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But hey, this is /. - where my opinion counts too!

Actually, I looked at all the pictures, and in only a very few of them (mostly all on the very last set) show actual "property" destruction:

Photos 28, 29 and 30 seem to show people dragging branches somewhere. With the occurrance of fire in several images, we can suspect that they are dragging them to a fire (but hey, who knows - maybe they have some crafting they need to do?)...

At least photo 53 wasn't as stupid (next time, wear a ski mask!)...

Photo 58 shows a man wielding a large piece of what appears to be wood - maybe going to throw it on a fire - or bash Mr. 61 about the shoulders, one of the two (wipe that smirk off yer face, nugget!)...

Photo 62 - Praise Stallman!!!

Photo 70 - Use the Force, Luke!!

Photo 77 - "Dude, where'd my doob go...? F*ckin' riot..."

Photo 86 - Now showing a better image of the Cydonian Face...

photos 95 and 96 show someone with another large piece of wood - probably not a picket sign. On the same page we have 99 and 101 doing more branch dragging (they must love crafting there at Purdue!)...

Photo 109 - Wow! I found a doob!

Now, it definitely looks like in Photo 150 there is a set of individuals up to no good with that mailbox - but why don't they note that the other guy (in black pants and grey vest) was involved as well? And why does that man look like he may actually be security or something?

The final page is about the only one that shows real good clear pictures of anybody causing destruction - and if you notice, most of the stuff they seem to be burning came from a DUMPSTER. They must value their trash very highly at Purdue, alright...

So, in closing - while there seem to have been some people causing havoc, and that one shouldn't blatently set fire to anything in public, I doubt $100,000 worth of damage occurred (unless they count the mailbox and the signpost - but only the mailbox seemed damaged). If those were damaged, then the individuals should have to pay retribution (include Mr. Blackpants, whoever he is). As for the others, they just seem to be bystanders, who didn't stop what was happening (and rant all you want about them not stopping it, but I would be they either wouldn't be heard, or they would be assaulted for their views, or something equally bad).

Oh, BTW, photo 49 offends me - WTF is that guy grabbing himself for? It ain't going anywhere, pal (actually, it takes more than that to offend me, but I have to admit the guy looks patently stupid making that gesture - I mean, if that guy can get a higher education, than anybody should).

Worldcom - Generation Duh!

But hey, this is /. - where my opinion counts too!

Actually, I looked at all the pictures, and in only a very few of them (mostly all on the very last set) show actual "property" destruction:

Photos 28, 29 and 30 seem to show people dragging branches somewhere. With the occurrance of fire in several images, we can suspect that they are dragging them to a fire (but hey, who knows - maybe they have some crafting they need to do?)...

At least photo 53 wasn't as stupid (next time, wear a ski mask!)...

Photo 58 shows a man wielding a large piece of what appears to be wood - maybe going to throw it on a fire - or bash Mr. 61 about the shoulders, one of the two (wipe that smirk off yer face, nugget!)...

Photo 62 - Praise Stallman!!!

Photo 70 - Use the Force, Luke!!

Photo 77 - "Dude, where'd my doob go...? F*ckin' riot..."

Photo 86 - Now showing a better image of the Cydonian Face...

photos 95 and 96 show someone with another large piece of wood - probably not a picket sign. On the same page we have 99 and 101 doing more branch dragging (they must love crafting there at Purdue!)...

Photo 109 - Wow! I found a doob!

Now, it definitely looks like in Photo 150 there is a set of individuals up to no good with that mailbox - but why don't they note that the other guy (in black pants and grey vest) was involved as well? And why does that man look like he may actually be security or something?

The final page is about the only one that shows real good clear pictures of anybody causing destruction - and if you notice, most of the stuff they seem to be burning came from a DUMPSTER. They must value their trash very highly at Purdue, alright...

So, in closing - while there seem to have been some people causing havoc, and that one shouldn't blatently set fire to anything in public, I doubt $100,000 worth of damage occurred (unless they count the mailbox and the signpost - but only the mailbox seemed damaged). If those were damaged, then the individuals should have to pay retribution (include Mr. Blackpants, whoever he is). As for the others, they just seem to be bystanders, who didn't stop what was happening (and rant all you want about them not stopping it, but I would be they either wouldn't be heard, or they would be assaulted for their views, or something equally bad).

Oh, BTW, photo 49 offends me - WTF is that guy grabbing himself for? It ain't going anywhere, pal (actually, it takes more than that to offend me, but I have to admit the guy looks patently stupid making that gesture - I mean, if that guy can get a higher education, than anybody should).

Worldcom - Generation Duh!

But hey, this is /. - where my opinion counts too!

Actually, I looked at all the pictures, and in only a very few of them (mostly all on the very last set) show actual "property" destruction:

Photos 28, 29 and 30 seem to show people dragging branches somewhere. With the occurrance of fire in several images, we can suspect that they are dragging them to a fire (but hey, who knows - maybe they have some crafting they need to do?)...

At least photo 53 wasn't as stupid (next time, wear a ski mask!)...

Photo 58 shows a man wielding a large piece of what appears to be wood - maybe going to throw it on a fire - or bash Mr. 61 about the shoulders, one of the two (wipe that smirk off yer face, nugget!)...

Photo 62 - Praise Stallman!!!

Photo 70 - Use the Force, Luke!!

Photo 77 - "Dude, where'd my doob go...? F*ckin' riot..."

Photo 86 - Now showing a better image of the Cydonian Face...

photos 95 and 96 show someone with another large piece of wood - probably not a picket sign. On the same page we have 99 and 101 doing more branch dragging (they must love crafting there at Purdue!)...

Photo 109 - Wow! I found a doob!

Now, it definitely looks like in Photo 150 there is a set of individuals up to no good with that mailbox - but why don't they note that the other guy (in black pants and grey vest) was involved as well? And why does that man look like he may actually be security or something?

The final page is about the only one that shows real good clear pictures of anybody causing destruction - and if you notice, most of the stuff they seem to be burning came from a DUMPSTER. They must value their trash very highly at Purdue, alright...

So, in closing - while there seem to have been some people causing havoc, and that one shouldn't blatently set fire to anything in public, I doubt $100,000 worth of damage occurred (unless they count the mailbox and the signpost - but only the mailbox seemed damaged). If those were damaged, then the individuals should have to pay retribution (include Mr. Blackpants, whoever he is). As for the others, they just seem to be bystanders, who didn't stop what was happening (and rant all you want about them not stopping it, but I would be they either wouldn't be heard, or they would be assaulted for their views, or something equally bad).

Oh, BTW, photo 49 offends me - WTF is that guy grabbing himself for? It ain't going anywhere, pal (actually, it takes more than that to offend me, but I have to admit the guy looks patently stupid making that gesture - I mean, if that guy can get a higher education, than anybody should).

Worldcom - Generation Duh!

But hey, this is /. - where my opinion counts too!

Actually, I looked at all the pictures, and in only a very few of them (mostly all on the very last set) show actual "property" destruction:

Photos 28, 29 and 30 seem to show people dragging branches somewhere. With the occurrance of fire in several images, we can suspect that they are dragging them to a fire (but hey, who knows - maybe they have some crafting they need to do?)...

At least photo 53 wasn't as stupid (next time, wear a ski mask!)...

Photo 58 shows a man wielding a large piece of what appears to be wood - maybe going to throw it on a fire - or bash Mr. 61 about the shoulders, one of the two (wipe that smirk off yer face, nugget!)...

Photo 62 - Praise Stallman!!!

Photo 70 - Use the Force, Luke!!

Photo 77 - "Dude, where'd my doob go...? F*ckin' riot..."

Photo 86 - Now showing a better image of the Cydonian Face...

photos 95 and 96 show someone with another large piece of wood - probably not a picket sign. On the same page we have 99 and 101 doing more branch dragging (they must love crafting there at Purdue!)...

Photo 109 - Wow! I found a doob!

Now, it definitely looks like in Photo 150 there is a set of individuals up to no good with that mailbox - but why don't they note that the other guy (in black pants and grey vest) was involved as well? And why does that man look like he may actually be security or something?

The final page is about the only one that shows real good clear pictures of anybody causing destruction - and if you notice, most of the stuff they seem to be burning came from a DUMPSTER. They must value their trash very highly at Purdue, alright...

So, in closing - while there seem to have been some people causing havoc, and that one shouldn't blatently set fire to anything in public, I doubt $100,000 worth of damage occurred (unless they count the mailbox and the signpost - but only the mailbox seemed damaged). If those were damaged, then the individuals should have to pay retribution (include Mr. Blackpants, whoever he is). As for the others, they just seem to be bystanders, who didn't stop what was happening (and rant all you want about them not stopping it, but I would be they either wouldn't be heard, or they would be assaulted for their views, or something equally bad).

Oh, BTW, photo 49 offends me - WTF is that guy grabbing himself for? It ain't going anywhere, pal (actually, it takes more than that to offend me, but I have to admit the guy looks patently stupid making that gesture - I mean, if that guy can get a higher education, than anybody should).

Worldcom - Generation Duh!

Cross platform worms have existed since at least 1988: the RTM Nov '88 Internet worm infected both Sun3 (M68020) and DEC VAX hardware. The Cornell report on that worm implies that the source code had slots for executables for other types of hardware, too.

Shell script viruses should be pretty much cross-platform on all unix-a-like systems, too. A fellow named Keith McMillan wrote a master's thesis on how to write a cross-platform virus in TeX and Emacs.

So, no, Word macro viruses weren't the first cross-platform anything. Just another case of a supposed MSFT "innovation" turning out to be a cheap imitation instead.

WTF?? are you trying to do here man ??

Yeah, I got one of those bad boys. Overclocked it to just over 2ghz, I'm cooling it with liquid oxygen. I run at about 35 kelvin
Had a little problem with open flames, tho. Foom! No more box.
Course, I did manage to decapitate one of the blue men in the ensuing explosion. I made his little blue head into a hat for my dog.


Brant

ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/progeny/
deb ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/progeny/ progeny main contrib non-free
and
ftp://emu.res.cmu.edu/progeny
deb ftp://emu.res.cmu.edu/progeny/ progeny main contrib non-free

Look under the images/current directory for rc1 ISO and read the RELNOTES.rc1 too!

I guess I'll drop that idea now ;) Anyway, I think the reviewers missed out on a couple of things I found most interesting:

1. Prof Donald Knuth (of Art of Computer programming fame) suggested to Diffie that a possible one way function was factoring, but Diffie and Hellman didn't pursue this strategy and it was independently discovered by Rivest, Shamir and Alderman.
2. Prof Larry Hoffman was presented with Merkle's paper containing the first ever public realisation of a Public Key system, but couldn't understand the maths involved, so ignored it!
3. Ericsson turned down the offer to buy ownership of RSA.

If you haven't got this book, and you're interested in crypto then I'd highly recommend it. It mentions the contributions of virtually every well known personality involved with modern cryptography: Tuchman, Horst Feistel, Coppersmith, Rivest, Diffie, Hellman, Chaum, Meyer, Gilmore, Schnorr, Eli Biham, Bruce Schneier, Jeff Schiller, Adam Back, Daniel Bernstein, Matt Blaze, Dorothy Denning, PRZ etc etc etc

I've read most decent crypto books, and Crypto is like a more up to date version of The Code by David Kahn...Coverage on the NSA follows neatly on from Bamfords The Puzzle Palace.

The standard distribution of Ghostscript won't handle PDF files that have the so-called 'protection'. You have to download an extra PostScript file from somewhere - the error message tells you what you need.

This file refuses to process PDFs where the author has requested that you do not print them. However, if you want to exercise your fair dealing rights despite the author's request, it is simple to patch the file so that your computer will do what you tell it.

For more information, see Kyler Laird's PDF utilities.

FWIW, I think Debian should stand up for fair dealing rights and allow users to print PDFs - though it might have to go into non-US.

This is nothing new . . . the "eradication through release of great numbers of sterile insects" method has worked before on fruit flies, both in Florida, South America and Africa, and Australia. They weren't developed through direct genetic alteration, but the theory is the same.

My school offers a grad-level Quantum Computing class (that of course can be taken by undergrads), Ph/CS 219, which ya may wanna check out. The page seems to have some pretty useful information, including lecture notes, homeworks, references, etc. Its prerequisites are Ph 129, a class on Mathematical Methods of Physics, which in turn has the prerequisites Ph 106 (Topics in Classical Physics), and ACM 95 (Introductory Methods of Applied Mathematics) or Ma 108 (Classical Analysis).

Find it here

--

From the announcement:
GCC 2.96-RH
The actual gcc RPM included is named gcc-2.96-71.src.rpm.
Redhat 7.0 shipped with gcc-2.96-54.[insert arch here].rpm, so it's still the same broken compiler.

Fisher, is it is *STILL BETA* is only available on a few mirrors, those of which are:
Indiana, USA:
http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/beta /fisher
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/beta/ fisher

Minnesota, USA:
ftp://ftp.mn-linux.org/linux/redhat/beta/fisher

Buffalo, New York, USA:
ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/mirror/Linux/redhat/beta /fisher

Pennsylvania, USA:
http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions /redhat/redhat/beta/fisher
ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/ redhat/redhat/beta/fisher
rsync://carroll.cac.psu.edu/redhat-beta/fisher

Anyone going to use Fisher should of course, goto Bugzilla.redhat.com and give plenty of bug reports and other issues while using this beta version of RedHat.

Fisher, is it is *STILL BETA* is only available on a few mirrors, those of which are:
Indiana, USA:
http://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/beta /fisher
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/beta/ fisher

Minnesota, USA:
ftp://ftp.mn-linux.org/linux/redhat/beta/fisher

Buffalo, New York, USA:
ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/mirror/Linux/redhat/beta /fisher

Pennsylvania, USA:
http://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions /redhat/redhat/beta/fisher
ftp://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/ redhat/redhat/beta/fisher
rsync://carroll.cac.psu.edu/redhat-beta/fisher

Anyone going to use Fisher should of course, goto Bugzilla.redhat.com and give plenty of bug reports and other issues while using this beta version of RedHat.

May I point out The Bose FAQ.

HTTP only, and it should move pretty quick for everyone. Enjoy.

karma

frozen

ObJectBridge (GPL'd Java ODMG) needs volunteers.

there are plenty of web sites to search for, so i don't know why you asked.

I worked on this briefly last summer. the most interesting of all are all not out in the market. The retina scan is very good. it has only one color (red, with grey scale) but very sharp. it's the only display that can let you actually look at the background while performing other tasks. unfrotunately it is way expensive (15k).

Most others are based on little LCDs. the latest xybernaut ( here's me wearing a older version ) uses basically a small LCD and a semi- reflective lens.

I use the RBL hooks in Postfix, and I find them very useful. This is a bit much, though. While I have enormous respect for Vix & co., I think this is way over the line.

How is software that is designed to send bulk email any "worse" than software that is designed explictly for the purpose of, say sniffing user passwords or performing denial-of-service attacks? Indeed, why aren't we, as the Internet community, tracking down those people arrogant enough to write these tools -- tools that are clearly used to commit all manner of subversion havoc -- and blackholing them?

It's because (most) technical people understand that tools are just tools. Somebody who writes a password grinder is "just" a programmer. The Unix admin who downloads it and runs it against her password file is just doing her job. The peeved help-desk guy who uses the password grinder to get the VP of Finance's Unix password and then uses it to access the nifty Oracle financial system is acting-- in the words of AUPs everywhere-- in excess of his authority, and if caught, will be squashed by the Law.

It's not valid to want it both ways, to want software that you think is "bad for the net" blackholed out of existence, yet allow other software -- arguably more damaging -- to exist unchallenged. If this was, say, WIPO vs. nmap, would those of you in favour of MAPS' stance take offense? Software is speech. Censor it and contribute to the decline of your freedom to write it. I'm sure the brains behind WIPO are very interested in seeing how this plays out; if an .org which essentially controls access to and from the large nationwide ISPs can succesfully censor software without question, then certainly WIPO can.

And finally: simply because MAPS says "These are our guidelines, and we are following them" doesn't mean the guidelines have merit.

My university only had 2 T1's when I was there... sigh. I think I get better throughput now with my ADSL via SpeakEasy.

Check out Purdue ECN Network Maps

From Biafra's Bio:

(I hope that slashdot doesn't munge the links this time)

1985

Infamous Senate anti-music hearings are staged by Senator Al Gore and his cohorts as a favor to his wife Tipper and her openly bigoted fundamentalist friends calling themselves the Parent's Music Resource Center (PMRC). Among the PMRC's demands were the censorship through a labeling system of warning stickers, the "Reassessment of contracts" of artists whose lyrics are, "sexually explicit", "anti-Christian" or mention suicide or homosexuality. "Expert witnesses" called by the Washington Wives blame rock music for gang violence, suicide, murder, devil worship and sexual perversion. Frank Zappa stands virtually alone in opposing the PMRC and sensing their significance. The music industry above and below ground keeps their head in the sand, preferring to sleep through the hearings.

April 15, 1986

Two weeks after Dead Kennedys are publicly targeted by Susan Baker of the PMRC, Biafra's house in San Francisco is raided and torn apart by a squad of Los Angeles and San Francisco police officers. Cops even ransack the cat-box hoping to find - well? ask them. "Frankenchrist" albums and Giger posters are taken from the house and the Alternative Tentacles/Mordam offices.

June, 1986

Biafra and four others are charged in Los Angeles with one count each of "Distribution of Harmful Matter to Minors". They are the first people in American history to face criminal charges over a record; three years before the attack on 2 Live Crew. Biafra and other supporters form No More Censorship Defense Fund to cover the money to fight the charges. Defendants face a possible one year in jail and a $2,000 fine. The law had never been used before. The L.A. City Attorney's office admits to L.A. Weekly reporter Don Bolles that they kept files on several other PMRC-targeted musicians, but chose Biafra because it was, "a cost effective way of sending a message". The prosecuting attorney later says one of his goals was to destroy Alternative Tentacles. Fund-raising and the ensuing media circus delay the completion of the follow-up album to Frankenchrist, the appropriately titled Bedtime for Democracy .

August, 1987

Charges against Biafra and the other defendants are dismissed after a three-week criminal trial in Los Angeles. Even though Frankenchrist was not found to be obscene; Biafra, Dead Kennedys and Alternative Tentacles records are subsequently banned from a multitude of chain stores nationwide. This is exactly the type of de-facto censorship Tipper Gore and the PMRC had in mind. By this time, controversy has vaulted Biafra's spoken word performances from coffeehouses to the college lecture circuit, where he is brought in to "lecture" on censorship. For the first time the media is more interested in Biafra's political views than music-industry shoptalk on his latest music album. His documentation of Tipper Gore and the PMRC's ties to fundamentalist Christian extremists is no longer dismissed as lunatic. He also appears as an FBI agent in the Tim Robbins-John Cusack film, Tape Heads, wearing the same blue pin-stripe suit he wore at the trial.

________________________________________

From Biafra's Bio:

1985

Infamous Senate anti-music hearings are staged by Senator Al Gore and his cohorts as a favor to his wife Tipper and her calling themselves the Parent's Music Resource Center (PMRC). Among the PMRC's demands were the censorship through a labeling system of warning stickers, the "Reassessment of contracts" of artists whose lyrics are, "sexually explicit", "anti-Christian" or mention suicide or homosexuality. "Expert witnesses" called by the Washington Wives blame rock music for gang violence, suicide, murder, devil worship and sexual perversion. Frank Zappa stands virtually alone in opposing the PMRC and sensing their significance. The music industry above and below ground keeps their head in the sand, preferring to sleep through the hearings.

April 15, 1986

Two weeks after Dead Kennedys are publicly targeted by Susan Baker of the PMRC, Biafra's house in San Francisco is raided and torn apart by a squad of Los Angeles and San Francisco police officers. Cops even ransack the cat-box hoping to find - well? ask them. "Frankenchrist" albums and Giger posters are taken from the house and the Alternative Tentacles/Mordam offices.

June, 1986

Biafra and four others are charged in Los Angeles with one count each of "Distribution of Harmful Matter to Minors". They are the first people in American history to face criminal charges over a record; three years before the attack on 2 Live Crew. Biafra and other supporters form No More Censorship Defense Fund to cover the money to fight the charges. Defendants face a possible one year in jail and a $2,000 fine. The law had never been used before. The L.A. City Attorney's office admits to L.A. Weekly reporter Don Bolles that they kept files on several other PMRC-targeted musicians, but chose Biafra because it was, "a cost effective way of sending a message". The prosecuting attorney later says one of his goals was to destroy Alternative Tentacles. Fund-raising and the ensuing media circus delay the completion of the follow-up album to Frankenchrist, the appropriately titled Bedtime for Democracy .

August, 1987

Charges against Biafra and the other defendants are dismissed after a three-week criminal trial in Los Angeles. Even though Frankenchrist was not found to be obscene; Biafra, Dead Kennedys and Alternative Tentacles records are subsequently banned from a multitude of chain stores nationwide. This is exactly the type of de-facto censorship Tipper Gore and the PMRC had in mind. By this time, controversy has vaulted Biafra's spoken word performances from coffeehouses to the college lecture circuit, where he is brought in to "lecture" on censorship. For the first time the media is more interested in Biafra's political views than music-industry shoptalk on his latest music album. His documentation of Tipper Gore and the PMRC's ties to fundamentalist Christian extremists is no longer dismissed as lunatic. He also appears as an FBI agent in the Tim Robbins-John Cusack film, Tape Heads, wearing the same blue pin-stripe suit he wore at the trial.

________________________________________

At least I'm not the only one to have a thing about spelling universities correctly...

Again, it's Purdue and not Perdue.

And just in case it comes up (since it has before), it's Indiana University (IU) and not University of Indiana

On a different note, because Purdue has long been strong in the agricultural tech. area, I've heard that it's been jokingly referred to as "CowTech" :)
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D. Fischer

Not quite -- due to decreasing air temperature, the speed of sound actually decreases as you go up for a while, then increases again until you hit near-vacuum.

• Sea level -- 1116 fps
• 36000 to 82000 feet -- 968 fps
• 150000 feet -- 1075 fps
• 250000 feet and up -- by a quirk of physics, 1116 fps again!

One free example of a mature non-toy QNX-like OS is Doug Comer's XINU. One big advantage XINU. has over QNX is that it is free. Another is that XINU is well documented in text books. Another advantage is that XINU has one of the best implementations of TCP/IP available (thoroughly documented in several text books). Another is that XINU works with the many dozens of Russ Nelson's GNU Crynwr packet drivers. If you are looking for something QNX-like but free, chose XINU.

First of all, the Neomagic chipsets are on Vaio laptops, his question was about the desktops, but never mind.
As for the Neomagic chipset, all but one of the chipsets used are supported under XFree86 3.3.6, and all of them are supported with all features under XFree86 4.0. The Direct3D question I can't answer though.
Check Linux on Laptops for more info (I don't have a link, but there is one on my page for the Vaio F540 - http://icdweb.cc.purdue.edu/~ ole nik/vaioF-540.html

I'm confused. You have a high-performance application, but economize by using low-performance processor boards. I can see that when the processor boards are a lot cheaper (as with the ACME cluster, which uses "junk" socket-7 motherboards, retrofitted with cheap K6-2/450s). But in this case, you yourself point out that G4s aren't much more expensive. So why not use them? Shaving costs to meet a budget target?

• 
  As leading security practitioners, educators, vendors, and users of information security, we wish to register our misgivings about portions of the Council of Europe draft treaty on Crime in Cyberspace.

  We are concerned that some portions of the proposed treaty may inadvertently result in criminalizing techniques and software commonly used to make computer systems resistant to attack. Signatory states passing legislation to implement the treaty may endanger the security of their computer systems, because computer users in those countries will not be able to adequately protect their computer systems and the education of information protection specialists will be hindered.

  Critical to the protection of computer systems and infrastructure is the ability to

  • Test software for weaknesses
  • Verify the presence of defects in computer systems
  • Exchange vulnerability information

  System administrators, researchers, consultants, and companies all routinely develop, use, and share software designed to exercise known and suspected vulnerabilities. Academic institutions use these tools to educate students and in research to develop improved defenses. Our combined experience suggests that it is impossible to reliably distinguish software used in computer crime from that used for these legitimate purposes. In fact, they are often identical.

  Currently, the draft treaty as written may be misinterpreted regarding the use, distribution, and possession of software that could be used to violate the security of computer systems. We agree that damaging or breaking into computer systems is wrong and we unequivocally support laws against such inappropriate behavior. We affirm that a goal of the treaty and resulting legislation should be to permit the development and application of good security measures. However, legislation that criminalizes security software development, distribution, and use is counter to that goal, as it would adversely impact security practitioners, researchers, and educators.

  Please do not hesitate to call on us for technical advice in your future deliberations.

Also note that I don't think they're only asking for an academic exclusion. If corporations want to do internal testing, they would need exceptions also. And individuals... and...
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The laptop wouldn't be used to actually fly the spacecraft. Probably more just to run appropriate map software. But as far as using a laptop in a spacecraft... wasn't it just last week I read about the laptop being used on the space shuttle?

Fuel... methane, propane, and liquid oxygen, from the ThriftySpace.com web site. The first two are commercially available (natural gas & the stuff you use for bbq's). LOX is a little trickier to handle, but not much worse than any other cryogenic liquid. You may even remember the guy who used to light a bbq with liquid oxygen.

check it out:
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.pur due.edu/pub/redhat/redhat-7.0/
http://csociety-ftp.ecn.p urdue.edu/pub/redhat/redhat-7.0/

check it out:
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn.pur due.edu/pub/redhat/redhat-7.0/
http://csociety-ftp.ecn.p urdue.edu/pub/redhat/redhat-7.0/

Like Purdue's CERIAS center (Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security)

http://www.cerias.purdue.edu

Check out MUSCLE...I think that is what you are looking for. The site for it is here. IIRC, this project was started/is maintained by someone attending the grandest university of them all

Actually, it should be a Big Thanks to prof. Gene Spafford (Spaf) and his staff for maintaining ther integrity of out humble little CS school. He's a rather well known security guru who's forgotten more than a geek like me will ever learn about locking down boxen. I'm glad he and his staff had the integrity to turn down what's looking more and more like this:

Uncle Sam: "Is carnivore a program to generate fake credit card numbers?"

University "Nope, it's not."

Uncle Sam: "Thanks for making sure this wasn't an illegal program. Have a nice day."

Art, if you see this, drop me a line. Haven't heard from you since Terry graduated.

-dave

I am not scared of Digital:Convergence, they have nothing to stand on...

http://icdweb.cc.purdue.edu/~porterds /cuecat/

"...idependant..."

The problem with liquid air is that the LOX and the LN2 would tend to separate: different densities and different liquification temperatures. So you could potentially wind up with a puddle of significantly concentrated liquid oxygen in your "gas" tank, and that is a fire hazard in a BIG way.
If you don't believe me, check out these images of people BBQing with LOX here and here.

A group at Purdue have recently published some work describing dynamic cache resizing: they shrink the cache by turning off lines until it is just big enough for the current code but no bigger. They claim 62% power reduction at the cost of a 4% slowdown. For details have a look at http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~icalp.

HMMM, liquid oxygen. Also handy for overclocking your barbecue.

With the support of volunteers ftp site administrators, Pinstripe is available from several mirrors. The following have complete copies of Pinstripe, please use a mirror close to you:

North Carolina, USA:
ftp://metalab. unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/beta/pinstr ipe/
http://metala b.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/beta/pins tripe/

California, USA:
ftp://ftp.sourc eforge.net/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstrip e/
http://ftp.sou rceforge.net/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstr ipe/

California, USA:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org /pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
http://www.kernel.o rg/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Connecticut, USA:
ftp://ftp.uselinux.org/pub/redhat /beta/pinstripe/

Indiana, USA:
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn .purdue.edu/pub/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
http://csociety-ftp.e cn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Michigan, USA: ftp://mrhankey.bizserve.com/pub/linux/redhat/ftp.r edhat.com/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

New York, USA: ftp://ftp.ee.cornell.edu/p ub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe

Pennsylvania, USA: ftp ://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/red hat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Pennsylvania, USA: ftp://cronus.res. cmu.edu/pub/linux/ftp.redhat.com/beta/pinstripe/

Tennessee, USA: ftp://sunsite.utk.edu /pub/linux/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
http://sunsite.u tk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Australia: ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pu b/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/ pub/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Germany: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/mirrors /redhat.com/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Germany:
ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.d e/pub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
http://ftp.uni-bayreuth .de/pub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Norway: (ISO images only) ftp ://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/red hat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Peru: ftp://sajino.terra.com.p e/pub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Japan: ftp://ftp.kddl abs.co.jp/Linux/packages/RedHat/redhat/beta/pinstr ipe/

With the support of volunteers ftp site administrators, Pinstripe is available from several mirrors. The following have complete copies of Pinstripe, please use a mirror close to you:

North Carolina, USA:
ftp://metalab. unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/beta/pinstr ipe/
http://metala b.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/beta/pins tripe/

California, USA:
ftp://ftp.sourc eforge.net/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstrip e/
http://ftp.sou rceforge.net/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstr ipe/

California, USA:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org /pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
http://www.kernel.o rg/pub/mirrors/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Connecticut, USA:
ftp://ftp.uselinux.org/pub/redhat /beta/pinstripe/

Indiana, USA:
ftp://csociety-ftp.ecn .purdue.edu/pub/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
http://csociety-ftp.e cn.purdue.edu/pub/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Michigan, USA: ftp://mrhankey.bizserve.com/pub/linux/redhat/ftp.r edhat.com/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

New York, USA: ftp://ftp.ee.cornell.edu/p ub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe

Pennsylvania, USA: ftp ://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/red hat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Pennsylvania, USA: ftp://cronus.res. cmu.edu/pub/linux/ftp.redhat.com/beta/pinstripe/

Tennessee, USA: ftp://sunsite.utk.edu /pub/linux/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
http://sunsite.u tk.edu/ftp/pub/linux/redhat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Australia: ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pu b/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/ pub/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Germany: ftp://ftp.gmd.de/mirrors /redhat.com/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Germany:
ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.d e/pub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe/
http://ftp.uni-bayreuth .de/pub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Norway: (ISO images only) ftp ://carroll.cac.psu.edu/pub/linux/distributions/red hat/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Peru: ftp://sajino.terra.com.p e/pub/linux/redhat/beta/pinstripe/

Japan: ftp://ftp.kddl abs.co.jp/Linux/packages/RedHat/redhat/beta/pinstr ipe/

Frankly, partial or non-disclosure keeps the information from the people who really need it. Academics need the information to keep up with and understand what a vulnerability really is. Things like CERT advisories are useless for this. They don't have the information needed to figure out what the vulnerability really is and how to classify it. Another group hurt by partial or non-disclosure is sysadmins. If a sysadmin scans bugtraq even weekly, he can often have a patch or workaround for a vulnerability in his systems long before the vendor releases anything. Open source really rules here where there are usually alternatives such as fixing the code or getting a different free package put up instead.

Even if there exists some cabal of fully informed individuals, they are always going to leave out many of the folks that need the info. Face it, most vulnerability information is useless without enough info to exploit it.

Like eating bugs is something new. Purdue has been holding the Bug Bowl for 4 years now.

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You see the problem is that the use of "password in the clear" protocols allows one person's poor maintenance to undermine many other hosts that are just accessed via the original host's network.

Keep in mind, anonymous ftp and telnet for use of anonymous services isn't really the issue. I wouldn't even block the ports on a router. Instead, I'd simply institute the policy of scanning the network and coming down hard on anyone running the daemon. Not perfect, but doable.

On an unrelated note, Spaf (Dr. Spafford to you, buddy) also runs the usually-funny Yucks mailing list. This list has long seemed among the cream of the crop of net-humor to me.

See Color LCD Panel Subpixel Rendering by Prof. Hank Dietz, December 15, 1998.
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