About 40 years ago one of the railroads built an analog computer for controlling switches and retarders in a gravity classification yard (hump yard). It used ball bearings rolling down tracks to model the rolling cars. Google didn't find anything online about it, so I don't have a link.
Mike Royko had the story about the guy from Chicago getting pulled over in another state. He hands the officer his driver's license with a $20 bill folded around it. The cop tells him he's under arrest for trying to bribe an officer. The guy looks confused and asks "What? Is it more than 20 bucks here?"
Most likely some employee was using the work equipment for his/her own project and accidentally infected the system. Deliberately targeted does seem unlikely.
Mod up. Paypal should also create a few phish sites that let you "confirm your information" and then tell you what an idiot you are. When they shut down the fake sites, they could redirect them to the fake fake sites.
There was a previous article about remote shutdown using OnStar which mentioned that OnStar can be used to remotely eavesdrop on your conversations. The OnStar rep didn't answer when I asked them why they included that capability.
"But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."
The link claims that Wired magazine added "invented".
You are correct that copyright law does not give them any rights; it's contract law which does. You have to click on a box at install time saying that you have read and agreed to their terms. And shrink-wrap licenses have been upheld in US courts.
What I find interesting is that I can buy a computer with Windows already installed, in which case I never agree to anything. My only agreement in that case is with the store where I buy it. Microsoft would have no standing to sue me for violating the EULA since I'm not their customer. The store certainly never told me that they were acting as the agent for Microsoft which would seem like the minimum requirement to involve me in a contract with them.
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None. High end pSeries are mainframes in everything but name.
zero downtime
designed to detect and/or correct hardware errors
huge memory
high performance I/O subsystem
O/S that never needs to reboot
Those are what allow zSeries and pSeries to be enterprise computing platforms - anything mission critical which can support 1000s of users.
The difference between those and PC-style "servers" lacking those features is very big.
I've read your post 3 times and it still looks like a thoughtful, reasonable answer. You do know this is slashdot?
At any rate, there are only two cases: 1) we are at war with armed soldiers and we want our captured soldiers to be treated according to the Geneva Convention. or 2) we are suppressing an insurrection by armed, non-uniformed "combatants" in which case they are criminals who should be treated according to court procedures.
Making up a 3rd category based on uniforms just because you don't feel any moral requirement to treat these prisoners as human beings may be legal, but only if you wish to split hairs. Special clothing is provided to soldiers not to make them more evident to the enemy (never desirable), but to prevent desertion at the time of battle by making them more evident to their own officers.
Has it occurred to you that some of the people who "avoid uniforms" and are "hiding among civilians" are doing so because they are civilians and are not guilty of anything? That they were falsely accused? That the only evidence against them is a claim by someone in Iraq who happens to have a grudge against them? Wouldn't it be nice if they were shown the evidence against them and were allowed to bring their own evidence to a trial? Or have you been brainwashed into believing the claims that the military is only holding guilty people?
Why are they taking a loss? Fon sells a router for $50 and looks like an interesting alternative. They make money selling access to the customer network to non-members.
Why not generalize to "fun stuff addiction" or "absorbing task addiction", and leave the Internet out of the name?
Because if they add "on the Internet" then they can patent it, of course.
Exxxxxon/Mobil gas pumps used to put your name up when you used your credit card to buy gas. Not for any reason, just because they could. I felt it was intrusive, since anybody at a neighboring pump now knows my name, but kind of a minor annoyance.
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About 40 years ago one of the railroads built an analog computer for controlling switches and retarders in a gravity classification yard (hump yard). It used ball bearings rolling down tracks to model the rolling cars. Google didn't find anything online about it, so I don't have a link.
Mike Royko had the story about the guy from Chicago getting pulled over in another state. He hands the officer his driver's license with a $20 bill folded around it. The cop tells him he's under arrest for trying to bribe an officer. The guy looks confused and asks "What? Is it more than 20 bucks here?"
Most likely some employee was using the work equipment for his/her own project and accidentally infected the system. Deliberately targeted does seem unlikely.
I deduct it as "union dues"
Q. Why are the Borings suing Google and not the van drivers who committed the trespass?
A. The van drivers are paid $7/hour and Google is worth $25 Billion.
As an engineer, when I read "Engineers make good terrorists" my first thought was:
Why would I want to make a terrorist? Aren't there enough?
Mod up. Paypal should also create a few phish sites that let you "confirm your information" and then tell you what an idiot you are. When they shut down the fake sites, they could redirect them to the fake fake sites.
There was a previous article about remote shutdown using OnStar which mentioned that OnStar can be used to remotely eavesdrop on your conversations. The OnStar rep didn't answer when I asked them why they included that capability.
In the IHT story it says an EPA employee passed information to an IBM employee while IBM was bidding on a contract.
Or perhaps, as with humans, sheep just follow the one making the most noise.
"But it will emerge from my dialogue with the American people. I've traveled to every part of this country during the last six years. During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system."
The link claims that Wired magazine added "invented".
You are correct that copyright law does not give them any rights; it's contract law which does. You have to click on a box at install time saying that you have read and agreed to their terms. And shrink-wrap licenses have been upheld in US courts.
What I find interesting is that I can buy a computer with Windows already installed, in which case I never agree to anything. My only agreement in that case is with the store where I buy it. Microsoft would have no standing to sue me for violating the EULA since I'm not their customer. The store certainly never told me that they were acting as the agent for Microsoft which would seem like the minimum requirement to involve me in a contract with them.
[[ ob. IANALBIHARWI - I am not a lawyer but I have a relative who is ]]
None. High end pSeries are mainframes in everything but name.
zero downtime
designed to detect and/or correct hardware errors
huge memory
high performance I/O subsystem
O/S that never needs to reboot
Those are what allow zSeries and pSeries to be enterprise computing platforms - anything mission critical which can support 1000s of users.
The difference between those and PC-style "servers" lacking those features is very big.
"mainframe sales are a tiny fraction of the personal computer market"
I'm pretty sure that mainframe sales are 0% of the personal computer market.
I've read your post 3 times and it still looks like a thoughtful, reasonable answer. You do know this is slashdot?
At any rate, there are only two cases:
1) we are at war with armed soldiers and we want our captured soldiers to be treated according to the Geneva Convention.
or
2) we are suppressing an insurrection by armed, non-uniformed "combatants" in which case they are criminals who should be treated according to court procedures.
Making up a 3rd category based on uniforms just because you don't feel any moral requirement to treat these prisoners as human beings may be legal, but only if you wish to split hairs. Special clothing is provided to soldiers not to make them more evident to the enemy (never desirable), but to prevent desertion at the time of battle by making them more evident to their own officers.
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Has it occurred to you that some of the people who "avoid uniforms" and are "hiding among civilians" are doing so because they are civilians and are not guilty of anything? That they were falsely accused? That the only evidence against them is a claim by someone in Iraq who happens to have a grudge against them? Wouldn't it be nice if they were shown the evidence against them and were allowed to bring their own evidence to a trial? Or have you been brainwashed into believing the claims that the military is only holding guilty people?
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Why are they taking a loss? Fon sells a router for $50 and looks like an interesting alternative. They make money selling access to the customer network to non-members.
Some states allow you to post a bond instead of buying insurance. A few million $$ and you're all set.
Wait, so a web business being cross-platform is being altruistic?
and a hardware manufacturer developing for one platform is evil?
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It helps if you imagine John Hodgman's voice reading the Wired article.
Because if they add "on the Internet" then they can patent it, of course.
If money for sex was always illegal, then Anna Nicole Smith would have gone to jail for marrying Howard Marshall instead of becoming a celebrity.
What Bush did is clearly worse than Nixon, who was not involved in wiretapping, only in covering it up.
Exxxxxon/Mobil gas pumps used to put your name up when you used your credit card to buy gas. Not for any reason, just because they could. I felt it was intrusive, since anybody at a neighboring pump now knows my name, but kind of a minor annoyance.