I really wouldn't worry about this one because it would be found void for overbreadth because the definition of vulgarity might differ enough between races, religions, and creeds that it would cause gross mis-interpretations. If the overbreadth doctrine doesn't stop it, the first amendment certainly will. Yelling the words "fuck" and "shit" are not the same thing as yelling "fire" in a crowded movie theatre.
Caffeine is not a hallucinagen... it is simply a stimulant. I love crap research like this because it is simply designed to make people fearful. Folks, every other week somebody says chocolate is a carinogen. On the off weeks, it is suddenly a powerful antioxident. Just because "research" was done on a topic or issue doesn't mean that the research is remotely valid. Precious little research is truely objective and you have to consider the source of the research and motivations of those conducting it. This research could well have been done as a "promotion" for a different kind of stimulant that a company hopes to market successfully. The term, "research," has been used unscrupulously by marketing departments hoping to make *lots* of money at the potential expense of your health. Look at Archer Daniels Midland's aggressive push of corn syrup as an example. They had bogus research and lobby to show that Stevia (a naturally occuring, alternative sweetner to surgar) could be potentially cancerous. Oooops, turns out that the real poision is what ADM wants to sell and make millions at it.
I consider it a good sign that Barak Obama wants to keep his Blackberry. This, if anything, shows that he is willing to step up to a greater level of accessibility and responsibility. It is certainly a feather in his cap. Plus, I am sure RIM can develop a special Blackberry device that will allow Obama to safely have classified material transmitted to him.
Right on! We are an industry ripe for unionization. I think we should check out the SIEU. After all IT is a service industry. I am sure they would willingly represent us.
These days in definitely makes sense to byo router. Vyatta, as mentioned before, is certainly viable. Perhaps more so, would be OpenBSD's OpenBGP/OSPF project. Vyatta has one critical weakness in routing, they still use Zebra/Quagga as for its RDE. Quagga is notorious for bugs and instability. One might assume that Vyatta corrected a few of them but I am more likely to trust OpenBSD for that. OpenBSD will route RIP, OSPF, and BGP as well as some others. Check out the testimonials of the project's website where an ISP claimed to have 3 full BGP views at higher performance than a Cisco.
Ladies and Gentelman. Time to build an industrial strength firewall/intrusion detection system. Check out pf, the innovation from OpenBSD. That'll make it significantly harder to penetrate
It is a sad day when our universities have slipped to an all new low. We pay lots of money for our education and now the very bastian of free thinking and free ideas does such underhanded things as patent someone else's work. Never mind that it might be legal, it certainly is unethical and immoral. The only way this would be remotely ethical is if the student was well compensated for his work. I'll go out on a limb and say most are not "well-compensated." If universities behave like this, I guess that you could justify cheating on an exam because "stealing" a student's work is actually far worse an ethical transgression. If you come up with a fantastic, new, and patentable idea, don't share it! It looks like fundamental human greed plays a large part.
Micron made some bullet proof laptops. About five years ago, when I worked as a civilian for the Department of the Navy, they gave me one bangin' Micron laptop. My friend had a Micron full tower back in college and the thing was bullet proof. It ran Linux flawlessly. In fact, I was going to purchase one because they are clearly superior to Dell but I they were out of my price range at the time. I guess everyone is now looking at their bottom dollar so quality has lessened. Still a shame, but people would rather pay less than a small amount more. In the three years that I had that laptop, I put it through hell and never once did its hardware fail. It survived rough handling and, an embarrasing slip out of my hand.
This is a very good idea. I like Notes/Domino as a collaboration and messaging platform. I especially like the message encryption features and the ability to prevent an email from being forwarded or otherwise manipulated. The only downside to Domino is that it can be unfriendly to administer. The good news is that, if it becomes open sourced, it will be more economical to learn and deploy in small labs and use and become competent. The author of the article makes an excellent case for it by citing Solaris as the example. Sun's decision to open source Solaris did breathe some new life into it. If IBM does start to do this, they will be well positioned to do some damage to the M$ Outlook/Exchange market share. They can also recapture market share from some of the open source exchange alternatives like Zimbra and OX. IMHO, both Zimbra and OX are weak. Plus, Notes/Domino will just continue to improve by leaps and bounds with community input. We have seen vast improvements in Solaris since Sun made its decision to open source.
Gee, I thought services like these were dead ideas. Remember the AOL days when you had to pay per minute usage fees? These days are no more. Microsoft really doesn't have a patent on this. When it comes to computing, metered services have been pretty much thrown out the door.
Gives new and scary meaning blue screen of death. If a BSOD happens on a critical nuclear monitoring system, we have an "oh shit" of epic porportion. I don't see how an OS that you have to purchase will save money in 10 years. Sounds like more FUD.
This law was doomed to fail because it is not practically enforceable. You get the big fish and maybe drop the amount of spam for three days until a bigger takes its place. I like the technological/economical approach to combating spam. OpenBSD has come up with an ingenious way of using technology to take the economy out of sending spam. They have come up with spamd, a fake smtp daemon which can cause delivery of a single spam message up to 5 minutes thereby causing a massive queue clog on the part of the spammer. By causing a severe bandwidth clog on the spammer's end, you remove the economy of mass emailing. I have used this solution to rid my father's company of ALL of its spam. It makes me laugh with delight to comb the logs and see the fool spammers continuing to try delivery and there is 0 impact on our bandwidth.
There is also the advantage of having less wireless card warranty replacements due to failed firmware upgrades. I imagine this is a source of frustration for both consumer and manufacturer. Kudos to Atheros for doing this... may I point out that Ralink Technology has been doing this for a number of years now? I have found the Atheros and Ralink chipsets to be equally of good quality. Finally, it's time for Intel to follow suit. They have no competitive edge by keeping their binary blobs. Their stuff must be standards compliant to interoperate with other wireless hardware thereby negating anything really proprietary.
I can see this being a real plight for the professional programmer employed in the software industry and I am empathetic. If the software industry collapsed as a result of open source software, there would be new opportunities for computer programmers outside of the software industry. Other industries would still need programmers to maintain, improve, and customize these applications for their own needs. Arguably, software quality would improve because instead of rushing code through alpha and beta testing so that profits can be turned, we would see software that has been put through its paces ushering in an era of unprecedented stability. We would start to see commodity file servers with stability approaching mainframes. There are precious few ideas of Richard Stallman's that I agree with, but one of them is that software really does belong in the hands of the people. The software industry has become patent greedy, great at releasing oftentimes mediocre applications, and more or less forcing its customers to upgrade to the latest versions.
Yes, I did find this strange. I had an image of Stallman going through an entire bottle of Purell to sanitize his hands after giving the machine to a friend to install a "freer" GNU/Linux
These are by and large well written comments. However, I think Stallman has a narrow mind re the difference between open source and free software. He goes on tirades about the BSD license which is far more open than the GPL. In some ways, Stallman is killing his own cause in his zeal. Stallman would be better off embracing all forms of open source software. Companies selling proprietary software bank on and exploit rifts in the free/open source community. This is an old divide and conquer scheme that has worked over and over again throughout history. There is strength and unity in numbers. Petty infighting between BSD and GPL must stop.
I know the implications this has on individual privacy but I am angry at the corporate greed and irresponsibility currently going on so a part of me cheers this individual on. If they can get a cool million, fine! It'll send a message against invincibility to the corporation. Maybe it will cause Express to humble itself a bit.
Who is this ISP? I want to know what company NOT to use! 1GB of browsing can be done in a day or two. I'd suggest that you find an alternative, if possible.
The Wave Bubble sounds really cool.... peace and quiet. I am surprised no mention was made anywhere of Soekris. Soekris (http://www.soekris.com) makes open source small, low power computers that people have built advanced routers and gateways. In fact they state that their hardware is 100% driver supported by OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Linux. I have a Soekris net4801 which replaced my consumer linksys router after hours of aggravation. My net4801 runs a stripped down version of OpenBSD and acts as my firewall and router. In fact, I have added a vpn1411 board so that I can have the board handle encryption and decryption of ipsec packets making for much faster vpn connectivity. The net4801 is more expensive than a linksys at around 173.00 but you can build something that would compete with or outperform a Cisco router.
Copy protection is not just DRM, it's DRM used stupidly. Copy protection involves giving someone an encrypted document, the key to decrypt it, and the algorithm to decrypt it. It only works because the code that combines the key and the algorithm is obscure. Either the location of the key is hidden, or the key is encrypted with a second key hidden in the code. Make the code visible, and there's no place left to hide it.
This is not necessarily true at all. Look at an existing technology such as X509 Certificates. One could adapt this to DRM and the private encryption key is still secure. If the music/movie industry wants DRM and cannot be convinced otherwise, it should be open source so that all players can make use of it.
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I am actually surprised that the cat is so obedient. Cats have an accute sense of hearing.
I really wouldn't worry about this one because it would be found void for overbreadth because the definition of vulgarity might differ enough between races, religions, and creeds that it would cause gross mis-interpretations. If the overbreadth doctrine doesn't stop it, the first amendment certainly will. Yelling the words "fuck" and "shit" are not the same thing as yelling "fire" in a crowded movie theatre.
Caffeine is not a hallucinagen ... it is simply a stimulant. I love crap research like this because it is simply designed to make people fearful. Folks, every other week somebody says chocolate is a carinogen. On the off weeks, it is suddenly a powerful antioxident. Just because "research" was done on a topic or issue doesn't mean that the research is remotely valid. Precious little research is truely objective and you have to consider the source of the research and motivations of those conducting it. This research could well have been done as a "promotion" for a different kind of stimulant that a company hopes to market successfully. The term, "research," has been used unscrupulously by marketing departments hoping to make *lots* of money at the potential expense of your health. Look at Archer Daniels Midland's aggressive push of corn syrup as an example. They had bogus research and lobby to show that Stevia (a naturally occuring, alternative sweetner to surgar) could be potentially cancerous. Oooops, turns out that the real poision is what ADM wants to sell and make millions at it.
I am sure if it was lost, they could initiate a remote kill which would securely wipe the blackberry clean of any data.
I consider it a good sign that Barak Obama wants to keep his Blackberry. This, if anything, shows that he is willing to step up to a greater level of accessibility and responsibility. It is certainly a feather in his cap. Plus, I am sure RIM can develop a special Blackberry device that will allow Obama to safely have classified material transmitted to him.
Right on! We are an industry ripe for unionization. I think we should check out the SIEU. After all IT is a service industry. I am sure they would willingly represent us.
These days in definitely makes sense to byo router. Vyatta, as mentioned before, is certainly viable. Perhaps more so, would be OpenBSD's OpenBGP/OSPF project. Vyatta has one critical weakness in routing, they still use Zebra/Quagga as for its RDE. Quagga is notorious for bugs and instability. One might assume that Vyatta corrected a few of them but I am more likely to trust OpenBSD for that. OpenBSD will route RIP, OSPF, and BGP as well as some others. Check out the testimonials of the project's website where an ISP claimed to have 3 full BGP views at higher performance than a Cisco.
Ladies and Gentelman. Time to build an industrial strength firewall/intrusion detection system. Check out pf, the innovation from OpenBSD. That'll make it significantly harder to penetrate
It is a sad day when our universities have slipped to an all new low. We pay lots of money for our education and now the very bastian of free thinking and free ideas does such underhanded things as patent someone else's work. Never mind that it might be legal, it certainly is unethical and immoral. The only way this would be remotely ethical is if the student was well compensated for his work. I'll go out on a limb and say most are not "well-compensated." If universities behave like this, I guess that you could justify cheating on an exam because "stealing" a student's work is actually far worse an ethical transgression. If you come up with a fantastic, new, and patentable idea, don't share it! It looks like fundamental human greed plays a large part.
Micron made some bullet proof laptops. About five years ago, when I worked as a civilian for the Department of the Navy, they gave me one bangin' Micron laptop. My friend had a Micron full tower back in college and the thing was bullet proof. It ran Linux flawlessly. In fact, I was going to purchase one because they are clearly superior to Dell but I they were out of my price range at the time. I guess everyone is now looking at their bottom dollar so quality has lessened. Still a shame, but people would rather pay less than a small amount more. In the three years that I had that laptop, I put it through hell and never once did its hardware fail. It survived rough handling and, an embarrasing slip out of my hand.
This is a very good idea. I like Notes/Domino as a collaboration and messaging platform. I especially like the message encryption features and the ability to prevent an email from being forwarded or otherwise manipulated. The only downside to Domino is that it can be unfriendly to administer. The good news is that, if it becomes open sourced, it will be more economical to learn and deploy in small labs and use and become competent. The author of the article makes an excellent case for it by citing Solaris as the example. Sun's decision to open source Solaris did breathe some new life into it. If IBM does start to do this, they will be well positioned to do some damage to the M$ Outlook/Exchange market share. They can also recapture market share from some of the open source exchange alternatives like Zimbra and OX. IMHO, both Zimbra and OX are weak. Plus, Notes/Domino will just continue to improve by leaps and bounds with community input. We have seen vast improvements in Solaris since Sun made its decision to open source.
Gee, I thought services like these were dead ideas. Remember the AOL days when you had to pay per minute usage fees? These days are no more. Microsoft really doesn't have a patent on this. When it comes to computing, metered services have been pretty much thrown out the door.
Gives new and scary meaning blue screen of death. If a BSOD happens on a critical nuclear monitoring system, we have an "oh shit" of epic porportion. I don't see how an OS that you have to purchase will save money in 10 years. Sounds like more FUD.
This law was doomed to fail because it is not practically enforceable. You get the big fish and maybe drop the amount of spam for three days until a bigger takes its place. I like the technological/economical approach to combating spam. OpenBSD has come up with an ingenious way of using technology to take the economy out of sending spam. They have come up with spamd, a fake smtp daemon which can cause delivery of a single spam message up to 5 minutes thereby causing a massive queue clog on the part of the spammer. By causing a severe bandwidth clog on the spammer's end, you remove the economy of mass emailing. I have used this solution to rid my father's company of ALL of its spam. It makes me laugh with delight to comb the logs and see the fool spammers continuing to try delivery and there is 0 impact on our bandwidth.
The BSDs had full support for IPv6 long before M$
There is also the advantage of having less wireless card warranty replacements due to failed firmware upgrades. I imagine this is a source of frustration for both consumer and manufacturer. Kudos to Atheros for doing this ... may I point out that Ralink Technology has been doing this for a number of years now? I have found the Atheros and Ralink chipsets to be equally of good quality. Finally, it's time for Intel to follow suit. They have no competitive edge by keeping their binary blobs. Their stuff must be standards compliant to interoperate with other wireless hardware thereby negating anything really proprietary.
I can see this being a real plight for the professional programmer employed in the software industry and I am empathetic. If the software industry collapsed as a result of open source software, there would be new opportunities for computer programmers outside of the software industry. Other industries would still need programmers to maintain, improve, and customize these applications for their own needs. Arguably, software quality would improve because instead of rushing code through alpha and beta testing so that profits can be turned, we would see software that has been put through its paces ushering in an era of unprecedented stability. We would start to see commodity file servers with stability approaching mainframes. There are precious few ideas of Richard Stallman's that I agree with, but one of them is that software really does belong in the hands of the people. The software industry has become patent greedy, great at releasing oftentimes mediocre applications, and more or less forcing its customers to upgrade to the latest versions.
Yes, I did find this strange. I had an image of Stallman going through an entire bottle of Purell to sanitize his hands after giving the machine to a friend to install a "freer" GNU/Linux
These are by and large well written comments. However, I think Stallman has a narrow mind re the difference between open source and free software. He goes on tirades about the BSD license which is far more open than the GPL. In some ways, Stallman is killing his own cause in his zeal. Stallman would be better off embracing all forms of open source software. Companies selling proprietary software bank on and exploit rifts in the free/open source community. This is an old divide and conquer scheme that has worked over and over again throughout history. There is strength and unity in numbers. Petty infighting between BSD and GPL must stop.
I know the implications this has on individual privacy but I am angry at the corporate greed and irresponsibility currently going on so a part of me cheers this individual on. If they can get a cool million, fine! It'll send a message against invincibility to the corporation. Maybe it will cause Express to humble itself a bit.
http://sip-communicator.org/. This client works extremely well and is sip-based.
Who is this ISP? I want to know what company NOT to use! 1GB of browsing can be done in a day or two. I'd suggest that you find an alternative, if possible.
The Wave Bubble sounds really cool .... peace and quiet. I am surprised no mention was made anywhere of Soekris. Soekris (http://www.soekris.com) makes open source small, low power computers that people have built advanced routers and gateways. In fact they state that their hardware is 100% driver supported by OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Linux. I have a Soekris net4801 which replaced my consumer linksys router after hours of aggravation. My net4801 runs a stripped down version of OpenBSD and acts as my firewall and router. In fact, I have added a vpn1411 board so that I can have the board handle encryption and decryption of ipsec packets making for much faster vpn connectivity. The net4801 is more expensive than a linksys at around 173.00 but you can build something that would compete with or outperform a Cisco router.
This is not necessarily true at all. Look at an existing technology such as X509 Certificates. One could adapt this to DRM and the private encryption key is still secure. If the music/movie industry wants DRM and cannot be convinced otherwise, it should be open source so that all players can make use of it.
Linux is priceless in value precisely because it is F/OSS