What does the 14th amendment have to do with this? Corporate personhood is a legal fiction invented by the courts in the 1886 case "Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad Company".
ISPs are not common carriers. The last time I checked, they were not anxious to become common carriers either. I think your definition of what it means to be a common carrier could be more specific. It's not the panacea you seem to think it is.
I have mod points, but I'm responding instead because I think you have a flawed argument.
Its called FREE SPEECH!! I'm glad that they allow their hosting to be used by anything the customer wants. Being a common carrier means that you are not responsible for other people's content.
Isn't this what we said that the Internet is all about? Anyone can be a publisher, anyone can create content. The corralary to that is that the content needs to be hosted somewhere.
While I do disagree with their customers, I don't disagree with the company allowing people to post whatever they want.
The actual name of the module will vary depending on your hardware.
You can retrieve the xlibmesa-dri package from experimental, version 4.3.0-0pre1v5 and use this instead of the version from unstable. This works for some reason. Download it here:
Yes, I agree, competition is a good thing. But I do have to argue that it CAN be possible to introduce competition into older established businesses. Look at the AT&T and MCI case. Since then, prices have continued to drop from the increased competition.
The $500 bill is quite a bit. I would bet he wasn't on an international calling plan. In that case, he would be paying full-rate for those calls, which is just rediculously expensive. We call Japan for hours at a time every month (family there). The phone bill lists every month "you saved $855 over basic rates" "you saved $1075 over basic rates" and other craziness like that. Basic rates are a ripoff. Its 10x worse if you're calling from a cell phone.
I'd consider leaving POTS behind, except that it is difficult to get the phone company to give you a dry pair to connect your DSL to. And most DSL providers arn't equipped to handle that (tracking you by your phone number, etc). And cable is just too monopoly-driven and lock-in prone.
Nope, don't work for AT&T. Just a customer that was pleased to find out I could make calls to Japan for $0.10.
the barrier to building fundamentally new kinds of computers not limited by physical distance should become a reality, experts say
I think the universe might disagree. The speed of light is a limiting factor. The speed of electrons/transistor switching is what we're hitting now. (takes more than one clock cycle for a signal to propogate accross a chip) We will exchange that for a the light/photothingie switching speed that will be higher. This is not limitless.
Also, not limited by physical distance? Are these guys on crack? My Quake game is limited by physical distance. It takes 100ms to go across the country and back. Latency is the killer here.
Huge amounts of money per minute for international calls?
I don't know what you're talking about.. since we get calls to the entire industrialized world for under $0.25 USD per minute. I can call Japan for $0.10 per minute and can call the UK for $0.08 per minute. Thats almost as cheap as the $0.07 per minute I'm paying for domestic long distance.
I remember paying $0.25 per minute for calls within the same state! Before deregulation, it was even worse. Even today, most in-state calls are more expensive than international calls. Hell, even calls to Russia are $0.20 per minute!
These rates are damn cheap.. and I'm glad to have them.
BTW, AT&T will be providing VoIP. They don't say how cheap it will be yet, but they are saying it will be cheaper than POTS. See here: http://www.consumer.att.com/voip/
If you're a geek already, why not go that extra mile and become a computer labbie? You get the access codes to the labs and can keep them open all night. You also get in good with the faculty and sometimes even get paid to do something you would be doing already.
I believe this may be a way for the pigeons to adapt their inate skills to the modern world. I believe in pre-civilization times the birds would have followed rivers and waterways like they are following the roads today.
It would be interesting to do a study in an area without roads and population to see if this is indeed the case.
You can run 2.6 on a Pentium. You might need to set HZ=100 (like 2.4) instead of the default i386 HZ=1000 on 2.6. I've seen reports of people booting their low-memory 486 systems with 2.6 and HZ=100.
Upon entering Manhattan he decides to fill up the tank at Mobil with his credit card. (info sent)
Heh, you obviously don't live near New York City. Gasoline prices in Manhattan are about double what you would pay in the suburbs.. if you can actually find the few stations that there are.
You should be careful how much trust you put into these signatures. MD5 sums only tell you that the file hasn't been modified between the download server and your computer. If the software was trojaned, the MD5 sum can be changed to match the new trojaned software.
If there is a PGP signature, but it is from an untrusted key, that is no better than a MD5 sum. Anyone can create a PGP key with any name on it and upload it to the public keyservers. The real authentication comes from the web-of-trust. Of course, there are some mitigating factors.. like having the author sign with the same key for previous releases and then you notice that the key has changed. That can help, but only if you are vigilant.
The web-of-trust is the real important factor here. If you are a software distributor, try to get your keys signed by multiple people in the well-connected group.
If you are a software user, see if you can find a key that you trust enough to sign it.. either by a face-to-face identification verification (with a signature that you can upload to the keyservers), or by using a well-accepted key in the well-connected set and signing it LOCALLY (so that it doesn't get uploaded to the keyservers and pollute the trusted set for other users). Something from the top-50 signed keys would be suitable:.
Sites like biglumber.com maintain a list of people interested in key signings in different localities. This is a big help in getting some signatures and connecting yourself to the well-connected-set of keys.
This will enable you to build up your web-of-trust, which really indicates that the keys belong to who they say they do. PGP is your friend, use it wisely.
If you could ftp from one machine to the next over firewire, then IP is working. Sounds like you need to figure out how to setup a NAT or HTTP Proxy. You're barking up the wrong tree.
JNG is a lossy single-image member of the PNG (Portable Network Graphics) format family. It encapsulates a JPEG datastream in PNG-style chunks, along with an optional alpha channel and ancillary chunks that carry color-space information and comments. While JNG is primarily intended as a subformat of the MNG (Multiple-image Network Graphics) format, standalone JNG files are also possible.
It has been public information for a long time that there have been currency detection in digital color copiers. When I worked at Xerox this was publicly acknowledged (~4 years ago).
The currency detection was used to imprint a watermark into the reproduction image. That watermark identified the copier model and serial number that made the photocopy. The result was that the secret service could track down photocopied currency to the exact machine it came from. This supposedly worked for US bills, but I don't know if it recognized other foreign bills.
All thats changed now is that some devices stop printing the currency and instead print out some informational junk in its place. HP apparently does this in its Windows drivers, while Xerox did its watermarking in firmware on the actual device.
Back in 1996 on the college dorm connection, it took me and a couple friends about 2 months to download enough mp3s to make a cd-rom. We found someone with a brand-spankin-new 2x cd-rom burner (but it really only worked reliably at 1x) and off we went.
I also burned the two windows mp3 players that were available at the time, musearc-4_0_beta.zip and winplay3.zip. This was way before winamp.
Jerold Surdahl, 40, an administrator in a building management office in Centerville, Ohio, said he started using the uLocate service to communicate with colleagues. Now, he is intrigued by the possibility of stashing a location-tracking phone in the trunk of his wife's car.
"I'm not expecting or hoping or wanting to find something, but I would just like to explore the possibilities," Mr. Surdahl said. "I'd tell her about it later."
Umm.. can you say BUSTED? Having your name and your intentions printed in the NYT pretty much ensures your secret is out.
BTW, whats with all these controlling people? Relationships are about trust. If you can't trust someone to tell you where they were, then something more serious is wrong.
Sounds like you want one that is aimed at japanese speakers.. or, well, people that can read hiragana and katakana.. so, you want one aimed at a Japanese market.
Seiko makes a number of models, which rage from around $170 (USD) to $285. Check out the Seiko JP-Dict website for more info.
As for places to purchase in the US, I found an ad in "US Frontline" (a US magazine for Japanese expats) about "Bargain Japan", which appears to be a reseller of Japanese products in the US, and is a subsidiary of Frontline. They have handheld dictionaries here.
I havn't used one of these yet.. so I can't comment.. but hope this helps.
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What does the 14th amendment have to do with this? Corporate personhood is a legal fiction invented by the courts in the 1886 case "Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad Company".
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ISPs are not common carriers. The last time I checked, they were not anxious to become common carriers either. I think your definition of what it means to be a common carrier could be more specific. It's not the panacea you seem to think it is.
Ok, fill me in.. what are the risks?
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I have mod points, but I'm responding instead because I think you have a flawed argument.
Its called FREE SPEECH !! I'm glad that they allow their hosting to be used by anything the customer wants. Being a common carrier means that you are not responsible for other people's content.
Isn't this what we said that the Internet is all about? Anyone can be a publisher, anyone can create content. The corralary to that is that the content needs to be hosted somewhere.
While I do disagree with their customers, I don't disagree with the company allowing people to post whatever they want.
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Is there some reason why Docbook is insuffient? More info at www.docbook.org.
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Here's how you can fix DRI. First, confirm that you are having the same problem:
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/tdfx_dri.so: undefined symbol: sse_test_dummy
e sa-dri
$ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo
[...]
libGL error: dlopen failed:
[...]
The actual name of the module will vary depending on your hardware.
You can retrieve the xlibmesa-dri package from experimental, version 4.3.0-0pre1v5 and use this instead of the version from unstable. This works for some reason. Download it here:
http://packages.debian.org/experimental/x11/xlibm
Enjoy.
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ProQuake is a modification to the original Quake (NetQuake, not QuakeWorld) code to provide some client-to-server verification of maps and models.
I'm curious if anyone here has heard of any attacks on this cheat-free method?
Thanks
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Yes, I agree, competition is a good thing. But I do have to argue that it CAN be possible to introduce competition into older established businesses. Look at the AT&T and MCI case. Since then, prices have continued to drop from the increased competition.
The $500 bill is quite a bit. I would bet he wasn't on an international calling plan. In that case, he would be paying full-rate for those calls, which is just rediculously expensive. We call Japan for hours at a time every month (family there). The phone bill lists every month "you saved $855 over basic rates" "you saved $1075 over basic rates" and other craziness like that. Basic rates are a ripoff. Its 10x worse if you're calling from a cell phone.
I'd consider leaving POTS behind, except that it is difficult to get the phone company to give you a dry pair to connect your DSL to. And most DSL providers arn't equipped to handle that (tracking you by your phone number, etc). And cable is just too monopoly-driven and lock-in prone.
Nope, don't work for AT&T. Just a customer that was pleased to find out I could make calls to Japan for $0.10.
-molo
the barrier to building fundamentally new kinds of computers not limited by physical distance should become a reality, experts say
I think the universe might disagree. The speed of light is a limiting factor. The speed of electrons/transistor switching is what we're hitting now. (takes more than one clock cycle for a signal to propogate accross a chip) We will exchange that for a the light/photothingie switching speed that will be higher. This is not limitless.
Also, not limited by physical distance? Are these guys on crack? My Quake game is limited by physical distance. It takes 100ms to go across the country and back. Latency is the killer here.
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Huge amounts of money per minute for international calls?
I don't know what you're talking about.. since we get calls to the entire industrialized world for under $0.25 USD per minute. I can call Japan for $0.10 per minute and can call the UK for $0.08 per minute. Thats almost as cheap as the $0.07 per minute I'm paying for domestic long distance.
I remember paying $0.25 per minute for calls within the same state! Before deregulation, it was even worse. Even today, most in-state calls are more expensive than international calls. Hell, even calls to Russia are $0.20 per minute!
Here, see what I'm talking about:
http://www.consumer.att.com/global/english/
These rates are damn cheap.. and I'm glad to have them.
BTW, AT&T will be providing VoIP. They don't say how cheap it will be yet, but they are saying it will be cheaper than POTS. See here:
http://www.consumer.att.com/voip/
-molo
If you're a geek already, why not go that extra mile and become a computer labbie? You get the access codes to the labs and can keep them open all night. You also get in good with the faculty and sometimes even get paid to do something you would be doing already.
-molo
I believe this may be a way for the pigeons to adapt their inate skills to the modern world. I believe in pre-civilization times the birds would have followed rivers and waterways like they are following the roads today.
It would be interesting to do a study in an area without roads and population to see if this is indeed the case.
-molo
You can run 2.6 on a Pentium. You might need to set HZ=100 (like 2.4) instead of the default i386 HZ=1000 on 2.6. I've seen reports of people booting their low-memory 486 systems with 2.6 and HZ=100.
-molo
You are confused about the meaning of "public domain". If its copyrighted, its not in the public domain.
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Upon entering Manhattan he decides to fill up the tank at Mobil with his credit card. (info sent)
Heh, you obviously don't live near New York City. Gasoline prices in Manhattan are about double what you would pay in the suburbs.. if you can actually find the few stations that there are.
-molo
You should be careful how much trust you put into these signatures. MD5 sums only tell you that the file hasn't been modified between the download server and your computer. If the software was trojaned, the MD5 sum can be changed to match the new trojaned software.
If there is a PGP signature, but it is from an untrusted key, that is no better than a MD5 sum. Anyone can create a PGP key with any name on it and upload it to the public keyservers. The real authentication comes from the web-of-trust. Of course, there are some mitigating factors.. like having the author sign with the same key for previous releases and then you notice that the key has changed. That can help, but only if you are vigilant.
The web-of-trust is the real important factor here. If you are a software distributor, try to get your keys signed by multiple people in the well-connected group.
If you are a software user, see if you can find a key that you trust enough to sign it.. either by a face-to-face identification verification (with a signature that you can upload to the keyservers), or by using a well-accepted key in the well-connected set and signing it LOCALLY (so that it doesn't get uploaded to the keyservers and pollute the trusted set for other users). Something from the top-50 signed keys would be suitable:.
Sites like biglumber.com maintain a list of people interested in key signings in different localities. This is a big help in getting some signatures and connecting yourself to the well-connected-set of keys.
Also, if you want to check the path of trust between two keys, check out the PGP Pathfinder. An example is the path from Werner Koch (GPG author) to Phil Zimmerman (PGP author).
This will enable you to build up your web-of-trust, which really indicates that the keys belong to who they say they do. PGP is your friend, use it wisely.
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If you could ftp from one machine to the next over firewire, then IP is working. Sounds like you need to figure out how to setup a NAT or HTTP Proxy. You're barking up the wrong tree.
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When I used to work with Windows, I found Russ Cooper's NTBugtraq mailing list to be an invaluable resource.
More info at http://www.ntbugtraq.com/
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More info here:
http://www.libpng.org/pub/mng/spec/jng.html
Abstract:
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It has been public information for a long time that there have been currency detection in digital color copiers. When I worked at Xerox this was publicly acknowledged (~4 years ago).
The currency detection was used to imprint a watermark into the reproduction image. That watermark identified the copier model and serial number that made the photocopy. The result was that the secret service could track down photocopied currency to the exact machine it came from. This supposedly worked for US bills, but I don't know if it recognized other foreign bills.
All thats changed now is that some devices stop printing the currency and instead print out some informational junk in its place. HP apparently does this in its Windows drivers, while Xerox did its watermarking in firmware on the actual device.
-molo
Worm? This is a trojan. Anyone that clicks on an executable email attachment in a message that says "this is a test" gets what they deserve.
-molo
Back in 1996 on the college dorm connection, it took me and a couple friends about 2 months to download enough mp3s to make a cd-rom. We found someone with a brand-spankin-new 2x cd-rom burner (but it really only worked reliably at 1x) and off we went.
I also burned the two windows mp3 players that were available at the time, musearc-4_0_beta.zip and winplay3.zip. This was way before winamp.
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1. not remotely exploitable
2. lftp is a client
3. if you want a stable webserver, I'd suggest apache 1.3 instead of 2.0.
4. not remotely exploitable
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marsographically[1]
[1] As opposed to GEOgraphically.
The word you're looking for is areographically. Ares is Greek for Mars.
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Jerold Surdahl, 40, an administrator in a building management office in Centerville, Ohio, said he started using the uLocate service to communicate with colleagues. Now, he is intrigued by the possibility of stashing a location-tracking phone in the trunk of his wife's car.
"I'm not expecting or hoping or wanting to find something, but I would just like to explore the possibilities," Mr. Surdahl said. "I'd tell her about it later."
Umm.. can you say BUSTED? Having your name and your intentions printed in the NYT pretty much ensures your secret is out.
BTW, whats with all these controlling people? Relationships are about trust. If you can't trust someone to tell you where they were, then something more serious is wrong.
-molo
Sounds like you want one that is aimed at japanese speakers.. or, well, people that can read hiragana and katakana.. so, you want one aimed at a Japanese market.
Seiko makes a number of models, which rage from around $170 (USD) to $285. Check out the Seiko JP-Dict website for more info.
As for places to purchase in the US, I found an ad in "US Frontline" (a US magazine for Japanese expats) about "Bargain Japan", which appears to be a reseller of Japanese products in the US, and is a subsidiary of Frontline. They have handheld dictionaries here.
I havn't used one of these yet.. so I can't comment.. but hope this helps.
-molo