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But now powerful commercial media are seeking to gain total control over the airwaves. Imagine a world in which a handful of global media conglomerates like Vivendi, Sony, BskyB, Disney, and News Corporation own literally all the airwaves all over the planet and trade them back and forth as `private electronic real estate'. A strategy is beginning to unfold in Washington DC to make that happen.

At my intial thought I was someone excited, not thinking about the obvious... AM/FM filled with nothing but companies gloating over their products. Its bad enough in radio now an hours worth of time means 25 minutes of music, 5 minutes of rootarded deejays, 29 minutes of commercials, and sometimes a test of the Emergency Broadcast System.

Ironic is the name of the site and the corresponding issue "CommonDreams.org" posting about the FCC giving up control. *stops, thinks, laughs*

Lets get realistic for a second here, gov is hard pressed to retain control of most things in the country, and when you think about this deeply you know it won't happen.

Picture some mid west gun hippy cult crew spewing all day talk of guns, and "Big Brother cominuh git me" talk. Or other forms of media government has worked hard to surpress, imagine a non stop Cypherpunk channel where Bruce Shneier, and others called in to talk about the latest Elliptical Theories to protect data.

Man politicians in DC would shit in their pants coming up with reversed/conspiracy theory factors to block this from happening.

Didn't a company sort of do this with Real Player, set up a sort of 100 channel Real Player server where you could watch whatever, whenever? Just think about that for a second anyway, (because I remember watching Parse about 2-3 years ago) if it didn't work on the net where technology is cheaper than buying huge arrays of antennas to send out signals (then hoping your neighbors don't sue for fscking up their lives with it), getting permits for equipment, yadda yadda, I see it as a corporation only like benefit, not meant for the little guy.

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But the first practical use for the research turns out to be snooping on shoppers.

The whole idea itself does not bother me one bit since I have to choice of entering the store or not so I see no problems with it however I see it as overhyped market hooplah.

Lets see how well the software determines my thoughts based on my eyes when: I have red eye, I jokingly widen my eyes to purposely look like I'm going to do something evil, begin to look around erratically just to piss security off, etc.. What are they going to do charge me with using my eyes for my own actions?

If department stores are stupid enough to think some camera and its software are able to determine my actions, they're dumbasses. Maybe I'll just get those joke glasses with the eyes attached to those slinky links that droop down.

Did their faces register boredom or delight? How many reached for the item and put it in their shopping carts?

Well once many people get a whiff of this I'm sure the jokesters will find ways of shaming IBM's system, and exposing it for the joke I see it as.

When monitoring pupils, the system uses a camera and two infrared light sources placed inside the product display. One light source is aligned with the camera's focus; the other is slightly off axis.

I wonder who will be the first to sue a department store for causing deterioration in their eyesight with their toy ;)

"Soon you won't only be able to capture how many people stopped by, but who they were,"

This doesnt bother me at all I would have nothing to hide going in a department store. "Hrmm that tiger print thong looks tight!

Sometimes people go overboard and wanna bitch about everything, well I think the department stores stand more to lose by placing this in their stores than I do having to worry about what DKNY or Tommy Hilfiger sweater I'm buying.



"Once identity is established it will be cross-referenced to capture that person's income and buying preferences. It's only a matter of time."

What a sad excuse give me a damn break. Advertising agencies have been target marketing for years using other means, so where is the ACLU to bitch about all those Malt Liquor and Cigarette posters in my neighborhood? Shit last time I saw pics of Rodeo Drive there were none.

no respect

Maybe you're a civil libertarian, and maybe you're not. Maybe you worry about how the United States exercises its vast investigative and prosecutorial powers, and maybe you don't.

But if you counsel U.S. corporations on computer-related issues, you should be concerned about a new proposed treaty known as the "Convention on Cybercrime." The Council of Europe, a 43-nation public body created to promote democracy and the rule of law, is nominally drafting the treaty. Curiously, however, the primary architect is the United States Department of Justice.

The Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation are using a foreign forum to create an international law-enforcement regime that favors the interests of the feds over those of ordinary citizens and businesses. Their goal is to make it easier to get evidence from abroad and to extradite and prosecute foreign nationals for certain kinds of crimes.

Maybe you trust the law-enforcement chiefs in D.C. to do the right thing. But here's the catch. The same new powers given to the United States will also handed over to Bulgaria, Romania, Azerbaijan, and other Council of Europe nations that-although officially democratic now-don't have a strong traditions of checks and balances on police power.

Do you want investigators rummaging around your clients' computer systems on warrants issued by former Soviet bloc nations?

(read full article here)

I wonder how many people visit the site using proxies, and if IP addresses are going to be used, I hope Indy Media know how circumstantial thay shit is. I wonder if it can be fought with in court with a demonstration of Packet Replays and Packet Injections, to show how just how shitty using IP addresses as identification can be.

And people think I'm paranoid about using daisy chaining proxies along with Safeweb

Well for those here who need it (I doubt there's many) here are my privacy links.

Its nice to see someone on the Nix side of the world finally created that supports other file formats. Hey Real may have been nice in its opening months, but most of the times, videos were choppy, and sounds were awful. I'll tinker with this to try it out just for kicks, to compare them, and as for the sound issue, something I've wondered about for a while regarding video on the net...

You would think on the net it would be easier for handicapped people to access hearing impaired type videos they normally wouldn't see on TV, yet I've yet to see one product come from Windows, or Real with captioning. Odd I would think someone could capture a nice little niche there and help a shitload of others out.

Oh well...

nice rack

I could imagine the prosecutors

Yes ladies and gentleman of the jury the time has now come where you must decide the facts of the case, and make final judgement on the case. As stated by the RIAA, Napster has continously stolen from the mouths of poor millionaire artists worldwide by providing a peer to peer network solution for sharing music in illegal fashions.

It does not matter that most of the mp3 music stored on Napster was purchased in order to actually make the mp3, nor does it matter that you could also record most of the songs from radio onto cassette tapes. It does not matter that studies have show many Napster users actually purchase billions of dollars in music.

Ladies and gentleman of the jury we provide you with fact based statements and stipulations that don't show much, but the RIAA is footing the bill for this case, and my new golf clubs.

You must come to an agreement, that shows Napster, the thieving service that they are, are no better than someone robbing a bank at gunpoint, or the white collared criminal giving away insider trading information with their boiler room tactics.

It is without reasonable doubt, Napster is the Michael Milken, Charles Manson, O.J. Simpson, Kenneth Kimes, Timothy McVeigh of the computing world. Sure they didn't hurt anybody physically, but Metallica's feeling were hurt, and in pop and media culture attention and money are what counts in society today. DON'T let Metallica and the RIAA go hungry

Ladies and gentleman of the jury I ask you find the defendant GUILTY.

fearsome

"If they can actually create servers that battle crackers -- that can monitor their own health and bandage their own wounds -- then I can turn my attention to work that only a truly sentient being can do," he added.

our customers will need help to deploy technology so they can focus their people on real business issues instead of just managing and maintaining their infrastructure."

"Automation is the way to go. That said, the IT industry hasn't yet focused on it and very few skills are out there. Many of the experts are long-time IBMers, so the company has a head start here."

There's slight temporary fixes for the Wireless problems dealing with security, I think someone has PKI certs for them (almost sure they have them) but PKI is not really a fix at all now is it?

I'm hoping Pat Calhoun and the folks over at Diameter get on the mark soon with their protocol, since it seems RADIUS is now a dinosaur of sorts. Well for those interested in Wireless security, check out this thesis on it. "Security in Public Access Wireless Networks"

#define crypto

There's slight temporary fixes for the Wireless problems dealing with security, I think someone has PKI certs for them (almost sure they have them) but PKI is not really a fix at all now is it?

I'm hoping Pat Calhoun and the folks over at Diameter get on the mark soon with their protocol, since it seems RADIUS is now a dinosaur of sorts. Well for those interested in Wireless security, check out this thesis on it. "Security in Public Access Wireless Networks"

#define crypto

There's slight temporary fixes for the Wireless problems dealing with security, I think someone has PKI certs for them (almost sure they have them) but PKI is not really a fix at all now is it?

I'm hoping Pat Calhoun and the folks over at Diameter get on the mark soon with their protocol, since it seems RADIUS is now a dinosaur of sorts. Well for those interested in Wireless security, check out this thesis on it. "Security in Public Access Wireless Networks"

#define crypto

1.The FOOL: a manager using a Sunblade to run a screensaver.

2.The MAGICIAN: a hacker with a Mac, a Pentium box, a U10, and a Cray on the table in front of him --- all running the same program with the same GUI. An infinity sign is over his head.

3.The HIGH PRIESTESS: a woman holding the Documentation, closed and concealed. The crescent moon is showing on an SGI Origin behind her.

4.The EMPEROR: Steve Jobs sitting on a G4 running OSX, holding an optical disk vertically in his hand.

5.The EMPRESS: A secretary with a IMAC running OSX.

6.The HEIROPHANT: Bill Gates with two flunkies kneeling before him, their faces averted, offering him floppy disks. He wears a laptop computer on his head.

7.The LOVERS: a PowerMAC and an IBM Power PC exchanging software as an angel bathed in glory regards them.

8.The CHARIOT: A man in a chariot, hurtling up an exponential curve, drawn by the twin sphinxes of Technology (black) and Culture (white).

9.STRENGTH: A woman holding the entire design and implementation of Microsoft Excel in her mind as she corrects the final error. An infinity sign is over her head.

10.The HERMIT: An old hacker, white-bearded, burns the midnight oil; its Star-of-David flame illuminates his keyboard.

11.The WHEEL OF FORTUNE: A rotating wheel. Cray is on the side going down, despite its good technology; Smalltalk is opposite it, and C++ is sitting on top. Four winged beings -- a mouse, a turtle, a dog-cow, and a human -- look on.

12.JUSTICE. A cold-faced woman holds a calculator in one hand and a delete- key in the other.

13.The HANGED MAN: A programmer is tied by his ankle to a cable duct. His phase is completely shifted: he awakens at sunset, he sleeps at dawn. His monitor is reverse-video. He programs on, flawlessly, oblivious to his circumstances.

14.DEATH: A skeleton weilding a scythe surveys a field, on which are scattered Intel P4's, Cyrix's, IBM 360/91's, Xerox Alto's, and many other machines.

15.TEMPERANCE: An angel stands with one foot on her chair and one on the floor, as she copies files from one disk to another. A cursor blinks from her chest.

16.The DEVIL: The goat-headed Lord of the Pit stands on a pile of Windows manuals, holding an inverted torch in one hand. Two humans, male and female, are in chains at his feet.

17.The TOWER: An ivory tower is struck by a bolt of lightning. Two robed figures, denied tenure, are hurtled to the ground.

18.The STAR: A Mac is running its `warp' screen saver, in a transient fragile moment of peace.

19.The MOON: A wolf and a jackal are typing at two PC's. A crayfish crawls out of a pool, offering suggestions that may ultimately prove deadly. The moon shines through a window.

20.The SUN: A naked child riding a winged rocking horse programs clever applications on a high-quality workstation.

21.JUDGEMENT: An angel blows a trumpet; all over the net, web pages arise, to be rated Cool or not.

22.The WORLD: A woman dances on the clouds, unclothed, unencumbered, in a ring of clouds, a 3-d mouse in each hand. The four winged beings from the Wheel of Fortune surround her.

more to come

To post for me when I oversleep and miss posting on /. articles.

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I wonder how this will truly hold up, as opposed to just stating X = X, lets face it, how many sites do you know of actually follow their policies when they create them?

Example, Hotmail, Yahoo, and others have policies against spammers sending from their respective domains, yet spam gets out and little is done to the users who send it.

Is the company creating these laws which are likely to be laughed at by the majority of the users via way of no one actually reading the implementations of those laws? Think about it, how many people actually sit there and read those rules?

Another odd question is, what does Microsoft expect do to should someone outside the US break those rules? Extradite a European to America for breaking Washington State laws? Get real.

I'm far from understanding the laws of their products, but one thing I could say is little will be done, by them or any other company building these assinine policies, so their ratio to capture someone who actually breaks their policy is going to be low, and should it be the other way around, they're gonna end up hurting themselves in the pockets when they try to prosecute millions of people and dish out legal fees out the ass. Either way I see it as a stupid move.

Blackbox pimps

This is coming as a pleasant surprise to just about everybody it affects.

Acknowledging the "turbulent time in the tech industry," an INS official said her agency will not force H-1B visa holders to leave the country if they haven't found new employment within 10 days of being terminated.

"We are going to let things slide," agency spokeswoman Eyleen Schmidt said.

In fact, that 10-day deadline may not even exist at all. Nowhere in the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 -- and its amendments, which contain H-1B provisions -- is there any language that stipulates a timeframe in which a terminated employee must leave the country before the visa expires.

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What fun is a game if you can't watch it?

I wonder if they'll attempt to market this, and have something like an IMAX theatre for watching video games...

What someone needs to do is create something like a Starbucks based cafe globally with PC's set up in all of them for daily tournaments of your fav games, Quake, Halflife, etc., that shit'd own!

Think about it, it'd be a nice decked out shoppe with techno playing in the background, redundant OC3 connectivity, strippers serving you coffee... Can't beat that now can you?

pimped Blackbox Themes

Nice little chunk of money saved by using Linux virtual servers over Arrowpoint, however I would like to know how a high content site would hold up with a lot of those perl scripts running to cache, one of the possible problems you won't find with Arrowpoint, Alteon Ad Directors, Netapps, not to say they're better, but the article did mention "Big Budget", aside from that some information on traffic handling would have been nice to show, e.g. amount of data passed into the network would give insight as to why they may have chosen to go via certain routes (not routers, or routing protocols.. choices) versus others.

I remember some of the guys where I'm at did some overhauling, and when we were doing the firewalls, instead of ordering 4-5 Nokia's or looking into other fw's, we ended up getting one Nokia 650, and since we were running FreeBSD we threw on ipf on all the boxes and created rules to eliminate the load of ACL's, and the FW load which was actually cheaper than buying x amount of new firewalls, and since we jumpstarted most of the machines, we had a slew of tightened security scripts for Sun, and BSD's to have an auto locked down network no matter how much shit was upgraded.

One of the things I wonder about though is the "dual processor" factors, which has many people going gah-gah over. Dual 700mhz's may sound nice, but to only serve up web content I wonder how is that better than just 1 700mhz chip or a 1ghz Athlon for that matter (anyone care to comment?)

As for switching from Oracle to SQL7, sounds like a good move, however again there's no mention of how much data goes into their database, so while it may suit them, what about mega sites like Yahoo, I wonder how they would stand up to SQL over BSd's, Linux versus a nice Sun E10k running Oracle?

Well they certainly have a pretty cool network, I wish they would have included actual network information as well such as router info, traffic stats, etc., now they would have blew my mind had they said, they're running strictly Zebra on a Nix box versus a Cisco or Juniper ;) but then again this was a semi "Big Budget" article, not a Poor Man's Network which in my case would be my Cisco 1xxx series running Zebra and GBGP (what you know about that.. Ghettotized BGP werd), 400mhz i386 running OpenBSD for the website, my spanking U1 for db stuff, ghettotized rj45's I found, with stolen bandwidth running out "Moving Day to Day Networks" run from my garage, and a C64 for DNS (fear)

Blackbox Themes

Its rather ironically sad it has to be sold, and you have to wonder if Russia is that desperate for money.

Sounds all nice and dandy for now, but I can see the legalities coming into play should someone in the United States purchase it. All those Custom's forms, paranoid spooks wondering why your buying a rocket, etc.

Aside from that where the hell would you keep it? I can see a company purchasing it to throw in their building's lobby, I can even see NASA buying the rocket to get an insight into Russian based tech in some fashion, but the typical art collector?

Either way though I wonder if the sale is to raise money for their already poor economy, which makes me wonder, who will be the first to raise that sub that recently sunk.

Antioffline introduces pimped X Themes

Orbited Earth 60,000 times

Traveled more than 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km)

Made more than 400,000 exposures

Observed 15,000 astronomical targets

Downloaded more than 6 terabytes of data

6 terabytes worth of info is certainly a lot of shit to store. I wonder whats NASA using for storage, certainly isn't a Netapp. Clariion? S'more than my whole company.

Happy Birthday telescope thingy.

"Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican." George W. Bush declining to answer reporters' questions at the Summit of the Americas, Quebec City, Canada, April 21, 2001

Lone Gunman

Worldwide Documentaries
A Closer Walk Bloomfield, NY
$1,000,000 (over 12 months)
For the production and marketing of A Closer Walk, a film about the global AIDS crisis. This will be the first film intended for a mass audience to provide a definitive portrayal of mankind's confrontation with AIDS.

University of Notre Dame
Eliminating Lymphatic Filariasis in Haiti Notre Dame, Indiana
$5,211,800 (over 5 years)
A five-year grant to work in the Leogane area of Haiti, where one third of the population is infected with lymphatic filariasis. The program will develop a model for filarial elimination programs throughout the world.

International Tuberculosis Foundation, Inc.
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease - Promoting Lung Health in Children Chicago, IL
$1,930,000 (over 5 years)
A five-year project to establish a sustainable and reproducible system for the surveillance, diagnosis, and management of the respiratory diseases that afflict children, including acute respiratory infection and pneumonia, tuberculosis, and asthma, in communities throughout Malawi.

SUSTAIN
Innovations in Fortification Technologies to Combat Iron Deficiency Anemia Washington, DC
$1,793,000 (over 12 months)
A grant to help alleviate iron deficiency anemia in Latin America through the fortification of corn masa flour. Funds will also help to further the technical and commercial development of iron-enhancing compounds, which could be applied worldwide.

University of California, Davis
Development of Iron and Zinc-(Doubly-) Fortified Wheat Products Davis, CA
$1,021,304 (over 3 years)
For the testing and development of iron and zinc-fortified wheat products to improve the health, nutrition, and intellectual performance of Peruvian children.

US Committee for UNICEF
Campaign to Eliminate Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus New York, NY
$26,000,000 (over 4 years)
A grant to support the global initiative to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT). The strategy of the initiative will be to target women in the high-risk geographic areas where MNT occurs -- deprived areas where women do not have access to routine immunization, antenatal care or skilled birth attendants. To implement the high-risk approach and sustain achievements, national plans will be developed at the country level with the Ministry of Health and input from in-country partners such as UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO, and non governmental organizations that are conducting health programs in that particular country.

ARSDigita is just another company so whats the big hooplah about. So they have ties with software, web resources, etc.

Yahoo is the same shit, yet when they were shitted on, no one posted about the possible demise of Yahoo. Whats the big difference its just another corporation, and they haven't done anything to improve the Internet as a whole anyFsckingway, so who gives a damn?

Not to troll about this but think about it a quick second. So a company gets bought out, taken out, ends up on FuckedCompany.com, ask yourself, how valuable they are in everyday life? Give me a break.

Heres news, AntiOffline just updated!!! OMG .. See how worthless news it is? But is it worthless? Means something to me to update it, so whats the diff. Big shit ARSDigita is in the news. OMG Maybe I should go jerk off to this.

Curiosity killed the cat

Bryan Grimshaw made a Linux machine inside of a toaster oven.

Shit with the demise of Slackware, Stormix, Easel, Corel Linux... The similarity is astonishing. Linux is toast.. or to be politically correct its only worth running on toasters take your pick.

wanna root me? (powered by OpenBSD!)

Remote View Phone is a tool that is designed to let you See there, be there, from anywhere its a remote digital surveillance camera with built -in technology that sends digital images to your pc. Call the phone number where the camera is located and within seconds you can monitor the area. It can even be set up to call you, sending images at connection. No computer is required in the area being monitored and installation is as easy as plug and play. $749.00 (U.S) @ Spy World

Need some accoustical jammers, cell phone interceptors, envelope xray'ers, heat scanners, thermal scopes, white light generators, we got all that shit too...

Got root?

The majority of IT geeks love their toys, however I've seen many companies who've went under for financial reasons, and one can wonder how many of those companies went under from the overspending on 'toys`.

Hell yea we want our toys, whether its a Clariion storage device, SunBlade, etc., but in reality little thought is given by the typical geeks when ordering equipment, so blame both the geeks for not settling for your average based equipment to get the job done, then blame management for not watching the geek, and while your at it, blame those idiots in purchasing who couldn't get a better deal buying things.

Want root? (unf Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider!@)

Chicks or Unix

Chicks or Unix

Chicks or Unix

Head hunters from the porn industry? I wonder if they sound as sleazy as media portrays them. Personally I know porn sites make extreme amounts of money, the problem I think of regarding that market is, there are way too many porn sites out there to even think that "this particular" company is going to make it in the long run.

I wouldn't jump ship unless my options included Alley Bagget on Monday, Jenna Jameson on Tuesday, Racquel Darian on Wednesday, Anna Nicole Smith on Thursday, and Jenna again on Friday.

Not that I watch porn or anything...

Encryption saves the day

They'd claim it inspires people to follow the actions of drug dealers, it sends out the wrong messages to kids, etc.

Aside from that Dopewars is somewhat a base for this game, and it was recently on the news out here in NY.

Well its not like the gov is really doing much via their "War on drugs" think about that for a second. War on drugs? We can send people to the moon, rockets across mega distances, the feds can track down the people who bombed the USS Cole, but they can't win this so called "war"?

What about a pesticide to flat out kill coca leaves for the cocaine problem? Or is it because this so called war is a paper game used around election time, where most drug busts are made?

War on Drugs is a slap in the face for those who can see the underlying bs attached to it.

Privacy Links

I would hate to get DoS'd from a network of those.

Just what parents who don't raise their kids right do. Point the fingers elsewhere to cast blame, yet they'll deny that they are likely to be the cause of the problem.

Maybe I should sue record companies for making me think violent thoughts. Shit I could just go out shoot a few people, then my family could have a class action lawsuit against record companies, television companies, movie companies, newspapers, gun companies, bullet companies, clothing companies for creating the camoflauge I used.

I think i'll register www.lets-capitalize-on-a-tragedy-and-sue-for-mega- profits.com

Encryption Saves the Day

Its AOL's servers and databases Gaim, Faim, and other 3rd party clients, are connecting to.

Jabber has their own little niche forming, and they should look to focus on that instead of rambling on about foobar info concerning AOL.

Either way you look at it SOMEWHERE DOWN THE LINE THOSE CLIENTS ARE CONNECTING TO AOL's SERVERS.

Why shouldn't AOL bitch about this, in any form they choose, when they're paying for bandwith, etc. Also note that AOL's version of AIM has banner ads, so these 3rd party versions circumvent those ads, which gives AOL another reason to bitch.

Maybe folks at Jabber should look into making some form of revenue sharing with AOL in order to hush them up, whatever the case. AOL has the right to do whatever. Its their SERVERS...

Notably funny is how on their conlusion, they have standby methods to turn to should AOL block them. Now if this doesn't sound like performing an illegal action (theft of services since AOL did not authorize them to use their bandwidth, databases, etc.) then I don't know what is.

Whomever wrote that is just plain stupid as it gives ammo to AOL should they choose to seek legal action.

Encryption Saves the Day

Is our sed s/President/Resident/g and hist secret plots to change our vocabulary to gbonics

Marines making flying foot soldiers

QUANTICO, Va., April 19 (UPI) -- The Marines are developing small robotic flying machines that can fit into a soldier's backpack and, when called on, fly across battlefields, sending back to him or her video images of enemy positions.

"UAVs have typically provided the upper echelon of military commanders with sensitive reconnaissance but Dragon Eye is intended to empower the foot soldier," said Jim McMains of the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, VA.

(full article)

All thats left is a remote cd changer, so I won't have to get up, remote chef so I won't have to cook, throw in a clone (just trolling here... I know what a clone is and isn't) to send to work for me, and I'm straight.

MTV's True Life exposed

FreeBSD ritalin 4.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE #0: root@ritalin.deficiency.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/L UCIFER i386

Good to know its out, however I hoped they fixed their moused issues

Apr 20 10:56:20 /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0040 != 0000).
Apr 20 17:25:30 /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (00c0 != 0000).
Apr 21 23:45:42 /kernel: psmintr: out of sync (0080 != 0000).

Aside from the nitpicking, why isn't this section updated a bit more, there are some good articles regarding the BSD's being posted at sites like DaemonNews, Deadly.org, etc.

p.s. to the moron who always post those moronic "BSD is dying... I think you should take a look at how many Linux distros, and Linux based customers went under these past few months before you troll

MTV's True Life (unabashed)

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Just to be absolutely clear about what I'm saying, in my opinion the "big three" embedded OSes are, at the moment: (1) VxWorks, (2) Embedded Linux, (3) Embedded Windows -- or (1) VxWorks, (2) Embedded Windows, (3) Embedded Linux -- depending on how you count.

I guess he's never heard of/used QNX, ChorusOS Nucleus, or ThreadX. I did however like the gadgets, but taking a look at the last week, with all the Linux related companies going to the dogs, and 4 distributions going "kaput" within less than 6 months time, I would be looking at other alternatives to Linux, especially if my business were going to depend on them.

© Gbonics changing the futurismisms of vocabularities worldomwide

IMHO that article nor can any other give a definitive insight as to what someone should use to manage their site.

Example, I was using PHP before for my site, and chopped up a random image script for chick pictures, and my server load would go sky high, from loading nothing more than pictures... Now php for content was fine but the pics killed me.

Over to embedded perl. Works well I even use it for certain tasks here and there, but nothing major. Python, well its fine but not suitable for me, since my site is small. I wonder why eperl wasn't mentioned, nor was the latest entry Curl.

Java is a morbid joke under most *nixes, at least in my experiences. SSI is ok but again for heavy content, sites with massive interaction from the server to client, it can become cumbersome too.

Anyways enough ramblings... I do however think I have thee ultimate old school solutions for fixing my site without using any of the above!@!@... Combos of sed/for scripts which till this date have done me more justice maintaining my site ;)

P.S. nice colors going on here maybe that shit looking brown over yellow should be changed to this too ;)

© GBonics 101

IMHO that article nor can any other give a definitive insight as to what someone should use to manage their site.

Example, I was using PHP before for my site, and chopped up a random image script for chick pictures, and my server load would go sky high, from loading nothing more than pictures... Now php for content was fine but the pics killed me.

Over to embedded perl. Works well I even use it for certain tasks here and there, but nothing major. Python, well its fine but not suitable for me, since my site is small. I wonder why eperl wasn't mentioned, nor was the latest entry Curl.

Java is a morbid joke under most *nixes, at least in my experiences. SSI is ok but again for heavy content, sites with massive interaction from the server to client, it can become cumbersome too.

Anyways enough ramblings... I do however think I have thee ultimate old school solutions for fixing my site without using any of the above!@!@... Combos of sed/for scripts which till this date have done me more justice maintaining my site ;)

P.S. nice colors going on here maybe that shit looking brown over yellow should be changed to this too ;)

© GBonics 101

Apparently it wasn't much of a secret now was it?

© Pimpfolio

anti spam law (I can't stand PDF files)

Emotions + Paint = Emotaint (pronounced E-moe-shaynt)

IMHO I would be highly upset to bring a chick home thinking my house was white when I left, and black and morbid (d(a)emonic) looking when we got there.

you big pimp you

so if you're looking for an easy way to install Debian on a machine, better get them while you can.

The only actual version of Linux I could see withstanding the storm is sadly Redhat. Most other versions of Lin have crappy marketing teams.

As for installing Debian, why should someone use Debian versus any other version of Linux out there? The underlying facts remain, Linux is Linux no matter which version you use its all core code, some are easier to use than others, nothing more.

Its this method of thinking that disrupts the company's earnings in the future. Why would you hype up Debian and not Redhat, when in essence at the bare bones they're the same OS?

Factors such as these (judging one over the ther) have a lot of repurcussions on those small companies. PR people, marketers look at what the industry is up to, and fortunately fro Redhat they looked ahead and made more marketing pushes than any other versions of Lin around.

So another Lin company went under... Big deal, where was Slashdot's posting when Stampede all of the sudden disappeared?

No thanks I'll stick to my BSD's.

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Really a shame to see yet another company go that dreaded route. As for another company picking them up, its a highly doubtful move that anyone would budge, and I'll try to explain my views on it.

Market is crappy for tech stocks, sure Greenspan made a move this week, but the market is half of what it once was, which means money is still tight, and even though the past two days have been good, companies have to hold on to their money for future's sake.

With that being said...

Companies like Redhat, Mandrake, etc., fall under this umbrella of saving money, (well RHAT is on the market don't know or care about Mandrake) if they attempted to save every dying Open Source good idea project, they'd have no money for their own companies.

What should be done, is the developers should they not find funding, is post their work to maybe SourceForge or something similar to preserve their work and continue producing until funding comes around.

Pay pal may sound like a good idea, but how many people actually donate to projects like this lets get realistic. Personally I would work under the most limited circumstances if I had to, and if it fullfilled my needs, and would rather donate to something like feeding a needy child or something.

Sorry but reality kills in this game.

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One would hope some of these laws could be a little less brutal for the companies. Don't get me wrong I'm all for privacy by all means, however lawmakers also have to understand, there is no definite way to ensure that whomever is visiting a particular site is overage.

Somehow I can see this falling into a deep damning fight between privacy groups like the ACLU, EPIC, etc., and companies who could be held liable without true reasons. Negligence? I think not, what are some of these companies going to do, create a webcam, fingerprint, biometric system to check ages?

Lets get real about this, sure you could say, well they could use a credit card which would show they're over 13, but then a 13 year old can run into their parents belongings and enter a valid CC number. So where is the move to protect against those companies from being charged with crimes, from being victims themselves?

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What I see happening is a mixture of crappily assessed networks created by pundits who have zero skills configuring their networks.

When companies go out of business as well, so do their networks, which means if your on a node with that connection, somewhere along the line your bound to have a broken link.

Sure there are DoS attacks, and there are also fixes for them, so DoS attacks should be 3rd or 4th in line for resolving host names.

Security risks associated with BIND problems could also be to blame for resolving hostnames, in which you could always try different servers for your nslookups to try to resolve them.

Personally I don't think people envisioned what the Internet would be in a few years when they made those statements.

What I see happening is a mixture of crappily assessed networks created by pundits who have zero skills configuring their networks.

When companies go out of business as well, so do their networks, which means if your on a node with that connection, somewhere along the line your bound to have a broken link.

Sure there are DoS attacks, and there are also fixes for them, so DoS attacks should be 3rd or 4th in line for resolving host names.

Security risks associated with BIND problems could also be to blame for resolving hostnames, in which you could always try different servers for your nslookups to try to resolve them.

Personally I don't think people envisioned what the Internet would be in a few years when they made those statements.

What I see happening is a mixture of crappily assessed networks created by pundits who have zero skills configuring their networks.

When companies go out of business as well, so do their networks, which means if your on a node with that connection, somewhere along the line your bound to have a broken link.

Sure there are DoS attacks, and there are also fixes for them, so DoS attacks should be 3rd or 4th in line for resolving host names.

Security risks associated with BIND problems could also be to blame for resolving hostnames, in which you could always try different servers for your nslookups to try to resolve them.

Personally I don't think people envisioned what the Internet would be in a few years when they made those statements.

I see no problem with CERT charging people for information, what I think about this is pretty straightfoward...

If a company is going to dish out mega bucks for this service, it could be part of a business write off of some sorts, which if this is the case, its a good move.

On the other hand, CERT isn't as up-to-date with advisories as is Security Focus, which is FREE. So if companies are as stated looking to save money its a bad move, since the information is already freely posted on other security forums.

What I find slightly disturbing is, now I question whether security incidents will not be reported because someone is not a paying customer of CERT, which is totally shady.

Will CERT's new venture withhold information which could hinder the security of products?... Only time will tell...

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"why would I want to go back to a school that lies, breaks state laws, and gets rid of bright students who finally snap, merely to 'make the school feel safer?' All the school is doing is satisfying a few parents' false sense of insecurity, brought on by the intense media attention to the recent school shootings, by giving them a false sense of security, at the expense of students like myself. The ONLY reason I'd want to go back is to see my few friends again, and I can keep in contact with them without going to school."

I wonder if Sean deserves anything more than a useful speech on sensible responses to morons. Perhaps he should be called into an office and told that one of an individual's noblest callings is to make fools reveal themselves.

But the Commission also proposes that Dutch citizens get the possibility to store other information in their digital safe-deposit, like medical and financial information. Citizens can decide to whom they will give access to these types of information. The digital safe-deposit should be located at the web sites of the municipialities. For the protection of the safe-deposits the commission suggests to give each Dutch citizen an electronic identity card with biometrics information. Citizens who are not on-line should get access to their digital safe-deposit through public terminals at the municipal hall.

The Commission thinks that the introduction of the system will give a boost to the digitalisation of Dutch society. New developments like electronic commerce and payment systems for driving have a clear need for the availability of reliable personal data that easily can be transferred and checked.

TuxBox crew pledges to do what Indrema failed to do -- bring a Linux gaming/multipurpose console to market.

The company's founders should have approached a game developer with their idea along with the statistics (or expected analysis) of what they forsaw in terms of users. (which in turn create revenue)

Even a game company no matter which platform they created for would have had to take a look at the marketability for the product, unless MS bullied them

The TuxBox team believes they can have a console ready to sell, with several game titles available, by this fall, even though they haven't been able to salvage any code from Indrema. That goal could sound unrealistic, or even cocky, but the project's founders are approaching the task with a matter-of-fact determination and a passion for creating a better gaming console.

Instead of being arrogant about it, the company should just do whatever it takes, then brag later.

"We want to allow people to develop for a video game system that may not have enough money to develop for another big name system," Riley says. "Our development kit will be free and allow anyone to develop for us."

The plan is to have 20 to 30 games, a combination of freeware and commercial titles, ready for the TuxBox when it's available to buy, and the TuxBox team hopes to offer at least one commercial game with the console. Games being developed for Indrema should have little difficulty transferring to the TuxBox, Isley and Riley say.

Riley says having a good number of freeware games is a major advantage TuxBox will have over its big competitors such as Playstation, and another is the attraction of being able to create your own games.

"No system out there currently, or coming out, will suit my needs for what I want in a console: freeware games; a free community; develop and distribute your own games for free," Riley says.

Think about it Zelda X on this machine would rock, and everyone would enjoy it, money would be made, the company wouldn't end up on fuckedcompany.com before it even launched.

who is deran9ed?

Now can I bug you for a buck to save my fsckedcompany from going out of business!

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moming from Ximian, is an all inclusive package where one wouldn't have to download all those other dependencies just to build something.

It gets tiring having to download umpteen amounts of extra baggage via way of additions (glade etc.) just to get something to run. Even moreso gets more tiring searching for those packages hoping they've been updated to follow suit to newer revs of the original product (gnome).
Aside from that for those with limited space, it would serve them greatly to have Ximian products include only the neccessities to build the product and not the whole library (whenever possible) to save space.

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SET US UP THE TIVO... err BETAMAX... err... WTF

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