" anti-spam laws should be written in such a way that they specifically apply to spam only"
In my opinion, this is exactly wrong. In short, the laws should be written to stop any falsified business communications unless previously arranged between the parties.
The anti-spam laws of today may not stop the misuse of tomorrow's technology.
It should actually be "champing at the bit" but over the years it has been used incorrectly... of course "chomping" has been adopted to be the correct term now.
Just a bit of useless knowlege I learned on some NPR show.
I tend to agree that we probably don't need new laws. Laws already exist that can cover alot of the Internet sewage.
I think a set of bylaws should have been set forth quite some time ago. Bylaws to ban things such as spamming, massive pop-ups, etc. These bylawas could be set forth by a governing body(IETF maybe). If someone/something violated these bylaws then appropriate action could be taken.(account termination, blacklist, etc)
The Internet should be self regulating in itself and laws should be left for crimes in general regardless of the methods used to commit them.
just my 2 cents
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People look for books in the library not on park benches and in seat backs.
Talk to the folks at your local Libary and give your books to them. I might be missing something but I think there would be better results working with your local libraries.
How is concert attendance. The same folks he claims pirate his CDs also go to concerts. Soooooo, if his CD is any good then they will still show up at the concerts. Don't artist make more money off of concerts than CD sales?
I agree that most folks aren't gonna pay $100/month. However, the providers are the ones marketing broadband as T1 speeds for the home. It is their own fault for selling a product too cheap just to get into the market. It is their fault but in the end the customers will pay more.
No I wouldn't. I sit on a fast connection all day at work. No need for it at home at that price.
IF the providers can't honestly offer their service at a price average people are willing to pay THEN the service isn't ready for the general market.
But that isn't the case in this industry and many others. We all know of plenty of products and services get rushed to market just because the business folks don't want to miss out on making a buck.
Most likely the technology exists but they don't have it and/or didn't correctly plan for it. Now it will cost them to go back and "do it right" like they should have from the start. That will be their justification to raise prices and/or offer less than what they promised. Of course they will put a different spin on the issue.
My "broadband" connection is through Adelphia PowerLink (one-way only, cable for downloads, dial-up for uploads). It really sucks but it is the only broadband connection I can get it my area (hence a monopoly). BellSouth has no plans to offer DSL in my neighborhood anytime soon.
Adelphia is in financial ruins (I hope the owners get whats coming to them) and I am not looking forward to what my service will be like in the near future.
Lets see because the "broadband" providers are the telcos and cable companies. Both of which dont "get it" when it comes to *data* communications.
DataComm is a new field to them and they got on the bandwagon cuz their business side told them they were missing out on something. They rushed their services to market without building an infrastructure to support it if it got popular.
They can't deliver what they promised and they don't care. They know that most folks don't have a choice when it comes to a broadband provider. The telcos have squashe the DSL resellers and the cable companies are virtual monopolies (with other cable providers) in their areas.
"We are actually at a point where we can make some very wrong decisions, and the Net will just kind of become like any other industry"
I think it is already too late for that. Once something is used by the common people it is an industry... an industry is mostly customers and people trying to make a buck off of customers. There are a few exceptions but I think we seeing the "almighty dollar" ruining the Internet in some ways(spam and pop-ups come to mind).
I think a new network based on openess is the way to go. Maybe Internet2(I don't know much about it) could be that network. Only allow organisations that adhere to a few mandates:
1. Apps and protocols that use Open standards. 2. Open source applications/protocols so they may evolve into open standards.
Maybe not PERFECT but there are many TiVo owners that don't use the service. I know my HDR212 (20hr) was $199 (as low as $175) a year ago. Now you have to look on eBay for whatever is left.
I put myself through college working in a Water Plant on the 3PM-11PM shift. Law dictates that the plant is staffed 7 days a week (16 hours/day for this plant). I did that for years and can't really say that I enjoyed it.
Since graduating college I have worked my way up to a network/system admin for the local community college (the one I attendded). Even though we are on Christmas break, I worked and extra day into the break for system maintenance and went in briefly on Christmas Eve to tend to a slight emergency.
I am a CIS graduate and my teachers didn't subscribe to the "training" philosophy. We learned the technologies without respect to products.
Students seem to equate jobs with degrees... often particular jobs with particular degrees. They need to know the difference between training(product use) and education(theory).
If you need to protect against fault tolerance then just get another hard drive. IDE RAID on the cheap can be done via software or another drive controller.
However, if you need to backup data with the ability to rollback changes or deletions then you are most definitely looking at a tape system.
I am in the process of building my own system like this. My intention is to build a PC to arhive and play, music, PC games, emulated games (MAME and others), TV in/out. I painted the case and the drive bezels black to match my other A/V equipment.
I'll be up front and tell you it is going to be a WinXP box but I am sure you can do it on Linux.
Depending on your budget your equipment list may vary... I know I could have gotten cheaper parts or prices.
Enlight desktop case: 55
Abit KGR7-RAID: 144
AMD 1600XP: 139
512MB DDR RAM: 90
FD: 15
ATI AllInWonder Radeon: 156
Hercules Game Theater XP sound card: 115
Plextor 16X CDRW: 145
Intel Wireless Keyboard, Mouse, Base station, and 2 game controllers: 89
IBM 20GB HD: 79
Sub total: 1,027
Two larger drives will be mirrored to store all the data (MP3s, MPEG, DIVX, etc). Approximately 150 x 2
Adding a DVD drive shortly for approximately 50.
Estimated total: 1377
Sure I went overboard but that happens sometimes:-)
Paraphrasing Bruce Schneirer; We already have laws in place for stealing, copyright, etc. Just because someone is using a new technology to commit the same old crimes doesn't mean new laws are needed.
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" anti-spam laws should be written in such a way that they specifically apply to spam only"
In my opinion, this is exactly wrong. In short, the laws should be written to stop any falsified business communications unless previously arranged between the parties.
The anti-spam laws of today may not stop the misuse of tomorrow's technology.
It should actually be "champing at the bit" but over the years it has been used incorrectly ... of course "chomping" has been adopted to be the correct term now.
Just a bit of useless knowlege I learned on some NPR show.
I tend to agree that we probably don't need new laws. Laws already exist that can cover alot of the Internet sewage.
I think a set of bylaws should have been set forth quite some time ago. Bylaws to ban things such as spamming, massive pop-ups, etc. These bylawas could be set forth by a governing body(IETF maybe). If someone/something violated these bylaws then appropriate action could be taken.(account termination, blacklist, etc)
The Internet should be self regulating in itself and laws should be left for crimes in general regardless of the methods used to commit them.
just my 2 cents
People look for books in the library not on park benches and in seat backs.
:-)
Talk to the folks at your local Libary and give your books to them. I might be missing something but I think there would be better results working with your local libraries.
Then again, maybe not.
How is concert attendance. The same folks he claims pirate his CDs also go to concerts. Soooooo, if his CD is any good then they will still show up at the concerts. Don't artist make more money off of concerts than CD sales?
I agree that most folks aren't gonna pay $100/month. However, the providers are the ones marketing broadband as T1 speeds for the home. It is their own fault for selling a product too cheap just to get into the market. It is their fault but in the end the customers will pay more.
No I wouldn't. I sit on a fast connection all day at work. No need for it at home at that price.
IF the providers can't honestly offer their service at a price average people are willing to pay THEN the service isn't ready for the general market.
But that isn't the case in this industry and many others. We all know of plenty of products and services get rushed to market just because the business folks don't want to miss out on making a buck.
Just my 2 cents.
Most likely the technology exists but they don't have it and/or didn't correctly plan for it. Now it will cost them to go back and "do it right" like they should have from the start. That will be their justification to raise prices and/or offer less than what they promised. Of course they will put a different spin on the issue.
My "broadband" connection is through Adelphia PowerLink (one-way only, cable for downloads, dial-up for uploads). It really sucks but it is the only broadband connection I can get it my area (hence a monopoly). BellSouth has no plans to offer DSL in my neighborhood anytime soon.
Adelphia is in financial ruins (I hope the owners get whats coming to them) and I am not looking forward to what my service will be like in the near future.
Lets see because the "broadband" providers are the telcos and cable companies. Both of which dont "get it" when it comes to *data* communications.
DataComm is a new field to them and they got on the bandwagon cuz their business side told them they were missing out on something. They rushed their services to market without building an infrastructure to support it if it got popular.
They can't deliver what they promised and they don't care. They know that most folks don't have a choice when it comes to a broadband provider. The telcos have squashe the DSL resellers and the cable companies are virtual monopolies (with other cable providers) in their areas.
"We are actually at a point where we can make some very wrong decisions, and the Net will just kind of become like any other industry"
I think it is already too late for that. Once something is used by the common people it is an industry... an industry is mostly customers and people trying to make a buck off of customers. There are a few exceptions but I think we seeing the "almighty dollar" ruining the Internet in some ways(spam and pop-ups come to mind).
I think a new network based on openess is the way to go. Maybe Internet2(I don't know much about it) could be that network. Only allow organisations that adhere to a few mandates:
1. Apps and protocols that use Open standards.
2. Open source applications/protocols so they may evolve into open standards.
The Onion? :-)
does the student automatically graduate? :-)
Maybe not PERFECT but there are many TiVo owners that don't use the service. I know my HDR212 (20hr) was $199 (as low as $175) a year ago. Now you have to look on eBay for whatever is left.
Imagine Teen Beat magazine giving a bad review to the latest CD by Brittany Spears or some boy band.
It just ain't gonna happen cuz its all a scam.
The cable company already lets us hook up mulitple TVs.
The phone company lets us hook up multiple phones.
The eletric company lets us hook up multiple devices.
The water company lets us hook up multiple spigots.
What is my point? They have all figured out how to structure their billing while letting customers use the systems the way they want.
'If MS would just move IIS's config out of the metabase and into some XML config file,"
... will have to see about that.
I thought i heard they are doing that with IIS 6. The almighty new , improved, secure version of IIS
I put myself through college working in a Water Plant on the 3PM-11PM shift. Law dictates that the plant is staffed 7 days a week (16 hours/day for this plant). I did that for years and can't really say that I enjoyed it.
Since graduating college I have worked my way up to a network/system admin for the local community college (the one I attendded). Even though we are on Christmas break, I worked and extra day into the break for system maintenance and went in briefly on Christmas Eve to tend to a slight emergency.
I am a CIS graduate and my teachers didn't subscribe to the "training" philosophy. We learned the technologies without respect to products.
... often particular jobs with particular degrees. They need to know the difference between training(product use) and education(theory).
Students seem to equate jobs with degrees
IANAL but doesn't the US Uniform Business Code state that all components of the supply chain are liable for selling a defective product?
"2) You can't ask it to record programs matching criteria like a particular actor, or keyword in title etc"
What about wishlists? Don't they do just what you mentioned?
"4) It takes 2-4 hours to process and index the program guide after making a call to TiVo! (what on earth is it doing?) "
That all depends on the number of channels you want to keep track of. Do you really need to index CSPAN, Pay Per View Preview channel, etc?
If you need to protect against fault tolerance then just get another hard drive. IDE RAID on the cheap can be done via software or another drive controller.
However, if you need to backup data with the ability to rollback changes or deletions then you are most definitely looking at a tape system.
I am in the process of building my own system like this. My intention is to build a PC to arhive and play, music, PC games, emulated games (MAME and others), TV in/out. I painted the case and the drive bezels black to match my other A/V equipment.
... I know I could have gotten cheaper parts or prices.
:-)
I'll be up front and tell you it is going to be a WinXP box but I am sure you can do it on Linux.
Depending on your budget your equipment list may vary
Enlight desktop case: 55
Abit KGR7-RAID: 144
AMD 1600XP: 139
512MB DDR RAM: 90
FD: 15
ATI AllInWonder Radeon: 156
Hercules Game Theater XP sound card: 115
Plextor 16X CDRW: 145
Intel Wireless Keyboard, Mouse, Base station, and 2 game controllers: 89
IBM 20GB HD: 79
Sub total: 1,027
Two larger drives will be mirrored to store all the data (MP3s, MPEG, DIVX, etc). Approximately 150 x 2
Adding a DVD drive shortly for approximately 50.
Estimated total: 1377
Sure I went overboard but that happens sometimes
Paraphrasing Bruce Schneirer; We already have laws in place for stealing, copyright, etc. Just because someone is using a new technology to commit the same old crimes doesn't mean new laws are needed.
I would like to see it mandatory for the "supposed" legitimate opt-in spammers to disclose in the emails the source of the opt-in.
I have gotten so much spam in the last month or two... most of which claims I have opted in, which I know is pure B.S.
The Lycos java applet that would marquee-scroll current queries and let you click on them to see the results. This was about 4 years ago.
I loved watching those searches go by:
"Pamela and Anderson and Tommy and Lee and video"
I think it was the only java applet that didn't render my machine useless as it loaded.
A "supreme court" is made up of many judges who vote on the outcome.