After all, the first SA licenses were back in 2001 when XP was released. Vista is well past the 3 year window. I'm sure if some companies were very upset, there would have been a lawsuit by now.
Not necessarily. That just means no one actually ever filed suit. But potential lawsuits are not typically reported by the media unless one side or the other makes public statements about the legal threat (or there was a leak).
Hypothetical: Acme Widgets Corp. buys a SA license in 2001. Microsoft doesn't Vista deliver until late 2006. Someone at Acme notices and gets angry about it in 2004 or 2005 perhaps. They threaten to sue Microsoft. Microsoft then may make some sort of concessions to Acme Widgets Corp. Discounts on Office 2003 or Windows 2003 Server, free support for an additional year on one or more products, and maybe even cash incentives. So Acme Widgets never goes public with its plans, satisfied that it got something out of the bargain. You get the picture, I'm sure.
Generally when you're stating statistics like "up to 9 out of 10", that means that in at least one your test runs, whatever it was you were testing hit 9 out of 10 times, in this case the fact that Earthlink lost e-mails. You say "up to 9 out 10," because in other runs it may have been 1 out of 10, 3 out of 10, or 7 out of 10. You're trying to show that how bad it gets. When stating the statistic for useful statistical purposes, however, one should definitely also give averages, like: "overall Earthlink lost 50%". Now, in this case, Cringely actually states that his friend tried several times to send messages a block of 10 messages to Earthlink account, to an aliased Blackberry account, and to his Gmail account. Each time, Only 1-2 made it to the Earthlink and to the Blackberry (aliased off the Earthlink account), and all 10 made it to Gmail.
No doubt you use Exchange, right? Not that I'm knocking Exchange, but in terms of reliability, well, it ain't that high. Exchange is fine if you have an IT staff with a bunch of MSCEs, but Exchange is too temperamental to run at home. I find that a basic postfix or even (gak) sendmail will run for very long periods of time with little or no maintenance. As someone has admined Exchange servers in the past, I can say with confidence while it's fine for the office, I just wouldn't have time at home.
traffic shaping still isn't a breeze to setup under linux and keep in mind in many windows-centric environments, people just don't have the linux experience.
Even in Windows-centric environments, many businesses do not and will not use a Windows PC to do things like traffic shaping. Firewalls, routers, etc. of any type are generally going to be dedicated-purpose devices from companies like Cisco, Juniper, CheckPoint, etc., not PCs or other general-purpose computing devices, and usually not even PCs running Linux. Why? Better performance, better security, ease of maintenance, higher reliability, the list goes on.
Now Linus Torvalds will write a personal RFID firewall and claim that it is totally original and not based on Andrew Tannembaum's personal RFID firewall... wooo BURN CITY take that groklaw losers!
Oh, great. I can just imagine walking through the mall and then being bombarded by all these popups. "Would you like Macy's to be able to access your RFID tags? [Ok] [Cancel] [X] Always Allow"
I fail to see how this is "inducing" false memories. Could this possibly be a function of the fact that the simulation isn't 100% accurate, and that "false" "memories" about the item (determined by the number of specific or leading questions that are incorrectly answered) would be reduced as the simulation gets more and more close to, well, reality?
This may be stating the obvious, but people don't always remember things 100% correctly in actual reality either.
For instance, my wife swears up and down that she remembers paying our electric bill this month, but the electric company and the bank register would both beg to differ.
Uhhhh, they've already discovered a non-charged subatomic particle...the neutron.
No, neutrons have a neutral charge -- that is, that their net charge is neither positive (+) nor negative (-). But they have a charge. Protons have a net positive charge, electrons have a net negative charge and axions have absolutely no charge at all.
So only fundamentalist Christians are made a bit uncomfortable with some of these new concepts of cloning, use of aborted embryos for research.
No, they aren't the only ones but almost all fundamentalists Christians are made at least a bit uncomfortable, and they are the group against the use of both stem cells and cloning technology that carries the most political clout, at least in the U.S., where the Conservative movement and, in particular, the Republican Party have set back important and potentially life-saving stem cell research by decades because they wish to impose their religious and moral views on everyone else who may or may not agree with them through legislation.
Go ahead, fundies, mod me down! Join me on the Dark Side!
Agreed. And Google has nothing like a near-monopoly on searches. According to the search engine stats I've seen, Google hovers somehwere around a 45% viewer share. Sure, that's bigger than anyone else, but it's less than half of total searches.
$1,000 a month covers my wife and I, and this is the standard family rate where I work. The insurance (Great West PPO) is expensive, but it covers a lot. (90/10 on most doctor's visits and routine operations.)
I agree with you on this. I wish to God, they'd let me opt out of the system. I'd sign away all of my SS funds I've put into the system and supposed to get...all of it, if starting today, I could take the money, and start investing it myself...
I'm with you on that one! I could do a lot better on the markets than I could ever do with Social Security, and that's even without so much investor savvy. (Besides, investor savvy can always be bought and paid for.;)
The reason the cost of living is far less in 3rd World countries is because they don't pay for the same facilities which you pay for in the 1st World. Things like free healthcare, honest impartial police forces, standards agencies, road construction, rubbish collection, planning laws, pensions, sick pay and maternity leave, social security etc etc etc.
You have free healthcare? Where do I sign up. I currently pay nearly $1,000 a month for health care, not including my out-of-pockets and co-pays.
Honest impartial police forces? Hmmm...I'll bet you don't live in a major city like Detroit or Los Angeles, do you?
Pensions? Yeah, right. Sick pay? My employer doesn't pay sick days, but I do get a generous allotment of vacation days that I can use.
Social Security? Look, unless you're like 50-60, I'm betting that you won't see $0.01 of your Social Security.
Like it or not, our government and our corporations are pushing us towards 3rd World standards of living due to greed. "Let's outsource everything to 3rd World countries where that measly $1,000 a year seems like a lot. Then we get to pocket the difference."
Not me. I've been using the same Apple ][+ for almost 30 years! Only thing is that reading Slashdot in 40 columns is REALLY rough. Maybe I should've sprung for an OrangeMicro 80-column card, huh?
As it is, your average desktop will not handle anything even close to 100G Ethernet. At that point, your bottleneck is the PCI or PCI-X bus. As the bus has been one of the slowest PC components to innovate, I see these new, ultra-high speed Ethernet standards as only benefiting backbone providers, etc., for many years to come.
1. Who's going to keep videos seeded? On Youtube, if the video is available, the video is viewable. Not so for Azureus! The video could be only partially intact (no seeders with not enough downloaders) or it could just be gone. The Bittorrent network has already lost several fan films due to this issue. Will Zudeo keep a seed of every video they've ever carried? Will they be able to afford the bandwidth when the viewers start trickling to videos rather than assisting each other with their downloads?
Malware and botnets? No, really, I'm not joking. I could see someone like Azureus doing this: download a new version of the Azureus client, install, and every 5th download (or whatever) is automatically seeded by the bot. Not that I disagree with you here, just playing devil's advocate.
2. Like it or not, Youtube is often used in workplace camaraderie. Many corporate firewalls whitelist business appropriate ports rather than blacklisting P2P clients. Youtube uses regular HTTP, so it works. Azureus uses the Bittorrent protocol which requires more esoteric ports.
And some corporate firewalls, especially ones with 'net nanny' filtering, blacklist any site from which a P2P client can be downloaded, including BitTorrent. Such sites are typically blocked as "piracy and hacking" sites.
4. Zudeo breaks up your workflow by launching an external program. This not only breaks up the user's workflow, but it also presents a more confusing interface. If the user wants to view the video, he has to open the torrent tab, click on "Files", then double click the correct file. This action is non-obvious to someone who simply wants to view the show. In addition, Azureus may not even launch when the Zudeo link is clicked! Magnet links are intended as a generic P2P descriptor, and are often claimed by programs other than Azureus.
Again, playing devil's advocate, but it may be possible for Azureus to create a Java client that actually does all the BitTorrent stuff in the background, saving the download to %TEMP% or $TMP, then auto-launching the appropriate player using the user's desktop shell. Perhaps with some type of popup or toolbar notifcation that gives the progress of the file.
5. Perhaps the most important point of all: Bittorrent cannot stream files. The viewer must wait until the file is completely downloaded. With Youtube, they can simply watch their show with no intermediary steps.
OTOH, hardly anyone has the bandwidth to stream HD content anyways; that's what Internet2 is all about. If you want HD video, for now, you're going to have to wait, and I think the people that really want HD video will understand that.
What about the use of copyright works as part of a composition or parody? There are many legal uses of copyrighted works that are not directly controlled by the copyright holder.
What legal uses of copyrighted work? Don't you know? We control it all! Parody? Inclusion of copyrighted material for purposes of criticsm? Are you kidding me? Pay us or we'll sue you!
-- Jack Valenti
HEEELLP! Jack Valenti hijaacked my slashdot account!!!
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Um, have you actually read the Patriot Act? Of the Act's 10 Titles, only one section of one title (Sec. 504) even remotely relates to improving coordination among government agencies. Most of the rest of the act is designed to increase government powers relating to anti-terrorism enforcement, anti-money-laundering enforcement, anti-counterfeiting enforcement, and increasing the powers and authority of the Director of Central Intelligence and the President.
The Patriot Act does not setup DHS, nor does it put any other federal agencies under the discretion of DHS.
Bad traffic in Phoenix has significantly less to do with illegial imigrants who can't read English (sheesh...) and much more to do with the facts that:
Most people there can't write well-formed English?:-P
By that logic, the IRS's main database is accessible to you since you pay taxes.
That's a horrible analogy. But not that far off. If I can cause incorrect data to be entered into the IRS' main database, I can own the database right? The only thing is, that with your analogy, the only way I can do that is social engineering, since I don't have direct access. Unless the IRS people are total idiots, I won't own the databse.
But what if they were? What if the IRS didn't validate every request properly to enter data into the main database? What if I could just say the right thing and get an IRS DBA to change the DBA password or otherwise make the database accessible to me? That's almost exactly what malware creators do when they create exploit security bugs in the Windows system.
Look, all a would-be trojan writer has to do is cause the.NET virtual machine (which has all of the access of any other Win32 program) to make certain types of malformed GDI or window manager calls and arbitrary code execution can result. It's not as much a bug as a terrible flaw in the entire Windows 2000/XP architecture.
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Not necessarily. That just means no one actually ever filed suit. But potential lawsuits are not typically reported by the media unless one side or the other makes public statements about the legal threat (or there was a leak).
Hypothetical: Acme Widgets Corp. buys a SA license in 2001. Microsoft doesn't Vista deliver until late 2006. Someone at Acme notices and gets angry about it in 2004 or 2005 perhaps. They threaten to sue Microsoft. Microsoft then may make some sort of concessions to Acme Widgets Corp. Discounts on Office 2003 or Windows 2003 Server, free support for an additional year on one or more products, and maybe even cash incentives. So Acme Widgets never goes public with its plans, satisfied that it got something out of the bargain. You get the picture, I'm sure.
Generally when you're stating statistics like "up to 9 out of 10", that means that in at least one your test runs, whatever it was you were testing hit 9 out of 10 times, in this case the fact that Earthlink lost e-mails. You say "up to 9 out 10," because in other runs it may have been 1 out of 10, 3 out of 10, or 7 out of 10. You're trying to show that how bad it gets. When stating the statistic for useful statistical purposes, however, one should definitely also give averages, like: "overall Earthlink lost 50%". Now, in this case, Cringely actually states that his friend tried several times to send messages a block of 10 messages to Earthlink account, to an aliased Blackberry account, and to his Gmail account. Each time, Only 1-2 made it to the Earthlink and to the Blackberry (aliased off the Earthlink account), and all 10 made it to Gmail.
No doubt you use Exchange, right? Not that I'm knocking Exchange, but in terms of reliability, well, it ain't that high. Exchange is fine if you have an IT staff with a bunch of MSCEs, but Exchange is too temperamental to run at home. I find that a basic postfix or even (gak) sendmail will run for very long periods of time with little or no maintenance. As someone has admined Exchange servers in the past, I can say with confidence while it's fine for the office, I just wouldn't have time at home.
Even in Windows-centric environments, many businesses do not and will not use a Windows PC to do things like traffic shaping. Firewalls, routers, etc. of any type are generally going to be dedicated-purpose devices from companies like Cisco, Juniper, CheckPoint, etc., not PCs or other general-purpose computing devices, and usually not even PCs running Linux. Why? Better performance, better security, ease of maintenance, higher reliability, the list goes on.
And will Tannenbaum back him up this time, too?
Oh, great. I can just imagine walking through the mall and then being bombarded by all these popups. "Would you like Macy's to be able to access your RFID tags? [Ok] [Cancel] [X] Always Allow"
This may be stating the obvious, but people don't always remember things 100% correctly in actual reality either.
For instance, my wife swears up and down that she remembers paying our electric bill this month, but the electric company and the bank register would both beg to differ.
No, neutrons have a neutral charge -- that is, that their net charge is neither positive (+) nor negative (-). But they have a charge. Protons have a net positive charge, electrons have a net negative charge and axions have absolutely no charge at all.
Now where's that big friggin' hook....
No, they aren't the only ones but almost all fundamentalists Christians are made at least a bit uncomfortable, and they are the group against the use of both stem cells and cloning technology that carries the most political clout, at least in the U.S., where the Conservative movement and, in particular, the Republican Party have set back important and potentially life-saving stem cell research by decades because they wish to impose their religious and moral views on everyone else who may or may not agree with them through legislation.
Go ahead, fundies, mod me down! Join me on the Dark Side!
Agreed. And Google has nothing like a near-monopoly on searches. According to the search engine stats I've seen, Google hovers somehwere around a 45% viewer share. Sure, that's bigger than anyone else, but it's less than half of total searches.
I'm with you on that one! I could do a lot better on the markets than I could ever do with Social Security, and that's even without so much investor savvy. (Besides, investor savvy can always be bought and paid for.
You have free healthcare? Where do I sign up. I currently pay nearly $1,000 a month for health care, not including my out-of-pockets and co-pays.
Honest impartial police forces? Hmmm...I'll bet you don't live in a major city like Detroit or Los Angeles, do you?
Pensions? Yeah, right. Sick pay? My employer doesn't pay sick days, but I do get a generous allotment of vacation days that I can use.
Social Security? Look, unless you're like 50-60, I'm betting that you won't see $0.01 of your Social Security.
Like it or not, our government and our corporations are pushing us towards 3rd World standards of living due to greed. "Let's outsource everything to 3rd World countries where that measly $1,000 a year seems like a lot. Then we get to pocket the difference."
Actually, Orange Micro made a lowercase card for the II+, but guess what? It added support for 80 columns as well! Good catch! ;)
Not me. I've been using the same Apple
][+ for almost 30 years! Only thing is
that reading Slashdot in 40 columns is
REALLY rough. Maybe I should've sprung
for an OrangeMicro 80-column card, huh?
Yep. Mod parent up. Amazing the number of people on Slashdot who have no clue about networking.
As it is, your average desktop will not handle anything even close to 100G Ethernet. At that point, your bottleneck is the PCI or PCI-X bus. As the bus has been one of the slowest PC components to innovate, I see these new, ultra-high speed Ethernet standards as only benefiting backbone providers, etc., for many years to come.
Malware and botnets? No, really, I'm not joking. I could see someone like Azureus doing this: download a new version of the Azureus client, install, and every 5th download (or whatever) is automatically seeded by the bot. Not that I disagree with you here, just playing devil's advocate.
And some corporate firewalls, especially ones with 'net nanny' filtering, blacklist any site from which a P2P client can be downloaded, including BitTorrent. Such sites are typically blocked as "piracy and hacking" sites.
Again, playing devil's advocate, but it may be possible for Azureus to create a Java client that actually does all the BitTorrent stuff in the background, saving the download to %TEMP% or $TMP, then auto-launching the appropriate player using the user's desktop shell. Perhaps with some type of popup or toolbar notifcation that gives the progress of the file.
OTOH, hardly anyone has the bandwidth to stream HD content anyways; that's what Internet2 is all about. If you want HD video, for now, you're going to have to wait, and I think the people that really want HD video will understand that.
What legal uses of copyrighted work? Don't you know? We control it all! Parody? Inclusion of copyrighted material for purposes of criticsm? Are you kidding me? Pay us or we'll sue you!
-- Jack Valenti
HEEELLP! Jack Valenti hijaacked my slashdot account!!!
Um, have you actually read the Patriot Act? Of the Act's 10 Titles, only one section of one title (Sec. 504) even remotely relates to improving coordination among government agencies. Most of the rest of the act is designed to increase government powers relating to anti-terrorism enforcement, anti-money-laundering enforcement, anti-counterfeiting enforcement, and increasing the powers and authority of the Director of Central Intelligence and the President.
The Patriot Act does not setup DHS, nor does it put any other federal agencies under the discretion of DHS.
Trust me. No. I live near Detroit. Detroit drivers are the worst in this regard. Really.
Bad traffic in Phoenix has significantly less to do with illegial imigrants who can't read English (sheesh...) and much more to do with the facts that:
:-P
Most people there can't write well-formed English?
OSDL is a non-profit organization.
Sure it is. Isolated storage is meaningless if I can cause arbitrary code to be run at ring 0.
That's a horrible analogy. But not that far off. If I can cause incorrect data to be entered into the IRS' main database, I can own the database right? The only thing is, that with your analogy, the only way I can do that is social engineering, since I don't have direct access. Unless the IRS people are total idiots, I won't own the databse.
But what if they were? What if the IRS didn't validate every request properly to enter data into the main database? What if I could just say the right thing and get an IRS DBA to change the DBA password or otherwise make the database accessible to me? That's almost exactly what malware creators do when they create exploit security bugs in the Windows system.
Look, all a would-be trojan writer has to do is cause the