If you follow the posts that came after my original one. People question the need for yet another distro. My post was intended to suggest, in a humorous light, the reasons why, namely putting your favorite editor as pre-installed/default and cult favorites on as well. Ultimately it was a dig against the religious fervor that follows editors and distros.
And the solution for that is requiring mutual feedback or expiration of the deadline before posting the results.
Dick buys an Acme Widget from Jane, Dick confirms receipt and Posts Feedback which is not displayed yet, Jane is told Dick got it and posts feedback on the transaction. Now both ratings are shown. If there is a negative or neutral remark, both should have the opportunity to rebut the statements made and a final conclusion statement from the initiator of the feedback.
Laughable...
Do they have 15 year olds designing their operating system? Really...
Had they been using 15 year olds to design it, we wouldn't have this issue to begin with. Have you ever seen a teenager surf on a slow connection? It's not a pretty sight.
That being said, the real issue at hand is they had to free up CPU time for the DRM. We have all seen reports that DRM is CPU intensive but the question is, on Vista, how much cpu time does it really take.
I just spent a good quarter hour writing out a very detailed reply about how adwords work and how you are wrong, only to have my boss come by and read it, laugh at you and saying as he walked away "Never argue with an idiot."
If Blizzard wants to claim that reading the memory used by the application is a violation of their copyright, so be it... Then watch the mudslide of people who have written mods and go after Blizzard for their Warden application which, guess what.. reads the memory of other applications and whats more, sends it off to blizzard which is a more direct violation of copyright as they are making a copy rather than just changing some bits in memory.
Because the internet has no state borders and so Utah can create a "tax" on out of state commerce in a way that hasn't been otherwise blocked.
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10, @06:17AM (#18672995)
Subject: Hmmmm... now I see
Any funds collected from the registration of a mark under this chapter or the use of the database in excess of the expense of maintaining the database shall be retained as dedicated credits to be used by the division to:
(1) promote the registration of electronic registration marks to holders of federal trademarks;
(2) promote the state as a desirable location for business; and
(3) provide incentives to businesses considering relocation to the state.
Otherwise known as the UGF, will be setup via Google Checkout. In order for Utah visitors to see search results provided by google or pages where ad revenue is generated via Google Adwords, the user must pay the amount that would have been generated if the ads could have been shown in addition to a $0.75 processing fee per transaction. Visitors looking to save money may Pre-Fund in a minimum amount of $25 with only one $0.75 fee being charged for the transaction, when the balance goes below $1.00, your account will be automatically funded for an additional $25 plus $0.75 transaction fee.
Adsense customers may also setup a Utah Free Zone where the Adsense is not generated for Utah visitors but the loss of revenue is charged to the web host, Utah Restricted Zone where the Adsense javascript will prevent any Utah visitors from viewing the content and optionally Utah Pay Zones where users are required to subscribe in order to view content and the javascript will redirect them to the proper signup/payment page at the rates set by the webmater.
Thank you Utah for opening up new business models and revenue streams at the expense of your residents!
Not to be rude and shock you with reality... but what makes you think it will be any cheaper to use cell phones on board? There is almost no way that you will be able to use a cell phone with the network of traditional cell towers, the distance, speed, and hand-off issues will get you nearly every time as well as yes the interference generated by the cell phone cranking up the power to try and reach that tower it caught a glimmer of but has already passed.
That being said - they are most likely installing pico cells which would either route to an onboard automated operator to process credit card details or you would be charged roaming fees out the wazooo, much in line with the air-phone rates currently offered.
As with any restricted environment, clients will most likely be proxied/cached/relayed for every possible service
The thought of allowing VOIP piques the interest of most geeks but questions of bandwidth, latency and packet sequence, and yes even revenue generation still wait to be answered. I could see them either up-selling to allow VOIP on a client by client basis or a per-call/per-min fee based relay. There is almost no chance of them passing up on this source of revenue given that existing air-phones have a hefty margin that is shared with the airline.
I won't try to claim there is no evil in this instance... However there are some providers that do the same type of thing with the genuine interest in helping the guest.
This is NOT uncommon; this is all about providing transparent network services. There are systems already out there (STSN, et.al.) that don't even require you to use DHCP.. If your IP is static, it handles the masquerading needed to make it work without your intervention, same for DNS and Mail.
Take for instance your mom and pop traveler, they are setup for cable broadband, their ISP comes to their home and hard wires the DNS and SMTP settings, and sometimes the IP. Mom and Pop go on vacation and bring their laptop, yes Virginia some non-geeks/non-business people own laptops. What settings do they need to know how to change in order to get online? At a minimum their IP is hopefully DHCP but I'll say that is not always the case, and also DNS which would be set by DHCP unless their IP or DNS settings are hard coded. In this case, the system would see the system using an IP that isn't part of the hotel network and wasn't assigned by the server, so it will do what is needed to make that IP work. Same thing goes for DNS, it will route all DNS requests to its internal DNS server, and sometimes ISP's don't allow public access from the outside.
As far as SMTP is concerned, would you be surprised that in this age of rampant spam that Mom and Pops ISP refuse connections from outside their network? Also in a growing trend, the ISP the hotel uses wants some assurances that the public access isn't allowing mass spamming. In this case the hotel(or their network provider) routes all SMTP traffic to one server on their network which queues it and sends it out. They could be doing spam checks or simply a queue threshold/throttle to limit the damage Mom and Pops zombified laptop can do.
That last point is also my last point, from the Hotel/ISP point of view you're using a computer that is not controlled by the person who owns the network. Most companies do not allow unsecured systems on their network, in a hotel, that is the idea... so measures must be taken to not only have the network adapt to the user but also to protect the host from their guests.
That is crazy, everyone knows that 0.001 m is the same as 0.001mm, if you look at it on paper... You must work for Verizon... And we already know that Verizon Can't Do Math .
I've been successfull using a database lookup and redirecting to a mailto: url.
The method does have one issue that I worked around, the browser will end up with a blank tab/window from redirecting to a non-display url. So what I came up with was having an iframe that is empty when the page loads, and then by clicking on a send email link, javascript sets the location for the iframe source which is a script that looks up the email and redirects the request from the iframe to a mailto url.
As the database url can be obscured, and that it is a plain url not a mailto, it has been very successful at avoiding bots. Now if only patents were like copyrights, this could have been covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Patent! I get paid of you get paid, otherwise enjoy free ideas!
Looks like Microsoft beat you to it... To get the non-prophet discount, a religious organization must provide services to people regardless of their religious beliefs and does not propagate a belief in a specific faith. By these requirements, I wonder of the Salvation Army gets the discount, last time I stopped in, they preached to the people being fed at their soup kitchens.
Working in the hotel business, I handle a large number of credit cards. The trend I have seen for people wanting to "disable" the RF portion is to use a hole punch through the chip. I've seen about ten or so this past month, all have the little radio icon on the back and a hole punched right through the card. Not a bad way to do it I must say.
Judge Ronald Friedman has decided to allow Bully to be sold freely in Florida after the game's release on October 17.
Read the Article:
...
After the court session concluded, Jack Thompson told Ars Technica that the proceedings were a travesty. He characterized the judge's viewing of footage as nothing more than a couple of "Take Two operatives" showing the judge everything in the game they wanted him to see. "I may be full of crap about this game, and I may be wrong, and that's fine. But there's such a thing as due process," said Thompson. "And I was denied due process in court today."
While state government websites are not required to conform to Section 508, Section 504 applies to all Federal grantees and contractors as well as to as the Federal government itself. If John Eberly wants, or any Seattle resident can file a complaint to the Seattle Office for Civil Rights.
ADA/City Service Complaint Section 504
The Office for Civil Rights works to ensure that members of the public who have disabilities can use City services and facilities. The Disability Compliance Specialist coordinates accessibility evaluation of City programs and services, offers training to City departments on disability awareness and compliance with laws, staffs the City's 504/ADA Advisory Committee (TBA) and handles 504/ADA grievances alleging discrimination in City programs and facilities.
I don't see that it is mentioned anywhere if this is the OEM License or the Retail License. With prior OEM Licenses, we could not install that copy/key onto another machine because they were effectivly sold as wholesale blocks intended for that machine only. If this is the Retail License then there will be severe backlash, but if this is about an OEM License, then it is better for the end user.
I think the EFF should dream up a contest, and the most crazily ironic story involving DRM, copyright, and the law would win a prize.
Oh, too late! Sony already wrote the best story, and it's actually happening before our eyes! Truth is stranger than fiction. And Sony wins many massive lawsuits. Err, I mean they lose them, the prize is they get sued.
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If you follow the posts that came after my original one. People question the need for yet another distro. My post was intended to suggest, in a humorous light, the reasons why, namely putting your favorite editor as pre-installed/default and cult favorites on as well. Ultimately it was a dig against the religious fervor that follows editors and distros.
From http://www.gnewsense.org/Main/Features
emacs, bsdgames, nethack and build-essential part of the default install And now we know...And the solution for that is requiring mutual feedback or expiration of the deadline before posting the results.
Dick buys an Acme Widget from Jane, Dick confirms receipt and Posts Feedback which is not displayed yet, Jane is told Dick got it and posts feedback on the transaction. Now both ratings are shown. If there is a negative or neutral remark, both should have the opportunity to rebut the statements made and a final conclusion statement from the initiator of the feedback.
Double blind feedback allows for honest opinions.
Do they have 15 year olds designing their operating system? Really...
Had they been using 15 year olds to design it, we wouldn't have this issue to begin with. Have you ever seen a teenager surf on a slow connection? It's not a pretty sight.
That being said, the real issue at hand is they had to free up CPU time for the DRM. We have all seen reports that DRM is CPU intensive but the question is, on Vista, how much cpu time does it really take.
I just spent a good quarter hour writing out a very detailed reply about how adwords work and how you are wrong, only to have my boss come by and read it, laugh at you and saying as he walked away "Never argue with an idiot."
If Blizzard wants to claim that reading the memory used by the application is a violation of their copyright, so be it... Then watch the mudslide of people who have written mods and go after Blizzard for their Warden application which, guess what.. reads the memory of other applications and whats more, sends it off to blizzard which is a more direct violation of copyright as they are making a copy rather than just changing some bits in memory.
Subject: Hmmmm... now I see
From the bill http://custom.statenet.com/amerea/resources.cgi?m
Any funds collected from the registration of a mark under this chapter or the use of the database in excess of the expense of maintaining the database shall be retained as dedicated credits to be used by the division to:
(1) promote the registration of electronic registration marks to holders of federal trademarks;
(2) promote the state as a desirable location for business; and
(3) provide incentives to businesses considering relocation to the state.
Otherwise known as the UGF, will be setup via Google Checkout. In order for Utah visitors to see search results provided by google or pages where ad revenue is generated via Google Adwords, the user must pay the amount that would have been generated if the ads could have been shown in addition to a $0.75 processing fee per transaction. Visitors looking to save money may Pre-Fund in a minimum amount of $25 with only one $0.75 fee being charged for the transaction, when the balance goes below $1.00, your account will be automatically funded for an additional $25 plus $0.75 transaction fee.
Adsense customers may also setup a Utah Free Zone where the Adsense is not generated for Utah visitors but the loss of revenue is charged to the web host, Utah Restricted Zone where the Adsense javascript will prevent any Utah visitors from viewing the content and optionally Utah Pay Zones where users are required to subscribe in order to view content and the javascript will redirect them to the proper signup/payment page at the rates set by the webmater.
Thank you Utah for opening up new business models and revenue streams at the expense of your residents!
Not to be rude and shock you with reality... but what makes you think it will be any cheaper to use cell phones on board? There is almost no way that you will be able to use a cell phone with the network of traditional cell towers, the distance, speed, and hand-off issues will get you nearly every time as well as yes the interference generated by the cell phone cranking up the power to try and reach that tower it caught a glimmer of but has already passed.
That being said - they are most likely installing pico cells which would either route to an onboard automated operator to process credit card details or you would be charged roaming fees out the wazooo, much in line with the air-phone rates currently offered.
As with any restricted environment, clients will most likely be proxied/cached/relayed for every possible service
The thought of allowing VOIP piques the interest of most geeks but questions of bandwidth, latency and packet sequence, and yes even revenue generation still wait to be answered. I could see them either up-selling to allow VOIP on a client by client basis or a per-call/per-min fee based relay. There is almost no chance of them passing up on this source of revenue given that existing air-phones have a hefty margin that is shared with the airline.
I won't try to claim there is no evil in this instance...
However there are some providers that do the same type of thing with the genuine interest in helping the guest.
This is NOT uncommon; this is all about providing transparent network services. There are systems already out there (STSN, et.al.) that don't even require you to use DHCP.. If your IP is static, it handles the masquerading needed to make it work without your intervention, same for DNS and Mail.
Take for instance your mom and pop traveler, they are setup for cable broadband, their ISP comes to their home and hard wires the DNS and SMTP settings, and sometimes the IP. Mom and Pop go on vacation and bring their laptop, yes Virginia some non-geeks/non-business people own laptops. What settings do they need to know how to change in order to get online? At a minimum their IP is hopefully DHCP but I'll say that is not always the case, and also DNS which would be set by DHCP unless their IP or DNS settings are hard coded. In this case, the system would see the system using an IP that isn't part of the hotel network and wasn't assigned by the server, so it will do what is needed to make that IP work. Same thing goes for DNS, it will route all DNS requests to its internal DNS server, and sometimes ISP's don't allow public access from the outside.
As far as SMTP is concerned, would you be surprised that in this age of rampant spam that Mom and Pops ISP refuse connections from outside their network? Also in a growing trend, the ISP the hotel uses wants some assurances that the public access isn't allowing mass spamming. In this case the hotel(or their network provider) routes all SMTP traffic to one server on their network which queues it and sends it out. They could be doing spam checks or simply a queue threshold/throttle to limit the damage Mom and Pops zombified laptop can do.
That last point is also my last point, from the Hotel/ISP point of view you're using a computer that is not controlled by the person who owns the network. Most companies do not allow unsecured systems on their network, in a hotel, that is the idea... so measures must be taken to not only have the network adapt to the user but also to protect the host from their guests.
I wonder which host of virii will ship with the phone, or will it just make my ear prone to various opportunistic infections.
I've been successfull using a database lookup and redirecting to a mailto: url.
The method does have one issue that I worked around, the browser will end up with a blank tab/window from redirecting to a non-display url. So what I came up with was having an iframe that is empty when the page loads, and then by clicking on a send email link, javascript sets the location for the iframe source which is a script that looks up the email and redirects the request from the iframe to a mailto url.
As the database url can be obscured, and that it is a plain url not a mailto, it has been very successful at avoiding bots.
Now if only patents were like copyrights, this could have been covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Patent! I get paid of you get paid, otherwise enjoy free ideas!
Looks like Microsoft beat you to it... To get the non-prophet discount, a religious organization must provide services to people regardless of their religious beliefs and does not propagate a belief in a specific faith. By these requirements, I wonder of the Salvation Army gets the discount, last time I stopped in, they preached to the people being fed at their soup kitchens.
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Whether it's Pity or Witty, there is only ModUp from here!
Working in the hotel business, I handle a large number of credit cards. The trend I have seen for people wanting to "disable" the RF portion is to use a hole punch through the chip. I've seen about ten or so this past month, all have the little radio icon on the back and a hole punched right through the card. Not a bad way to do it I must say.
Judge Ronald Friedman has decided to allow Bully to be sold freely in Florida after the game's release on October 17.
...
After the court session concluded, Jack Thompson told Ars Technica that the proceedings were a travesty. He characterized the judge's viewing of footage as nothing more than a couple of "Take Two operatives" showing the judge everything in the game they wanted him to see. "I may be full of crap about this game, and I may be wrong, and that's fine. But there's such a thing as due process," said Thompson. "And I was denied due process in court today."
Read the Article:
While state government websites are not required to conform to Section 508, Section 504 applies to all Federal grantees and contractors as well as to as the Federal government itself. If John Eberly wants, or any Seattle resident can file a complaint to the Seattle Office for Civil Rights.
ADA/City Service Complaint Section 504
The Office for Civil Rights works to ensure that members of the public who have disabilities can use City services and facilities. The Disability Compliance Specialist coordinates accessibility evaluation of City programs and services, offers training to City departments on disability awareness and compliance with laws, staffs the City's 504/ADA Advisory Committee (TBA) and handles 504/ADA grievances alleging discrimination in City programs and facilities.
I don't see that it is mentioned anywhere if this is the OEM License or the Retail License. With prior OEM Licenses, we could not install that copy/key onto another machine because they were effectivly sold as wholesale blocks intended for that machine only. If this is the Retail License then there will be severe backlash, but if this is about an OEM License, then it is better for the end user.