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  1. Re:Beowulf on How Well Does Windows Cluster? · · Score: 2

    it cost them lost sales. If you don't believe that, you probably think the BSA is a bunch of kids camping.

  2. Re:Here's the deal: on How Well Does Windows Cluster? · · Score: 2

    I think the critical thing is that its a learning project. (You're at a university, right?) I'm assuming the graphics arts department wouldn't willingly switch to a clip-art & template program like Print Shop -- or something. They are trying to learn how to create their own layouts and graphics. While they may, in their professional career choose to use such programs, that's not what they're in college for.

  3. Re:mod up the parent on How Well Does Windows Cluster? · · Score: 2

    so is anything on a rack a "cluster" or "supercluster" ?

  4. Re:CALculated response to Samba on How Well Does Windows Cluster? · · Score: 2

    yeah, but then you have to install finger to get the full functionality of exchange.

  5. timeline on Hope for MIPS, From Toshiba · · Score: 2
    According to the article though, there will be no product until at least a year from now.


    So, if they don't improve anything, they will beat Itanium to market and outperform it.

  6. Re:Wait.... on Transparent Aluminium · · Score: 2

    so they want us all to get goiter?

  7. Re:Apache 2 is going to kick ass on Apache Server Nears 2.0 · · Score: 2

    Sliced bread is cool for creating web-content, but for really cool websites, you should really try torillas!

  8. Re:Apache 2.0 Threads on Apache Server Nears 2.0 · · Score: 2

    Of course, the only times threading is going to benefit you in Apache's model in on Windows (where processes are so damn heavy) or large SMP systems with heavy loads.

    The real improvements are things like the cool forwarding that allows you to build simple modules that say -- parse an XML with embedded PHP and pass it off to SSI and then XSLT it.

  9. I don't recall on Google Allows Sponsored Rankings...In Ads · · Score: 2

    you know, I don't recall ever seeing an ad on Google. So I went and typed in "flowers" -- there they were. I tried "Linux", "Windows", "Microsoft", and "Internet" --- I didn't see anything for those. The only other time I'd heard of Google ads was the Ximian ad for KDE

  10. I can't help but notice... on Google Allows Sponsored Rankings...In Ads · · Score: 2

    that the article is hosted on Excite.

    Which you may remember was recently bought by (i believe) Infospace, a subsidiary of Microsoft

  11. Re:How does the flash advance work? on NOA to Sue for Flash Advance Linkers · · Score: 3, Insightful

    the proprietary arrangement of pins (probably patented) on the cartridge interface can easily be considered copyright protection mechanism, or even an encryption scheme. Counting them (and of course using a voltmeter to find out which is which) is obviously a circumvention technique.

    I'm sure glad there are more than ten pins, or else we'd all have to get our fingers chopped off as anticircumvention devices.

  12. Re:The public blacklists aren't all... on Are SPAM Blacklists Unreasonable? · · Score: 2
    Every sentence of this message is wrong.

    Every sentence of this message is wrong.

    See above, below

    You didn't read my message, did you? My system is a small one, true. Multiply my system by the thousands of others whose administrators maintain private blacklists - and, I assure you, not all of them are small - and you're talking about a significant chunk of the net.

    You didn't read your original message, did you? So there are a thousand end users who use their own mail server that dead ends into their living room from their local ISP. Not much mail gets routed through them. Yes there are ISPs, and some of them large, that use their own (or other) blackhole lists. But that's not what you were talking about.

    Wrong. People can send email from their own systems - as I do - or through their ISP's outgoing email server. That is *not* an open relay, since (if it's properly configured) only relays messages from that ISP's customers.

    Wrong. You can send email through your own system (as I do) -- you are in a very small minority. And you can only send email piggybacked on the relays of larger networks (like your ISP.) I said, "Open relays are not the problem", in one sense, that is an exagerration, and should be read ,"Open relays are not the biggest problem," but in another sense it is completely accurate the same way saying, "Guns are not the problem, it is the people who misuse them."

    Those jokers send their spam through open relays, in an attempt to evade other blacklists. You even note this yourself, though you don't appear to understand it: what, exactly, do you think someone sending mail through someone else's DSL or cable modem is doing if not abusing an open relay?

    Yes, they do. Some of them. It's hard to turn down a big chunk of free, anonymous bandwidth. But its easier these days to call up the telco and get your own access on the cheap, and the risk is smaller. Just be sure to use the name "Herbert Spammerton" only once. And try to blackhole all of Verizon, I dare you.

    I run my own email server. My ISP has nothing to do with it.

    Who are you peered with?

    So much talking, so many errors. The fact is that, by eliminating open relays, a significant amount of spam is thrown out. If we didn't have open relays, we'd be much further along in the war on spam.

    I was only trying to bring up a counter point, sorry if my original response came across wrong. But you deserve this one.

    Open relays are not the problem. Only as much as "bars" are the problem that causes car accidents. It isn't the only problem, maybe not even the largest. While it is a big problem, if you take it away, *the* problem would not go away. I'm not saying you shouldn't treat the symptoms, but you can't ignore the cause.

    Relevant to the case at hand, I had to open relaying (only to my local network and work IPs) so that I could use my personal mail server from my home workstation, and from the office. I'm facing the problem of having several friends around the country who would like to use my home mail server -- and I'd like to when I travel. How you you propose doing that without selective open relay? Its already growing into a difficult task to maintain, and it's inconvenient to download putty everytime I travel so I can ssh home. By then, its easier to just read it instead of setting up a temporary mail folder on whoever's computer I'm at. I might as well telnet to port 110 -- which is what I usually end up doing now.

  13. Re:Newton's gravity is more usefull. on Warming and Slowing the World · · Score: 2

    don't always get change, but I was just being pedantic

  14. Re:A couple things to consider... on Supreme Court Accepts Eldred Case · · Score: 2

    28 years was a lifetime That's how come they liked to quote the Bible with "threescore and twelve (72)" year lifespan? That's why Ben Franklin lived to (i think) 90?

  15. Re:What can I do to help? on Supreme Court Accepts Eldred Case · · Score: 2

    Wow! This post alone should go a long way to support their case. Turning down money!

  16. false analogy on Supreme Court Accepts Eldred Case · · Score: 2

    In Grants day (and for some time thereafter) there was no "life of the author" clause in copyright law. His wife inhereted the manuscript, and granted the publisher right to reproduce it -- a "copyright".

  17. Re:Slightly OT: Limitation of PDF on Supreme Court Accepts Eldred Case · · Score: 2

    I can't think of any 32767 page document you would want to print out in its entirety. The only other reason to use PDF is to discourage copying or modification. I think the Federal Register chose the wrong format.

  18. Re:Everything old is new again... on Supreme Court Accepts Eldred Case · · Score: 2

    the Heirs of the Grail Kings are going to be knocking at your door.

  19. Re:Everything old is new again... on Supreme Court Accepts Eldred Case · · Score: 2

    the Heirs of the <a href="http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congre<nobr>s<wbr></wbr></nobr> s/2301/genesis.html">Grail Kings</a> are going to be knocking at your door.

  20. Re:Wrong means to a good end? on Supreme Court Accepts Eldred Case · · Score: 2

    There is nothing preventing you (or project Gutenberg) from competing directly with Dover.

  21. Re:Balance on Supreme Court Accepts Eldred Case · · Score: 2

    uncomfortably close to the classes of nobility that the US Constitution explicitly forbids.

    close but not exactly. Because ownership can supposedly be sold to a corporation, theoretically, this has the potential of making said nobility available to the highest bidder (as long as the inside club of brokers, banks, and insurers doesn't want to keep it--or said corporation is not traded publicly)

  22. Re:Balance on Supreme Court Accepts Eldred Case · · Score: 2

    History clearly shows a curve where no IP rights harm society (since few people are motivated to create new IP)

    This was known as the renaissance

  23. Re:two points on Supreme Court Accepts Eldred Case · · Score: 2

    What do you mean "no legal recourse"?

    You are perfectly free under our constitution to purchase majority share in the corporations that lobbied for and bribed to pass the laws you find objectionable, and spend the remaining resources of said corporations to repeal the laws created by their former owners -- provided your actions are in the remaining shareholders' "best interests".

  24. Re:Give us a little credit... You dope... on Supreme Court Accepts Eldred Case · · Score: 2

    No one's saying we should dress Mr. Lucas up as shitbeard and put a patch over his eye and cut off an appendage. Although...

  25. Re:A little sanity check please on Supreme Court Accepts Eldred Case · · Score: 2

    They can also copy the DVD in their Philips DVD burner.
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    This problem disappears when you change the brand from "Philips" to "Sony", one of the largest copyright holders in the world. Say the only money to be made on movies was on DVD burners (or video cards, or TVs) the manufacturers would soon start sponsoring people to create content for their devices. The big movie studios started by creating content for their theaters, so people would attend them and pay the exhorbant rates for Raisinettes -- and there's nothing really stopping you from sneaking in your own box!