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[It always seems] to be younger people who get arrested for these kind of acts [..] Is it because the the younger ones aren't as bright and therefor don't cover their tracks as well? Or is it because as you get older, the appeal of these kind of things drops?

You wouldn't believe how old some of the world's top hackers and crackers are. For example...

The Queen Mother didn't die.

In fact, it is little known that she was an u83r1337 h4x0r whose skills reached terrifying levels during her "lifetime". However, wary of the risk of getting caught, and not exhibiting the carelessness or egotism of youth, she decided the only way to practice these skills to their full extent was to fake her own death.

It is rumored that, post-"death", she is working as a black-hat hacker on behalf of Microsoft, and that her alias is qqqqmutha ("four 'q' mother").

The Queen Mother is 104.

The usual reason I can't get to Google is because the DNS is down. So much for no single point of failure.

In that case try http://66.102.9.104/.

Sorry about that link, here's how you find the article, go to this Google cache, and find the article with the highlighted text, it's a bit down on the page.
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:wT-vtJkMlPQJ:se attletimes.nwsource.com/html/tableofcontents/+%22P resident+Bush+and+his+top+advisers+have+received+i ntelligence+reports+in+recent+days+describing+a+co nfusing+series+of+actions+by+North+Korea+that+some +experts+believe+could+indicate+the+country+is+pre paring+to+conduct+its+first+test+explosion+of+a+nu clea&hl=en

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If you love that movie, you ABSOLUTELY must see "Strain Andromeda The".

It will completely, and utterly open your mind.

And I am not just saying that.

I was at an ordination ceremony of another friend, and the police got up on the podium [well Bimah actually] and asked the crowd if anybody had seen Andreas for the last two days. He was due to be ordained as a Rabbi that same day. A few days later he was discovered chopped into pieces in that bin. He had been followed from a nightclub by The Camden Ripper.

This is why I was walking the girls home when I got stabbed. Because Camden is rough and dangerous, and it would seem, a little out of control. After talking to all the police who dealt with my case, they agree.

In Memory of Andreas.

Look at the labelels behind every song; each one is a monopoly label. The BBC has always been used to control the taste of the masses, and since Radio Coroline, it has consistently failed.

It will fail again.

Instead of doing the innovative thing and writing its own software toe take the true pulse of what the public (that pays the soon to be axed licence fee) is listening to, or outsourcing the service out from a legitimate company, they act as servants to the music monopoly. This is being done under the direct orders of Dame Pauline Neville Jones, ex head of NatWest and head of the British QinetiQ defense and security group, whose opinions on "the propaganda war" are interesting to say the least.

No matter what bogus, industry promoting chart they produce, they will be hard pressed to put the genie back in the bottle. As broadband spreads throughout the UK people will increasingly turn to free music, and we will see alternative, meaningful, non corporate charts take their place as the centers of attention.

Charts by people like Audioscrobbler are far more representative and are precisely what I am talking about.

This one was just crazy!

It only takes 2 minutes on the net to see that the US army and administration has screwed not only themselves

Wow. In just two minutes on the web you determine all of this? About the country which has next to no Internet access? You must really be a military and administrative expert with serious background in Middle Eastern history to boot. Either that, or -- as far you are concerned -- the war was lost before being started, by a simple lemma of an axiom, stating that the presidency-stealing AWOL bastard can never do anything right.

their country wasn't a danger to anyone.

As far US is concerned, Saddam Hussein had the bio- and chemical weapons-technology (if not, as it seems now, the ready-to-use weapons themselves). Al'Qaeda was looking for them -- as is currently publicly known, and was known to our government long ago.

There was nothing to stop Saddam from -- at the time of his choosing -- giving some of this crap to Al'Qaeda. Nothing... True, Baathists and bin Laden disliked each other. But -- as the same link shows, Taliban-al'Qaeda's relationship was not always smooth either. Bin Laden and Saddam could've become allies or even friends at any time too -- Osama could be very eloquent. Fortunately, we had legitimate grounds for invading and kicking Saddam out.

After the US took Saddam, the terrorists had free reign to move in, recruit all the angry, armed men, and mobilise them against the US troops, and the US as a whole.

Heh, there are 42 million Iraqis. Even if 40 thousand (and Mahdi army only has 2K fighters) hate us and fight us -- that is still under 1/10th of one percent.

It is often suggested that unsolicited bulk email ("spam") is such a problem on the Internet because the current economic framework for email handling does little to discourage it. If only, it is suggested, the senders of email could be made to pay for their messages. Spammers would then cease their indiscriminate distribution of messages and email volumes would reduce as the senders targeted more carefully or just gave up altogether. Nevertheless, almost no one (other than those hoping for a handling fee) thinks that using actual money is a good way to achieve this economic utopia and even the holders of patents for "e-money" systems have failed to generate any significant enthusiasm for their wares.
However, there is an alternative to real-world money, which was first proposed by Dwork and Naor in 1992 [8]. Their idea was to have the sender of an email perform a complex computation as evidence that they believe that an email is worth receiving. The sender then proves to the recipient that this processing work has been completed and the email will then be accepted. The processing time is "free", so there is a minimal burden upon legitimate senders, but it is a finite resource, so that the spammers will not have unlimited amounts of processing time at their disposal and so cannot continue to send in bulk.

Actually, no. At least not the ones that genuinely are innovative.

I'd quite like to see the expiry date on all of them mysteriously reduce by 2/3rds or so, but I'd hate to see that ingenuity lost forever and need to be re-invented.

The problem with tech patents is that the tech industry is still incredibly immature and developing at a rapid rate. Patent durations that make sense for mechanical devices aren't really appropriate for tech patents at this stage in the game.

Eventually, I'd like to see patents and copyrights "self-tune" according to some metric like the median number of registered works per capita (i.e. if almost everyone in the country has a few hundred registered works in their name - as opposed to their slavemaster^Wemployer's name - then it would appear hardly any protection is necessary as somehow people are innovating and creating and managing to make doing so a profitable enterprise). I expect this would integrate well with rms' thoughts on "functional" (i.e. programs, devices), "creative" (fiction, music) and "representative" (memoirs, manifestos) works (see section 7 of linked article).

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Here's the cached version.

'Orrin Hatch is a corporate whore' for pushing copyright laws; Mitch McConnell, the senator from my state, believes in Free Speech [in the form of unrestricted campaign donations]. Visit Mitch for more.

I'm finding it increasingly hard to take intelectual property seriously

well the rest of the world would seem to agree, still if Americans want to have a circle jerk in their courts let them, the rest of us will just move forward regardless

if buisness becomes too difficult to do in the USA buisness will simply go elsewhere

An interesting read for those who admire the series

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These things have been around for awhile, but known as Network Telescopes. The largest (AFAIK) is at UCSD, which is just a tad larger than a /32 (like, say, a /8). They collected some interesting data off the thing during all the Blaster rampages (Google cache of HTML'ed PDF here).

Also, see the NANOG guide to setting them up here, and the home for the CAIDA/UCSD telescope here.

So in short, nice job to the Welsh for implementing it, but there's bigger elsewhere for y'all to play with.

The site seems to be slashdotted.

Here is Googles' Cache.

on Lambda the Ultimate.

The last link (to diveintomark.org) is now hosed but he posted another article after his 'Freedom-0' article which adds to the original article.

Google cache of Freedom-0, and his follow-up Aftermath.

Mark Pilgrim put his money where his mouth is and donated $535 to Wordpress - an open source blogging tool. The amount was the same as the fee Movable Type were charging for their scripts according to their usage scales.

The last link (to diveintomark.org) is now hosed but he posted another article after his 'Freedom-0' article which adds to the original article.

Google cache of Freedom-0, and his follow-up Aftermath.

Mark Pilgrim put his money where his mouth is and donated $535 to Wordpress - an open source blogging tool. The amount was the same as the fee Movable Type were charging for their scripts according to their usage scales.

An RIAA Protestor was beaten up as his cell phone rang "Its all about money" when the RIAA members were unanimously playing "Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away"

Striving to be common

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Let's look at those costs and see how many of them are actually required and how many could be done by the applicants/OSS community:

EPO Fees: 4300 - Required by the EPO
Professional Representation: 5500 - Optional, the cases could be filed pro se for free

This is extremely discouraged. Even someone from the European Commission whom I talked to (the person who is handling the software patents directive in the Commission) admitted you have very little chance to get your application approved if you don't have any experience with patent law.

These people are programmers, not lawyers!

Translation: 11500 - Optional, could easily be done by bilungual volunteers

Not optional, it must be translated into all official languages of the countries where you want your patent to be valid. And you don't have to be just a "bilingual volunteer", you have to be a "bilingual volunteer with lots of time and who knows the patent jargon in both languages".

National Renewel Fees: 8500 - Required by the EPO

So, in the end with a little work the cost of a patent for a 10 year term becomes EUR 12800 or EUR 1600 per country. I really don't think this is excessively high for anyone serious about OSS projects, epecially since it could be raised by funding drives.

A "little work"? EUR 12800 not excessively high? And why on Earth should only "serious" OSS projects be allowed to be viable? It's like saying that only people who write for a living should be allowed to publish; the rest only does it as a hobby and thus should put up or shut up.

FWIW, I personally work on an open source project, which exists already for about 13 years (see url in my info). We have over 10GiB of downloads per day on our main ftp site alone (I don't have statistics on the mirrors). It's used by several companies and universities all over the world.

We do not have EUR 12800 or even EUR 1000. Why should we and other people start to have to pay and spend time on learning patent jargon and translating it so that we can continue our hobby project (which happens to be useful for other people)? What does society as a whole gain from this extra burden?

And what can you do with a single patent when a company like IBM or even Microsoft attacks you? Make paper planes to throw at them in a the court room, in a lawsuit that costs another EUR 50,000 ($1 500 000 if you're unlucky and sued in the US), and which requires time which you would normally spend doing your day job earning money that allows you to spend time on your hobbies?

Besides, there's much more than open source projects. If you take an SME, then there are even no imaginary volunteers which are ready to do whatever you ask. They have to pay all those things by themselves. It's them who will be hit the worst. They most certainly do not have EUR 12800 to spare, much less EUR 30000 (or EUR 50000 according to the European Commission -- google cache because original site seems to be down).

Since you didn't bother to link to whatever FTC study it is you are talking about, I can't really respond to it. Although just on the basis of what you said I'd question if they were studying the national effects of patents on the economy or the individual effects on a company/inventor.

That's indeed what they were studying. The original study and an extract of all software patents related stuff (it's on a page of FFII UK, but page numbers are given and if you compare it to the original, you'll see it's uncommented and really does contain all software

1) Is Ignalum a source distribution, built from LFs, or an enhanced version of an existing distribution?

From the Google cache of their (hopelessly slashdotted) site:

Updated ISO images of Ignalum Linux 9 Beta 2 are now publicly available on a number of FTP mirrors.

The Ignalum advanced Internet-sharing and IPv6-over-NAT capabilities are not included in this release, but will be incorporated into the next release of Ignalum Linux which will be based on the latest Fedora Core.

Looks like it's either a RedHat 9 or a Fedora hack...

...And sucking at it for as long? ;-)

Here's the link.

According to Google herself dried wood contains 15.5 MJ of energy per kg. It seems that Google consumes about 1 kg of wood per second (if they've found a way to utilize 100% of the energy, which they of course have - they're Google, after all), and that the pigeons are just there to use their wings to dry the wood!
We're on to you, Google!

Get your Google cache here and no more limited access :)

Slashdotted, here's the Google cache.

Thanks, Google!.

If some of these exploits were the ones listed on eEye's page (Google cache with the old info), and they seem to be since they're removed now, they got discovered long before the source code got leaked.

As it seems to be already /.ed here is the Google cache

Google cache it, then follow the links as normal. The site is still very responsive. It looks like only the main page is being blocked. Perhaps they are checking referrers...

If every car parked at home or work plugs into the grid, you have more generating capacity than you will need in the near future. (It is quoted that the power output of one year of US car sales exceeds the installed generating capacity of the entire world).

The problem with any such scheme is that current motor fuel is derived from a commodity which is rising rapidly in price, and the future panacea-fuel (hydrogen) has very difficult unsolved problems with production and also storage suitable for vehicles.

Here's a Google cached Guardian report about ITV Digital's collapse.

Used Google cache because the Guardian require regsitration for their media section.

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What part of the economy can we be competitive in with the current trade agreements. We have a 500 ***billion*** trade deficit right now!!!!!!

The problem with NAFTA and the WTO is that we gave away the farm. We didn't insist that other countries rise to our level (i.e., with labor standards, environmental standards, etc.) and as a result, we're grossly mismatched. You can't expect any part of our economy to compete with another country that doesn't have similar regulation. Just not going to happen.

As a matter of principle you did insist on a rise in environmental standards with NAFTA. Hence the formation of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation.

However in reality, NAFTA has worked as a tool for lowering of environmental standards, in all countries involved, due to the way it allows big business to sue governments for protecting the environment & health of its citizens. See: Billion Dollar NAFTA Challenge To California MTBE Ban, Canada's First Province-Wide Ban of Cosmetic Pesticides Threatened Under NAFTA, and Metalclad vs. Mexico: The Toxicity of NAFTA's Ruling.

On the other hand, sometimes governments do steal property from businesses, or intimidate them, and it's not necessarily a good thing. Cronyism and corrupt officials exist everywhere, at all levels (not just the rich), so NAFTA's mechanisms are not entirely without merit.

The danger to workers in the USA isn't unfair trade relationships with other countries. It's inappropriate relationships with wealth and power in your own country. Next time you notice a huge trade or budget deficit, at any level, ask yourself this: if every government in the world is in debt at the same time (and that is possible), who do they owe it to? What does that mean in terms of power and influence? And is that good for workers?

Unlike sucky layers, the IE DOM was based on W3C not all document.all code would work on Mozilla, but probably 80-90% of would work unmodified.

Current IE developers use document.getElementById() and then don't bother testing in Mozilla/Opera/Safari/etc, so this problem is not unique to document.all.

In emergencies, European doctors inject hydergine directly into the carotid artery to protect the brain. Hydergine's mechanisms of actions include the reduction in the rate of lipofuscin deposition in brain cells, increased metabolism of brain cells by improving ATP synthesis and protection to the brain from free radical damage. [1]

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• bandwidth saturation to be seen here http://php.stuwo.net
  
  Nice visualization of the /. effect. Daily graph explodes at posting time of parent ;-)
  
  
  

The site seems to be down already here's a google cache link.