC-05
Expires on: 20-DEC-16
Last Updated on: 03-DEC-07
Administrative, Technical Contact:
Forshey, Michael mforshey@pattonboggs.com
www.pattonboggs.com
2001 Ross Ave. - Suite 3000
Dallas, TX 75201
US
214-758-1500
214-758-1550
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.ROOT-SERVICES.US
NS2.ROOT-SERVICES.US
End of Whois Information
Mostly they can't do that with the fob keys because most of them tend to be laser-cut high-security keys as well. And even when they're not, the hardware stores usually don't have the blanks.
Wal*Mart can copy the fob keys, but they use fob blanks -- still not good for the wallet.
Look on the bright side: it still works for older cordless phones. :)
I imagine parts of this spectrum will be auctioned off at some point.
Have you ever locked your keys in your car? Got lost and tried calling someone, only to discover they don't know where you're at either or you can't through to anyone?
As others pointed out, you get lockout assistance without ever calling a tow truck and directions from a real, live person via GPS tracking.
Also, if you get your car stolen, OnStar automatically notifies the police.
OnStar can also be used as a hands-free cellphone service.
Think of it as a combination of every gadget you could ever want for your car with the simplicity of a single-button user interface.
I'm a professional UNIX (and Linux) systems administrator.
There's nothing wrong with supporting more than one OS. Just don't think that adding Mac OS X (or any OS, for that matter) to your roster makes you automatically more secure. 'Cause it don't. That's all I'm saying.
Well, speaking for personal experience, this is what I do at home:
1) I run a reasonably current version of Ubuntu and keep my patches up-to-date.
2) CMS are just fine on a dedicated Web server box. I'd never have one running publicly on my own box. Since I do sometimes do web dev at home, I do run Apache and install several CMSes in it. But none of the ports Apache is running on are exposed to the Web. They're blocked by my firewall/router.
3) The only service I have open on my firewall is OpenSSH with all current patches running on two different ports, poked through to different machines. Neither of these OpenSSH daemons are configured to accept passwords. RSA or DSA authentication only. No other auth method is enabled.
4) My firewall/router is setup with fully-customized passwords. WPA-PSK is enabled. Hard MAC filtering is enabled. Router config is not allowed access from the wireless or from the Internet -- you have to physically be connected to the switch to get to the router config.
5) DHCP on the firewall is also disabled and running on a different box using ISC DHCPD with latest patches -- also not exposed to the Internet.
6) No insecure protocols are running inside the firewall, either.
7) Even with all of this, I still monitor logs for suspicious activity and run an IDS.
See what I mean by "the skill of the administrator?" Nowhere. Mac isn't popular enough to warrant the attention of script-kiddy like prepackaged exploit tools. Nine times out of ten, if you hit up a residential IP, you'll find Windows boxes at the other end. Why bother wasting time with Mac-related crap? Those same things you said about Linux? Yeah, they apply to Mac OS X, too.
How many times do I have to keep telling people that security is more about the skill of the IT staff than it is about the operating system it runs on?
Yes, Windows has vulnerabilities. Windows sucks as far as security goes. That goes for Vista, too. But waving around an OS like it was some magic bullet that's going to somehow fix your security problems is, well, insanity.
This is about as serious as an episode of Guiding Light.
Send me mail with some job openings. I'll send a resume to whomever I need to. I currently live in the Tampa Bay area in FL, so Melbourne isn't that much of a big move for me. morgan***dot***greywolf***at***gmail***dot***com
...that the US (especially the Bush administration) is going to even pay out a measly 21 million dollars a year? There's a certain arrogance on behalf of the US - to pay out on a ruling like this is akin to being pushed around. Because they have to or face WTO sanctions, that's why.That's what Visual Basic + SQL Server Express is for.
Or, for a more open source approach, OpenOffice.org + MySQL.
I admit to hating the looks of the Chrysler POS, but I think the Ford 500^H^H^HTaurus is a good looking car. Really.
He said pretty. He didn't say cheap.
So many people here seem to not be able to make the distinction between a mail provider and a mail client.
We're talking about a mail client -- you know a MUA -- not a mail service provider.
Thunderbird is my mail client of choice. Gmail is my main mail provider. Gmail's web interface is another mail client.
It's not vapor. Just ask Governor R'Nold. Just like the Aptera, the Tesla will be available in 2008.