I remember a video made of the concrete thing the reactor was encased in. Americans (who keep detectors around for safety's sake) stood right next to the reactor, showed on film the lib of the old reacor case (standing on end, like the lid of a round jar can stand on end over the hole) and noting that their exposure was currently less the normal background radiation on earth. Of course they almost turned a corner before noting the detectors sensing enough radiation to kill someone in minutes.
Oh yes, for thsoe who didn't know, they built sometime of concrete to encase the reactor, but it wasn't intended to keep anything in or out. Birds fly through it once in a while, and people do to in to study the reactor.
I'm well aware that tenure exists for a reason, the problem is it exists on too many levels. At the university level you hire researchers to make advances, and get them to mentor a few students to pay the bills. At the hgih school level you don't hire researchers, you hire teachers.
When you look at tenured teachers you start to think, they must have been good teachers at one time, but today they are not. I don't know if they are lazy, out of touch with youth, tired of teaching, bored, or something else. It doesn't matter, they cannot teach. (Careful here, unpopular teachers may do a good job a teaching, and popular teachers may do a poor job - I've seen both of these)
Back in my high school it was Mrs (censered for my legal protection) who could not teach. All the other teachers COVERED FOR HER! This bad teacher was friends with all the other teachers (she was friendly, but could not teach) and so they protected her job at the expense of students. So this is the first thing that needs to change, quit letting the bad teachers have jobs.
Remember, we are talking high school level teachers, NOT college level. My high school chemsiry teacher admited when asked abotu cold fusion (right after the initial hype) that he was a chemistry teacher, not a chemist. He knew nothing, and until he was traned in that would not be able to say anything. He was a goiod teacher, and I have no doupt that if cold fusion has turned out to be useful he would be teaching it now. But he was not a researcher who's job was to check it out. My colege physics (cold fusion was announce by chemists, but it really was a physicists thing.) professors on the other hand did check this out, and could have made intellegent answers to questions related to it, even thoguh they had no traning in the subjcet. There is nothing wrong with this.
Remember at college level they need to advance the bleeding edge, and sometimes that takes years of unproductive work, so you give a good researcher tenure so he can work without proving himself at the depp problem. At the lower levels teachers who cannot prove compitent at teaching need give their job to someone else. Now they won't do it. (to be fair it is impossibal to judge your own abilities), and not protect the bad ones.
I still drive the same vechial I had in high school, and my goal is to show up at my 50th reunion in my daily driver, the same S10 I drove in high school.
I can afford a new car, I seriously considered one, but have you been to a new car lot lately? JUNK us all I can find, and if I'm gonna drive old junk it may as well be what I got. I need clearence. I need 4wd, with lockers, and the 200:1 gear ratio because I do get into situations that I need those. (Its always fun to pass a stuck 4wd in my 2wd, but the lack of traction means I have to both plan a head, and be lucky. Helps that few people know how ot drive 4wds though) And you should see the look salemen get when I tell them flat out I refuse to even look at an automatic transmission. If I didn't have better things to do I'd spend more time going dealer to dealer.
Although I've been considereing buying my friend's 74 corvette. I figgure that it would only cost twice my income to drive it to work every day. (although 1000 horsepower is nice to have on call all the time) 1-2 mpg, $7.50-8 a gallon (anything less then the highest grade 109 octane gas will knock the engine to pieces quickly(, 25 miles to work. Or, better add in someplace to stop half way to work cause some days traffic is bad enough that I'd not make it on a tank, it is a given that I store fuel at work)
AP, Nov 17, 1999, 14:00, cst. Blue-Green Algae has announced several corrections to their planed IPO. The orginial announcement states that they will list on NASDAQ as ALG. They will in fact be listing on the New York Stock exchange. Seasoned traders will have already noted that the symbol ALG has three letters, and by aggrement stocks on NYSE have three letters or less, all others have four or more.
A spokeperson for the New York stock exchange has stated "While normally we do not deal with IPOs, ALG controlls a very large and important industry. Their size makes them a nateral fit with our focus on America's and the World's biggest companies. Upstarts at Nasdaq have received all the attention lately, but they are either smaller companies with a questionable future, or long overdue ofr moving over to our Exchange. ALG with it's three billion year history is proof to their staying power.
ALG also noted that they engage in nitrigon fixing, not production. There is a glut in the unfixed nitrigon market, but we control the fixed nitrigon market. Further there is an abundance of entities that need fixed nitrigon and few can supply that need. Also we have a wide spread oxygon production process that we belive cannot be duplicated, even if others understood it. To date nobody has figgured out this process in enough detail to duplicate our distribution.
Although ALG does not have a monopoly on Oxygen production, they point out that compititors in this buisness, which primarly include trees and grass, make up an insignificant amount of oxygon production. Further thier process ties them to relativly dry land while ALG is able to produce in over 70% of the earths surface, and that area is not avaiable to big compititors. ALG also points out that have a presence in most places that trees control.
Independant analysis covering ALGs impending IPO worry if they lay workiers off those workers would produce on their own. "These workers need to eat, and they are too small to have much a reserve." said an analysis for SmithAndJones co. Others have pointed out that DeBeers has a monopoly on diamond distribution, and they have managed to put excess production into vaults to keep prices high without cutting workers. The question remains though if ALG, which traditionally has not followed this model can successfully transistion to it.
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You are starting with the wrong assumption: we think that a company holding copyright is unfair.
Now I'll grant that some people blieve that. However don't be over broad, I don't, and many others do not.
What I'm arguing, and many others is that copyright lasts too long. That is we want someone to create, and make enough money in doing it that it is worth their while to create quality works. (Micky mouse isn't really quality IMHO, but I grant them rights in hopes that someone will create quality) Once those who have put for the effort have been rewarded for their time, I feel that we should put the work into public domain for the good of all. I cannot afford to have all the books I want on my bookshelves. Libaries help here, but are not the full answer. I paid $1.75 for a new copy of "Much ado About Nothing" not too long ago. If that work was copyright it would have cost far more money, and may not be one my bookshelf today.
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If I'm a med student writing a thesis you are right in theory. However what if I'm a music student, and those are really mp3s, of my preformance. Of course they are on comptuer because I'm doing digital editing, and mp3 because no school provides me enough disk space for a lossless recording.
By in theory above I mean that in theory you can deduce what a file is by the extention, but in practice that is neither true nor desirable. Many people I know have no idea what the extentions are for or what they mean. Further in non-dos enviroments using a dot may be a useful way of seperating things out. Thesis.mp3 might be version 3 of my malpractice thesis, while Thesis.oh7 would be version 7 of my open heart surgery thesis. Okay, so it is a stupid naming scheme, but I've seen math professors who name files 29dj6221 and other such meaningless things - invariably these people do not belive in subdirectories.
Let see... Typical mainframe Tape: 4 inches on a side, one inch thick. Holds 50 gig uncompressed, 100 gig comrpessed (STK redwood). figgure the back of your station wagon is 5 feet long, 3 feet high, and 5 feet wide. Thats 75 cubic feet. Now the tapes take up 16 cubic inches. Convert units, and you get 675 tapes in the back, for 675 Terabytes. Remember that fibre typically is talked about sending teraBITS, and things look even better for our old station wagon. I wonder how big a station wagon really is? I guessed, figguring the passanger seats would take up any slack from my estimates being off, and probably have room left over for more tapes. Course if your talking about those old (and unreliable) floppy attached tapes this is a different story.
But the US is the best country in the world! People are begging to get in. Nobody wants to leave because the rest of the world is full of backwords people who not only don't have flush toilets, but they dump their waste out the window onto whatever passerby happens to be their.
All goverments other then the US goverment are repressive and corrupt. They won't do anything unless you bribe them, and then only if they are tired of beating/raping their women. Speaking of women, they have even less rights then the average person, it is a right of passage for all young men to rape three girls in one night.
Rumor has it there is a country north of the US that doesn't have a repressize govermetn, but that is WRONG! The WONDERFUL USA controls ALL of America, that area to the north doesn't ahve enough population to become a state yet, but we keep them around because the fishing is so good for God's own people, the AMERICANS!
And beware, Some communists have put this place called South america on some maps. They are lieing, such a place doesn't exist, because the US doesn't controll it, and the great USA controls ALL of America. Thats why America is in our name, may it forever be blessed.
Do not wait. I'm not a lawyer, but I can tell you that waiting to consult a lawyer (who is expirenced in this) is a bad idea.
Get a lawyer to look over the case, give you a preliminary thoughts. Take his advice, but perhaps write a letter of response that you have received their letter and are researching the relavent areas of law. Make sure it is neteral, you don't want to give any impression that you are leaning one way or anouther.
Now go to the local library and do research. A law library is better, but any one will do. Go to the law sections and read how to be your own lawyer books, and all the relavent area of law. This should take many hours, so plan on spending a lot of time reading. Lawyers may be paid to know the law, but they rarely know enough. If you know the law you can either save him some research, or perhaps win the case when you bring up relavent areas that he wouldn't have looked for. Some lawyers are good, some are too lazy to do it right. (Use tact when suggesting things to him though, a lawyer who doesn't like you will not help you)
When I mention a paid lawyer above, not just any lawyer, you want one who knows the internet and internet law. (But you can get recomendataions from a local lawyer)
Of course the publicity angle mentioned above doesn't hurt, students tend to side with the underdog, they may put enough pressure on the university that they back off.
I have an old 386 with a 1.6 gig drive (which was big when I installed the drive, though the 386 was old then) that I boot several machines off of. This 386 sits in a corner where it cannot be seen or heard. I got a modem in there for masq (notd) work.
Machines that are off make no noise, and I can live with a little noise when working. (Note if I was doing stuido music I couldn't live with noise)
Suns boot great off of the network, since they were designed for that from day one. For PCs, most network cards have a socket for a boot prom, and I think there is a linux project to program them. (Check for a working prom before getting the card!) This way you don't even need a floppy, and the disks are in the basement/closet where you won't hear them. Not all 486s needed cooling fans, and they make good X servers for most people, if you can get a quiet power supply you are set.
Anouther alternative is an old notebook. They were designed for low power, and heat = power. Either as an X server or a full blown linux system they are great. A bit more expensive and you have to be sure that linux works before buying.
Great idea. I in fact would like this, a little button they can log on with, and don't make the configuration files writable by the games user. (they can save games I suppose) Would be great for guests too, people who maybe are staying overnight and want to check email (if they can do that somehow), play a few games, browse the net. Then a week latter they are gone. Too much effort to creat an account and teach them to log in. And if they forget to log off that user doesn't have the privlages to do much damage. (damage by accident or a cracker getting into the passwordless account, though idealy you wouldn't allow remote access to this account) When the kids get older give them an account with more privlages so they can save their work and such.
paswords are fine, but for this level, you should AUTOMATICLY send a letter via snail mail whenever a password fails that is not followed imeidatly by a success. (that is two failures in a row get the letter as does on fail and no tries for 10 minutes. The user could enter the password wrong once, but should twice in a row)
On the form letter state "On xx-xx-xx (date) somebody from the ip address yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy [which maps to ggg.company.net], tried to access your records, and failed the password. If you did not make a mistake then someone else could be trying to invade your privacy. There have been n tries today [m this week][o this month][p this year] and a total of c attempts since you have been around. If you are concerned about this please call us at (aaa)aaa-aaaa"
I'm sure you can word that better then I did. Make sure some security expert is avaiable at that number. this letter isn't really secure, but it goes by a different route, and interfering with mail is a federal crime (in the US) which at the very least gives lawyers something more to work with if there really is an attack.
combine the letter with a 3 max tries per day (Consider it 3 tries if they get in or not, I don't know if someone needs to talk to their doctor more often though), expiring, and good passwords and you should be alrite.
I have in fact read my bible, and I have read the Revelation, several times. I see nothing that gives me any impression that everything will be recorded. Well, God will do some recording, but nothing indicates either a goverment or other human institution will do recording.
For your post to be on topic it must be true, that is there must really be something in the bible that says in the last days everything will be recorded.
Huh? How is Coke a monopoly? Pepsi has 30% market share, (more I think). No monopolu there, though you could argue a duopoly. (A monopoly of two)
Intel has come close to a monopoly, but AMD has been there for a while, and so long as they are intel won't be a monopoly.
Monopolies are supposed to be rare in a capitolism enviroment, but they do change all everything. So long as there is no monopoly capitalism works great, once there is a monopoly all the grand things of capitolism don't work.
Look at how much IBM droped when they announced they were dropping PC sales.
The simple fact is that most of the people on the market do not [have time to] understand the comptuer buisness. They understand management, and all those little numbers, but not the buisness. When an announcement is made they don't know how it affects the bottom line so they guess. Even those who do understand something can only understand (at most) 30 companyes (10 is normal).
If you want to know how the market works, study it. Take classes in ecconomices, but take them many places. Make sure you get a professor who teachs "Reganomics" and one who doesn't belive in it. Make sure you get cummunists and libratarians. Then use that only to help you understand how some people behave. Little changes in one area can have drastic changes in anouther. Microsoft seems most obviously affected, but redhat stock seems to have changed the most, yet BE probably has the most to gain... (guessing on the last part, to make a point)
I recomend you head over to The fool website and read up, then pick some stocks, read the 10Ks and all the other reports you can find, and then watch to see what happens. You can use real money if you want, but becareful as you can lose it.
The point: nobodu really understands the markets because it is controlled by people. People sometimes work on emotion, and emotions are not understood intilectually. (Or alternativly, some poeple in the market work on logic, and most people don't understand logic. Most/. readers need to remember the former statement, but there are those putting money into the market that need to remember the latter)
No DSL or cable in the area I live, the price I pay for seeing a corn field across the street.
Even if this is shared bandwidth, the advantage of a rural neighborhood is that there are less people to share it with. In the city I'd price it a little over land line solutions so that it didn't become bogged down, but still make it affordable. In the country I'd just want it affordable.
Unfortunatly digital cell phone isn't avaiable in all rural areas, in fact I have a couple friends who live where no analog cell phones can be had. Still, I'm close enough to the city and the freeway that I might get it.
A couple cusomters have tried the by hand. After all, college students are cheap, and you fell good hiring a few college kids over night. They can study when not loading tapes, and earn some extra money. It should be perfect.
This customer however noticed a problem of tapes breaking. Now they are just plastic, so once in a while it wasn't a surprize, but it seemed like too many. So he went into the office one night (about 2am) to check up on his help. He was one person with a hockey stick, anouther with a goalie mask and glove. When the computer called for a tape the goalies would yell "12c56" (Or whatever the number was), the other guy would find that tape, drop it on the floor, slapshot to the other. The first guy would catch it, and pop it into the drive. The customers fired those people right away, and called STK up for a robot. (Probably a 2 million dollar order, but I don't have the numbers and wouldn't share them if I did)
Now any of you can figgure out how long you can pay students to before the difference comes up, but when you take into the cost of maintance and normal wear you realise that money isn't the reason for robots.
The above story is true, but it has been through several people so some of the details are likely wrong.
The standard to control the robots are avaiable. Part of the SCSI stanadard if I recall correctly. If thats that case it shouldn't be hard to program, tell the robot what tape to put in what drive, and your done.
I just looked at the Amanda page, and it appears that if you can controll the robot, it supports external programs to change tapes?
With the amount of money you are talking, you should be able to talk your STK sales rep into giving you a copy of the documentation needed to controll the robot. Salesmen don't like to see sales not happen due to minor points, so make this a condition of sale. Even if you just buy hardware you are talking a nice pile of money.
Disclaimer, I work for STK (not in the tape side of the buisness though), and own some of their stock. However, I do not speak and cannot for STK, nor do I know the official position of the company on amything relavent to the above. Thus it is my opinion.
Ever since netscape 1.1 brought about many pages that were useless to me (a lynx user) I've wanted to get a blind person to go to that site and sue. I don't know anyone who is blind well enough to work with them on this, but I've wanted to.
In the end I won't link sites that are not lynx accessable. (Unless they are "My favoirte pictures", or user friendly type things where the pictures are the reason to visit. Come to think of it though, many of those sites are more lynx friendly then others. (Dilbert is very lynx friendly, if you have enough site to load the graphcis you care to see)
Fortunatly/. has always been lynx friendly, and theirfore blind friendly.
I've thought about a PC projector. Very useful at times, but I need to hook it up to my old atari (8bit). Every time my relatives come over they ask if we still got that game with the battery. Unfortunatly I've not even turned those comptuers on in years.
For those that don't get it, the game is "Adventure in the fifth dimintion" from Analog computing (magazine). At one point they found a device with a spot for a battery. There was a store to buy a battery, and they knew where to get money in the game. So after some work to get the battery... The look on their face when it didn't fit was priceless. (There is a green battery for sale at the store - better buy it cuase you will need it after you can't get to the store, and a blue battery that you have to search for.
So I need to put this game on a big screen so they can finially solve it. Course I want the screen for other things. Can't put my CRT in bed, and I dont' want to fall alseep on a laptop. I could also use it in the tub, if someone would only make a waaterproof wireless keyboard.... Yes yes, lots of uses, too bad the resolution is too small for X to be of use.
The best thing to do from a theoritical stand point is install openBSD, which has earned a reputation of being secure. This is not to imply that linux isn't/can't be secure, only that openBSD may be better.
Avoid running servers on the box that you don't need. I would put imap4 and mail on the firewall, but you don't want samba (the protocol it runs was hacked to add security, and while samba is good I shouldn't be on the firewall. A local news server runs just fine on a different machine, and (natd or masq is probably needed for home users) therefore should not be on the firewall unless you reallly want a public news server. (you don't) IF you want to run a web server it will have to be on the firewall, export/home read only from your main machine so you have several levels of protection. (break the firewall and then a machine with write access to those disks - this may conflist with imap4 needing write access) If you need a DNS, run a secondary on the firewall, the primary inside, and have external secondarys point to your firewall not the internal DNS.
I could go on with advice about ftp, but in the end you have to make some choices. It makes your security better (if only in theory) if you don't run ftp, than if you run ftp with read only access, than if you give all users full ftp access. Most other services face this smae choice. Write down the services you want, and then consider the minimal way to run them.
One important thing: install ssh and disable telnet. Not that telnet is a likely source of attacks, but ssh gives some authentication.
Turn on logging, and ideally log to a old dot-matric printer. You want a hardcopy of everyone loging in, and what port they use (use port wrappers). then study those logs. If you get an attack then logs will show it, and because they are hard copy they can't be deleted by a cracker.
Try to track down any cracker, put even one script kiddie in jail (or youth jails) and you can maybe send a message to all these clueless parents that they better get a clue, their kids could be breaking the law online. (this is all a new area of law, so you will probably have to rein in the lawyers trying to figgure out how to deal with this situation)
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A True black and white, no greys monitor running a high resolution is the best thing for coding. Nothing else even comes close, easy on the eyes, no extra distracting colors that add nothing to the expirence.
Right now I only have one program on my screen that uses anything but black and white, and it is a calander app my boss wants me to use. (Fortunatly it doesn't take that much screen spave, and the colors are not bright)
The only reason black and white isn't more common is most games need color. (Some non-lynx users would point out web sites, and a few sickos would admit they need porn, but we all know that coding is all there is in life, games are just to keep the kiddies busy while we use the old 386+linux+old monitor for real coding.)
Yesterday I missed my daily/. because I was at a funeral for a lady who was born in 94. She spend 55 years as a minister in my church before her health forced her to retire.
Hmm... I wonder if we couldn't find a little prior art just by asking the old folks how their window changed. I'll bet some of them can honestly testify in court that at one time they considered anything before xx to be 19xx, otherwise it was 18xx.
Back in 96 (+- one year) a guy at one of our brance offices was arrested. Turned out he had been using work computers, and the work internet connection for his child pron ring.
The offical comment was of course "We are and will work with athorities in anyway we can." I'm pretty sure all his backups were exampled and the non-work related ones turned over to police.
The unoffical word was in 6 months all anyone would know is if they here our name that they had heard of us before. So this wasn't bad long term, just undeseriable short term.
I'm uinsg netscape 4.5-98286 on solaris, and there is an option to only accept cookies from the same site. You bet I've got that on. I thought there was an option to do the same with images, but I can't find it. (Might be in 4.6 or something)
Not that this really matters, the only sites I use crashscape for are the ones that I can't view with lynx.
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I remember a video made of the concrete thing the reactor was encased in. Americans (who keep detectors around for safety's sake) stood right next to the reactor, showed on film the lib of the old reacor case (standing on end, like the lid of a round jar can stand on end over the hole) and noting that their exposure was currently less the normal background radiation on earth. Of course they almost turned a corner before noting the detectors sensing enough radiation to kill someone in minutes.
Oh yes, for thsoe who didn't know, they built sometime of concrete to encase the reactor, but it wasn't intended to keep anything in or out. Birds fly through it once in a while, and people do to in to study the reactor.
I'm well aware that tenure exists for a reason, the problem is it exists on too many levels. At the university level you hire researchers to make advances, and get them to mentor a few students to pay the bills. At the hgih school level you don't hire researchers, you hire teachers.
When you look at tenured teachers you start to think, they must have been good teachers at one time, but today they are not. I don't know if they are lazy, out of touch with youth, tired of teaching, bored, or something else. It doesn't matter, they cannot teach. (Careful here, unpopular teachers may do a good job a teaching, and popular teachers may do a poor job - I've seen both of these)
Back in my high school it was Mrs (censered for my legal protection) who could not teach. All the other teachers COVERED FOR HER! This bad teacher was friends with all the other teachers (she was friendly, but could not teach) and so they protected her job at the expense of students. So this is the first thing that needs to change, quit letting the bad teachers have jobs.
Remember, we are talking high school level teachers, NOT college level. My high school chemsiry teacher admited when asked abotu cold fusion (right after the initial hype) that he was a chemistry teacher, not a chemist. He knew nothing, and until he was traned in that would not be able to say anything. He was a goiod teacher, and I have no doupt that if cold fusion has turned out to be useful he would be teaching it now. But he was not a researcher who's job was to check it out. My colege physics (cold fusion was announce by chemists, but it really was a physicists thing.) professors on the other hand did check this out, and could have made intellegent answers to questions related to it, even thoguh they had no traning in the subjcet. There is nothing wrong with this.
Remember at college level they need to advance the bleeding edge, and sometimes that takes years of unproductive work, so you give a good researcher tenure so he can work without proving himself at the depp problem. At the lower levels teachers who cannot prove compitent at teaching need give their job to someone else. Now they won't do it. (to be fair it is impossibal to judge your own abilities), and not protect the bad ones.
I still drive the same vechial I had in high school, and my goal is to show up at my 50th reunion in my daily driver, the same S10 I drove in high school.
I can afford a new car, I seriously considered one, but have you been to a new car lot lately? JUNK us all I can find, and if I'm gonna drive old junk it may as well be what I got. I need clearence. I need 4wd, with lockers, and the 200:1 gear ratio because I do get into situations that I need those. (Its always fun to pass a stuck 4wd in my 2wd, but the lack of traction means I have to both plan a head, and be lucky. Helps that few people know how ot drive 4wds though) And you should see the look salemen get when I tell them flat out I refuse to even look at an automatic transmission. If I didn't have better things to do I'd spend more time going dealer to dealer.
Although I've been considereing buying my friend's 74 corvette. I figgure that it would only cost twice my income to drive it to work every day. (although 1000 horsepower is nice to have on call all the time) 1-2 mpg, $7.50-8 a gallon (anything less then the highest grade 109 octane gas will knock the engine to pieces quickly(, 25 miles to work. Or, better add in someplace to stop half way to work cause some days traffic is bad enough that I'd not make it on a tank, it is a given that I store fuel at work)
AP, Nov 17, 1999, 14:00, cst. Blue-Green Algae has announced several corrections to their planed IPO. The orginial announcement states that they will list on NASDAQ as ALG. They will in fact be listing on the New York Stock exchange. Seasoned traders will have already noted that the symbol ALG has three letters, and by aggrement stocks on NYSE have three letters or less, all others have four or more.
A spokeperson for the New York stock exchange has stated "While normally we do not deal with IPOs, ALG controlls a very large and important industry. Their size makes them a nateral fit with our focus on America's and the World's biggest companies. Upstarts at Nasdaq have received all the attention lately, but they are either smaller companies with a questionable future, or long overdue ofr moving over to our Exchange. ALG with it's three billion year history is proof to their staying power.
ALG also noted that they engage in nitrigon fixing, not production. There is a glut in the unfixed nitrigon market, but we control the fixed nitrigon market. Further there is an abundance of entities that need fixed nitrigon and few can supply that need. Also we have a wide spread oxygon production process that we belive cannot be duplicated, even if others understood it. To date nobody has figgured out this process in enough detail to duplicate our distribution.
Although ALG does not have a monopoly on Oxygen production, they point out that compititors in this buisness, which primarly include trees and grass, make up an insignificant amount of oxygon production. Further thier process ties them to relativly dry land while ALG is able to produce in over 70% of the earths surface, and that area is not avaiable to big compititors. ALG also points out that have a presence in most places that trees control.
Independant analysis covering ALGs impending IPO worry if they lay workiers off those workers would produce on their own. "These workers need to eat, and they are too small to have much a reserve." said an analysis for SmithAndJones co. Others have pointed out that DeBeers has a monopoly on diamond distribution, and they have managed to put excess production into vaults to keep prices high without cutting workers. The question remains though if ALG, which traditionally has not followed this model can successfully transistion to it.
You are starting with the wrong assumption: we think that a company holding copyright is unfair.
Now I'll grant that some people blieve that. However don't be over broad, I don't, and many others do not.
What I'm arguing, and many others is that copyright lasts too long. That is we want someone to create, and make enough money in doing it that it is worth their while to create quality works. (Micky mouse isn't really quality IMHO, but I grant them rights in hopes that someone will create quality) Once those who have put for the effort have been rewarded for their time, I feel that we should put the work into public domain for the good of all. I cannot afford to have all the books I want on my bookshelves. Libaries help here, but are not the full answer. I paid $1.75 for a new copy of "Much ado About Nothing" not too long ago. If that work was copyright it would have cost far more money, and may not be one my bookshelf today.
If I'm a med student writing a thesis you are right in theory. However what if I'm a music student, and those are really mp3s, of my preformance. Of course they are on comptuer because I'm doing digital editing, and mp3 because no school provides me enough disk space for a lossless recording.
By in theory above I mean that in theory you can deduce what a file is by the extention, but in practice that is neither true nor desirable. Many people I know have no idea what the extentions are for or what they mean. Further in non-dos enviroments using a dot may be a useful way of seperating things out. Thesis.mp3 might be version 3 of my malpractice thesis, while Thesis.oh7 would be version 7 of my open heart surgery thesis. Okay, so it is a stupid naming scheme, but I've seen math professors who name files 29dj6221 and other such meaningless things - invariably these people do not belive in subdirectories.
Let see... Typical mainframe Tape: 4 inches on a side, one inch thick. Holds 50 gig uncompressed, 100 gig comrpessed (STK redwood). figgure the back of your station wagon is 5 feet long, 3 feet high, and 5 feet wide. Thats 75 cubic feet. Now the tapes take up 16 cubic inches. Convert units, and you get 675 tapes in the back, for 675 Terabytes. Remember that fibre typically is talked about sending teraBITS, and things look even better for our old station wagon. I wonder how big a station wagon really is? I guessed, figguring the passanger seats would take up any slack from my estimates being off, and probably have room left over for more tapes. Course if your talking about those old (and unreliable) floppy attached tapes this is a different story.
But the US is the best country in the world! People are begging to get in. Nobody wants to leave because the rest of the world is full of backwords people who not only don't have flush toilets, but they dump their waste out the window onto whatever passerby happens to be their.
All goverments other then the US goverment are repressive and corrupt. They won't do anything unless you bribe them, and then only if they are tired of beating/raping their women. Speaking of women, they have even less rights then the average person, it is a right of passage for all young men to rape three girls in one night.
Rumor has it there is a country north of the US that doesn't have a repressize govermetn, but that is WRONG! The WONDERFUL USA controls ALL of America, that area to the north doesn't ahve enough population to become a state yet, but we keep them around because the fishing is so good for God's own people, the AMERICANS!
And beware, Some communists have put this place called South america on some maps. They are lieing, such a place doesn't exist, because the US doesn't controll it, and the great USA controls ALL of America. Thats why America is in our name, may it forever be blessed.
Do not wait. I'm not a lawyer, but I can tell you that waiting to consult a lawyer (who is expirenced in this) is a bad idea.
Get a lawyer to look over the case, give you a preliminary thoughts. Take his advice, but perhaps write a letter of response that you have received their letter and are researching the relavent areas of law. Make sure it is neteral, you don't want to give any impression that you are leaning one way or anouther.
Now go to the local library and do research. A law library is better, but any one will do. Go to the law sections and read how to be your own lawyer books, and all the relavent area of law. This should take many hours, so plan on spending a lot of time reading. Lawyers may be paid to know the law, but they rarely know enough. If you know the law you can either save him some research, or perhaps win the case when you bring up relavent areas that he wouldn't have looked for. Some lawyers are good, some are too lazy to do it right. (Use tact when suggesting things to him though, a lawyer who doesn't like you will not help you)
When I mention a paid lawyer above, not just any lawyer, you want one who knows the internet and internet law. (But you can get recomendataions from a local lawyer)
Of course the publicity angle mentioned above doesn't hurt, students tend to side with the underdog, they may put enough pressure on the university that they back off.
I have an old 386 with a 1.6 gig drive (which was big when I installed the drive, though the 386 was old then) that I boot several machines off of. This 386 sits in a corner where it cannot be seen or heard. I got a modem in there for masq (notd) work.
Machines that are off make no noise, and I can live with a little noise when working. (Note if I was doing stuido music I couldn't live with noise)
Suns boot great off of the network, since they were designed for that from day one. For PCs, most network cards have a socket for a boot prom, and I think there is a linux project to program them. (Check for a working prom before getting the card!) This way you don't even need a floppy, and the disks are in the basement/closet where you won't hear them. Not all 486s needed cooling fans, and they make good X servers for most people, if you can get a quiet power supply you are set.
Anouther alternative is an old notebook. They were designed for low power, and heat = power. Either as an X server or a full blown linux system they are great. A bit more expensive and you have to be sure that linux works before buying.
Great idea. I in fact would like this, a little button they can log on with, and don't make the configuration files writable by the games user. (they can save games I suppose) Would be great for guests too, people who maybe are staying overnight and want to check email (if they can do that somehow), play a few games, browse the net. Then a week latter they are gone. Too much effort to creat an account and teach them to log in. And if they forget to log off that user doesn't have the privlages to do much damage. (damage by accident or a cracker getting into the passwordless account, though idealy you wouldn't allow remote access to this account) When the kids get older give them an account with more privlages so they can save their work and such.
paswords are fine, but for this level, you should AUTOMATICLY send a letter via snail mail whenever a password fails that is not followed imeidatly by a success. (that is two failures in a row get the letter as does on fail and no tries for 10 minutes. The user could enter the password wrong once, but should twice in a row)
On the form letter state "On xx-xx-xx (date) somebody from the ip address yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy [which maps to ggg.company.net], tried to access your records, and failed the password. If you did not make a mistake then someone else could be trying to invade your privacy. There have been n tries today [m this week][o this month][p this year] and a total of c attempts since you have been around. If you are concerned about this please call us at (aaa)aaa-aaaa"
I'm sure you can word that better then I did. Make sure some security expert is avaiable at that number. this letter isn't really secure, but it goes by a different route, and interfering with mail is a federal crime (in the US) which at the very least gives lawyers something more to work with if there really is an attack.
combine the letter with a 3 max tries per day (Consider it 3 tries if they get in or not, I don't know if someone needs to talk to their doctor more often though), expiring, and good passwords and you should be alrite.
I have in fact read my bible, and I have read the Revelation, several times. I see nothing that gives me any impression that everything will be recorded. Well, God will do some recording, but nothing indicates either a goverment or other human institution will do recording.
For your post to be on topic it must be true, that is there must really be something in the bible that says in the last days everything will be recorded.
Huh? How is Coke a monopoly? Pepsi has 30% market share, (more I think). No monopolu there, though you could argue a duopoly. (A monopoly of two)
Intel has come close to a monopoly, but AMD has been there for a while, and so long as they are intel won't be a monopoly.
Monopolies are supposed to be rare in a capitolism enviroment, but they do change all everything. So long as there is no monopoly capitalism works great, once there is a monopoly all the grand things of capitolism don't work.
Look at how much IBM droped when they announced they were dropping PC sales.
The simple fact is that most of the people on the market do not [have time to] understand the comptuer buisness. They understand management, and all those little numbers, but not the buisness. When an announcement is made they don't know how it affects the bottom line so they guess. Even those who do understand something can only understand (at most) 30 companyes (10 is normal).
If you want to know how the market works, study it. Take classes in ecconomices, but take them many places. Make sure you get a professor who teachs "Reganomics" and one who doesn't belive in it. Make sure you get cummunists and libratarians. Then use that only to help you understand how some people behave. Little changes in one area can have drastic changes in anouther. Microsoft seems most obviously affected, but redhat stock seems to have changed the most, yet BE probably has the most to gain... (guessing on the last part, to make a point)
I recomend you head over to The fool website and read up, then pick some stocks, read the 10Ks and all the other reports you can find, and then watch to see what happens. You can use real money if you want, but becareful as you can lose it.
The point: nobodu really understands the markets because it is controlled by people. People sometimes work on emotion, and emotions are not understood intilectually. (Or alternativly, some poeple in the market work on logic, and most people don't understand logic. Most /. readers need to remember the former statement, but there are those putting money into the market that need to remember the latter)
No DSL or cable in the area I live, the price I pay for seeing a corn field across the street.
Even if this is shared bandwidth, the advantage of a rural neighborhood is that there are less people to share it with. In the city I'd price it a little over land line solutions so that it didn't become bogged down, but still make it affordable. In the country I'd just want it affordable.
Unfortunatly digital cell phone isn't avaiable in all rural areas, in fact I have a couple friends who live where no analog cell phones can be had. Still, I'm close enough to the city and the freeway that I might get it.
A couple cusomters have tried the by hand. After all, college students are cheap, and you fell good hiring a few college kids over night. They can study when not loading tapes, and earn some extra money. It should be perfect.
This customer however noticed a problem of tapes breaking. Now they are just plastic, so once in a while it wasn't a surprize, but it seemed like too many. So he went into the office one night (about 2am) to check up on his help. He was one person with a hockey stick, anouther with a goalie mask and glove. When the computer called for a tape the goalies would yell "12c56" (Or whatever the number was), the other guy would find that tape, drop it on the floor, slapshot to the other. The first guy would catch it, and pop it into the drive. The customers fired those people right away, and called STK up for a robot. (Probably a 2 million dollar order, but I don't have the numbers and wouldn't share them if I did)
Now any of you can figgure out how long you can pay students to before the difference comes up, but when you take into the cost of maintance and normal wear you realise that money isn't the reason for robots.
The above story is true, but it has been through several people so some of the details are likely wrong.
I do not speak for STK, but I do own their stock.
The standard to control the robots are avaiable. Part of the SCSI stanadard if I recall correctly. If thats that case it shouldn't be hard to program, tell the robot what tape to put in what drive, and your done.
I just looked at the Amanda page, and it appears that if you can controll the robot, it supports external programs to change tapes?
With the amount of money you are talking, you should be able to talk your STK sales rep into giving you a copy of the documentation needed to controll the robot. Salesmen don't like to see sales not happen due to minor points, so make this a condition of sale. Even if you just buy hardware you are talking a nice pile of money.
Disclaimer, I work for STK (not in the tape side of the buisness though), and own some of their stock. However, I do not speak and cannot for STK, nor do I know the official position of the company on amything relavent to the above. Thus it is my opinion.
Ever since netscape 1.1 brought about many pages that were useless to me (a lynx user) I've wanted to get a blind person to go to that site and sue. I don't know anyone who is blind well enough to work with them on this, but I've wanted to.
In the end I won't link sites that are not lynx accessable. (Unless they are "My favoirte pictures", or user friendly type things where the pictures are the reason to visit. Come to think of it though, many of those sites are more lynx friendly then others. (Dilbert is very lynx friendly, if you have enough site to load the graphcis you care to see)
Fortunatly /. has always been lynx friendly, and theirfore blind friendly.
I've thought about a PC projector. Very useful at times, but I need to hook it up to my old atari (8bit). Every time my relatives come over they ask if we still got that game with the battery. Unfortunatly I've not even turned those comptuers on in years.
For those that don't get it, the game is "Adventure in the fifth dimintion" from Analog computing (magazine). At one point they found a device with a spot for a battery. There was a store to buy a battery, and they knew where to get money in the game. So after some work to get the battery... The look on their face when it didn't fit was priceless. (There is a green battery for sale at the store - better buy it cuase you will need it after you can't get to the store, and a blue battery that you have to search for.
So I need to put this game on a big screen so they can finially solve it. Course I want the screen for other things. Can't put my CRT in bed, and I dont' want to fall alseep on a laptop. I could also use it in the tub, if someone would only make a waaterproof wireless keyboard.... Yes yes, lots of uses, too bad the resolution is too small for X to be of use.
The best thing to do from a theoritical stand point is install openBSD, which has earned a reputation of being secure. This is not to imply that linux isn't/can't be secure, only that openBSD may be better.
Avoid running servers on the box that you don't need. I would put imap4 and mail on the firewall, but you don't want samba (the protocol it runs was hacked to add security, and while samba is good I shouldn't be on the firewall. A local news server runs just fine on a different machine, and (natd or masq is probably needed for home users) therefore should not be on the firewall unless you reallly want a public news server. (you don't) IF you want to run a web server it will have to be on the firewall, export /home read only from your main machine so you have several levels of protection. (break the firewall and then a machine with write access to those disks - this may conflist with imap4 needing write access) If you need a DNS, run a secondary on the firewall, the primary inside, and have external secondarys point to your firewall not the internal DNS.
I could go on with advice about ftp, but in the end you have to make some choices. It makes your security better (if only in theory) if you don't run ftp, than if you run ftp with read only access, than if you give all users full ftp access. Most other services face this smae choice. Write down the services you want, and then consider the minimal way to run them.
One important thing: install ssh and disable telnet. Not that telnet is a likely source of attacks, but ssh gives some authentication.
Turn on logging, and ideally log to a old dot-matric printer. You want a hardcopy of everyone loging in, and what port they use (use port wrappers). then study those logs. If you get an attack then logs will show it, and because they are hard copy they can't be deleted by a cracker.
Try to track down any cracker, put even one script kiddie in jail (or youth jails) and you can maybe send a message to all these clueless parents that they better get a clue, their kids could be breaking the law online. (this is all a new area of law, so you will probably have to rein in the lawyers trying to figgure out how to deal with this situation)
A True black and white, no greys monitor running a high resolution is the best thing for coding. Nothing else even comes close, easy on the eyes, no extra distracting colors that add nothing to the expirence.
Right now I only have one program on my screen that uses anything but black and white, and it is a calander app my boss wants me to use. (Fortunatly it doesn't take that much screen spave, and the colors are not bright)
The only reason black and white isn't more common is most games need color. (Some non-lynx users would point out web sites, and a few sickos would admit they need porn, but we all know that coding is all there is in life, games are just to keep the kiddies busy while we use the old 386+linux+old monitor for real coding.)
Yesterday I missed my daily /. because I was at a funeral for a lady who was born in 94. She spend 55 years as a minister in my church before her health forced her to retire.
Hmm... I wonder if we couldn't find a little prior art just by asking the old folks how their window changed. I'll bet some of them can honestly testify in court that at one time they considered anything before xx to be 19xx, otherwise it was 18xx.
Back in 96 (+- one year) a guy at one of our brance offices was arrested. Turned out he had been using work computers, and the work internet connection for his child pron ring.
The offical comment was of course "We are and will work with athorities in anyway we can." I'm pretty sure all his backups were exampled and the non-work related ones turned over to police.
The unoffical word was in 6 months all anyone would know is if they here our name that they had heard of us before. So this wasn't bad long term, just undeseriable short term.
I'm uinsg netscape 4.5-98286 on solaris, and there is an option to only accept cookies from the same site. You bet I've got that on. I thought there was an option to do the same with images, but I can't find it. (Might be in 4.6 or something)
Not that this really matters, the only sites I use crashscape for are the ones that I can't view with lynx.