[svlug] DSL

[Derek J. Balling]

http://finance.yahoo.com/m5?a=28000&s=ZAR&t=USD

Nope, he's right. R28000 (South African Rand) is 4129.79 in US 
Dollars at the current rate of exchange.

Remember that he's in South Africa (.za) and that's a whole lot less 
well-connected than the average rural area in the US, let alone our 
bay area. ;-)

D

>Good God!  I hope this isn't in US Dollars!!!
>
>US $4,000/month is a ton of dough.  I don't know if
>that's quite the going rate for a T3, but it's gotta
>be a decent fraction of one.  It's certainly way more
>than a T1 in my area.


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Seth David Schoen wrote:
> 
> Don Marti writes:
> 
> > Anyone going to H2K?  Or perhaps willing to work the phones?
> >
> > ----- Forwarded message from Ruben I Safir <ruben at sruben.dental.nyu.edu> -----
Umm

Yeah

Listen the the Copyright Hearings.  Listening to a DVD on a
non-authorized Player (ie Linux), is a felony....... under federal law 
(DMCA).



> >
> > Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 11:48:23 -0500
> > From: Ruben I Safir <ruben at sruben.dental.nyu.edu>
> > To: nylug-talk <nylug-talk at nylug.org>, Jay Sulzberger <jays at panix.com>,
> >         macki at 2600.COM
> > Subject: [nylug-talk] Demonstration Anouncement
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > BTW - the officer who gave us the Permit was blown away that one can be
> > arrested for playing a DVD on Linux.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
> 
> Arrested?
> 
> OK, it is true that you could be arrested eventually for ignoring
> process materials, and there is such a thing as criminal copyright
> violation, but has anyone actually argued that playing DVDs on Linux
> can somehow be investigated by the FBI?
> 
> Everything we've seen so far is civil litigation, where you do get the
> full coercive power of the government at your disposal, _but_
> participants in the case don't get arrested and don't get sentenced to
> prison.
> 
> I'd be blown away, too.
> 
> --
> Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org>  | And do not say, I will study when I
> Temp.  http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/  | have leisure; for perhaps you will
> down:  http://www.loyalty.org/   (CAF)  | not have leisure.  -- Pirke Avot 2:5

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