Re:Nielson Ratings and real time download logging
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Embedding Ads In MP3s?
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AFAIK, ISP's don't need any kind of "protection from prosecution" deal, because they are already protected as Service Providers by the DMCA.
Simply, an ISP cannot be held responsible for material that passes through its servers. This has been upheld in court too.
-- Ececheira
Re:Lincoln said a lot of things
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Not to get off topic too much, but Lincoln was never against slavery. He was against the spread of slavery. The Civil War was fought not over slavery, but over whether the States had a right to cecede from the Union--not because the states had slavery. <p> -- Ececheira
So, if it's officially released on the net, then its disqualified for an Oscar. But, what if the studio leaked it...Blair Witch-style.
We all know that the big reason for Blair Witch's success in the theater is due to the movie being available on the net for months prior to the release...
To address your issue of symlinks, this is no longer true with Win2k. Win2k can now mount devices (drives) under any empty directory. It is also possible (in the API, but no official tools exist so far) to create a real symlink. NTFS 5 has the capability and the API calls are there.
As for an X server and NFS, we all know those are buggy anyways. Especially NFS.
This is not to say that there aren't lots of other problems with Win2k (there are), but there are also problems with Linux.
My biggest problem with Linux is the lack of a 'Trusted' version. If there is a 'Trusted' distribution that has passed E3/C2/B1 tests, then it certainly isn't wide-spread.
Without a 'Trusted' version, you are limited to 3 security options when it comes to the filesystem--Owner, Group, and Other. This is simply unnacceptable. I want to be able to have multiple groups with different sets of permissions. Not simply 1 group with a choice of RWX. NT and Win2k can do this. So can the 'Trusted' versions of other UNIX's. Win2k takes things one step further--inhereted security. It's like an automatic chmod -R/chgrp -R. When you change the top level permissions, then all objects that have inhereted security are changed.
Anyways, yes, Win2k/NT has problems, but so does Linux. Nothing is perfect, nor will anything be perfect any time soon.
Use the right tools for the right task. That's it, plain and simple.
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AFAIK, ISP's don't need any kind of "protection from prosecution" deal, because they are already protected as Service Providers by the DMCA.
Simply, an ISP cannot be held responsible for material that passes through its servers. This has been upheld in court too.
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Ececheira
Not to get off topic too much, but Lincoln was never against slavery. He was against the spread of slavery. The Civil War was fought not over slavery, but over whether the States had a right to cecede from the Union--not because the states had slavery.
<p>
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Ececheira
We all know that the big reason for Blair Witch's success in the theater is due to the movie being available on the net for months prior to the release...
Just a thought.
As for an X server and NFS, we all know those are buggy anyways. Especially NFS.
This is not to say that there aren't lots of other problems with Win2k (there are), but there are also problems with Linux.
My biggest problem with Linux is the lack of a 'Trusted' version. If there is a 'Trusted' distribution that has passed E3/C2/B1 tests, then it certainly isn't wide-spread.
Without a 'Trusted' version, you are limited to 3 security options when it comes to the filesystem--Owner, Group, and Other. This is simply unnacceptable. I want to be able to have multiple groups with different sets of permissions. Not simply 1 group with a choice of RWX. NT and Win2k can do this. So can the 'Trusted' versions of other UNIX's. Win2k takes things one step further--inhereted security. It's like an automatic chmod -R/chgrp -R. When you change the top level permissions, then all objects that have inhereted security are changed.
Anyways, yes, Win2k/NT has problems, but so does Linux. Nothing is perfect, nor will anything be perfect any time soon.
Use the right tools for the right task. That's it, plain and simple.
--Ececheira