Same here in Switzerland. You pay some 0.1..0.5 percent of the value as a "pre-paid recycling fee". For this, you have a warranty that the official recycling centers have to take you old stuff *free of charge*.
Same applies for other electronic household goods such as refrigerators, TV sets etc. Before this, you had to pay some twenty bucks apiece or by weight to get rid of it - all in all it's cheaper now.
...then switch over to protectionism.
Seems that nowadays this is the only method of keeping competitors out of reach.
In the good ole times there were the innovators and inventors on the helm. Now all we can see is shivering apparatchiks. Sigh. I thought we went over this already with DVD regions.
Use the addresses in http://www.irs.gov/where_file/index.html. Or call 1-800-829-0433.
And, I guess, the usual 'info' and 'abuse' or 'fraud' at irs dot gov addresses should help as well...
Yep. And usually I report the spammers who want to tell me 'how to make a million a month' to the IRS. I wonder how they [spammers] then explain how their millions disappeared from the records...
C'mon guys, Slackware does and did it all the times. No, I am not starting a distro war (again), but when it comes to chronologically advanced hardware, slack is still the best you can get. I got a dozen or so 486SX running a customer's sites doing DHCP, DNS and routing. Off-the-Shelf slackware. With just some 20MB of harddisk...If you don't want a bloated system, don't buy a bloated distribution!
Instead of digging in the dirt themselves they sell the connection logs to someone else. Carnivore. FBI. CIA. Al Kaida. Echelon. IRS. Who cares, the company is 'clean'...
Whoever has kids knows CDs aren't as indestructible as they're advertised as. So, I buy a CD, either copy it or record it to tape and stow the original away (No, nothing fancy here...). Same with the Jungle Book DVD - just copy it over to VHS and voilà if my two barbarians decide to eat/crush/unwind it, easy, no problem.
And I too consider this 'fair use'.
BTW: I recently read an article about analog (horribile dictu) copies from CDs/DVDs - they aren't near as bad as one would suspect. Surely good enough for a rainy sunday afternoon...
If copy protection starts to kick in, well, I'll be out of this game. Be happy with your shitloads of unsellable media and leave me alone.
>...promoting plans as 'unlimited' and then imposing limits...
Many ISPs say 'unlimited traffic' but impose a [128k|256k|512k|1m] limit as the nominal bandwidth (best effort). Unfortunately many ISPs don't do bandwidth throttling at peak hours or are tricked out by QoS 'optimization' on the customer side.
So the fairest solution is to offer max_bandwidth/#_of_connected_customers.
Then again, technical solutions are far more expensive than just individually squeezing the 'wallet pimple'. After all, this is still the fastest and fairest solution. If you *need* the addl. bandwith you're happy to pay for it if you then really get it. If you're just into downloading ISO images because you're too shabby to go shopping for your favourite distribution, think again. I remember when one of our local grocery store chains started to charge customers a dime per shopping paper bag. Not too much, but the number of consumed paper bags fell by some 95% within days. People simply started to be more considerate about the 'free' and 'unlimited' offerings they were using.
The easiest way to get W2000 DHCP server DOSed is to administer it with NT4 dhcpadmn.
As this requires admin privileges it won't count as a 'security bug'.
How many mixed NT4/2000 environments have you seen in the past?
You probably have to repeat that over and over again - the biggest threat to a working system are [in-|over-]competent admins. In the past it turned out that none of both worlds were immune to inadverted misconfiguration.
Feb 4 08:15:36 hal9000 bind: refused to HUP and re-read the configuration file/etc/named.conf as there's utter bullshit in there
I am not asking for a system that is more clever than we are, but starting a second instance of a critical server to check the config file shouldn't be too hard. Yes, exim and some other un-redhatized products can do that...
Okay, for two bucks I give you the right to look at me for one hour. (Staring costs extra). After that period you're forced to look somewhere else, please. Note that I am not only the content owner, I am the content myself...
Just because it is technologically possible it does not mean it makes *sense*. The end effect of this behaviour is utter egoism, nothing else.
I understand a musician needs a beer or a pizza from time to time. I also understand he/she does her stuff primarily for their own satisfaction. Making money off it is a welcome side effect. If we start to pervert this into its contrary, we better get prepared to have transponders implanted, and after an afternoon's walk through the park we're getting charged for 'services' we did not even dream of using.
Maybe those technocrats and lawyers should have their EQ checked. Good night when making a buck is the only or primary motivation for anything...
Well, it is just as secure as the underlying application. You might need both the key card plus a SecurID card that generates a one-time pad every minute.
With t-online's [amongst others'] questionable security record combined with the inherent strong security of a mainstream PC operating system (fail to remember its name) I give the system two months until 1st crack.
Then again, what's a fake sig under a decrete limiting the maximum parking time to two hours in some suburban street compared to a DoS attack against the root name servers...
...so I bought this and that. Not as geeky as the shuttle thingie, not as fast as the bleeding edge, but a tad cheaper...
Most important: Everything is supported under Linux, hehe.
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...and if all should fail, consider moving to Switzerland. According to recently published figures we're in desperate need of people who can read, write and count...
That said I wish Euroland a huge success. Not out of fear of being overrun by 'fremde Fötzel' [*very* derogatory term for people from abroad] but in the vague hope our backwards-oriented 'people's party' [ha!] will have to admit that 'independence' is just an euphemism for having no friends...
tgz. rpm. No, wait,.deb. Er, that is,.tar.bz2. Or was it.zip? Dang, I had it on the tip of my tongue - cat <<EOF?.Z? A, now I have it: x-application/linuxpackage!
If that is your personal opinion please declare it as such. Just because you haven't been able to get beyond YaST or linuxconf this doesn't mean all the rest is crap. Sure, Slackware is neither for the faint of heart nor for the illiterates...
As a non-US citizen I don't quite understand the fuzz arount this - after all, you often have identify yourselves (even for a bottle of %%%), and whether that is via a driver's license or a soc.sec.# or any other is irrelevant.
Will a 'national ID card' (a passport is about the same, only bigger, right?) have to be with you all the time? So what? Your credit card and your driver's license probably are, too.
Don't get paranoid here! I just heard that all the indices and warning signs about 09/11 have been in the FBI/CIA/NSA databases loooong before. Yet no one was able to filter out the unnecessary bloat. Believe me, they have more important things to do than to, er, what exactly what they cannot already do today?
So...under what license do viruses and worms come? Is there an EULA in VC++ or J++ stating that programming malicious software using MS products is forbidden? (Ok, take Outlook off the market asap!).
Would I have to pay the code red programmers if I used the virus to wipe my disk?
Geez - till now I thought that just 'peekin at them bytes' won't do me any harm. After all, [Acrobat¦YourFavouriteViewer] opens the file, reads all the bits and bytes and according to that paints something meaningful on the screen. Dont't need no stinkin' wiggling icons and animated Initials!
I abhor the day when I open a book (MS Press, maybe?) and after twenty seconds of 'being idle' (i.e. not turning a page) a banner pops up and suggests I'd have a beer.
We do not want active contents, we want meaningful information.
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Same applies for other electronic household goods such as refrigerators, TV sets etc. Before this, you had to pay some twenty bucks apiece or by weight to get rid of it - all in all it's cheaper now.
See http://www.swico.ch/3d_recycling/html/recy04d_gebu ehr.html [german, mostly figures]
...then switch over to protectionism.
Seems that nowadays this is the only method of keeping competitors out of reach.
In the good ole times there were the innovators and inventors on the helm. Now all we can see is shivering apparatchiks. Sigh. I thought we went over this already with DVD regions.
Use the addresses in http://www.irs.gov/where_file/index.html. Or call 1-800-829-0433.
And, I guess, the usual 'info' and 'abuse' or 'fraud' at irs dot gov addresses should help as well...
Yep. And usually I report the spammers who want to tell me 'how to make a million a month' to the IRS. I wonder how they [spammers] then explain how their millions disappeared from the records...
C'mon guys, Slackware does and did it all the times. No, I am not starting a distro war (again), but when it comes to chronologically advanced hardware, slack is still the best you can get. I got a dozen or so 486SX running a customer's sites doing DHCP, DNS and routing. Off-the-Shelf slackware. With just some 20MB of harddisk...If you don't want a bloated system, don't buy a bloated distribution!
Instead of digging in the dirt themselves they sell the connection logs to someone else. Carnivore. FBI. CIA. Al Kaida. Echelon. IRS. Who cares, the company is 'clean'...
Whoever has kids knows CDs aren't as indestructible as they're advertised as. So, I buy a CD, either copy it or record it to tape and stow the original away (No, nothing fancy here...). Same with the Jungle Book DVD - just copy it over to VHS and voilà if my two barbarians decide to eat/crush/unwind it, easy, no problem.
And I too consider this 'fair use'.
BTW: I recently read an article about analog (horribile dictu) copies from CDs/DVDs - they aren't near as bad as one would suspect. Surely good enough for a rainy sunday afternoon...
If copy protection starts to kick in, well, I'll be out of this game. Be happy with your shitloads of unsellable media and leave me alone.
Why? That whole system runs in runlevel 0. No user accounts, no login, no getty, no daemons - just the bare kernel plus an open console.
Disadvantage: You must employ your weary bones and walk over to do some maintenance...
See floppyfw. Does not even *need* a HD to boot. Floppies can be write-protected. Even an old 486 will do that trick.
Amazing what queer pranks people invent in place of a rather obvious solution...
So the fairest solution is to offer max_bandwidth/#_of_connected_customers.
Then again, technical solutions are far more expensive than just individually squeezing the 'wallet pimple'. After all, this is still the fastest and fairest solution. If you *need* the addl. bandwith you're happy to pay for it if you then really get it. If you're just into downloading ISO images because you're too shabby to go shopping for your favourite distribution, think again. I remember when one of our local grocery store chains started to charge customers a dime per shopping paper bag. Not too much, but the number of consumed paper bags fell by some 95% within days. People simply started to be more considerate about the 'free' and 'unlimited' offerings they were using.
Small scale economics, but very effective...
As this requires admin privileges it won't count as a 'security bug'.
How many mixed NT4/2000 environments have you seen in the past?
You probably have to repeat that over and over again - the biggest threat to a working system are [in-|over-]competent admins. In the past it turned out that none of both worlds were immune to inadverted misconfiguration.
Feb 4 08:15:36 hal9000 bind: refused to HUP and re-read the configuration file /etc/named.conf as there's utter bullshit in there
I am not asking for a system that is more clever than we are, but starting a second instance of a critical server to check the config file shouldn't be too hard. Yes, exim and some other un-redhatized products can do that...
Would you mind sharing it with the rest of the world?
Just because it is technologically possible it does not mean it makes *sense*. The end effect of this behaviour is utter egoism, nothing else. I understand a musician needs a beer or a pizza from time to time. I also understand he/she does her stuff primarily for their own satisfaction. Making money off it is a welcome side effect. If we start to pervert this into its contrary, we better get prepared to have transponders implanted, and after an afternoon's walk through the park we're getting charged for 'services' we did not even dream of using.
Maybe those technocrats and lawyers should have their EQ checked. Good night when making a buck is the only or primary motivation for anything...
With t-online's [amongst others'] questionable security record combined with the inherent strong security of a mainstream PC operating system (fail to remember its name) I give the system two months until 1st crack.
Then again, what's a fake sig under a decrete limiting the maximum parking time to two hours in some suburban street compared to a DoS attack against the root name servers...
...so I bought this and that. Not as geeky as the shuttle thingie, not as fast as the bleeding edge, but a tad cheaper... Most important: Everything is supported under Linux, hehe.
...and if all should fail, consider moving to Switzerland. According to recently published figures we're in desperate need of people who can read, write and count...
That said I wish Euroland a huge success. Not out of fear of being overrun by 'fremde Fötzel' [*very* derogatory term for people from abroad] but in the vague hope our backwards-oriented 'people's party' [ha!] will have to admit that 'independence' is just an euphemism for having no friends...
--Ben (Zurich [Switzerland])
And what, if I might ask, is the standard?
tgz. rpm. No, wait, .deb. Er, that is, .tar.bz2. Or was it .zip? Dang, I had it on the tip of my tongue - cat <<EOF? .Z? A, now I have it: x-application/linuxpackage!
Use the source, Luke! (sic! ed.)
...been to thinkgeek lately?
Use the source, Luke!
If that is your personal opinion please declare it as such. Just because you haven't been able to get beyond YaST or linuxconf this doesn't mean all the rest is crap. Sure, Slackware is neither for the faint of heart nor for the illiterates...
Use the source, Luke!
Will a 'national ID card' (a passport is about the same, only bigger, right?) have to be with you all the time? So what? Your credit card and your driver's license probably are, too.
Don't get paranoid here! I just heard that all the indices and warning signs about 09/11 have been in the FBI/CIA/NSA databases loooong before. Yet no one was able to filter out the unnecessary bloat. Believe me, they have more important things to do than to, er, what exactly what they cannot already do today?
Would I have to pay the code red programmers if I used the virus to wipe my disk?
Ben
I abhor the day when I open a book (MS Press, maybe?) and after twenty seconds of 'being idle' (i.e. not turning a page) a banner pops up and suggests I'd have a beer.
We do not want active contents, we want meaningful information.
The rest comes as a word macro...
<snip>
#define idle mopping_floor
<snip>