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Good idea... in theory.
How about mailing lists - I'm a member of many of them (including spamtools), and it just wouldn't be possible to encrypt each message (or digest) per person. Some lists have several hundred valid subscribers.

Richy C.
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See the same article on Kuro5hin - the responses there make interesting reading as well.
Richy C.
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Google has got a 'family friendly' option - IIRC it excludes web pages with certain content and sites listed under the ODP's hidden 'Adult section (which Google uses and also hides)
Richy C.
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Don't forget that Google has the 'cache' facility that allows you to see the page that Google has indexed. Display the cache, visit the page and if they don't match up - complain to Google.
Richy C.
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Oh - sorry, so it is. You're right. If anyone does a search with http://www.internic.net/cgi-bin/whois?whois_nic=DO MAIN you do infact get up ANY servers register in the DNS with the string 'DOMAIN'.
You're perfectly right, it's not a crack or hack, but someone knowing that people would try a search like that and register a server with a name that would occur in the search string.
It's still funny (and kinda topical to this story).
Oh well, I'll go and revise my knowledge of the DNS system (grin)
Richy C.
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MICROSOFT.COM.IS.SECRETLY.RUN.BY.ILLUMINATI.TERROR ISTS.NET
MICROSOFT.COM.IS.RULED.BY.HACKERJACK.COM
MICROSOFT.COM.INSPIRES.COPYCAT.WANNABE.SUBVERSIVES .NET
MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.NO.LINUXCLUE.COM
MICROSOFT.COM

APPLE.COM.IS.THE.CHOICE.OF.ALL.SELF.RESPECTING.TER RORISTS.NET
APPLE.COM

AOL.COM.KCAUTOWEB.COM
AOL.COM.IS.REGULARLY.HAX0RED.BY.INSIDE-AOL.COM
AOL.COM.EATMYSHIT.ORG
AOL.COM.AMSLIQUIDATORS.COM
AOL.COM

It seems michael has forgotten to include the link to the original article on the Wall Street Journal - it's here - login 'slashdot123' passwd 'slashdot123'. Very long, comprehensive and insightful.
Richy C.
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• CBS MarketWatch
• C|Net
• The Register
• The BBC
• Wall Street Journal
• Basically
• Microsoft suspect the access was granted to St Petersburg (Russia) computer systems by use of the QAZ Trojan. The FBI is investigating.
  

• CBS MarketWatch
• C|Net
• The Register
• The BBC
• Wall Street Journal
• Basically
• Microsoft suspect the access was granted to St Petersburg (Russia) computer systems by use of the QAZ Trojan. The FBI is investigating.
  

• CBS MarketWatch
• C|Net
• The Register
• The BBC
• Wall Street Journal
• Basically
• Microsoft suspect the access was granted to St Petersburg (Russia) computer systems by use of the QAZ Trojan. The FBI is investigating.
  

If you contact an editor (via editor feedback they will usually try and help you where possible. I always try to (even though last time someone asked for help, I was moving house so it took 2 weeks to respond but...)
The application form has got to be filled in completely as it's the only way 'meta editors' can judge if you know 'the basics' (ie 'What is a URL?', 'What sort of sites should go in which categories', 'Can you spell?' sort of thing)
Richy C.
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I posted this story more than a month ago.
The guidelines were only changed 5 days ago - but, admittedly, some action regarding the Warez section was taken. It was taken because several editors were complaining about it being listed, it is linking to illegal content and Netscape's legal department informed ODP that they couldn't be sure what position ODP is in.
Therefore ODP took the only sensible cause of action under the circumstances - pull the content out of the directory (actually, I believe it's been temporarly moved to a 'hidden' area) while discussions in the internal editor forums decide what should be done.
Richy C.
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They say it's illegal regarding US laws (California IIRC), but because they do have international editors they have tried to 'spell out' exactly what they mean.
IIRC - Reverse Engineering in the UK is illegal.

Richy C.
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Ensure your site is working, the URL is correct and it has been submitted to the CORRECT category (quite a few submissions are deleted because of this).
ODP is human-edited, and therefore the site's got to be viewable by humans.
If you send me the URL by 'editor feedback' (when the server comes back up), with the details, I'll personally look into the matter and get back to you.
There is no secret, it's just that there may have been something on your site that an editor couldn't see, or your server was down or ...
Richy C.
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ODP has been suffering quite a bit of downtime the past fortnight - this is due to a hardware problem which is due to be fixed shortly (it /was/ scheduled for Monday at 12PST, but the maintenace was unable to be conducted for some reason).
Normally, it is VERY fast, and hopefully will be again very shortly.
Richy C.
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ODP editors have also asked for clarification of certain issues (particular the warez category) as they feel 'uncomfortable' in dealing with the issue.
In recent internal ODP forum posts, editors have raised the question about their own COUNTRY suing them due to strict regimes in the country. ODP is just trying to help their editors and their downstream users in whichever ways it can.
Richy C.
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Quote from the guidelines:
Netscape will have the non-exclusive right to use and modify this material.
You are not giving Netscape the full copyright, and Netscape is not restricting usage - in fact, they encourage it - see the licence file regarding the data.
Richy C.
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Several editors do, in fact, keep copies of the RDF dumps on their machine and it is well known within the ODP community that any action by Netscape/AOL that displeases a large majority of editors will result in us setting up a competing service (probably even with assistance of skrenta and co - the founders).
Netscape know that any major fowlups on their part will result in them being shot in the foot.
Richy C.
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I believe Netscape (who own ODP) have been informed by their lawyers that linking to information about suicide could be seen as 'promoting suicide' and therefore place AOL, Netscape, ODP, and it's editors in a very tricky legal situation. They are just trying to avoid people getting in trouble.
Richy C.
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I'm a 'editall+catmv' at ODP (see my editor profile) and have been an editor practically since it started, and these guidelines are currently being discussed on the internal ODP editor forums.
The copyright, at no time, remained with the editor. If it did, then ex-editors could use court rulings to remove their listings. Netscape do own the copyright (and always have) - but with an 'non-exclusive licence', meaning you grant them the right to use the data but you still have full rights to do what you want with it.
The illegal sites section has been under planning for about 9 months now - and the mud has 'flown' over certain issues (mainly drugs and warez, but some porn). What some editors fail to realise is the ODP could be sued, and Netscape lawyers are just trying to 'cover their backs'.
As far as I'm concerned, this, like many other issues, will be resolved over time in the internal forums - with assistance from Netscape lawyers where there are 'gray areas'.
Richy C.
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For me, it's SMTP and IMAP mail then, with a little bit of POP3. If only I could remember what RFC822 states...
Richy C.
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Microphone? Telephone? Phonetics? Just off the top of my head. :)
Richy C.
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Hang on, if it needs ambient light to operate but creates 30xambient - you've got an infinite power source. Each light will create enough light to power 29 of its fellows which could then power your computer system (okay, might need a few more than 30 but..). Continually environmentally friendly power source for the cost of a few bulbs...
Richy C.
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"This patent covers the method of reproducing, cloning or copying carbon based bipeds by the method of non-asexual reproduction. This method is defined by direct internal contact of a cbb (carbon based biped) with an external protuberation of another cbb."
Sounds good - yeah or nah? Let's hope the UK government doesn't finance 60million UKP to encourage people to stay virgins or else I won't get any money from this patent...

Richy C.
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Opera for Windows cost $39 (USD - even though they are based in Norway). Discounts are avaiable for education usage, bulk-orders, ISP orders etc. Although (IIRC), the pricing for the Linux version hasn't been set yet - so it's probably a time limited version.
Richy C.
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True, but Opera Software wrote Opera for Windows from scratch five years ago - and it's undergone major rewrites. And now they have versions for Win32, Linux, Palm and several other platforms (see the 'Ports' section of www.opera.com when the site's recovered from the slashdotting).
It's not a too bad browser, small faults in it, but it's worth getting (and registering).
Richy C.
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It's just that ManicDeity called it a 'Napster for Scientists', Hemos likened it to 'Internet2', but it seems it's more like distributed.net . Sorry about that, I forgot to read the article before posting - but I'm sure I heard of something like this a few months (even a year) ago. Any1 else?
Richy C.
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Whatever did happen to 'Internet2' - I know some american universities were testing something along those lines, but what happened to it.
(Sorry if it's offtopic, but if I2 did take off it would be ideal for everyone...)
Richy C.
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See the BBC's story about MP3.com' s 'e-mail march' where MP3 is launching a 'million e-mail march' in support of an American bill which could end legal action against it.
Richy C.
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The way I see it, NASA is a public company - it is owned by the American population via their taxes. Whereas Microsoft is owned by their shareholders. There's a big difference.
I can't see what's stopping anyone setting up private competition to NASA, but why should the American people have to pay to fund 2 space associations?
Disclaimer: BTW I'm British so it doesn't matter that much to me anyway...

Richy C.
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IIRC Digital (who originally made the StrongARM with ARM) contributed a very very significant part of its design. It's based on the main ARM design core, but with Digital's 'optimization' to increase its speed with the use of it's two caches and various other enhancements.
Intel brought the Digital Semiconductor section and have been enhancing the SA ever since.
I'm still happy with my 5yr old 202Mhz RISC PC though - it still goes faster than this 1mnth old 400Mhz Compaq Deskpro...
Richy C.
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• The Register
• C|Net (twice)

The Register's coverage states that it's costing several millions of dollars per month to maintain the network - who _could_ afford to take it over?
I know Castle Harlan offerd $50million for it, and several Linux fans were going to use them as an open source datacomms network - but does anyone know what happened to those offers?
Richy C.
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Okay, let's just forget about the ability to stand invisable next to a naked hot-grit covered Natalie Portman and think what other usages this technology has.
Yeah, there's the medical one (which is covered in the article) allowing doctors to see 'below the skin', but there is also the possible military usage. Perfect it to get somebody totally invisable and you've got a damn good killing machine... What other usages (apart from being able to see what you had for dinner) are there?

Richy C.
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Seems to work for any sites: see SuperSpandex and Beebware.com - neither of which have connections to Akamize. Even the Alt.Sex.Stories Text Repository works!
Richy C.
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And things like Delorie Lynx Viewer, Delorie Web Page Purifier, HTML PrettyPrinter, Delories Search Engine Simulator for starters - oh, don't forget last weeks Slashdotted site DejaVu for viewing sites in 'old browsers'.

Richy C.
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You just really need to find a 'third party web-fetcher'/proxy to do this.
Popular services: Ask Jesus (Jesusifies the page though), Anonymizer (fee-payable).
I'm sure that there are many many many more (those are just two off the top off my head that I've used in the last 48hrs), but if you use different ones it'll make it even harder for censorship software to block - they can't know every single proxy system available to the public.
Richy C.
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Yeah, I've got a Freeserve account (also 15x ConnectFree, Telinco, Free Online, ic24, Compuserve (never paid, never revoked account) and many more). It's just that I've used my Demon account for so many years now (7 IIRC) that it'll still take me ages to 'port' my email addresses across. I've got around 150 address on beebware.demon, but only 50 on beebware.com so far... POP3 fetching isn't fun (I use SMTP).
I'll wait, mainly because I've only just moved and my computer is in 4 rooms...
Richy C.
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Here's a list of UK freephone access providers.
Richy C.
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Here's a list of UK freephone access providers.
Richy C.
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• AltaVista admits service a sham
• Alta Vista's world crumbles
• AltaVista mystery ends today
• AltaVista: the silence continues and the farce continues
• CMGI to buy ISP for Altavista

To me, modern games just don't have the 'playability' of the old games like Pac-Man, Space Invaders even Colossal Cave.
Those games, to me, had the 'have another go' factor - you've just passed level 9 on Pac-Man, therefore you know you can do level 10 but you've got to make sure you can do it perfectly...
Colossal Cave and the ever popular Lemmings had a different playability factor - they needed the player to actually think and anticipate the results of their actions - in Doom you just blast anything that comes across and hang the consequences (okay, I'm over simplifying here, but that's the 'basics').
I've just got old of a copy of the IF (Interactive Fiction) archive and an old copy of Chuckie Egg - all free, and I've been playing them a hell of a lot more than any others games in the last 5 years.
Richy C.
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Wasn't the personal domain thing the point of the proposed .pers TLD?
As for trademarks - well, we'll be working on uneven ground there. I could hold the trademark for 'Slashdot' here in the UK, Andover would own it in the US - who is entitled to it? I also believe there is 'Dominoes Pizza' and another 'Dominoes' company - both owning the 'Dominoes' trademark, but in different 'fields'.
The UK had a resonable idea with it's .ltd.uk and .plc.uk where only company who have registered with the UK's Government House are entitled to one of these domains.
Sounds good in theory - but can anyone work around, simply, the unsolved questions?
Richy C.
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True, but by 'beginner' I meant people beginning to use computers - the sort who would start their new Posix system then phone technical support complaining that they can't find the Start button.
Richy C.
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Isn't UNIX still (tm) AT&T? I thought the generic term was Posix...
Posix system's aren't really aimed at beginners - that's what people keep forgeting. It was designed for use by people who know what they are doing and how _they_ want to do it - not the way a Redmond base drone wants them to...

Richy C.
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Personally, I prefer Opera for the PC, and Fresco and Oregano for the RISC PC. Okay, neither of them are Mozilla cores, but they do what I need a web browser to do (browse the web). I use a mail client for mail...

Richy C.
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Well, I remember Mozilla saying that there would be a total of 20 milestones before the proper release. Let's just hope it improves quite a bit between now and then...
Richy C.
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Casio currently do MP3 watches - I've seen them advertised for around $300 (219UKP IIRC) - dunno the full spec - but it shows it's easily possible to put Linux on it.
I wonder which Linux build they are using though - Intel, ARM... or if they've had to write their own main kernel...
Richy C.
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If it's for AC tracking, they could just use the logs of the _page_ request which would be a lot more honest than image requests (ie 'no graphics' people will also be tracked).
It's probably for statistical purposes, but how it copes with cache's I'm not sure (and I don't care enough to look at the HTTP header for a Pragma: no-cache statment).

Richy C.
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But what about 'single pixel spacers' - usually used just to enable tables to render correctly. Sometimes height=1 width=600 (or whatever) is used for 'drawing lines', but single's do have their own good purposes...
Richy C.
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