An individual can reasonably expect to move about the world without having their movements tracked. Or, better, a person should retain the choice to keep their movements to themselves.
My cell phone can be used as a tracking device, but I can turn it off. My EZPass can report what toll booths I pass through, but I can remove it and pay cash, if I choose. I can wait for my neighbor to leave his house if I don't want him to see me leaving. And I can wait for my wife to take off with the kids before I visit my mistress.
Where I go and when I go there is my own personal business, and if the authorities want carte blanche access to it, they can get a warrant.
The proper place to traffic this would be within the server code.
Anytime you receive a response that doesn't jive with the requestor's session ID, you should be suspicious. If you're bombarded with millions of them, you should throttle appropriately. Maybe switch to TCP queries exclusively.
By "well-established", you mean "having already had tens of millions of marketing dollars invested in them by major record labels."
This is why Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and the like can afford to do their own thing. They were made famous by organizations who use fame as a means of selling records. Otherwise, we never would have heard of them and their new approach would fail miserably.
For months, I believed that satellite radio could not be considered a monopoly, for the reason cited above: namely, that it competes with terrestial radio and the like.
However, were this true, what would keep DirecTV from merging with Dish Network? It's an identical situation. I can tell you, after having to badger DirecTV for months to receive a promised refund (including filing through a chapter of the BBB which has been overwhelmed with DirecTV complaints), that competition is oftentimes preferable.
... and go knock on the RIAA's door. Ask them how well sidling up to governmental agencies, instituting kludgey DRM and restricting access to paying customers works in stifling the spread of product via the Internet. Will these idiots ever learn?
I predict Oren Hatch will be coming out soon with a statement denouncing movie downloaders as Marxist pedophiles who finance terrorism and support marriage for transexuals.
The criminal act is the production of the pornography. Whoever produces it has exploited/abused a child and should be punished.
But the media shouldn't be illegal, any more than the photograph of a murder should be illegal. Unseemly, yes, maybe even disturbing.. but illegal? This is the criminalization of desire, nothing more. People who get hardons for underage girls/boys are being targeted with gusto nowadays. And nobody wants to be lumped in with the "perverts." This, at exactly the same time that teenagers are becoming increasing sexually active (well, maybe not on Slashdot) and sexualized in pop culture. This reeks of suppressed desire and transference.
If you want to jerk it to Hannah Montana, I could give a damn. Why anyone would have a problem with that is beyond me. Now, if you run out and rape some kid, that's another thing altogether. That's a violent act, and there's a victim. But looking at a picture?
Pedophile! is quickly becoming the Communist! of America in the 21st century.
At what point will the powers that be in the record industry realize that they will never get back to making billions off of CDs? What a bunch of whiny little bitches.
The world changed. But rather than adjust to a new business model (heaven forbid!), they're bullying ISPs into policing the Internet and litigating individuals. All in an attempt to return to a market which will never again exist.
Worse yet, the MPAA is doing the same thing. They could move first-run movies to pay per view today and make billions, but instead they're sticking to their guns, staggering release dates to try and maximize DVD sales. In the meantime, people are becoming increasingly comfortable downloading rips and screeners off of the various torrent portals.
This all could have been avoided (and in the movie industry's case, would be avoided), if the corporations would adjust to new technologies instead of trying to squish them. If the Itunes Music Store had opened before Napster, it would be a totally different world.
Yes, or better we're moving towards a day where a global whitelist determines what SMTP servers you listen to, no exceptions. Wouldn't it be great if all a nation's mail, say China's or Romania's or Russia's, were required to pass through a small set of servers?
In the US, large network carriers would relay mail to one another and smaller organizations would be required to relay everything through them. I don't see the problem with that... we route packets that way... why not mail?
Ellison's right. RedHat is horrible at support. Practically useless.
I worked at a company with a large Oracle installation (8xCPU, 12 TB of data) running on RedHat. The machine would freeze every once in a while, requiring a costly reboot. We talked to RedHat who told us we needed to use a program to dump the machine state (there was no core file as the box didn't oops) so they could examine it. There was a way to do this through the serial port, but with 32 GB of memory dumping the machine state would take an eternity. They provided a workaround... a program that would pass the data over Ethernet. The program didn't work.
We spoke with Oracle, who told us we needed to participate in some joint venture they had with RedHat for Oracle support in order to get high-level engineers. They were actually very nice about it. We did that, and the RedHat crew sat on our ticket for days before insisting there was nothing to do without the system dump that required an application that didn't work. They had nothing else to offer and kept closing our ticket when we tried to reopen it. Abominable.
The problem turned out to be related to a bad device driver for a fiberchannel HBA, but by the time we figured that out, management decided to move the system to AIX.
(If Washington paid a translator salary of $200,000, hordes of translators would suddenly appear out of the woodwork.)
I expect the majority of Arabic speakers are a) not interested in working for this particular administration and b) unable to pass the rigorous security checks required for access to top secret material. Take a look at the SF86 sometime. It's not trivial.
So if you don't agree with certain individuals, they forfeit their freedom of speech, assembly, etc? I personally abhor the KKK, but I will defend their right to speak, organize, buy property, and even particiapte in the democratic process as a group.
Neat. That has nothing to do with the original argument. Corporations and individuals are separate entities. You cannot consider money delegated to corporations as benefitting the people. Read better.
Yours is an inconsistent attitude towards to civil liberties that is commonly seen on the left end of the political spectrum. Mirror-image incosnistencies exist on the right, of course.
The US government and US corporations ARE the result of the collective activity of groups of individuals.
So is the Ku Klux Klan, but they can go fuck themselves.
I'll choose individual rights over the imperious desires of corporations and governments day of the week. You may find being a part of the machine a satisfying existence, but I prefer free will.
I am currently working with someone who is a total pothead, and it is terrible. The guys is completely useless. I am not saying that anyone who smokes weed is completely useless, but I would rather get someone clean anytime than deal with this problem.
I am currently working with an asshole, and it is terrible. The guy is completely useless. I'm not saying anyone who is an asshole is completely useless, but I would rather work with someone cool than deal with this problem on a daily basis.
The vast majority [treas.gov] of federal debt instruments are held by the American government itself, states, private investors, pension funds, corporations, and the like. So we owe most of the national debt to ourselves.
Interesting that you bind the government and corporations together under the flag of "ourselves." Neither of those entities is related to the people of the United States, which is the most important entity of them all. It may come as a suprise to you and others of your ilk, but the country's greatest responsibility is not to promote rich people getting richer.
Clinton's most grievous action to his enemies was paying down the deficit. There is no more powerful and silent lobby in this country than the banking industry. They are making a (not small) fortune off of these loans and will eventually own this country outright, if they don't already.
I find it disturbing that I do not trust the State enough to place my data with a third party provider for fear of my privacy potentially being violated.
This is a result of the current political climate.
File hosting services have been around forever, e.g. Yahoo Briefcase. It's when stories are leaked about domestic spying, governments pressing service providers for private information, law-abiding people getting bullied for being Muslim or critical of the current administration, that's when things you never thought were problematic become questionable.
Which, of course, is the point. Intimidation. Just keep your mouth shut and watch your step. How anyone could think what's going on is somehow what America is supposed to be just stuns me.
Google is the future.
Google does no evil.
There is no Internet, only Googlenet.
Google made me the man I am today.
If Google says it's so, it's so.
I don't want to live in a world without Google.
Google for president.
We should pray for Google every night before we go to sleep.
If Christ has risen, He's working for Google.
Returning instant results doesn't mean anything if the drug's not in your system.
Cocaine has a plasma half-life of 90 minutes. Current cocaine drug tests detect metabolites, not the drug itself, and even those only work within 24-48 hours after using.
think this is the real headline here -- basically what Verizon wants to do is run fiber to your house, to the outside service entrance or basement or whatever, and then unplug the Cable Company's wires from where they attach to the wires inside your house, and plug themselves in there. Then their signal -- instead of the Cable Co.'s -- goes to everyplace you have a cable jack. Which is quite a few places, in many modern homes.
But how does that save them so much money? The majority of expense isn't the cabling in the house, it's the cabling to the house.
The article is fishy. It implies something grand is going on, which in this case would be that they can use the coax running to the house. That's not going to happen. From TFA:
In 2005, Verizon spent about $1,200 per home to connect customers to its fiber network, Verizon President Lawrence Babbio told investors at a conference in New York in January. This was in addition to the $1,400 per home the company spent digging up neighborhood streets and stringing fiber on telephone poles.
$1200? To fish Cat5 through a wall? Not so much. I suspect that figure includes the router. So what exactly is the big deal here?
Why is there no standardized desktop? Because developers and the core user community abhor any idea of such a lockdown that limits their ability to tweak the system.
Um, no.
People who stand by commercial operating systems seem to have a hard time grasping the idea that open source projects are based on a principle known as freedom.
There is no standardization because the mere existence of a governing body to dictate decisions like you propose effectively reduces innovation. Some projects will be squashed before they get off the ground while others will languish because they are "the one" and why bother? Choice is a good thing, maybe not for building monopolies and making a fortune, but for innovation and the advancement of technologies.
If only such things were self-evident, we wouldn't have the UnPatriotic Act.
This guy "oversees the operations center at the heart of the network." Huh? He's doesn't run the network. He's the dude who smacks the netops guys when they fall asleep at their HP Openview screens. The way he talks is a tip off. From TFA:
We have long polled network interfaces using SNMP to count the octets crossing interfaces from which we create real-time bandwidth-capacity graphs as a baseline to measure our overall network use.
I *see*--- there's stuff that if his claims are true, would be the biggest news since I don't know when. But it's been sitting around for FIVE YEARS and not confirmed by anybody else. And apparently he hasnt given samples to other scientists. And it hasnt appeared on the front page of the NYT.
"Life on Earth Spawned from Extraterrestials" just doesn't seem like it would fit on the Times front page next to "Parliamentry Procedures Revisited in Istanbul" and "US Farmers Denounce Cutbacks in Fed Agricultural Subsidies." Unless aliens end up on reality television no one's going to believe they exist.
This guy's theory is no more or less plausible than any other explanation I've ever heard for how a rock, some water and a collection of other elements ended up creating Chevy Chase, Portabello mushrooms and that green crap that grows under my toenails if I don't cut them often enough.
I've often thought about openning my AP, but I just know that after a week or two some jerk is going to use my DSL connection as his own personal torrent link. If I was using someone's DSL connection I'd limit myself to just normal browsing and light email. Those morons ruin it for everyone else.
So you're saying you don't share because you assume someone would abuse your connection and, even though no one ever has abused it because you've never actually shared it, you blame "morons" who ruin it for everyone else. Hmm. Sounds like an excuse where one isn't needed.
It's OK not to share. The reason this comes up is because it's easy to open an AP and there's so much unused bandwidth on a broadband connection. But it's not as if the bandwidth you don't use is taking food out of other people's mouths. That's nonsense. If you pay for something, it's yours. It's not your neighbor's. If they want high speed access, they can pay for it themselves. Just because something is easy to share doesn't mean you're obligated to share it. And it certainly doesn't make you an angel if you do.
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An individual can reasonably expect to move about the world without having their movements tracked. Or, better, a person should retain the choice to keep their movements to themselves.
My cell phone can be used as a tracking device, but I can turn it off. My EZPass can report what toll booths I pass through, but I can remove it and pay cash, if I choose. I can wait for my neighbor to leave his house if I don't want him to see me leaving. And I can wait for my wife to take off with the kids before I visit my mistress.
Where I go and when I go there is my own personal business, and if the authorities want carte blanche access to it, they can get a warrant.
The proper place to traffic this would be within the server code.
Anytime you receive a response that doesn't jive with the requestor's session ID, you should be suspicious. If you're bombarded with millions of them, you should throttle appropriately. Maybe switch to TCP queries exclusively.
By "well-established", you mean "having already had tens of millions of marketing dollars invested in them by major record labels."
This is why Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and the like can afford to do their own thing. They were made famous by organizations who use fame as a means of selling records. Otherwise, we never would have heard of them and their new approach would fail miserably.
For months, I believed that satellite radio could not be considered a monopoly, for the reason cited above: namely, that it competes with terrestial radio and the like.
However, were this true, what would keep DirecTV from merging with Dish Network? It's an identical situation. I can tell you, after having to badger DirecTV for months to receive a promised refund (including filing through a chapter of the BBB which has been overwhelmed with DirecTV complaints), that competition is oftentimes preferable.
I predict Oren Hatch will be coming out soon with a statement denouncing movie downloaders as Marxist pedophiles who finance terrorism and support marriage for transexuals.
I don't get it.
The criminal act is the production of the pornography. Whoever produces it has exploited/abused a child and should be punished.
But the media shouldn't be illegal, any more than the photograph of a murder should be illegal. Unseemly, yes, maybe even disturbing .. but illegal? This is the criminalization of desire, nothing more. People who get hardons for underage girls/boys are being targeted with gusto nowadays. And nobody wants to be lumped in with the "perverts." This, at exactly the same time that teenagers are becoming increasing sexually active (well, maybe not on Slashdot) and sexualized in pop culture. This reeks of suppressed desire and transference.
If you want to jerk it to Hannah Montana, I could give a damn. Why anyone would have a problem with that is beyond me. Now, if you run out and rape some kid, that's another thing altogether. That's a violent act, and there's a victim. But looking at a picture?
Pedophile! is quickly becoming the Communist! of America in the 21st century.
At what point will the powers that be in the record industry realize that they will never get back to making billions off of CDs? What a bunch of whiny little bitches.
The world changed. But rather than adjust to a new business model (heaven forbid!), they're bullying ISPs into policing the Internet and litigating individuals. All in an attempt to return to a market which will never again exist.
Worse yet, the MPAA is doing the same thing. They could move first-run movies to pay per view today and make billions, but instead they're sticking to their guns, staggering release dates to try and maximize DVD sales. In the meantime, people are becoming increasingly comfortable downloading rips and screeners off of the various torrent portals.
This all could have been avoided (and in the movie industry's case, would be avoided), if the corporations would adjust to new technologies instead of trying to squish them. If the Itunes Music Store had opened before Napster, it would be a totally different world.
In the US, large network carriers would relay mail to one another and smaller organizations would be required to relay everything through them. I don't see the problem with that ... we route packets that way ... why not mail?
Ellison's right. RedHat is horrible at support. Practically useless.
... a program that would pass the data over Ethernet. The program didn't work.
I worked at a company with a large Oracle installation (8xCPU, 12 TB of data) running on RedHat. The machine would freeze every once in a while, requiring a costly reboot. We talked to RedHat who told us we needed to use a program to dump the machine state (there was no core file as the box didn't oops) so they could examine it. There was a way to do this through the serial port, but with 32 GB of memory dumping the machine state would take an eternity. They provided a workaround
We spoke with Oracle, who told us we needed to participate in some joint venture they had with RedHat for Oracle support in order to get high-level engineers. They were actually very nice about it. We did that, and the RedHat crew sat on our ticket for days before insisting there was nothing to do without the system dump that required an application that didn't work. They had nothing else to offer and kept closing our ticket when we tried to reopen it. Abominable.
The problem turned out to be related to a bad device driver for a fiberchannel HBA, but by the time we figured that out, management decided to move the system to AIX.
RedHat is not Linux and Larry knows it.
I expect the majority of Arabic speakers are a) not interested in working for this particular administration and b) unable to pass the rigorous security checks required for access to top secret material. Take a look at the SF86 sometime. It's not trivial.
Neat. That has nothing to do with the original argument. Corporations and individuals are separate entities. You cannot consider money delegated to corporations as benefitting the people. Read better.
Yours is an inconsistent attitude towards to civil liberties that is commonly seen on the left end of the political spectrum. Mirror-image incosnistencies exist on the right, of course.
Though apparently spell checkers don't.
So is the Ku Klux Klan, but they can go fuck themselves.
I'll choose individual rights over the imperious desires of corporations and governments day of the week. You may find being a part of the machine a satisfying existence, but I prefer free will.
I am currently working with an asshole, and it is terrible. The guy is completely useless. I'm not saying anyone who is an asshole is completely useless, but I would rather work with someone cool than deal with this problem on a daily basis.
Interesting that you bind the government and corporations together under the flag of "ourselves." Neither of those entities is related to the people of the United States, which is the most important entity of them all. It may come as a suprise to you and others of your ilk, but the country's greatest responsibility is not to promote rich people getting richer.
Clinton's most grievous action to his enemies was paying down the deficit. There is no more powerful and silent lobby in this country than the banking industry. They are making a (not small) fortune off of these loans and will eventually own this country outright, if they don't already.
Oh, and thanks for the great browser.
Oh, I guess you're dead and can't read this.
This is a result of the current political climate.
File hosting services have been around forever, e.g. Yahoo Briefcase. It's when stories are leaked about domestic spying, governments pressing service providers for private information, law-abiding people getting bullied for being Muslim or critical of the current administration, that's when things you never thought were problematic become questionable.
Which, of course, is the point. Intimidation. Just keep your mouth shut and watch your step. How anyone could think what's going on is somehow what America is supposed to be just stuns me.
Google is the future.
Google does no evil.
There is no Internet, only Googlenet.
Google made me the man I am today.
If Google says it's so, it's so.
I don't want to live in a world without Google.
Google for president.
We should pray for Google every night before we go to sleep.
If Christ has risen, He's working for Google.
Cocaine has a plasma half-life of 90 minutes. Current cocaine drug tests detect metabolites, not the drug itself, and even those only work within 24-48 hours after using.
But how does that save them so much money? The majority of expense isn't the cabling in the house, it's the cabling to the house.
The article is fishy. It implies something grand is going on, which in this case would be that they can use the coax running to the house. That's not going to happen. From TFA:
In 2005, Verizon spent about $1,200 per home to connect customers to its fiber network, Verizon President Lawrence Babbio told investors at a conference in New York in January. This was in addition to the $1,400 per home the company spent digging up neighborhood streets and stringing fiber on telephone poles.
$1200? To fish Cat5 through a wall? Not so much. I suspect that figure includes the router. So what exactly is the big deal here?
Um, no.
People who stand by commercial operating systems seem to have a hard time grasping the idea that open source projects are based on a principle known as freedom.
There is no standardization because the mere existence of a governing body to dictate decisions like you propose effectively reduces innovation. Some projects will be squashed before they get off the ground while others will languish because they are "the one" and why bother? Choice is a good thing, maybe not for building monopolies and making a fortune, but for innovation and the advancement of technologies.
If only such things were self-evident, we wouldn't have the UnPatriotic Act.
We have long polled network interfaces using SNMP to count the octets crossing interfaces from which we create real-time bandwidth-capacity graphs as a baseline to measure our overall network use.
Or as net arch would say: We use MRTG.
"Life on Earth Spawned from Extraterrestials" just doesn't seem like it would fit on the Times front page next to "Parliamentry Procedures Revisited in Istanbul" and "US Farmers Denounce Cutbacks in Fed Agricultural Subsidies." Unless aliens end up on reality television no one's going to believe they exist.
This guy's theory is no more or less plausible than any other explanation I've ever heard for how a rock, some water and a collection of other elements ended up creating Chevy Chase, Portabello mushrooms and that green crap that grows under my toenails if I don't cut them often enough.
So you're saying you don't share because you assume someone would abuse your connection and, even though no one ever has abused it because you've never actually shared it, you blame "morons" who ruin it for everyone else. Hmm. Sounds like an excuse where one isn't needed.
It's OK not to share. The reason this comes up is because it's easy to open an AP and there's so much unused bandwidth on a broadband connection. But it's not as if the bandwidth you don't use is taking food out of other people's mouths. That's nonsense. If you pay for something, it's yours. It's not your neighbor's. If they want high speed access, they can pay for it themselves. Just because something is easy to share doesn't mean you're obligated to share it. And it certainly doesn't make you an angel if you do.
Please add the following to your /etc/services:
tallmatthew 25/sctp
Yeah, that's us in the corner.