If you provided these services enough from North America, you could be wanted in Australia. Most western countries have an extradition treaty with them.
We've had enough trouble with the Quebec French in Canada. Things like laws that prohibit non-French signs, speaking English publically, things like that. Anyone ever heard of "Dunkirk"? It was a major battle during WWII. But the French call it Dunkirque. Well, it's actually Dunkirk, because the people there don't speak French as their native language. Or didn't. Now they do, as they are being forced into French schools.
cable modem half-life servers with 26 player limit
people trying to run big web servers
war3z ftp servers
However I do not like the policy of deception. I'm fine with them imposing rate caps, but let's make it crystal clear and not advertise "unlimited service".
> Yeah, there's a patch coming, maybe a day or > two slower than Linux would have it out A day or two? More like a few weeks. MS just hasn't admitted it until a security company blew the whistle. There was a serious DOS bug against NT/95/98 discussed several months ago on Bugtraq. Still no fix, and MS knew two months ago at least.
When Microsoft hears about a problem, they try not to reveal information until the patch is complete. This is probably because in the past they have developed a reputation for taking weeks to issue a patch. They want to get a reputation more like free software, where a patch usually is available within hours.
Ouch. I don't know what software to use here...but I thought that most cable modem services charged incrementally after limits were hit... i.e. if your limit is 8GB, and you use 12, you pay 1.5 times your normal monthly fee.
It'd be nice to see other providers "tolerate" LINUX users, or even better, provide support.
I think Bell South probably has some people in middle management who've been told: "LINUX is a server operating system, and the only reason these people want to run LINUX is to run Quake servers and use up our bandwidth or do hacking or warez trading".
It's important that we work to correct these misconception.
Just look at the Canadian government and the things that have been done in the six years. Then try to tell me the British type parliamentry system is better. And don't get me started on Upper house seats that you get by heraldry.
Well, in the text of the bill it excludes intermediate sendmails and other services, which is good, in the way it defines "transmits bulk email messges".
As far as IP masq issues, if someone is sending bulk email that is passing through an ipmasq system, it is possible if prosecuted that the use of the ipmasq system could be used as an additional count if the prosecution wanted to be pedantic.
I've spent time in IRC channels like #linux trying to explain to migrating Windows users how to install various distributions of LINUX. I usually give up after I figure out that people have been telling them to go Debian because "it's the best". People, for a semi-knowledgeable user migrating to LINUX who is willing to look up info on security patches regularily, please tell them to go with an easier distribution.
Users who have too much trouble go away saying "LINUX sux" because they can't figure out Debian. Probably half the users are coming to LINUX to try out xxx game (like Quake2). So please keep this in mind if you recommend a distribution to users.
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Just because the LINUX mascot is Tux the penguin doesn't mean that every article related to penguins needs to be posted.
The article is about people visiting penguin habitats, not the other way around.
And as someone mentioned, they stink.
Once they get that through their heads, perhaps it will be the end of this.
Here in Canada, I am very glad that it was decided not to regulate internet content as if it were television or film.
If you provided these services enough from North America, you could be wanted in Australia. Most western countries have an extradition treaty with them.
A sales tax I Assume? I Canada GST = Goods & Services Tax.
The Delta comparison program, in old MS-DOS (like at least 10 years old) did this too.
We've had enough trouble with the Quebec French in Canada. Things like laws that prohibit non-French signs, speaking English publically, things like that. Anyone ever heard of "Dunkirk"? It was a major battle during WWII. But the French call it Dunkirque. Well, it's actually Dunkirk, because the people there don't speak French as their native language. Or didn't. Now they do, as they are being forced into French schools.
The main page seems to load, but all the links are broken from what I can tell.
A lot of them also claim compliance with a House of Representatives bill, which died on the floor last year anyways.
..that it came to this due to:
However I do not like the policy of deception. I'm fine with them imposing rate caps, but let's make it crystal clear and not advertise "unlimited service".
Is that article really xml? It has a .xml extension, but the contents look like 100% html to me.
Hmmm? What does it do?
> Yeah, there's a patch coming, maybe a day or > two slower than Linux would have it out A day or two? More like a few weeks. MS just hasn't admitted it until a security company blew the whistle. There was a serious DOS bug against NT/95/98 discussed several months ago on Bugtraq. Still no fix, and MS knew two months ago at least.
When Microsoft hears about a problem, they try not to reveal information until the patch is complete. This is probably because in the past they have developed a reputation for taking weeks to issue a patch. They want to get a reputation more like free software, where a patch usually is available within hours.
Ouch. I don't know what software to use here...but I thought that most cable modem services charged incrementally after limits were hit... i.e. if your limit is 8GB, and you use 12, you pay 1.5 times your normal monthly fee.
NZ is in pretty bad shape. They had periods where there were rotating blackouts in the capital, where these rotating blackouts lasted for month.
A few years back they had a frenzy of tax cutting to stimulate the economy. Now many things in NZ are owned by Australian companies.
A taste of things to come for North America?
Even have a newsgroup, athome.unix-users.
It'd be nice to see other providers "tolerate" LINUX users, or even better, provide support.
I think Bell South probably has some people in middle management who've been told: "LINUX is a server operating system, and the only reason these people want to run LINUX is to run Quake servers and use up our bandwidth or do hacking or warez trading".
It's important that we work to correct these misconception.
Gee, where did I hear exactly these points before.
Just look at the Canadian government and the things that have been done in the six years. Then try to tell me the British type parliamentry system is better. And don't get me started on Upper house seats that you get by heraldry.
Ever use the strip command on that static binary?
Well, in the text of the bill it excludes intermediate sendmails and other services, which is good, in the way it defines "transmits bulk email messges".
As far as IP masq issues, if someone is sending bulk email that is passing through an ipmasq system, it is possible if prosecuted that the use of the ipmasq system could be used as an additional count if the prosecution wanted to be pedantic.
Now this user is going to get here home page yanked for being /.'ed! @Home generally has a 300 MB/month transfer limit.
You can bet that this MS mouse will be USB and drivers will be available for Windows only.
The copy on the NY Times site is just an AP wire story You can also get it at http://wire.ap.org/APnew s/main.html?PACKAGEID=BIZcomputers.
They make a point of putting a calander on the bottom of the page that shows it's April 1st, with 1 - 4 - 1999 next to it.
I've spent time in IRC channels like #linux trying to explain to migrating Windows users how to install various distributions of LINUX. I usually give up after I figure out that people have been telling them to go Debian because "it's the best". People, for a semi-knowledgeable user migrating to LINUX who is willing to look up info on security patches regularily, please tell them to go with an easier distribution.
Users who have too much trouble go away saying "LINUX sux" because they can't figure out Debian. Probably half the users are coming to LINUX to try out xxx game (like Quake2). So please keep this in mind if you recommend a distribution to users.