Well looking at the Liberals involved... wait isn't one on the Conservative cabinet now...
But to be less of a naysayer, and add some facts.
While C-60 was not a bill I supported, it would only have codified what is already current practice wrt to copyright circumvention and copyright infringement notices. Relatively a toothless law as any activity it covered can already be taken as a crime, in most cases. The only possible exception being that photographers get to keep copyright on photos they were commissioned for.
For more info, happily refer to Dr. Michael Geist's lecture in the U of T Lecture Series dealing with copyright, the internet, and creative commons.
I would imagine the camcorder law is also relatively toothless as the last study I saw on the issue pointed out that some 80%+ of pirated movies were screeners. These snuck out of some studio by underpaid employees; or out of a theater's preview stack by some underpaid usher.
As with most of this stuff, it really just hurts the innocent consumers. This does jack squat for defeating piracy, but politican's are hoping to stem public outrage with empty gestures.
It passed. We currently pay the "Pirate Tax" from the seventies on all obvious blank media (tapes and cd's); and the new Piracy Tax of 2003 on the other stuff too... tapes, cds, flash ram, harddrives, etc.
I've been thinking about deadman switches, myself, for some time. My problem is not so much what I want it to do; but more what's the best and most robust implementation of one? I've come up with several ideas, but many seem to fail with the unpredictivility of a realitively low points of failure without you being able to do anything about it.... well execept the lawyer route, but where's the fun in that?!
My PDA already has this function through TV Remote Controller 5.5. I don't really fancy the voice part. I find it much more couch potato-ey to just hit the buttons.
Dunno about your diving course but our PADI course taught us puke thru the regulator or puke into the water with the regulater beside your mouth and the emergancy purge valve pressed. This clears the puke and supposedly lets a jet of air in front of your mouth when you have to breath.
They actually made us 'practice it' by breathing the purged air jet. I admit in a real situation it might be easier to puke thru, but in the practice I could breath fine from the jet
We came across this at work a few months ago. Turns out its actually a problem in SMTP's RFC. Sendmail and qmail will allow you to do the same thing if you a guest level account made on your *nix box, which scarely enough, many ISP *nix mailservers do. We started checking random client's ISP's email servers, and tho most were *nix, most allowed us to relay with guest.
I agree with this, but I only have one problem. Frankly, you can search for a "nickname" on ICQ, which is great. The big problem I've found with AIM is that people tend to want to change their name over time, and then stop using their original account and make a new one. Problem here is that AOL takes forever to drop disused names.
For example, I had a full AOL account from a friend of mine in highschool. When she dropped her account I waited for the account to be erased so I could rebuild it as an aim account. (Logins were immediatly disabled when she discontinued her account) According to AOL's policy AIM/AOL handles take 6 months to drop out of the system. My name dropped out of the system last month, a full 4 and a half years later. The moral is, in order to continue using AIM I had to get another handle, causing both confusion and bloat in the user database.
I think Las Vegas might have a leg up here with the Venetian. Daily Planet has had this story up for a while. Everything from satellite linked checking at the Airport, to self calculating bar tab, to well, a wireless network where you can call the valet from anywhere.
Not to mention that if you check around compaq/hp's warehouse site, whenever they release a new ipaq, the previous models that they have overstocked get a major price reduction. I got two 3800 series for 400 bucks total when the 3900's came out. So now my girlfriend and I both have one, and she has no excuse when it comes to appointments she makes. She can't tell me about them when I am busy and I forget, and she can't forget to tell me about them.
I was thinking a similiar thing 'till I read some of the information on handhelds.org, and between wanting to have either a nic or wireless nic on my handheld eitherway, its not that much of a pain to setup one of the small ftp servers on it.
I've seen several places that need computers to work in "exotic" environments. (deserts, ice feilds, savannah) Most of these places have a vigorous routing of taking the mobo's out of their computers, discharging all the electricity, giving it a good scrub down, and then drying it off in the oven every 6 months or so. I thought it was kinda crazy too, but... they still work.
I agree, I actually get two ips from my DSL provider in the GTA, and they have no problems with multiple computers. They even offered help setting up roaring pengiun, and one of the techs was talking about helping others setup proper iptables!
As for bandwidth caps, they have them, but they don't want to enforce them. As of yet they have not enforced either the 50gb bandwidth limit, or the 3 meg up/down transfer limit. A friend of mine bought an 8 meg up/down speedtouch and he is getting his full 8 megs. For 26 bucks a month, I am happy.
I've always had a problem with keeping organized, keeping prioratized, and just remebering stuff. At first I started off with a paper organizer, and my watch, but good luck, there was either not enough time or too much time, all the time. While I would plan out events for the week, I found my time slots for them were not very realistic, and erasing and rewriting them took forever. So I started using my PIM on my computer, organizing was much better, but I had to copy down everything the night before, and it took a lot of time. So I said, let see about getting a pda.
My first PDA was a palm device. As I started using it I really liked being able to sync to my PIM and keep track of everything. Then I started realizing what else I could use it for, including news and taking down meeting and project notes. As soon as I started this, I really started getting fed up with graffiti. Its supposed to be quick, but man did my hand cramp. And frankly with all the notes I was taking the batteries were constantly dieing. I always wondered why palms never had rechargable batteries. I also found that it was hard organizing contacts and then I started wanting to write emails to people while sitting in the street car, or in a particularly boring meeting. Trying to write the email into a note and then copy&paste it to an email... well.. really was annoying.
So, I saved up some money and I got my first PocketPC. It was cheap and old, but at least I got my email and I wasn't changing the batteries every 16 hours. This thing ran WinCE 2.0, so.. pretty old, but the block recogniser made writting easier, but it still wasn't comfortable. Not to mention I started using it during the commutes to read ebooks, and with the 8 megs of ram, there just wasn't space to hold more then two books on there. So once again I began my search, and really lucked out.
Compaq was selling a limited dual-lot of 3700's when the 3800's came out, so for about $350 I got two ipaqs. One went to my girlfriend, one to me. This killed one of my other problems. Namely, my girlfriend wanted me to know her schedule even tho I had no access to it. Secondly with all the programs and accessories for the ipaqs, I was very happy. Transcriber is about 95% accurate at reading my handwriting, so I no longer adjust to the ipaq, it adjusts to me. I can send voicemails, and emails from just about anywhere. With the sync-charger cable I can charge anytime I am near a computer. Frankly, life is grand, I am on time, I meet my obligations. Sure, its not an endall, but it helps me organize my life. Could I go without it? Probably, now that it has coaxed me into a technique for organizing my life. Would I go without it. Not likely, it saves a lot of space by replacing all my notebooks, organizer, a magic email terminal that I never had, and any book I may want to read.
Altiris http:://www.altiris.com has a really nice client managment suite. I saw this at Comdex in Toronto a while back. It had kvm stuff and a whole lot more, Remote imaging, amazing desktop migration and user profile transplantation, and a bunch of other stuff. It made us all gawk. The said the cost was just under US$65 per desktop.
Personally, I can think is they should be trying to make sure that the record industry make sure that these CD's are very clearly marked as NOT being Digital Audio Compact Discs. Then, chances are the market forces will set the record companies straight.
Well as far as I heard the interent was designed by the military, and it was put into affect some time ago... to an extent.
The second octet in an IP header sets up type of service and precedence of data.
DARPA set thethe first 3 bits of these as: 111 National Network Control 110 Internetwork Control 101 CRTIC/ECP 100 Flash ovverride 011 Flsh 010 Immediate 001 Priority 000 Routine
Think different level of defcon. 111 is the president pushing the big red button.
Now, you can set your TCP stack to do this, or even force different TOS in a ping. And its very useful for testing your own network. But routers on the internet are told to IGNORE these settings, and there have been rumors that men in black suits that don't like light (NSA) may show up at your door asking why you are using DARPA proprietary flags.
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Well looking at the Liberals involved ... wait isn't one on the Conservative cabinet now...
But to be less of a naysayer, and add some facts.
While C-60 was not a bill I supported, it would only have codified what is already current practice wrt to copyright circumvention and copyright infringement notices. Relatively a toothless law as any activity it covered can already be taken as a crime, in most cases. The only possible exception being that photographers get to keep copyright on photos they were commissioned for.
For more info, happily refer to Dr. Michael Geist's lecture in the U of T Lecture Series dealing with copyright, the internet, and creative commons.
I would imagine the camcorder law is also relatively toothless as the last study I saw on the issue pointed out that some 80%+ of pirated movies were screeners. These snuck out of some studio by underpaid employees; or out of a theater's preview stack by some underpaid usher.
As with most of this stuff, it really just hurts the innocent consumers. This does jack squat for defeating piracy, but politican's are hoping to stem public outrage with empty gestures.
It passed. We currently pay the "Pirate Tax" from the seventies on all obvious blank media (tapes and cd's); and the new Piracy Tax of 2003 on the other stuff too ... tapes, cds, flash ram, harddrives, etc.
*sigh*
I've been thinking about deadman switches, myself, for some time. My problem is not so much what I want it to do; but more what's the best and most robust implementation of one? I've come up with several ideas, but many seem to fail with the unpredictivility of a realitively low points of failure without you being able to do anything about it .... well execept the lawyer route, but where's the fun in that?!
It keeps glowing and glowing and glowing ...
Oh .. I know, how about diagonal times zones?
Frankly, I've always found it easier to enter the US without using my US passport then with.
... oh well .. no more going back the us for breakfast then.
Bummer
My PDA already has this function through TV Remote Controller 5.5. I don't really fancy the voice part. I find it much more couch potato-ey to just hit the buttons.
Well our cisco rep confirmed.
Dunno about your diving course but our PADI course taught us puke thru the regulator or puke into the water with the regulater beside your mouth and the emergancy purge valve pressed. This clears the puke and supposedly lets a jet of air in front of your mouth when you have to breath.
They actually made us 'practice it' by breathing the purged air jet. I admit in a real situation it might be easier to puke thru, but in the practice I could breath fine from the jet
We came across this at work a few months ago. Turns out its actually a problem in SMTP's RFC. Sendmail and qmail will allow you to do the same thing if you a guest level account made on your *nix box, which scarely enough, many ISP *nix mailservers do. We started checking random client's ISP's email servers, and tho most were *nix, most allowed us to relay with guest.
Any one else remeber seaQuest DSV?
.. sounds familiar now, eh?
Not the third season but the original first season with the computer display/holographic advisor in Capt. Nathan Bridgers quarters?
yeah
Why can you only control the pda with your right hand?
Its always good hear that others find the same hypocracey in AOL's documentation. It goes without saying, but its nice to hear.
I agree with this, but I only have one problem. Frankly, you can search for a "nickname" on ICQ, which is great. The big problem I've found with AIM is that people tend to want to change their name over time, and then stop using their original account and make a new one. Problem here is that AOL takes forever to drop disused names.
For example, I had a full AOL account from a friend of mine in highschool. When she dropped her account I waited for the account to be erased so I could rebuild it as an aim account. (Logins were immediatly disabled when she discontinued her account) According to AOL's policy AIM/AOL handles take 6 months to drop out of the system. My name dropped out of the system last month, a full 4 and a half years later. The moral is, in order to continue using AIM I had to get another handle, causing both confusion and bloat in the user database.
I think Las Vegas might have a leg up here with the Venetian. Daily Planet has had this story up for a while. Everything from satellite linked checking at the Airport, to self calculating bar tab, to well, a wireless network where you can call the valet from anywhere.
Not to mention that if you check around compaq/hp's warehouse site, whenever they release a new ipaq, the previous models that they have overstocked get a major price reduction. I got two 3800 series for 400 bucks total when the 3900's came out. So now my girlfriend and I both have one, and she has no excuse when it comes to appointments she makes. She can't tell me about them when I am busy and I forget, and she can't forget to tell me about them.
I was thinking a similiar thing 'till I read some of the information on handhelds.org, and between wanting to have either a nic or wireless nic on my handheld eitherway, its not that much of a pain to setup one of the small ftp servers on it.
I've seen several places that need computers to work in "exotic" environments. (deserts, ice feilds, savannah) Most of these places have a vigorous routing of taking the mobo's out of their computers, discharging all the electricity, giving it a good scrub down, and then drying it off in the oven every 6 months or so. I thought it was kinda crazy too, but ... they still work.
I agree, I actually get two ips from my DSL provider in the GTA, and they have no problems with multiple computers. They even offered help setting up roaring pengiun, and one of the techs was talking about helping others setup proper iptables!
As for bandwidth caps, they have them, but they don't want to enforce them. As of yet they have not enforced either the 50gb bandwidth limit, or the 3 meg up/down transfer limit. A friend of mine bought an 8 meg up/down speedtouch and he is getting his full 8 megs. For 26 bucks a month, I am happy.
I've always had a problem with keeping organized, keeping prioratized, and just remebering stuff. At first I started off with a paper organizer, and my watch, but good luck, there was either not enough time or too much time, all the time. While I would plan out events for the week, I found my time slots for them were not very realistic, and erasing and rewriting them took forever. So I started using my PIM on my computer, organizing was much better, but I had to copy down everything the night before, and it took a lot of time. So I said, let see about getting a pda.
... well .. really was annoying.
.. pretty old, but the block recogniser made writting easier, but it still wasn't comfortable. Not to mention I started using it during the commutes to read ebooks, and with the 8 megs of ram, there just wasn't space to hold more then two books on there. So once again I began my search, and really lucked out.
My first PDA was a palm device. As I started using it I really liked being able to sync to my PIM and keep track of everything. Then I started realizing what else I could use it for, including news and taking down meeting and project notes. As soon as I started this, I really started getting fed up with graffiti. Its supposed to be quick, but man did my hand cramp. And frankly with all the notes I was taking the batteries were constantly dieing. I always wondered why palms never had rechargable batteries. I also found that it was hard organizing contacts and then I started wanting to write emails to people while sitting in the street car, or in a particularly boring meeting. Trying to write the email into a note and then copy&paste it to an email
So, I saved up some money and I got my first PocketPC. It was cheap and old, but at least I got my email and I wasn't changing the batteries every 16 hours. This thing ran WinCE 2.0, so
Compaq was selling a limited dual-lot of 3700's when the 3800's came out, so for about $350 I got two ipaqs. One went to my girlfriend, one to me. This killed one of my other problems. Namely, my girlfriend wanted me to know her schedule even tho I had no access to it. Secondly with all the programs and accessories for the ipaqs, I was very happy. Transcriber is about 95% accurate at reading my handwriting, so I no longer adjust to the ipaq, it adjusts to me. I can send voicemails, and emails from just about anywhere. With the sync-charger cable I can charge anytime I am near a computer. Frankly, life is grand, I am on time, I meet my obligations. Sure, its not an endall, but it helps me organize my life. Could I go without it? Probably, now that it has coaxed me into a technique for organizing my life. Would I go without it. Not likely, it saves a lot of space by replacing all my notebooks, organizer, a magic email terminal that I never had, and any book I may want to read.
Altiris http:://www.altiris.com has a really nice client managment suite. I saw this at Comdex in Toronto a while back. It had kvm stuff and a whole lot more, Remote imaging, amazing desktop migration and user profile transplantation, and a bunch of other stuff. It made us all gawk. The said the cost was just under US$65 per desktop.
I would really consider checking it out.
Personally, I can think is they should be trying to make sure that the record industry make sure that these CD's are very clearly marked as NOT being Digital Audio Compact Discs. Then, chances are the market forces will set the record companies straight.
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Well as far as I heard the interent was designed by the military, and it was put into affect some time ago ... to an extent.
The second octet in an IP header sets up type of service and precedence of data.
DARPA set thethe first 3 bits of these as:
111 National Network Control
110 Internetwork Control
101 CRTIC/ECP
100 Flash ovverride
011 Flsh
010 Immediate
001 Priority
000 Routine
Think different level of defcon. 111 is the president pushing the big red button.
Now, you can set your TCP stack to do this, or even force different TOS in a ping. And its very useful for testing your own network. But routers on the internet are told to IGNORE these settings, and there have been rumors that men in black suits that don't like light (NSA) may show up at your door asking why you are using DARPA proprietary flags.