Re:Good use for CueCat?
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How about taking that passphrase and printing the bar code on a card. Anytime you need it, just swipe it in with CueCat.
Better yet, put your secret KEY on the barcode.
Then you'll have to swipe the card plus type in a key.
The best security requires two things: something you have plus something you know.
Hmm... could you create a fifo buffer for the cuecat output and tell your MUA to look there for the secret key? How would you know when to start swiping?
Re:What about RSA now?
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If it's a letter-size manilla envelope with a closure seal, they generally apply the postal label across the seal.
In any case, you still have the corroborating testimony of the Notary Public.
After reading a pretty detailed article about how the Library of Congress works, and how poorly it's organized, I don't trust it much more than I trust the patent office.
I'm reading this on a Compaq ML-330 server running Linux behind a firewall composed of a Sun Enterprise 250 server, also running Linux. In the computing center of a the main headquarters of the Navy Exchange Service Command.
However, NEXCOM is a NAF (Non-Appropriated-Fund) activity where the "guidelines" are less stringently adhered to.
And I didn't ask permission, though I have provided volumnious support documentation to justify my decision. I've found that if you through a large enough stack of paper at 'em, they won't read it; they'll just ask where you want them to sign.
The Library of Congress keeps a copy of every book published in the United States...
Correction:
The Library of Congress keeps at least one copy of every book whose formal application for copyright protection has been granted.
However, formal application for copyright is not necessary for protection under copyright law. So no, they will not "be denied legal copyright if they refuse to provide a copy"
In fact, the only thing they will be "denied" is a catalog number in the Library of Congress.
If you've written an original work and you want to protect your investment to the fullest extent of the law, then do the following:
Sign a statement asserting your authorship and get it notarized.
Seal the work together with the statement in a tamper-resistant package.
Mail the package to yourself via Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested.
There. Now you have court-admissable proof of the identity and date of authorship. That's all you need for a copyright violation case.
The map looks really nifty, but I'd have a lot more respect for it if it had references for the information contained therein. There seems to be some room for disagreement. Referencing some authoritative source (even if it's arguably wrong) would give it more clout.
Take the Minux-->Linux line, for instance. Yeah, Linus developed Linux separately, but given his close familiarity with Minux source code, it was hardly a clean-room implementation. But the author of the graph doesn't give any clue as to his reasons for making the connection; we're left to speculate.
I wonder if the sourceforge project includes references? I don't have graphviz (indeed, I'm posting this from a 'doze computer at work) or I'd check myself.
Alternatively, it would be nice if the guy with the map would take submissions for expansion and correction. It looks like a lot of you guys have more information than he showed on the map. Again, though, just because Joe Random Slashdotter says a thing is true, doesn't mean it is provably correct. Could the map owner be persuaded to add references?
If there was a verifiably correct Unix history map available as a wall poster, I'd be just geeky enough to buy one and decorate my room with it. Copyleft? ThinkGeek? Anybody listening?
You're talking about legislation that failed to pass. In my book, that's almost universally a good thing.
I'm talking about legislation that did pass. Laws that get into the books are almost never repealed,
even when the congressional majority shifts from one party to another. When they are repealed, it is usually to replace the older, more lenient law with a newer, more oppressive law.
No conspiracy necessary. The system is broke because the system is broke. Personally, I believe that you could impeach every single senator and congressman, together with the president and his veep, and after the new elections, things would not be materially different.
When the last budget bill was being debated and re-debated and re-re-hashed-over, and federal employees were on the verge of being layed off because of lack of (approved) funding, the biggest piece of pie on the cutting block was the defense budget.
The sum-total difference between the Democrat-backed proposal and the Republican-backed proposal amounted to less than ten percent. Closer to five, IIRC.
Ask your congresscritter to list those bills where he/she voted
differently from the congresscritter of the opposing party. Then read
the text of the bills for yourself. (which is probably more than your
congresscritter did)
Ask your congresscritter what bills were recently passed into law
despite his/her opposing vote.
Ask your congresscritter which of those laws he/she will diligently
work to overturn during the next term.
I think that you will find that most of the "disagreements" between
the Democans and the Republicrats are trivial, and exist mainly to
persuade you that your vote has some real effect on the outcome.
If you find otherwise, please let me know where you live. I might
want to move there.
There is a simple, agreed-upon, and (nearly?) universally implemented
way to make your wishes known regarding linking to your webpages by
search engines.
Of course, the court may be ignorant of that, as well.
Please moderate the parent post (#227) up.
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Most of the battery consumption of a laptop comes from the screen and associated video drivers.
Most of the rest comes from the hard drive.
Anybody familiar with performance profiling will instantly recognize that dropping the CPU power consumption to exactly zero will not make a huge dent in the cumulative result.
Okay, Infinet says that they don't administrate norfolk.va.us either (They claim that the whois information is wrong). They referred me to "Pilot" which is owned by Infinet but has separate offices.
Left a voicemail message for Natalie P. (No, not Portman, you troll!)
Point taken. I'm *not* an "old fart" (or does 33 years old qualify?) but I'm aware that capitals is considered, in Usenet at least, as "shouting." And yes, I've also seen the star-variation. I'm not sure I'd have done it that way even if it had come to mind, but thanks for the advice anyway.
I say we force everyone to get geographically-specific domain names...
Honestly, I would be perfectly happy with pillars.norfolk.va.us for a domain name. Just didn't think it was possible, given the front page of the US domain registry home page. But let's find out for sure... Okay, the norfolk.va.us domain is controlled by infi.net. I'm calling them now....
Apparently the receptionist has never heard of this kind of request before.
I got referred to Tony Rolls' voicemail and left a message.
I'll keep you posted. Maybe it IS possible to get a geographically specific subdomain, even if you're not a part of city government, but I've never seen it done before.
I've read twenty or so of the cases from the link supplied by ekmo above, and I still haven't found a decision that I disagree with.
Most of the transfers happened because the current owner of the domain failed to respond to the dispute notice.
And in the few cases where the reasoning behind decision wasn't crystal-clear, there was usually a dissenting opinion recorded.
I have to admit that, from the evidence I've reviewed, they're doing a pretty good job so far. Still, "current performance does not guarantee future results", as the stockbroker would say. I'd still be wary of granting them too much discretionary power.
These new proposed rules tilt the scales in favor of big companies with well-funded legal departments WAY TOO MUCH. No matter what name I pick for my domain, if it is composed of prounounceable syllables, there is probably SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE, whose business or personal name contains the same string of syllables. And even if there isn't, somebody could form a business tomorrow, trademark the name, and then steal my domain from me.
In any case where there is a limited supply of resources and no clear, universally agreed-upon way to distribute them, the only rule that makes sense is "First come, first served."
If you don't like how ICANN operates, what alternatives do you have? Does ICANN have a government-granted monopoly on com/net/org addresses?
This vaguely worries me. I run pillars.net on my home computer mainly as a permanent place to store my resume. Last week I met somebody whose last name is "Pillars". According to these rules, anybody in that family could petition ICANN for my domain name and probably get it with no recourse on my part.
Do I have to register a trademark to protect my domain name? How much would that cost, anyway?
The point is, they pass more laws than is humanly possible to even READ, let alone understand.
Personally, I think they get TOO MUCH done.
I'm looking for damage control.
An even better idea would be to require that for every new law that goes on the books, two old laws have to be repealed; at least until the total volume of laws is down to the level the average American of average intelligence could reasonably be expected to comprehend.
My favorite suggestion for a constitutional amendment:
No congresscritter may participate in voting upon any bill or other measure, nor be counted toward the necessary quorum to validate such a vote, until such congresscritter has attended a full oral reading of that bill or other measure, in its entirety.
The bill-reader shall pause for ten minutes every half-hour so that congresscritters with weak bladders may take restroom breaks without missing any content of the reading.
Any congresscritter who is not present at the end of each ten-minute break shall be deemed to have been absent from the reading in its entirety.
Just think how many laws would fail to pass for lack of a voting quorum!
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Then you'll have to swipe the card plus type in a key.
The best security requires two things: something you have plus something you know.
Hmm... could you create a fifo buffer for the cuecat output and tell your MUA to look there for the secret key? How would you know when to start swiping?
If it's a letter-size manilla envelope with a closure seal, they generally apply the postal label across the seal.
In any case, you still have the corroborating testimony of the Notary Public.
After reading a pretty detailed article about how the Library of Congress works, and how poorly it's organized, I don't trust it much more than I trust the patent office.
I'm reading this on a Compaq ML-330 server running Linux behind a firewall composed of a Sun Enterprise 250 server, also running Linux. In the computing center of a the main headquarters of the Navy Exchange Service Command.
However, NEXCOM is a NAF (Non-Appropriated-Fund) activity where the "guidelines" are less stringently adhered to.
And I didn't ask permission, though I have provided volumnious support documentation to justify my decision. I've found that if you through a large enough stack of paper at 'em, they won't read it; they'll just ask where you want them to sign.
Correction:
The Library of Congress keeps at least one copy of every book whose formal application for copyright protection has been granted.
However, formal application for copyright is not necessary for protection under copyright law. So no, they will not "be denied legal copyright if they refuse to provide a copy"
In fact, the only thing they will be "denied" is a catalog number in the Library of Congress.
If you've written an original work and you want to protect your investment to the fullest extent of the law, then do the following:
There. Now you have court-admissable proof of the identity and date of authorship. That's all you need for a copyright violation case.
The map looks really nifty, but I'd have a lot more respect for it if it had references for the information contained therein. There seems to be some room for disagreement. Referencing some authoritative source (even if it's arguably wrong) would give it more clout.
Take the Minux-->Linux line, for instance. Yeah, Linus developed Linux separately, but given his close familiarity with Minux source code, it was hardly a clean-room implementation. But the author of the graph doesn't give any clue as to his reasons for making the connection; we're left to speculate.
I wonder if the sourceforge project includes references? I don't have graphviz (indeed, I'm posting this from a 'doze computer at work) or I'd check myself.
Alternatively, it would be nice if the guy with the map would take submissions for expansion and correction. It looks like a lot of you guys have more information than he showed on the map. Again, though, just because Joe Random Slashdotter says a thing is true, doesn't mean it is provably correct. Could the map owner be persuaded to add references?
If there was a verifiably correct Unix history map available as a wall poster, I'd be just geeky enough to buy one and decorate my room with it. Copyleft? ThinkGeek? Anybody listening?
Our perspectives materially differ.
You're talking about legislation that failed to pass. In my book, that's almost universally a good thing.
I'm talking about legislation that did pass. Laws that get into the books are almost never repealed, even when the congressional majority shifts from one party to another. When they are repealed, it is usually to replace the older, more lenient law with a newer, more oppressive law.
No conspiracy necessary. The system is broke because the system is broke. Personally, I believe that you could impeach every single senator and congressman, together with the president and his veep, and after the new elections, things would not be materially different.
When the last budget bill was being debated and re-debated and re-re-hashed-over, and federal employees were on the verge of being layed off because of lack of (approved) funding, the biggest piece of pie on the cutting block was the defense budget.
The sum-total difference between the Democrat-backed proposal and the Republican-backed proposal amounted to less than ten percent. Closer to five, IIRC.
Ask your congresscritter to list those bills where he/she voted differently from the congresscritter of the opposing party. Then read the text of the bills for yourself. (which is probably more than your congresscritter did)
Ask your congresscritter what bills were recently passed into law despite his/her opposing vote.
Ask your congresscritter which of those laws he/she will diligently work to overturn during the next term.
I think that you will find that most of the "disagreements" between the Democans and the Republicrats are trivial, and exist mainly to persuade you that your vote has some real effect on the outcome.
If you find otherwise, please let me know where you live. I might want to move there.
Read about robots.txt.
There is a simple, agreed-upon, and (nearly?) universally implemented way to make your wishes known regarding linking to your webpages by search engines.
Of course, the court may be ignorant of that, as well.
Please moderate the parent post (#227) up.
Most of the battery consumption of a laptop comes from the screen and associated video drivers.
Most of the rest comes from the hard drive.
Anybody familiar with performance profiling will instantly recognize that dropping the CPU power consumption to exactly zero will not make a huge dent in the cumulative result.
Okay, Infinet says that they don't administrate norfolk.va.us either (They claim that the whois information is wrong). They referred me to "Pilot" which is owned by Infinet but has separate offices.
Left a voicemail message for Natalie P. (No, not Portman, you troll!)
Point taken. I'm *not* an "old fart" (or does 33 years old qualify?) but I'm aware that capitals is considered, in Usenet at least, as "shouting." And yes, I've also seen the star-variation. I'm not sure I'd have done it that way even if it had come to mind, but thanks for the advice anyway.
Honestly, I would be perfectly happy with pillars.norfolk.va.us for a domain name. Just didn't think it was possible, given the front page of the US domain registry home page. But let's find out for sure... Okay, the norfolk.va.us domain is controlled by infi.net. I'm calling them now....
Apparently the receptionist has never heard of this kind of request before.
I got referred to Tony Rolls' voicemail and left a message.
I'll keep you posted. Maybe it IS possible to get a geographically specific subdomain, even if you're not a part of city government, but I've never seen it done before.
I read about twenty of the decisions and had to change my mind about a few things.
It appears that WIPO is doing a pretty good job at the moment. I could find a single decision that I disagreed with.
Of course, as the stockbroker would say, "current performance does not guarantee future results."
In every case where the defendant was actually using the domain to provide goods or services, the transfer request was denied.
The current rules seem to work out okay.
Most of the transfers happened because the current owner of the domain failed to respond to the dispute notice.
And in the few cases where the reasoning behind decision wasn't crystal-clear, there was usually a dissenting opinion recorded.
I have to admit that, from the evidence I've reviewed, they're doing a pretty good job so far. Still, "current performance does not guarantee future results", as the stockbroker would say. I'd still be wary of granting them too much discretionary power.
These new proposed rules tilt the scales in favor of big companies with well-funded legal departments WAY TOO MUCH. No matter what name I pick for my domain, if it is composed of prounounceable syllables, there is probably SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE, whose business or personal name contains the same string of syllables. And even if there isn't, somebody could form a business tomorrow, trademark the name, and then steal my domain from me.
In any case where there is a limited supply of resources and no clear, universally agreed-upon way to distribute them, the only rule that makes sense is "First come, first served."
If you don't like how ICANN operates, what alternatives do you have? Does ICANN have a government-granted monopoly on com/net/org addresses?
This vaguely worries me. I run pillars.net on my home computer mainly as a permanent place to store my resume. Last week I met somebody whose last name is "Pillars". According to these rules, anybody in that family could petition ICANN for my domain name and probably get it with no recourse on my part.
Do I have to register a trademark to protect my domain name? How much would that cost, anyway?
The point is, they pass more laws than is humanly possible to even READ, let alone understand.
Personally, I think they get TOO MUCH done.
I'm looking for damage control.
An even better idea would be to require that for every new law that goes on the books, two old laws have to be repealed; at least until the total volume of laws is down to the level the average American of average intelligence could reasonably be expected to comprehend.
Guess I need to do a little research and see if Virginia is part of the totalitarian regime yet.
Probably is, if what you say is true about the other states.
What states?
What laws?
When were they passed?
How long have I been living in a totalitarian dictatorship?
My favorite suggestion for a constitutional amendment:
Just think how many laws would fail to pass for lack of a voting quorum!
I doubt it, as I've not had much luck running ANY java apps under Netscape/Linux.