Slashback: Gaping, Wristwear, Screenies

Slashback with ever more on ... the massive bust of illegal software producers reported on last week, the gaping security hole moaned at by those confined to the Microsoft asylum, another review of the new Linux+Java Zaurus from Sharp, and how to get the binary watch you've always wanted. Enjoy!

Too bad there isn't a lot of good Free software. aka-ed writes: "A small update on the "Drink Or Die" busts: Apparently, the feds' move has borne preventative fruit. According to this post from one of the major commercial Usnet services, binaries traffic on Usenet has taken a noticeable hit since the bust, for reasons speculated upon in the post itself."

Open wide, and say "mmmmghrfgghfgr." atreus42 writes: "Microsoft has released a patch to fix the Gaping Security Hole(TM) in Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0. This security bulletin details the file extension/content header spoofing bug that would allow bad people to disguise a downloadable executable file as text. The internet isn't doomed after all..."

How to make my Visor look slow and lowly. Sindre Lia writes "Sharp's new Zaurus SL5500 is the first PDA device from a major manufacturer in a long time that uses a new operating system and a new user interface.

According to preliminary reports from infoSync staffers Larry Garfield and Janice Karin that attended the launch of the SL-5500 and got hands-on experience with the new device, the GUI still needs polishing and to some degree also the hardware, but the device has according to them a lot of potential if some first-generation problems can be fixed.

See all the pictures of the new OS here!"

At least this letter is not in binary ... Dog and Pony writes with a lengthy letter (informative, if you have odd taste in watches). "Slashdot recently ran a story about a pretty silly binary watch. Well, anyways, being a silly person, I thought one would be cool to have, even though I normally don't wear watches.

Problem was, they only shipped inside Norway... so I sent them a polite mail, asking them to notify me if they would start shipping internationally. And today I got an answer.

Too bad it seems a really cumbersome process to get that watch... have these guys never heard of PayPal? And offering payment via the www in 2003? 'Course, you gotta have goals...

Here is a copy of the mail:

> Dear Customer

> Please note the binary watch is released World-Wide Sale

> To be able to expedite your orders please follow instructions below

> 1.0
> Order Your watch by using or online home page:rsi-digital.com

> 2.0
> US$ 35 must be transfer from your local bank to

> ATT
> NORDEA BANK NORWAY
> Middelthuns Gt 17
> Postboks 1166.Centrum
> 0107 OSLO

> ACCOUNT NUMBER: 6527 05 04641
> Research & Supplier International A/S
> Postboks 236
> 4201 Sauda
> Norway

> 3.0
> Original receipt must be faxed to +47 52 78 88 01 or send scanned and send by mail to arramsta@online.no

> 4.0
> Your order will than be expedite from our sales office

> Delivery time is estimated to be 10 to 14 days after received confirmed payment by fax or mail as stated above

> 5.0
> Note: RSI will from 2003 offer payment by using WWW.

> 6.0
> Payment 35USD cover cost of watch 28 USD handling and postage 7 USD
> Total:
> =35 USD

> Best Regards

> Tone Yven
> Sales engineer

I am still thinking that black one....

On a side note, to us non-native English speakers, that has spent too much time in Dilbert-land, "Sales engineer" really sounds like an oxymoron."

Comments

pirst foast

[magister707]

you know it. oh yeah.

Gaping

[Roto-Rooter Man]

http://www.goatse.cx has more on this gaping hole.

Re:Gaping

[The WIPO Troll]

Congratulations. You're the first to make the blatantly obvious joke that I know dozens of crapflooders will be making over the next few moments.

Re:Gaping

[goldspider]

Yeah, there really was no point in trying to hide the goatse.cx link with a subject/troll like "Gaping, Wristwear, Screenies"!

Re:Gaping

[cmdr_shithead]

Congratulations. You are a worthless scumbag with half a brain! And satan is raping your ass right now.

Re:Gaping

[Roto-Rooter Man]

Thanks.

Personally, I think CmdrTaco & Friends are always forgetting the address of goatse.cx, so they post a "gaping hole" story whenever they want to masturbate. That way, we helpful Slashdot readers are provoked to provide them with the link they so desperately need.

Re:Gaping

[The WIPO Troll]

Oh, so that's what that is. I was wondering what that feeling up my ass was. Thought I was just constipated. Thanks for the info!

Re:Gaping

[Anonymous Coward]

No, no, no!

JFK is a worthless scumbag with half a brain.

Thanks,

Lee Harvey Oswald

First Anal Sex Experience Post

[Anonymous Coward]

Once I inserted my finger into my rectum. I didn't like it so I took out my finger and never did it again.

The End!

Re:First Anal Sex Experience Post

[cmdr_shithead]

Fascinating. Once upon a time, I saw a blimp. It was in the air.

Re:First Anal Sex Experience Post

[Ralph JewHater Nader]

This perverted crap is typical /. drivel. There should be more racist content on this site.

Re:First Anal Sex Experience Post

[Anonymous Coward]

Why do niggers, muslims, and jews smell bad?

So blind people can hate them too!

Slashdot SUCKS!

[ForWhomTheHellTrolls]

Slashdot really sucks lately, even the gaping hole stories arent producing any good trolls.

Re:Slashdot SUCKS!

[Roto-Rooter Man]

You may want to read this before going any further.

Gaping Goatse.cx Anus??? (Too easy)

[The WIPO Troll]

THE OFFICIAL TACO-SNOTTING FAQ By The WIPO Troll, $Revision: 1.14 $

Why do I keep receiving emails from someone calling himself "CmdrTaco"?

You have been receiving email from a certain Robert "CmdrTaco" Malda, owner of the popular technology website Slashdot. Actually, it's not a very "popular" site in the common sense of the word; the site is rife with pimply, antisocial geeks, zit-faced nerds, communists, dirty GNU hippies, and other societal rejects and outcasts. It's also home to one of the world's largest pædophile ring, the infamous "Slashdot crew."

Whenever Mr. Malda gets bored (and who wouldn't, running a site like Slashdot all day), he roams through the user database, penis in hand, looking for people who might enjoy engaging in homosexual activities with him. How he determines this is anyone's guess; but if you have a homosexual-sounding nickname, or a nick with a letter of the English alphabet in it, you're in trouble.

This time, he found you. Lucky you.

He seems to be speaking in some sort of code. Do you know what it means?

CmdrTaco's code language is relatively easy to decipher. He prefers to speak in thinly-veiled sexual innuendo to evade the watchful (but relatively stupid) eye of Slashdot's parent corporation, VA Software. Mr. Malda's "Commander" is, of course, his penis -- a small, withered little thing that lives in his pants and only comes out in the presence of other male geeks or at the beck and call of CmdrTaco's own lubed-up right hand. His "Taco bells" are the shriveled testicles that droop beneath his Commander, and his "Taco sauce" is his thick, gooey semen. It should be more than obvious to you now what he means if he asked you to "ring his Taco bells" or "taste his gourmet Taco sauce."

I would guess he also asked you to engage in a practice known as "Taco-snotting" and, if he was in a particularly depraved mood at the time, a "circle-snot."

Good Lord. What is "Taco-snotting?"

"Taco-snotting" is the term used by CmdrTaco to refer to the act of fellating a homosexual man (or unwilling heterosexual; CmdrTaco is rumoured to prefer rape), then blowing the semen out his nose onto the face and body of his partner or victim. Naturally, a long, bubbly stream of milky-white semen is left on CmdrTaco's face, dribbling out of his nose and down his cheek: hence the term, "Taco-snotting."

A "circle-snot" is a Taco-snotting circle-jerk, another practice common among the Slashdot crew. CmdrTaco, CowboiKneel, and Homos get together and snot each other with their gooey, sticky cum -- spooging their jizz-snot all over each other's faces and pasty, white bodies, until they're covered head to toe with their own and each other's man juice. This vile ritual can go on for hours. For the homosexual penetration that follows this lengthy foreplay, Roblowme is usually there to provide plenty of anal lubricant; he owns a limo service and has ample supplies of motor oil and axle grease ready to go.

To complete this perverted orgy, fellow geeks Michael, Timothy, and Jamie will usually join in, dressed in tight leather mock-S.S. uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves. The whole group then proceeds to snot each other's spunk and whip each other's pudgy asses with riding crops and chains until their pale, white geek bodies are exhausted and soaked in stinking sweat from the hours of passionate, homosexual revelry.

Ewwwwww. So, can I stop receiving these emails?

Hopefully.

You most likely forgot to uncheck the "Willing to Taco-snot" checkbox in your account preferences. CmdrTaco has probably already got the hots for your wad, and he's probably already been lurking outside your bathroom window for weeks with a camera, some tissues and lube. There's no escaping a geek in heat, so it's probably too late for you, but you can possibly rectify this situation. To remove yourself from CmdrTaco's sights, log into your Slashdot account, go to your user page, click on Messages, and uncheck the box next to "Willing to Taco-snot." Maybe he'll ignore you. Probably not.

I can't stop receiving these emails from CmdrTaco!?

If you indulge him in a Taco-snot or two, he might leave you alone. You might also want to look into mail filtering, restraining orders, or purchasing a heavy, blunt object capable of warding off rampaging homosexual geeks in heat. Trust me, when they charge... oh, the humanity. If he gets you, and you let him Taco-snot you, you will most likely end up tied up in his basement to be used as his sex slave for the rest of your life (or until he accidentally drowns you in spunk in a circle-snot).

Have you ever been Taco-Snotted?

Unfortunately, yes. I first met CmdrTaco at an Open Source Convention. He invited me back to his room for a game of Quake and some "gourmet Tacos," but when I got there, he jumped me and tied me to his bed, stripping me. After taking his "Commander" out of his pants, Mr. Taco made me suck the withered thing six times. He then performed his vile Taco-snotting ritual on me three times over the next two hours, bringing me to orgasm after sweaty, mind-numbing orgasm... then he snotted my own milky-white jizz back onto my face, into my mouth, then again on my exposed belly.

CmdrTaco invited several of his Open Source (or rather, "Open Sauce" -- man sauce) buddies over to continue the twisted snotfest. Linux Torvalds raped my ass with his "monolithic kernel," and Anal Cox used his "network stack" in a multitude of unspeakable ways on and in every orifice in my defenseless body. Michael was there in his leather Nazi uniform, caning my ass with a bamboo pole and ranting about "all those Censorware freaks out to get him."

How did you finally escape, you ask? After about 16 hours of countless homosexual atrocities perpetrated against my restrained body, they all finally went to sleep on top of me, sweat-soaked and exhausted. I was left there, covered in bubbly, translucent jizz-snot, chained to the bed, with half a dozen fat, pasty-white fags lying around and on top of me. Fortunately the spooge coating my flesh worked wonderfully as a lubricant; I was able to squirm my way out of the handcuffs and slip out the back door. I'm just glad I survived the ordeal. These geeks had a lot of built-up spunk in their wads -- I could've easily been drowned!

That's horrible. Does "Taco-snotting" have anything to do with CmdrTaco's "special taco"?

No, that's a different disgusting perversion CmdrTaco indulges himself in. CmdrTaco is usually not satisfied with merely snotting your own jizz back onto your face, he most often enjoys involving his own bodily fluids in his twisted games. WeatherTroll has spent some time trying to educate the Slashdot readership about this vile practice (emphasis added):

You may be wondering what CmdrTaco's "special taco" is. You will be wishing that you hadn't been wondering after you finish reading this post. To make his "special taco", CmdrTaco takes a taco shell and shits on it. He then adds lettuce, jacks off on the taco, and adds a compound to make the person who eats the taco unconscious. Of course, the compound does not make the person unconscious until the taco is fully eaten. Thus CmdrTaco force-feeds the taco to the unsuspecting victim.

After the victim is unconscious, he is held against his will and used for CmdrTaco's nefarious sexual purposes. This includes shoving taco shells up the victim's ass, Taco-snotting, and getting Jon Katz involved.

Completely different, yet no less revolting. It should be clear to you now that CmdrTaco is a very, very sick individual, as are most of the Slashdot editors.

Does Jon Katz get involved in any of this? I thought he was a pædophile, not a homosexual.

Actually, Jon Katz is a homosexual pædophile. He's also a coprophiliac, and, many suspect, a zophile. Jon Katz is somewhat of a loner and doesn't involve himself in circle-snots. Mr. Katz usually engages in a game called " Katz juicy-douching" with his harem of little-boy slaves: a vile practice which involves administering an enema to himself of the little boy's urine (forced out of them with a pair of pliers), spooging the vile muck from his ass back into the enema bag, then squirting and slathering the goo all over himself, and the little boy's chained-up and naked bodies. If he's in the mood, he will sometimes skip refilling the enema bag and just squirt it from his ass onto his boys. Unwilling boys are further tortured with the pliers until they comply and allow Mr. Katz to juicy-douche them for the rest of their lives.

As I already said, Mr. Katz is also a zophile. As if the sexual escapades with the helpless little boys aren't enough, Jon usually enjoys his juicy-douches best when his penis is firmly planted in a female goat's anus. He is also rumoured to get off on watching his little boys eat the goat's small, bean-like turds.

...Are you getting hard writing this?

Why, yes. :) Join me in a WIPO-snot?

No, thanks. I'm already CmdrTaco's boi toi.

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[ArchieBunker]

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Insecure Gaping Hole

[Anonymous Coward]

I found another article about this (that apparently was overlooked by /. folks) that, interestingly enough, discusses some of the more technical aspects of this "hole" that really don't affect alot of users.

Re:Insecure Gaping Hole

[Anonymous Coward]

Close, but no cigar. You need more %20s in there!

That M$ Patch...

[Kris_J]

...Is only available to IE 5.5SP1 and 6. I have 5.5 and a 56k modem. It will take me about 5 hours and a version upgrade to fix a small security hole. I've already tried once and inital crapplet that is required to start the download of IE5.5SP1 failed to complete its 400k-ish download. I'm seriously considering swapping to another browser.

Re:That M$ Patch...

[cmdr_shithead]

man patch

man finger

Re:That M$ Patch...

[Anonymous Coward]

And getting a new kernel source or some bullshit RPM fix is a lot faster eh? Oh wait, linux doesn't have any gaping holes....

Re:That M$ Patch...

[spd_rcr]

don't just consider it .. download yourself a copy of mozilla 0.9.6 .. the tabbed browsing rawks .. & with the load on startup option, it'll feel just as fast as internet explorer.

Re:That M$ Patch...

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, yes, it _is_ faster, since I just download the source code diffs rather than a whole new binary - and if I'm getting binary RPMs, rsync will help...

Re:That M$ Patch...

[Anonymous Coward]

Well then swap. If nothing else, you'll be one more reason for MS to drop its insane scheme of security through..insecurity, and start fixing things up.

Re:That M$ Patch...

[joebp]

I'm seriously considering swapping to another

May I be the first to suggest Opera 6.

A quick rundown of the pros and cons of moving:

Good:

• Not Microsoft -- doesn't have stupid holes, and the ones it does have are fixed quickly.
• Not Microsoft -- they're a nice bunch of intelligent people who go about their business, selling their software through information rather than disinformation.
• The browsing experience is absolutely delectable! For example, I wasn't sure whether 'delectable' was the right word just then... In IE I'd have to open a new window, go to dictionary.com or similar, type in delectable, click submit, read results... In Opera I double click on the word, and click 'Dictionary' from the dropdown menu.
• Customize until you drop dead.
• Built in Pop-up control.
• Standards compliant
• Use (BeOS|Linux/Solaris|Mac|OS/2|QNX|Symbian OS|Windows)? Then learn to use Opera for (BeOS|Linux/Solaris|Mac|OS/2|QNX|Symbian OS|Windows). Then you can switch to (BeOS|Linux/Solaris|Mac|OS/2|QNX|Symbian OS|Windows) and retain your browser UI.

Bad:

• Not free -- but you get what you pay for afterall, and if you don't want to pay, you can use an advert-ed version (not as painful as you might think).
• Not open-source -- but neither is IE.
• Not as forgiving as IE on bad coding -- but this is really not an issue with Opera at all, just people who don't understand HTML.

Re:That M$ Patch...

[Anonymous Coward]

In IE, I just select the word, right click and choose Dictionary from the menu. I can do the same for Google searches, and for google-image searches.

In Opera, when you remove the scrollbar, why doesn't the page get resized to fill the space vacated by the scrollbar?

Re:That M$ Patch...

[FFFish]

And although Opera isn't Open-Source, they're certainly open to ideas. I know that several of the ideas I've had -- show window size is one, IIRC -- have been implemented. It's delightful. :-)

Re:That M$ Patch...

[Anonymous Coward]

May I be the first to suggest Opera 6.

No.

#2723925
#2723922

;)

Re:That M$ Patch...

[Kris_J]

Choose between downloading the free ad-supported version with all features and functionality included, or download and purchase your copy of Opera for 39 USD.

Uhh, no thanks. Choosing between ads and A$80 is not my idea of a good time, at least not until I'm working again.

Ultimately, I think I use too many services that won't work on anything but the Big 2 (I have to bypass my proxy for things like Netbank, eBay, Blogger, etc). What I really need is a way of fixing this file type attachment hole without having to download a patch. Has anyone worked out a custom filter for Proxomitron that detects malformed MIME type stuff...?

Re:That M$ Patch...

[KingAzzy]

Listen up, 56.6k kiddie.. you are insignificant. Nobody gives a shit about you anyway, so why don't you go kill yourself?

Re:That M$ Patch...

[burgess]

what do you mean "seriously considering"? not something you'd want to ponder over too long ;)

Re:That M$ Patch...

[j0s)(]

I am using IE 6 and i heard about this hole here on /., so after i saw the post about the fix being available, i went to downloading. First off, im rather used to the process of downloading M$ fixes and updates, but this time, i had a helluva time finding it. So i get to it and i download the patch for IE6. after i sit and wait, i double click to install, and "you must have Internet Explorer installed to use this". WTF??!! i'm using win2k and IE "6.0.2479.0006". anyone else had this problem. needless to say, its pissing me off, cause im sure ill have to go download a new version of IE6, "between 7 and 70 megs, averaging 25 megs for most users" and then, instll, restart, log-in, install, restart, log-in, connect to the internet. this does nto please me.

-- j0s)(

Re:That M$ Patch...

[KjetilK]

Yeah, and there are quite a lot of people there who are really strong supporters of the ideas behind Free Software. It is just that it isn't feasible for them to go Free (yet) from a business perspective. I know there at least two Debian developers working there, and the CTO wrote a piece in a Norwegian newspaper some time ago that was a strong advocacy of RMS' ideas. Also, they are strongly opposed to software patents.

Re:That M$ Patch...

[TaxSlave]

Uhh, no thanks. Choosing between ads and A$80 is not my idea of a good time, at least not until I'm working again.

I used to think the same way. When Netscape on my Linux box died temporarily, I decided to live with the ads until I could fix Netscape. It was the best browser move I ever made.

All the positive statements above are true. Opera is truly an improvement on the web experience offered by Netscape and IE. Tabbed windows (also in Galeon) are my favorite feature. Speed is a close second (I have 40 meg of memory on a Pentium 200mhz).

What feature do I wish I had in Opera? (or any other browser, for that matter) Fool web pages into thinking I'm running Windows, and let me load them. What's with all the unloadable websites? Some sites, I can't load in ANY browser, but can load on a windows machine quickly.

Re:That M$ Patch...

[Ioldanach]

May I be the first to suggest Opera 6.

I'd like to add to the Bad:

Opera all runs in one big window, a-la win 3.1, old staroffice (not sure if staroffice still does that), old versions of the MS-Office programs. That is to say, all of your browsers are in sub-windows of one big window.

I personally find the one-big-window paradigm to be a real pain in the rear. I want to be able to have a few browser windows open, and pull one up from the command tool at the bottom. Just one. I also can't alt-tab between browsers like I do with every other program in windows because the different browsers aren't different windows.

When will someone beat it into their brains that users should at least have the option of selecting multi-window browsing? I'm not saying it should be required, or even the default (because some people are used to the One-Big-Window paradigm), but it should at least be there as an option.

Of course, if I'm completely off my rocker and they've already abandoned that paradigm, let me know. I'm sure this post will be modded into oblivion, though, because it doesn't praise Opera (which seems to be a poster child right now).

Re:That M$ Patch...

[grifter7]

Actually, Opera6 does let you choose between SDI and MDI (at least in the windoze version...), which is the main reason i'm giving it another try at the moment...

Re:That M$ Patch...

[Anonymous Coward]

Not only does Opera 6 for windows allow for either MDI or SDI, like you are complaining about, but also with a simple CTRL + TAB you can change between windows if you are using the MDI.

Gotta love people who bitch without checkin' things out.

Myself, I much perfer the MDI, and someone else out there must like it too as Mozilla now has the option to do MDI or SDI as well!

Re:That M$ Patch...

[Ioldanach]

Not only does Opera 6 for windows allow for either MDI or SDI, like you are complaining about, but also with a simple CTRL + TAB you can change between windows if you are using the MDI.

Great! I'm installing it now, then. And I know about alt-tab. When I last tried opera, I had to alt-tab to opera, then ctrl-tab to the specific window I wanted. No, thanks. I shouldn't have to mix my window-changing keys. That's as annoying as the infinitely different keystroke commands for closing a window under a linux gui. (alt-w closes netscape, but only netscape, another keystroke closes... etc)

Gotta love people who bitch without checkin' things out.

Last I tried opera was 3-6 months ago. SDI wasn't available yet, and I didn't watch for a new release.

Re:That M$ Patch...

[misheast]

Personally, I switch between IE6 and Opera6 for different sites, often for the reasons you cited (the gestures are amazing).

However, if Microsoft offered the same type of dictionary feature, they would be accused of favoring one of their partners.

Granted, Microsoft would probably bundle in a dictionary they own, but still.. great feature.

Re:That M$ Patch...

[Kris_J]

Just so you all know, I downloaded IE6 (about 9MB), then I downloaded the Uber-patch (2-3MB). It took about 4 hours total including download and reboot time (2 reboots, plus a lot of system updates). And when I'd finished all that there's a note on Dshield of another stupid Java or Javascript security hole in IE. I have since downloaded Mozilla and so far so good. If I need IE for something I care about then I'll power it up, otherwise it's Mozilla unless something goes badly wrong.

resources

[4mn0t1337]

Well, if the feds would just dedicate as much manpower to dealing with spammers as they do to pirates, it would make all our lives easier.

Drop in usenet traffic? Howzabout a drop in mail traffic?

And wasn't the microsoft "gaping security hole" patch covered a few days ago?

illegal software producers?

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't you mean 'pirates'? No, not the ones with the peg-legs and parrot on their shoulders, the ones stealing software. Or are we using euphemisms today?

Re:illegal software producers?

[Chris Burke]

Considering that "illegal software producers" is a clear and accurate description of what they do, it is not, in fact, a euphamism. Pirate is actually far less accurate a term, though more commonly used. Not that I'm complaining, I call them pirates too. Just pointing this out.

Re:illegal software producers?

[splante]

Well, no, it's not an accurate description of what they do. The software is produced by the people who write the code. These "pirates" could more clearly and accurately be described as "illegal software reproducers" or "illegal software copiers."

Re:illegal software producers?

[Anonymous Coward]

arrrrrr, mateys! I'm not spongin' for Illustrator 10, it be XP I'm after!

Re:illegal software producers?

[Kalabajoui]

Your comment reminds me of something I read in "The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense for Business Success" by Suzette Haden Elgin, Ph.D. Whew, better catch my breath! It's been a while since I read it, so I don't remember word for word how she covered the topic. The gist of it is this: People and organizations will attempt to hijack both the denotative and conotative meanings of words for personal, political, or organizational gain. Content producers labeling copyright infringement (which is a rather technical and non-emotionaly loaded term) as piracy (a word that has readily identifiable conotations and denotions) is a prime example of this type of vocabulary manipulation.

Everytime I hear the word 'piracy', I am
reminded of the example Dr. Elgin sites in her Gental Art book, with the Army Press Corps use of Sweep and Clear to replace Search and Destroy. This example was also used in a scene in the Vietnam War movie Full Metal Jacket. Rather than arguing or debating the merits of their ideas, those who change keywords and concepts are attempting to exchange the opinions and ideas you already have with those they desire you to have, pro or con. If people are ignorant of the original or more apt description or word for an idea, ('copyright infringement' vs 'piracy')then all the better for the manipulator seeking to affect public opinion and sentiment. This is commonly refered to as 'spin' and it is a supremely effective tactic.

(in truth it was hard not to feel at least some affection for something capable of providing such unexpected pleasures as "bacon" and "murder"), --Mr Gray; Stephen King, Dreamcatcher

Re:illegal software producers?

[kesuki]

By 'Illegal Software Producers' They mean Linux coders. Since Microsoft has a patent on "Digital Rights Management Operating Systems"
Our friends at the MPAA and RIAA are busy lobbying congress to make it illegal to produce non-DRM software/hardware, so this must be what they're talking about when they say 'Illegal software producers.' We all know 'pirates' steal software, not produce it after all.

Re:illegal software producers?

[Rydell]

I belive when they say 'illegal software producers', they are refering to the so called "release groups" that take freshly released software, remove cinema scenes and compress the sounds and music into mp3s to keep the size of their "release" small so its easier to manage on the Internet. Often parts of the game that were ripped are later released in seperate addons that can be downloaded later.

These groups often distribute their release to as many warez ftp sites as they can, as fast as they can. I mean, who want's to release Doom 3 four days another group did?

Re:illegal software producers?

[thogard]

Pirates kill...

I know people have have sailed with
Peter Blake who was recently killed by pirates in Brazil.

What the SBA calls piracy is simply misuse of software.

Re:illegal software producers?

[Anonymous Coward]

This theme was excellently demonstrated in the British comedy series Yes Prime Minister. In effect Sir Humphrey Appleby was indicating to Bernard how the selective use of wording could be used to produce surveys indicating support/opposition to national service.

In Australia the present government has used words such as queue jumpers and illegal criminals to describe boat people. This is despite the fact that it is not unlawful to arrive in Australia if you are claiming political asylum and that there is no queue for processing refugees.

Re:illegal software producers?

[kubalaa]

If you haven't read the original Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense by the same author, check it out. Like the book you mention, it makes you think a lot about the motives behind your words and others', but on the person-to-person level. Very interesting stuff.

Re:illegal software producers?

[Kalabajoui]

Thanks, I'll have to do that, as well as rereading the one book in the series that I do possess.

Re:illegal software producers?

[Kalabajoui]

I guess in the end it's up to the listener to think and form their own rational opinions rather than being spoon-fed misinformation. All we can do is to be aware of such misdirections when they occur and try not to let them poison a good clean debate about important issues.

Re:illegal software producers?

[geekoid]

Its called "double-speak". clearly she's read "1984".

Re:illegal software producers?

[Chris Burke]

But when it is produced by the code writers, it isn't illegal, is it? So there is no illegal software being produced. The actions of the pirates is what causes the software to be illegal, thus illegal software producer :)

BONANXA!

[cmdr_shithead]

goat goat goat goat!

g0at! taco = goat = TRUE!

yea!

[Anonymous Coward]

HA! i got the first post, im so leet!

Re:yea!

[Anonymous Coward]

is 'leet' latin for 'never gets the pussy'? If so, you're pretty damn leet!

Pictures of the OS

[adamy]

Am I the only one who hoped to get images of the paging algorithm, the process context switch, the...
OK, not really. But the images are of the UI, not the OS.

I happen to be a big fan of the Linux + Java combo. I wonder what the library is that they use for UI development? Anyone know. Is that a part of J2ME? I noticed the Trolltech reference. Is this QT? Java bindings for QT?

The things keeping me from going completely Open Source Java are the classlibraries and the JVM. Open source Java compilers are out there (most notably Jikes).

I noticed this on the site:
Amiga gets into Linux PDAs
When Sharp's Linux-based Zaurus PDA hits the U.S. and Europe, software developed by old-timer Amiga will provide that old black magic.

Who is this Amiga guy? Is he that old Commodore Aminga, now retired from active duty?....

Re:Pictures of the OS

[3seas]

Mentioning Amiga on Slashdot is dangerious.
But here's the scoop.

Linux is of course GPL but running on top of that is the tao-group "intent" Java engine which is proprietary and where the AmigaDE exist upon.

This is not the AmigaOS (as those who have had amigas know) but rather a new product of Amiga Inc. (a two year old start up that bought the name and all other Intellectual and stock property from Gateway - except for the patents which gateway still owns).

I understand that Tao-group makes a linux version of "intent" w/o the Amiga stuff but I don't know where one may obtain it.

The deal is one of Amiga acting something like a talent agent for programmers, complete with providing programmers application distribution and financial/royality cuts, etc.

I really don't know what development Amiga is doing with the AmigaDE (Amiga Digital Environment) as although I bought the SDK, I found I had been mislead in being told it was not encrypted, where in fact it is and requires a registration process that does not apeal to me. Additionally additional libraries for sound and I think video have yet to be made available as promised somewhere around a year ago (in a month or so).

Amiga is actiing as a content provider to the consumer while acting as a talent agent for the programmers.

Gaping security holes

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.sans.org/topten.htm

Unix and Linux are doing great!!!!!! None of those "gaping holes" that MS has. Yes, bash away, for everyone knows it's MICROSOFT that's responsible for all those gaping security holes. Really. Really. No kidding. Seriously.

Re:Gaping security holes

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/os.html

From the latest month available (May 2001):
Linux: 9.89% of total defacements
Win NT/2000: 81.79%

Now do you really believe that Windows is installed on 8 times as many webservers as Linux is? Take a look at netcraft.com. So it would appear that Windows based webservers are far more likely to be defaced than Linux.

All software has bugs, and some bugs are exploitable. Linux and Unix just have fewer.

Re:Gaping security holes

[chris_mahan]

I just thought of something... if there was a gunmaker that made a gun with a bug, and the bug was that if the gun is shot straight up in the air (not often but it happens), the bullet would actually come out of the back of the gun and kill the shooter.
Now, imagine the same gunmaker telling people that there's nothign wrong with their guns, that the fault is with the people telling the shooters to shoot straight up in the air...

True, these people would be malicious, and EVIL in the Bush sense, but they are utilizing a flaw in the gun that shouldn't be there to begin with.

I would bet that only the incompetent and ignorant would buy that sort of gun (not that incompetent and ignorant people should be buying guns, mind you) and then shoot straight up in the air when the l33t says to.

This is to say that both the virus writer and the software writer are to blame (in criminal court with fines and jail time), one for exploiting a flaw, the other for providing the means to.

There should be a government mandated warning on all microsoft software, and all computers with microsoft software preistalled that reads, in 72 point red letters "Consumer Warning: This software can be used by criminals to steal and destroy your personal information. Exercise caution."

That way, people who got a virus would blame microsoft ALONG with the virus writer.

==

The reality is that nothing like that will ever happen. (sig-in-training)

Re:Gaping security holes

[Osty]

Of course, web site defacements are pretty trivial compared to other things. How many linux boxes do you think are sitting out there on cable modems, with a default "install everything" redhat install, running BIND? Where do you think all the DDoS kiddies get their bandwidth? Hacked linux boxes on broadband connections. Personally, I'd much rather have a defaced web site, because even though I'd still have to do a reinstall to make sure the system was clean, at least I'd know about it. If instead my box was rooted and used in a DDoS, my only inclination something is wrong would be when I can't check my e-mail or my web browsing was going much slower than usual. Hell, the box could be rooted for months, or even years, and I'd never know. (note: "I" here is the "collective I", not me in particular.) Linux, or any unix for that matter, is much more dangerous when compromised than any Windows box.

Re:Gaping security holes

[Anonymous Coward]

Gaping holes? you mean like goatse?

Re:Gaping security holes

[Stone Rhino]

or you could just log in as root and see when it said you had last logged in. if they went su from another account, check for activity on those accounts. Anyways, it's much easier to "root" windows: slip on a trojan.

Northern Europeans and six-bit words

[GlobalEcho]

On a side note, to us non-native English speakers, that has spent too much time in Dilbert-land, "Sales engineer" really sounds like an oxymoron."

Leave it to a Nordic to apologize for their English, and then use a word that 1/2 the high school students in the USA couldn't define, all in the same sentence.

Re:Northern Europeans and six-bit words

[Archfeld]

oh cmon, an oxymoron, that's easy -

"a pimple ridden high-school student who prefers M$ software "

Re:Northern Europeans and six-bit words

[Anonymous Coward]

'sexually-experienced linux user'

Re:Northern Europeans and six-bit words

[Anonymous Coward]

Touche!

Re:Northern Europeans and six-bit words

[sharkey]

Pimple-free teenager.

Re:Northern Europeans and six-bit words

[JWhitlock]

On a side note, to us non-native English speakers, that has spent too much time in Dilbert-land, "Sales engineer" really sounds like an oxymoron."

Leave it to a Nordic to apologize for their English, and then use a word that 1/2 the high school students in the USA couldn't define, all in the same sentence.

I've found that many high school students learn the definition of oxymoron, if the English teacher teaches it. For some reason, oxymoron burns a hole in a high school kid's head...

Re:Northern Europeans and six-bit words

[Anonymous Coward]

wooohooo I am a troll now :)

Merry christmas all :)

Binary Watch credit card

[oooga]

They sent me an email saying that they'll be accepting credit card payments on the binary watch in "ten days". that was about four days ago. I hope it's true. I want one so bad.

Re:Binary Watch credit card

[Talinom]

They sent me an email saying that they'll be accepting credit card payments on the binary watch in "ten days". that was about four days ago. I hope it's true. I want one so bad.

Four days ago they said that they would be accepting credit cards in 10 days? Binary? Look again, they have probably started accepting credit card orders two days ago. You waited twice as long as necessary.

Disappointing link

[victim]

When I see a link on the internet for massive bust I don't usually expect to get a page of text...

Re:Disappointing link

[Anonymous Coward]

When you link to 'massive bust' ...I thought you meant this.

Did Someone Say Gaping...?

[Anonymous Coward]

CmdrTaco's "Gaping Anus" 1.0

You can be just like me!

It has recently come to my attention that the entire Slashdot crew engage in homosexual activities. CmdrTaco is one such person, and has dedicated his life to this disgusting habit and many others. For further information on Taco-Snotting please refer to George WIPO Bush's Taco-Snotting FAQ which can be easily found by searching for the Slashdot journal of George WIPO Bush or by looking in the comments of Slashdot articles (Usually modded -1).

It has also come to my attention that CmdrTaco has other interests besides homosexuality (Believe it or not). One such interest includes a budding music career with a song titled "Gaping Anus". The details are sketchy on this topic but I do know that besides the lead vocals of CmdrTaco, it includes Timothy and CowboyNeal (Also members of the Slashdot crew). There has been no release date set for this album or which record label it will be produced under. I believe CmdrTaco is planning to set up his own label, Taco-Snotting Records, with the intention of releasing the song on a cd-single with various remixes as soon as possible (To catch the current popularity of the Taco-Snotting fad). On a side note, I would not believe this fad will ever wear out (like a Snotted-out-geek); I am sorry to say Taco-Snotting is here to stay :-(. Various remixes of Gaping Anus will include: "Extra Jizz", "Snot Me Baby One More Time", "www.Goatse.cx", and "Once You Taco-Snot, You Can't Stop". I am sure many, many, more are sure to come. I predict this album will be a very hot seller this holiday season, especially with in or out of closet homosexuals, and with those who have no self-respect (Readers of Slashdot).

Through a good, non-homosexual friend of mine, I have recieved a copy of the lyrics to the Gaping Anus musical composition. Included after the lyrics is a very speical tribute written by yours truely. Perhaps CmdrTaco will ask me to provide the vocals. Please feel free to read the lyrics and post your comments and disgust.

BTW, please do not reply with the intention of flaming me because the lyrics are a rip-off of Insane Clown Posse's "Slim Anus". For more information on ICP and Slim Anus refer here and here. CmdrTaco is the author of this fine musical work and not me. So, it is obviously he who has ripped off ICP and not me. Thank you.

Hi, my name is what?
My name is who?
My name is Gaping Anus
Hi, my name is huh?
My name is what?
My name is the fudgepacker
Hi, my name is what?
My name is who? (Excuse me)
My name is the nutlicker
Hi, my name is what? (Can I have the attention of your ass?)
My name is who?
My name is the buttsniffer

Hi, kids do you like Anus?
I let Linus Torvalds fill up my butt for a chance to be famous (Uh huh)
Wanna copy me and do exactly like I did? (Yeah)
Try Taco-Snotting and get your butt pumped out like I did?
My brains dead weight
I'm tryin to get my head straight
But I can't figure out
Which Slashdot editor I wanna impregnate
Timothy said, "CmdrTaco you a cutie" (Uh huh)
"I'll give you a deal, let me up in that booty" (OK!)
Well since age 12 I felt like I'm someone else
Cause I choked my original self Taco-Snotting him (Yup)
Got pissed off and ripped CowboyNeal's tits off
He don't know how to do Chris D
I'd suck his dick off

Hi, my anus who?
My anus what?
My anus it gets tapped dawg
Hi, my anus (Excuse me)
My anus
My anus every now and then gets plugged up
Hi, my anus (Can I have the attention of your ass?)
My anus
My anus is occasionally reamed out
Hi, my anus who?
My anus what?
My anus really needs to be filled up

My boss tried to fire me yesterday
I told him to take his pants off, hooked him up, he let me slide
I pinched his ass
He winked at me
He chased me around the desk
I told him "Come and get me!"
Walked in the strip club
Had my jacket zipped up
Flashed the bartender
And I tried to feel his dick up
Homosexuals Circle-Snotting pedestrians
Near a gay bar while they screamin at me
Let's just be friends!
99% of my life I was lied to
I just found out my Mom screws more guys than I do (Damn)
I told her I'd grow up to be a famous Taco-Snotter
She met Michael, I couldn't believe it when he slapped her
You know you blew up when the women rush the stands
And try to touch your hands
But I need me a man
This guy at Gay Al's strip club asked for my autograph (Dude can I get your
autograph?)
So I signed it Dear Alan Cox, thanks for the support
Nice ass!

Hi, my name is huh?
My name is who? (Excuse me)
My name is (They call me the pore plugger)
Hi, my name is what?
My name is who?
My name is the inch itcher (Excuse me)
One of Slashdot's homosexuals
They call me the butt itcher
Hi, my name is what?
My name is who?
My name is (I've been called Hemos' butt boy)

Stop the tape this gaylord needs to be locked away (Get him)
Cliff, don't just stand there operate
Or feel up my balls and buttcheeks
Anal lube got my ass greasy for weeks
Stick your manhood between my cheeks (Yup)
Am I coming or going
I can barely decide
I just drank a gallon of semen
Dare me to drive? (Go ahead)
All my life I was very deprived
CowboyNeal's butt is too sexy to hide
Take your pants off Neal I don't mind
Clothes rip like the incredible Hulk
I Taco-Snot when I talk
I do any guy that walks
When I was little I used to get so hungry I would throw fits
Sometimes I sit and wish Hemos had a set of tits
CowboyNeal: "Get behind me CmdrTaco and grab me by my hips"
If I do that then I can't kiss you on your lips
By the way if you see my Dad
Ask him if he seen my spread in Gay House Porno Mag

Hi, my anus who?
My anus what?
My anus gets tapped up
Hi, my anus who?
My anus what?
My anus it's always getting plugged up
Hi, my anus who?
My anus what?
My anus occasionally reamed out
My anus it needs to be filled up

Your anus
Your anus
Your anus is always getting plugged
Your anus
Your anus
Your anus is always getting stuffed
You wanna diss us?
We don't even know you you little bitch
You wanna sit there and diss us?
You little bitch I'll slap your face off
That's what happens when you go up against the Slashdot Trolls trick
You little bitch (Laughs)
Gaping Anus!

Re:Did Someone Say Gaping...?

[TRoLLaXoR]

nice! WIPO, is that you?

Re:Did Someone Say Gaping...?

[Anonymous Coward]

No, this is not WIPO.

Why don't you order the CD?

[SlashChick]

You're going to have just as many problems downloading another browser as you are downloading the patch. Instead, why don't you order the IE6 CD? It costs $10. There's also another one that includes Windows Media Player for $10.

Also, I believe that the free 30-day trial CDs of Earthlink and such have the latest IE on them. You should be able to get this from an office supply store or computer store.

Finally, if you have a friend with broadband, or you have a fast work connection, you can use the advanced option in IE's install to save the files to a disk instead of just installing it directly. Burn to a CD and you're all set.

Re:Why don't you order the CD?

[Kris_J]

Okay, I'm in Australia, not working and don't have any friends with broadband. Perth barely has broadband at all.

What I thought I might do is find a secure older browser on a magazine cover CD and install it. Does anyone know which versions of Netscape are "safe" (no bugs, no holes, no need to upgrade)

All I want is a browser, I have a separate email package (Eudora) and a separate news reader (Free Agent). I already kill a lot of Javascript with Proxomitron (which can also alter user-agent) and I don't have flash or shockwave installed, so I won't miss them -- perhaps someone could suggest a simple, fast, small, stable, secure browser other than the Big 2.

Re:Why don't you order the CD?

[arkanes]

The Opera download (especially without the JVM) is teensy compared to an IE or mozilla download. Also, consider using GetRight or Download Accelerator, or practically anything that allows you to resume downloads - saved me from MUCH aggravation in my modem days (about a month ago :P)

Re:Why don't you order the CD?

[daniel_isaacs]

Does anyone know which versions of Netscape are "safe" (no bugs, no holes, no need to upgrade)

You have to be kidding me. :)

Re:Why don't you order the CD?

[CrimsonWraith]

Yeah, because we all know that M$ instantly threw away all the IE CDs without the fix, and ran a new batch that don't have the issue, and will gladly send you one of those. Dream on. He is going to pay for a version where he will have to d/l the patch anyway.

Re:Why don't you order the CD?

[Unknown Bovine Group]

Who modded this as insightful? stupid moderators...

Downloading a patch with a modem is not a big deal. The problem lies with d/l'ing the 12+ MB of 'upgrade' bloat....

So you use the CD to install and then download a 400k batch.

He is going to pay for a version where he will have to d/l the patch anyway.
That's right. Now quitchyerbitchin. Complaining about this is like complaining about the softness of the pillow you're biting while getting prison-raped.

Re:Why don't you order the CD?

[CrimsonWraith]

"Remember when you had to buy Netscape and IE was the buggy, free alternative?" Yeah, and now most are free, and IE is just the $10 buggy alternative.

Asking for it / Trolling

[goldspider]

Comon, people, do we really think that the /. people are oblivious to what will happen when they post an article with the word "gaping" in the title? Of course not, because the /. staff members are the ultimate trolls!

I think they were looking for an excuse to give out a ton of -1 mods, so they post an article that is GUARANTEED to attract numerous goatse.cx references.

Fight back, I say! Why should they be able to mod down OUR trolls, when we can't mod down THEIRS!

Re:Asking for it / Trolling

[Anonymous Coward]

Or maybe Taco, Fatboy and the rest of the shitheads are really rabid goatsex fans and jerk off to it and want to tell the world of their sick obsessions in a subtle way.

infared watch

[gr3g]

what do you think that infared watch is? It'll be interesting to see what they mean by sending "virus" to each other. Is that actually virus in the sense of computers and M$ and all that, or is it just a game? ooh the suspense.

Old Frank Drebin joke but still funny

[bstadil]

Lt. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) introduces himself to chesty Monique De Carlo (Gina Mastrogiancomo) in Naked Gun 2 1/2. The Smell of Fear (1991): - Lt. Drebin: 'Lt. Frank Drebin of Police Squad.' - Monique: 'Is this some kind of bust?' - Lt. Drebin: 'Yes, it's very impressive, but we need to ask you some questions.'

Re:Old Frank Drebin joke but still funny

[spankfish]

According to the IMDB, she's dead, Frank.

Sharp Zarus

[actappan]

If this is the same one they showed at Java One last year (conspiciously playing high frame rate videos of bikini clad women dancing in the rain) it is very cool. The Java layer means a short dev cycle and a highly configurable UI and the back end stability's got to be pretty good.

I was impressed back in June, i'm excited to see the final product (and for reasons other than the bikini videos)

Re:Sharp Zarus

[jockm]

The Zarus that was demoed at JavaOne was running Embeddix+AmigaDE. Somewhere along the line they dropped AmigaDE, now it is running Embeddix+QT+Jeode. Still very cool though...

NEW SLASHDOT POLL

[Anonymous Coward]

CmdrTaco gets his ass reamed out how many times a day?

10
20
30
40
50
Ask CowboyNeal...He'll know!

MSIE Patch is Ineffective

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

She and her beta team forgot about *the* most important Content-Type: The MSIE 'Patch' does little but obscure the problem - which was accurately described in the original Slashdot Rant as a natural consequence of Windows treating the browser as a shell extension.

There is a thread on BugTraq which explores this issue in depth:

http-equiv@excite.com is quoted:
Clearly what this so-called "patch" does is convert all embedded file types in MHTML documents viewed in patched Internet Explorer 6 into *.TMP files. Previously all file types and file names were retained and if accepted would run.

Re:MSIE Patch is Ineffective

[SilentChris]

About your sig: I thought ASCII art wasn't allowed.

MS patch and unsupported OS

[LauraLolly]

I run Win 95 and IE 5.5. The patch doesn't work. It hangs. Apparently, it was created for Win 98 up, but I can't find any documentation to that effect.

Aaaarrrrrgh! Senior moments are nothing to Microsoft Moments.

Guess I'll be using Netscape exclusively from now on.

Re:MS patch and unsupported OS

[Daytona955i]

I remember reading somewhere a little while ago that M$ is no longer supporting Win95 or older systems so any new software they put out (Like IE and Office) will only be available for Win98 and up. Also in the same article they said that Win98 is being scheduled to be phased out in 2002. Solution: Install Linux.

Re:MS patch and unsupported OS

[uspsguy]

Didn't you hear? Win95 is officially no longer supported! And us with only a few thousand W95 desktops.

Re:MS patch and unsupported OS

[Anonymous Coward]

!!:s/Solution/More Problems/

What about a UNIX watch?

[MadCow42]

Would YOU have been thrilled to see your watch roll over with the UNIX clock a few months back?

"What time is it?"

"Hmmm.... it says 1008722379... I'm not sure if that's AM or PM though."

MadCow

Re:What about a UNIX watch?

[jquirke]

Seriously, that's even cooler. A watch that expresses the time in seconds since 1969..far more fun than a binary watch, and when someone asks you the time your bring out your calculator...

Re:What about a UNIX watch?

[rebug]

people who can't convert a timestamp to gmt in their heads shouldn't have such a watch.

Paying for the Binary Watch online..

[evel aka matt]

Actually, about 3 days after that letter went out, they sent one saying that you would be able to use a credit card online within 10 days, and also gave simplified payment instructions.

Re:Paying for the Binary Watch online..

[Malachi]

I was going to add to that, beign a US person a lot of Euro places are not able to use paypal effectively (remember that ol, verify by address crap). They seem to love wiretransfers even though they seem to cost us around 15$ to do.. pain in my ass.

Some enterprising individual needs to unify all of that.

-M-

resources used and deployed

[teambpsi]

I would venture to guess that the amount of money lost to the resources used and stolen by spammers is probably close to or soon will top revenue lost to pirated software

Its not just pipe, cpu, and diskspace, but think about all the productivity lost

especially when people spend an extra five minutes around the water cooler bitching about the spam they get ;)

Re:resources used and deployed

[4mn0t1337]

the amount of money lost to the resources used and stolen by spammers

Yup. That was my point. But the thing is, M$, Adobe, Etc all have budgets for lobbiest. We don't. Who do you think they (law makers and law enforcement) are going to listen to?

US$500M dollars lost to 1 company is a big deal.
US$50 dollars lost to 10M people ain't no thing.

Now, if congress could "feel our pain" (as an expression common to the time put it) things might change.
To that end, I suggest that everytime you get a mail with a bogus "unsubscribe notice" at the bottom, I suggest you change the reply to the eddress of your elected reps.
See how long they (Okay, thier staff and interns) think Spam *isn't* a problem...

(oh, nice PJ quote.)

Re:resources used and deployed

[LilGuy]

Amen.

We'll have our say when those congressmen finally decide that they'd rather ban their "all-expense paid" trips to support charity in luxurious hotels and resorts. They also play tennis with pros, get treated like royalty, and get even some cash perhaps. It's all free, it's great! Why ruin a good thing?

All they have to do is give them just 1 measly vote in a certain way. One vote won't hurt. Right?

Not when most of them will take trips.

But really, I don't see how we can possibly compete with that.

There sure is a lot temptation for them to vote in ways contradicting to their constituents' wishes. Not only by lobbiests, but their legal parties are another major factor in their decisions. I wouldn't be surprised if many of them didn't take certain trips and sway their votes just because they knew they would catch hell from their peers in party.

That puts us out of even more power. Because if the party disagrees on something that we voted on, how many times do you think the congressman is going to sway from the party's decision.

Re:resources used and deployed

[Fat Casper]

Spam's cost topped piracy's cost a long time ago. Spam costs real money in all the ways you mentioned. Piracy's cost is imaginary. Multiplying the retail price by the total number of copies found anywhere is a ludicrous way to calculate lost sales.

Intellectual dishonesty from Washington? FUD from Redmond? What is this world coming to?

Re:resources used and deployed

[tdye]

Sigh

Who convinced you that you don't have power?

Answer the following questions to see whether you have more power than a political lobbyist:

Where does the official get the power to vote for something?

What happens to all his perks if he loses an election?

Vote, silly. Get everyone you know to do it, too. Your Rep. voting the party line and not what you think? Fire his ass.

Lobbyists have money, but YOU have his career.

try Opera

[bstadil]

I'm seriously considering swapping to another browser.
Give Opera a try. Well worth it and it is nice you can switch between Linux and Windows (plus a ton other incl way cool QNX) and still have the same interface.

As unwilling as ever to accept blame.

[Derek Pomery]

File Name Spoofing Vulnerability:

* The determination on choosing to accept a file download from an Internet site should always be based on the trustworthiness of the source and not on the file type. File downloads should never be accepted from an untrusted source, no matter how harmless the type may appear to be.

No, it was a stupid design that allowed quiet execution due to the combination of content-type and file extension checking. When I download a PDF, I should be confident that unless I try running it in some fashion, it should be perfectly safe to download it to my machine.
Or just to make an extreme case, if I download an HTML usenet post, I don't want the browser trying to automatically convert the BASE64 to an executable and running that.
Some common sense on MS' part would've been appreciated.

Re:As unwilling as ever to accept blame.

[Anonymous Coward]

It's just part of the plan to take over the net:

1.- Educate all users to only surf "trusted" sites.
2.-Be the one who certifies who is to be trusted.
3.-Watch the cash flow.

Clever huh? :)

Now you know what it feels like...

[nzgeek]

...to try to buy anything if you don't live in the US!
Perhaps 25% of sites that offer online purchasing are so USA-centric it's crazy. I guess that's part of living in New Zealand, but come on US$35 to ship a paper back book!? I can send one to my sister in NYC for NZ$12 (US$5 ish)

Re:Now you know what it feels like...

[KewlPC]

The cost depends on how it is shipped. AFAIK most US-based online purchasing shipment is done via UPS. Depending on what is shipped and how it is shipped (UPS ground, Next Day Air, 2nd Day Air, etc.) it can cost more or less than what it would cost to ship the same item via the US Post Office or Fedex.

Many places only offer shipment to the continental US because dealing with UPS for international/overseas shipping is a huge pain in the ass in my experience, and AFAIK you need special authorization (so that customs doesn't have to open every box and see what's inside).

Re:Now you know what it feels like...

[nzgeek]

Yep that's pretty much correct.

With the last couple of things I bought, I had to send an email requesting details for USPS airmail prices.

Just thought it was interesting given all the hype over how the internet is 'shrinking the world', but in reality you find that it is heaps easier to buy/chat/review stuff in your own country.

More Slashback that wasn't posted (re: Uplink)

[Mr. Sketch]

Not really OT.

After /. posted the Uplink article, the introversion server went down. But now the server came back up yesterday (Monday), so you may now place your orders.

Re:More Slashback that wasn't posted (re: Uplink)

[Anonymous Coward]

And down again!

Re:More Slashback that wasn't posted (re: Uplink)

[kryptkpr]

Too late now, I just tried (I wanted to download this game before), and it's dead again.

Opera is one alternative [karma is low; plz rate!]

[mccormick]

One quality alternative to Netscape and IE is Opera . It is on the larger side, as it is trying to compete with IE, but it is fast and secure. The gestures are especially useful; they make me feel like I'm a kid again painting with my hands. Opera is also available for a number of platforms, including your favourite forms of free Unix (i.e. Linux) and Windows. Could help to make your workspaces consistent, if you work on multiple platforms.

Apart from the well known ones, the only other types of alternatives I can think of are the stripped down Gecko systems (Gecko being the HTML renderer built out of the Mozilla project.) They repackage the core technology, without the rest of the stuff would typically gives Mozilla its reputation for being slow, bloated or inefficient. Gecko, by itself, is a very small, fast and efficient core, comparable to the IE renderer. Most of the ones I've seen are for Linux-type systems, though, like Galeon . And don't forget that Gecko, Mozilla, Netscape 4.7 and Netscape 6 are differnet beasts, but all closely related.

Note! If a moderator would care to help me along in the karma department... I don't know what I did (I don't post often), but every time I post I get can automatic -1. Please see the value of my comments for whatever they are worth! Thank you!

Text Entry on the Zaurus?

[sterno]

The one thing that has kept me loyal to the Palm derivatives is Grafitti. It is a really excellent way to enter text quickly and accurately (for the most part). What are people's opinions of the Zaurus keyboard. It looks too small to be useful, so I was curious to know what people who have tried one think.

Re:Text Entry on the Zaurus?

[Anonymous Coward]

I had Graffiti on my PDA. Of course, my PDA was an original (pre-model-number) Apple Newton MessagePad. I bought it used, but it came out *well* before the PalmPilot took hold. Mind you, the Newton didn't really need it, since it did a good job at recognizing my actual handwriting. How novel, for a pen interface...

Re:Text Entry on the Zaurus?

[Johnny00]

Are you sure it was the one thing or one of the main things?

This appears to do graffiti when I use it. It has another method too for those familar with the Newton.

Re:Text Entry on the Zaurus?

[fader]

The Zaurus' keyboard is excellent. I had the same misgivings as you, until I used mine for a few minutes. Now I don't see how I ever managed to use my Palm. (I was just as sold on Grafitti as you seem to be, but no longer... now having to use a Palm is pretty painful.)

On the other hand, if you decide you don't like the keyboard, the Zaurus' handwriting recognition is great. And programmable -- if you simply can't let go of your Palm experience, the Zaurus will happily read Grafitti, or whatever else you decide to use.

Re:Text Entry on the Zaurus?

[Royster]

I thought that my huge thumbs would make typing on the Zaurus keyboard hard, but I find that I can type accurately and pretty quickly. It's very much like a blackberry keyboard.

In addition to the keyboard, there's handwriting recognition (with a scrolling list of possible completion words) and a typewriter pick tool. I like that there are seperate entry areas for Uppercase, lowercase and numbers on the handwriting recognition tool.

Re:Text Entry on the Zaurus?

[Bill Kendrick]

I use the keyboard 99% of the time when I use my
Zaurus. For me, it's far more efficient than
anything else I've used (Grafitti on PalmOS,
Xscribble and Xmerlin recognition engines on
the Agenda, and even the really nice, trainable
handwriting recognition on the Zaurus itself).

If you really think your thumbs are too big for
the keyboard, the handwriting is up to par, in my
opinion. I haven't done any clinical studies :)
but I'm guessing I can write about as quickly on
the Palm, the Zaurus and the Agenda (running
Xmerlin).

Re:Text Entry on the Zaurus?

[Bill Kendrick]

Yeah, the auto-word completion is pretty nice.
And the pickboard is really cool (imagine using
a phone to type in words... as you press
[ABC], [DEF], [GHI], etc., it displays all known
words that can be made of those combinations
(it's pretty much just regexp'ing for the letter
combos)).

Of course, I never use the on-screen stuff unless
my Zaurus happens to be in its cradle
(unfortunately, you can't slide open the keyboard
in that situation).

I'm hoping to see a plain USB->Sharp-I/O-port
cable, so that I can have a connection to the
desktop, but not be constrained to on-screen text
entry, and trying to tap/write on the screen while
it's sitting upright in the cradle.

(This is one thing Agenda did really smart: the
cradle has no cord coming out of it... you simply
plug the serial cord into the back of the cradle
if you want to use it... otherwise, you can just
plug it into the bottom of the PDA itself).

Of course, at this point, us SL-5000D owners can't
even get a spare charger or cradle (that I know
of), so I'm not too concerned. These kind of
niceity peripherals will come soon enough :)

agreed

[Tibor the Hun]

opera kicks ass

Re:agreed

[Dyolf Knip]

Indeed, I switched to Opera from IE on a /. suggestion a few days ago and there's no way I'll ever go back. The only real problem I've seen is that it tends to crash a bit on this machine, but then it has no problem starting up right where I left it. I swear, being able to save the window setup is friggin fantastic.

M$ Internet 'Exploder' Holes

[Egonis]

Although I am not an avid 'C' Programmer, I cannot comprehend how a security hole THAT LARGE could occur, oh, right.... M$ likes to reuse DLL's and API's as much as possible to reduse cost..

Why isn't there a top-level authority to inform the public/community on such security issues? RedHat seems to make bug/hole info widely available, and quickly fixable.

I think there should be more pressure on large corps in this matter to protect the community.

What ever happened to quality assurance?

Re:M$ Internet 'Exploder' Holes

[Anonymous Coward]

If you were a C programmer, you'd know that such holes are commonplace - a result of the flawed design of the C programming language. The string.h library in ANSI C, has no means of checking the lengths of strings, it's a legacy of the PDP-11 that Unix originally ran on. As a result, a programmer can never be sure of the length of a string at any given time, you have to copy a string into an array of characters and look for a NULL terminator. More advanced languages like Algol 68, PL/I, Jovial, or even Pascal have a string data type and never have this type of security flaw. The next release of Windows, will have portions of the kernel rewritten in a subset of Visual Basic for speed and security.

Re:M$ Internet 'Exploder' Holes

[Anonymous Coward]

This was not a programming error -- this was a fundamental design flaw. The code was doing exactly what the developers told it to do. The problem was caused by a mismatch between Microsoft's view of the world (we're so smart that we can figure out what application to launch just from the file extension!) with the IETF view of the world (the MIME type uniquely identifies the data type of any network transfer.) This combined with the fact that the Microsoft design Gurus never really gave much thought to security; doing so would delay their daily trips to the bank.

Re:M$ Internet 'Exploder' Holes

[damnpeople]

what the hell?

you're actually trying to criticise people for code re-use?

last i checked (and i admit that this was probably ooh... minutes ago) creating libraries of common functions was a credible, recommended, even applauded way of reducing clutter and inventing the wheel once, and only once.

in fact, i think that everyone everywhere whenever they do anything on a computer (that isn't in machine-code or assembler) generally uses a library as part of their work. i know i do.

it's amazing, but it reduces, complexity, effort and yes, even cost.

and even his eminence mr. torvalds does it? astounding.

Re:M$ Internet 'Exploder' Holes

[Egonis]

Well.. yes, I am, myself guilty of code re-use whether I like it or not (VB6, egghh!!!)
I'm more or less ranting because I'm trying to slam microsoft for using code since Win3.x (have you seen 1.0? can you say DosShell?)

Good points, thank you for bringing it to clear light.

A bit on the MIT bust...

[neoptik]

Turns out it was a sys-admin in the economics department here. He was a student at another Boston area university, working for the MIT department of Economics, and he also happened to be second in command of a rather large warez ring.

Anyway, the details. He had around 10 machines just sitting underneath a table in the server room, with a combined storage of 2 terabytes. Apparantly, he was eating up 8-20 megabits of MIT's bandwidth a day. Needless to say, he is no longer employed by the institute...

Re:A bit on the MIT bust...

[Anonymous Coward]

Apparantly, he was eating up 8-20 megabits of MIT's bandwidth a day.

Hmm, 1 to 2.5 megabytes of data per day. Maybe he was surfing? With lynx?

Re:A bit on the MIT bust...

[Cirvam]

I belive he ment 8-20 Mbit/sec a day, as in the average bandwidth useage of him was 8-20Mbit/sec. Although it could use some clarifcation.

Re:A bit on the MIT bust...

[neoptik]

Yes, that is what I meant. 8-20 Mbit/sec a day.

Re:A bit on the MIT bust...

[Ratbert42]

So why didn't a network admin at MIT notice this? I guess they suck just as much at MIT as they did at my school. They're probably too busy playing MUDs and downloading porn.

On a more enterprising front, sysadmins at my school started their own ISP by stealing bandwidth from the school.

Re:A bit on the MIT bust...

[Anonymous Coward]

hey neoptik, is this 1st hand knowledge or are you trying to increase your karma?

Why don't you get your facts straight before you start posting them to the world? You are worse than the press. Lets just say that the majority of that information is absolutely incorrect, defining majority as: 100% >= majority > 50%.

Re:A bit on the MIT bust...

[G Neric]

he was using up between 8 and 20 megabits of bandwidth a day? let's see... omigod, that's a minimum of a megabyte! almost a whole floppy! no wonder they caught him.

Re:A bit on the MIT bust...

[mindstrm]

I think they meant '8 to 20 mbps' every day. All day.

Re:agreed... Me Three!

[simetra]

Opera is cool. If you take a few minutes to explore it's nifty features, you'll be a happier person.
Plus... it's small, fast, compatible with most webpages, and, not microsoft.

Re:Opera is one alternative [karma is low; plz rat

[XO]

Gecko is a steaming, slow pile of shit in everything that it has been packaged in that Ive seen. Galeon is incredibly slow when compared to Opera, and Galeon is the lightest Gecko based browser that I can find.

i really wish that Evolution had the ability to load HTML mail into a different browser, because just hitting it in the preview pane with Gecko causes a 3-5 second lag time before Evolution starts responding again, and that's before it even gets the message displaying.

damn

[1steve1]

I have to work at a Microsoft asylum. I can't wait until I get home and relax with linux.

Re:Opera is one alternative [karma is low; plz rat

[XO]

by the way, Opera does rock for the most part. Opera 6 for Windows is awesome - it even rocks pretty hard under a good WINE installation in Linux.

I'm currently using the Linux 6.0 TP2 release, and it is blazing fast, except for the occasions where it gets hung up on DNS. It does crash More than the Windows ver under WINE though, and the Windows ver under WinE crashes more than the Windows ver under Windows. (I have the Win ver installed on an Xp box in the other room, it ROCKS compared to using the built in IE shit)

Off topic: Is Google down?

[Anonymous Coward]

Can other people access google at the moment?

Re:Off topic: Is Google down?

[The WIPO Troll]

Sorry! I accidentally put their server up my ass. It's back now. It's a little stinky until they get around to washing it down, but it works fine.

Finally!

[uncadonna]

Someone is releasing a commodity platform with Linux preinstalled!

Now where's the PS2 keyboard in and the XGA out?

8-20 MB?

[cockeater]

or GB, eh?

Re:8-20 MB?

[neoptik]

20 megabits of bandwidth. I.E., like, 7 t-1s worth of bandwidth. Lots of money.

Re:8-20 MB?

[Anonymous Coward]

MIT has 40 GIGABIT lines coming in. 20 megabits is hardly noticeable.

I am posting this at the Slashdot editors' request

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They're going after the real terrorists!

[Wesley Everest]

Now that it is clear that the mailed anthrax originated in the U.S. and is probably from a neo-Nazi or someone who has an interest in creating hysteria to build support for increased police powers, it's good to see that the FBI has turned their attention to the real terrorists!

We don't really want to catch the guys that started the anthrax scare, but those warez kidz, now, they are a top priority. I understand Osama Bin Laden himself was able to plan the Sept 11th attacks using cracked software.

It's time to crack down. Let's jam bamboo under their fingernails and put electrodes on their testicles and make them scream so that we can all feel safe again.

Re:They're going after the real terrorists!

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't be silly. The anthrax was sent by Al-Queda and developed by IRAQ.

The US government won't admit it right now because it will be forced to go to war against IRAQ, something they're not prepared to do.

Don't be such a tool.

Re:They're going after the real terrorists!

[Anonymous Coward]

does YEAR LONG inverstagtion(sp) me anything to you?

Hmm, and on this subject, I'll rob ya blind, the police/gov should not do jack shit[1] about it, they should piss of and go after al-Q.

prick.

Easy! (was Re:Why don't you order the CD?)

[Anonymous Coward]

Okay, I'm in Australia, not working and don't have any friends with broadband. Perth barely has broadband at all.

Get a friggin job. You have no friends because no one wants your leeching ass mooching bandwidth off of them or borrowing their CDs and not returning them. Then you can afford bandwidth and will have more time for friends once you're not spending all day waiting for downloads. Pick your priorities.

Binary

[Syberghost]

At least this letter is not in binary ...

Well, since it was emailed, technically it WAS in binary...

Is it my imagination...

[IIOIOOIOO]

or does that watch deal sound incredibly fraudulent. I love the concept!

"Hey Svenn! The foolish Americans want to buy that watch we photoshopped!"

"Jah Olie? They're perfectly welcome to send as much money as they want to my account! International prosecutions for petty crimes are delightfully hard to pursue..."

Forget binary, how about that InfraRed watch

[podom]

I noticed that RSI Digital, the makers of the binary watch, also have a link (currently "under construction") for an InfraRed watch.

Just what we all need: a watch that can only be viewed with night vision goggles or by insects.

The binary watch is pretty cool, especially since it uses a matrix display. I would think you could program it to display the time in a variety of bases. Hex time? Ternary time? Display the time in base nine and really confuse everyone.

-podom

Re:Forget binary, how about that InfraRed watch

[cr0sh]

Just what we all need: a watch that can only be viewed with night vision goggles or by insects.

Actually, that isn't a bad idea! I would think the DOD would love to have watches like that for special-op troops, if they don't already...

Re:Opera is one alternative [karma is low; plz rat

[Tom7]

You must have a pretty slow computer... I've been using Mozilla almost exclusively for the last 4 months or so, and I think it is really good.

(And, it is truly Free!)

Make up your mind...

[Anonymous Coward]

I love how slashdot say how free software beats any commercial software in any benchmark and then they come along with this quote

"Too bad there isn't a lot of good Free software"

The benefits of free software are if you don't like it, change it. Stop compaining about software that doesn't do what you want (free or otherwise) and either change it or make it yourself.

Re:Make up your mind...

[aka-ed]

Some tags were omitted:

(irony) (/irony)

Copy and paste these around any other boggling statements you see around here....

Re:Make up your mind...

[os2fan]

Free software is better coded than commercial code, and is getting better all the time. Linux is out of the hobbyist area and is now a serious threat to the system.

But this does not reflect onto the user interface, and it is here that the lingering impression of "Bad Software" is created.

You see, while you may be able to say this is good or bad, you may not know exactly what makes it good or bad.

The reality is that a good UI should present the user with a series of controls, and each control should do what it appears to do. If it is part of a larger environment, then it should conform to this.

This holds as much for command line utilities as it does for GUI apps. For example, you would get annoyed with a terminal program whose output you could not redirect or work with, or was unable to take redirected input.

Writing documentation and UI is about second-guessing the great variety of user tastes and needs. Things like the CUA simplifies some of this.

Apart from having buttons, the program must communicate what it does. For example, most cd burnig programs allow you to make an image of the file as a separate item in the menu. NERO does not do that. Instead, you select burn to a virtual burner, and do it like that. I spent three days fiddling around with this, until someone enlightened me.

The point is, that when there is more than one step involved, the order can be confusing and yield incorrect results. [Think of incorrect order in a pipe].

What we need is some sort of effort done similar to what Knuth did with TeX. Some sort of arbitary language of UI that one can put this interface or that, a la LaTeX style. There is already enough different interfaces around to be able to do it. What one needs to do is be able to is to be able to construct enough of the UI functionality to define it for programmers to implement.

The problem with free software is not that the code is poor, but there seems no way of making a good communication style, and this is, what UI means.

Discovered something recently

[fiftyfly]

I use a hotmail addy (mostly because i've had it since the front page proudly explaimed something like _10000_ users, so I've got a good one) & hate the fact that they butcher all the links in an email. I read several forums, many of which can't cope with the fubar'd links. So surprise, surprise when I found that most of them _worked_perfectly_ if viewed with Konquerer rather then IE. I don't generally like to get on the "bashin' wagin'" but you'd think that a M$'s geberated page ('cause they butchered it, remember) with a M$'s browser should work.

we will never be prepared until marijuana is legal

[1steve1]

With all the tobacco taxes paying the war, the Americans will need to tax marijuana too.

Happy-birthday-to-me dept?

[The WIPO Troll]

So it's Timothy's birthday? Did you get to suck on a nice, juicy, big ol' cock today? I hope so.

[offtopic] LOTR

[masqer8]

nyah nyah i saw the film and most of you wont for quite a few hours ^_^

but rest assured you wont be disappointed.

Re:[offtopic] LOTR

[Styx]

Yeah, I just got home from the movies as well. Our loal theater put on a special show w. peoploe i armour etc. Quite cool.
That was one great movie, I especially liked the Ringwraiths. Can't wait for the next one.

Gaping Goatse.cx Anus??? (Too easy) <--WRONG!!

[Big_Ass_Spork]

I do it wrong

Laying here in the shadows of my room, I squint up at my love. My Ms. Portman. I am sore and tired after fucking her for eight solid hours. My chapped and aching dick is soaking in grits to relieve the pain. She gets on her knees and starts lapping the grits up out of the bowl. She places her beautiful hands on my penis and starts to lick the grits off my achy piece.

Massaging my nutsack she....

WAIT, I DO IT WRONG!!!!

Yanking my dick out of her mouth I throw her to the ground and shove it in to her gaping freshly fisted ass. [goatse.cx]

"OH BIG ASS SPORK!! Fuck my ass, fuck my ass good. DEEPER, my stallion, deeper!! Make a Beowulf cluster of sperm on my back!!"

"Imagine a Beowulf cluster of this baby!"

I DO IT WRONG!!!!

I continue to hump her alabaster form. Glistening with beads of sweat, she bites her lip in delight as I tear her ass open with my engorged dick.

"Queen Amidala!!" I shreik as I near climax.

She looks up at me and screams, "You are so alive in me, unlike *BSD or VA Software!!! Fill me with seed!! Yes, Yes, Yess!!!!"

"For me you are calling, hhhmmm?"

"YODA?!? What the fuck, can't you see I am using the force here?"

He savagely kicks my Natalie aside, he pulls out his large green penis and impales me...

I DO IT WRONG!!

All your sporkz are belong to the dead homiez!!

Snotback: Snotting, snotwear, snotties

[The WIPO Troll]

THE OFFICIAL TACO-SNOTTING FAQ By The WIPO Troll, $Revision: 1.14 $

Why do I keep receiving emails from someone calling himself "CmdrTaco"?

You have been receiving email from a certain Robert "CmdrTaco" Malda, owner of the popular technology website Slashdot. Actually, it's not a very "popular" site in the common sense of the word; the site is rife with pimply, antisocial geeks, zit-faced nerds, communists, dirty GNU hippies, and other societal rejects and outcasts. It's also home to one of the world's largest pædophile ring, the infamous "Slashdot crew."

Whenever Mr. Malda gets bored (and who wouldn't, running a site like Slashdot all day), he roams through the user database, penis in hand, looking for people who might enjoy engaging in homosexual activities with him. How he determines this is anyone's guess; but if you have a homosexual-sounding nickname, or a nick with a letter of the English alphabet in it, you're in trouble.

This time, he found you. Lucky you.

He seems to be speaking in some sort of code. Do you know what it means?

CmdrTaco's code language is relatively easy to decipher. He prefers to speak in thinly-veiled sexual innuendo to evade the watchful (but relatively stupid) eye of Slashdot's parent corporation, VA Software. Mr. Malda's "Commander" is, of course, his penis -- a small, withered little thing that lives in his pants and only comes out in the presence of other male geeks or at the beck and call of CmdrTaco's own lubed-up right hand. His "Taco bells" are the shriveled testicles that droop beneath his Commander, and his "Taco sauce" is his thick, gooey semen. It should be more than obvious to you now what he means if he asked you to "ring his Taco bells" or "taste his gourmet Taco sauce."

I would guess he also asked you to engage in a practice known as "Taco-snotting" and, if he was in a particularly depraved mood at the time, a "circle-snot."

Good Lord. What is "Taco-snotting?"

"Taco-snotting" is the term used by CmdrTaco to refer to the act of fellating a homosexual man (or unwilling heterosexual; CmdrTaco is rumoured to prefer rape), then blowing the semen out his nose onto the face and body of his partner or victim. Naturally, a long, bubbly stream of milky-white semen is left on CmdrTaco's face, dribbling out of his nose and down his cheek: hence the term, "Taco-snotting."

A "circle-snot" is a Taco-snotting circle-jerk, another practice common among the Slashdot crew. CmdrTaco, CowboiKneel, and Homos get together and snot each other with their gooey, sticky cum -- spooging their jizz-snot all over each other's faces and pasty, white bodies, until they're covered head to toe with their own and each other's man juice. This vile ritual can go on for hours. For the homosexual penetration that follows this lengthy foreplay, Roblowme is usually there to provide plenty of anal lubricant; he owns a limo service and has ample supplies of motor oil and axle grease ready to go.

To complete this perverted orgy, fellow geeks Michael, Timothy, and Jamie will usually join in, dressed in tight leather mock-S.S. uniforms, jack boots, and leather gloves. The whole group then proceeds to snot each other's spunk and whip each other's pudgy asses with riding crops and chains until their pale, white geek bodies are exhausted and soaked in stinking sweat from the hours of passionate, homosexual revelry.

Ewwwwww. So, can I stop receiving these emails?

Hopefully.

You most likely forgot to uncheck the "Willing to Taco-snot" checkbox in your account preferences. CmdrTaco has probably already got the hots for your wad, and he's probably already been lurking outside your bathroom window for weeks with a camera, some tissues and lube. There's no escaping a geek in heat, so it's probably too late for you, but you can possibly rectify this situation. To remove yourself from CmdrTaco's sights, log into your Slashdot account, go to your user page, click on Messages, and uncheck the box next to "Willing to Taco-snot." Maybe he'll ignore you. Probably not.

I can't stop receiving these emails from CmdrTaco!?

If you indulge him in a Taco-snot or two, he might leave you alone. You might also want to look into mail filtering, restraining orders, or purchasing a heavy, blunt object capable of warding off rampaging homosexual geeks in heat. Trust me, when they charge... oh, the humanity. If he gets you, and you let him Taco-snot you, you will most likely end up tied up in his basement to be used as his sex slave for the rest of your life (or until he accidentally drowns you in spunk in a circle-snot).

Have you ever been Taco-Snotted?

Unfortunately, yes. I first met CmdrTaco at an Open Source Convention. He invited me back to his room for a game of Quake and some "gourmet Tacos," but when I got there, he jumped me and tied me to his bed, stripping me. After taking his "Commander" out of his pants, Mr. Taco made me suck the withered thing six times. He then performed his vile Taco-snotting ritual on me three times over the next two hours, bringing me to orgasm after sweaty, mind-numbing orgasm... then he snotted my own milky-white jizz back onto my face, into my mouth, then again on my exposed belly.

CmdrTaco invited several of his Open Source (or rather, "Open Sauce" -- man sauce) buddies over to continue the twisted snotfest. Linux Torvalds raped my ass with his "monolithic kernel," and Anal Cox used his "network stack" in a multitude of unspeakable ways on and in every orifice in my defenseless body. Michael was there in his leather Nazi uniform, caning my ass with a bamboo pole and ranting about "all those Censorware freaks out to get him."

How did you finally escape, you ask? After about 16 hours of countless homosexual atrocities perpetrated against my restrained body, they all finally went to sleep on top of me, sweat-soaked and exhausted. I was left there, covered in bubbly, translucent jizz-snot, chained to the bed, with half a dozen fat, pasty-white fags lying around and on top of me. Fortunately the spooge coating my flesh worked wonderfully as a lubricant; I was able to squirm my way out of the handcuffs and slip out the back door. I'm just glad I survived the ordeal. These geeks had a lot of built-up spunk in their wads -- I could've easily been drowned!

That's horrible. Does "Taco-snotting" have anything to do with CmdrTaco's "special taco"?

No, that's a different disgusting perversion CmdrTaco indulges himself in. CmdrTaco is usually not satisfied with merely snotting your own jizz back onto your face, he most often enjoys involving his own bodily fluids in his twisted games. WeatherTroll has spent some time trying to educate the Slashdot readership about this vile practice (emphasis added):

You may be wondering what CmdrTaco's "special taco" is. You will be wishing that you hadn't been wondering after you finish reading this post. To make his "special taco", CmdrTaco takes a taco shell and shits on it. He then adds lettuce, jacks off on the taco, and adds a compound to make the person who eats the taco unconscious. Of course, the compound does not make the person unconscious until the taco is fully eaten. Thus CmdrTaco force-feeds the taco to the unsuspecting victim.

After the victim is unconscious, he is held against his will and used for CmdrTaco's nefarious sexual purposes. This includes shoving taco shells up the victim's ass, Taco-snotting, and getting Jon Katz involved.

Completely different, yet no less revolting. It should be clear to you now that CmdrTaco is a very, very sick individual, as are most of the Slashdot editors.

Does Jon Katz get involved in any of this? I thought he was a pædophile, not a homosexual.

Actually, Jon Katz is a homosexual pædophile. He's also a coprophiliac, and, many suspect, a zophile. Jon Katz is somewhat of a loner and doesn't involve himself in circle-snots. Mr. Katz usually engages in a game called " Katz juicy-douching" with his harem of little-boy slaves: a vile practice which involves administering an enema to himself of the little boy's urine (forced out of them with a pair of pliers), spooging the vile muck from his ass back into the enema bag, then squirting and slathering the goo all over himself, and the little boy's chained-up and naked bodies. If he's in the mood, he will sometimes skip refilling the enema bag and just squirt it from his ass onto his boys. Unwilling boys are further tortured with the pliers until they comply and allow Mr. Katz to juicy-douche them for the rest of their lives.

As I already said, Mr. Katz is also a zophile. As if the sexual escapades with the helpless little boys aren't enough, Jon usually enjoys his juicy-douches best when his penis is firmly planted in a female goat's anus. He is also rumoured to get off on watching his little boys eat the goat's small, bean-like turds.

...Are you getting hard writing this?

Why, yes. :) Join me in a WIPO-snot?

No, thanks. I'm already CmdrTaco's boi toi.

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Re:Gaping Goatse.cx Anus??? (Too easy) --WRONG!!

[The WIPO Troll]

Like I said last time, gimme a shot at your hornly lil Portman bitch and I'll do her right. I hope she likes chains and nipple clamps...

Worked fine for me...

[gopherdata]

I patched IE 5.5 on Win95 this morning. I had no problems.

Re:Opera is one alternative [karma is low; plz rat

[aozilla]

(And, it is truly Free!)

NPL != Free

Try Mouse gestures as well

[bstadil]

save the window setup is friggin fantastic
Opera's mouse gestures lets you do frequently performed browse operations with small, quick mouse movements.

Re:Opera is one alternative [karma is low; plz rat

[Cirvam]

didn't they release it under both the gpl and the npl and another one?
Therefore if its released in some form under the gpl then it would be truly free

Nerds on Toast?

[madrouter]

Are you referring to BaconHead, one of the fine films released under the Troma label?

My Favorite Oxymoron...

[Samuel Hughes]

"Microsoft Works"

Re:My Favorite Oxymoron...

[Anonymous Canuck]

"Military intelligence"

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Re:My Favorite Oxymoron...

[Tackhead]

> "Military intelligence"

"You are receiving this email because you are on our opt-in list".

(P.S. Your time is running out, Mr. Ralsky. Fscking with Intel was a big mistake.)

Never mind

[Mr.Ned]

Seeing this, and remembering I wanted to give it a try, I quickly head to the URL.

Foolish me.

Damn... slashdotted not once, but twice.

Lovely Snot! Wonderful Snot!

[The WIPO Troll]

LOVELY SNOT! WONDERFUL SNOT! By The WIPO Troll

CmdrTaco: You sit here, dear.

CowboiKneel: All right.

CmdrTaco (to Waitress): Morning!

Waitress: Morning!

CmdrTaco: Well, what've you got?

Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and snot; egg, bacon and snot; egg, bacon, sausage, and snot; snot, bacon, sausage, and snot; snot, egg, snot, snot, bacon, and snot; snot, sausage, snot, snot, bacon, snot, tomato, and snot;

Slashdot Crew (starting to chant): Snot, snot, snot, snot...

Waitress: ...Snot, snot, snot, egg, and snot; snot, snot, snot, snot, snot, snot, baked beans, snot, snot, snot...

Slashdot Crew (singing): ...Snot! Lovely snot! Lovely snot!

Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor au Crevette with a Mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate, brandy and with a fried egg on top and snot.

CowboiKneel: Have you got anything without snot?

Waitress: Well, there's snot, egg, sausage, and snot, that's not got much snot in it.

CowboiKneel: I don't want any snot!

CmdrTaco: Why can't he have egg, bacon, snot, and sausage?

CowboiKneel: That's got snot in it!

CmdrTaco: Hasn't got as much snot in it as snot, egg, sausage, and snot, has it?

Slashdot Crew: Snot, snot, snot, snot! (crescendo through next few lines)

CowboiKneel: Could you do the egg, bacon, snot, and sausage without the snot then?

Waitress: Urgghh!

CowboiKneel: What do you mean "Urgghh?" I don't like snot!

Slashdot Crew: Lovely snot! Wonderful snot!

Waitress: Shut up!

Slashdot Crew: Lovely snot! Wonderful snot!

Waitress: Shut up! (Slashdot Crew stops) Bloody Slashdot fags! You can't have egg, bacon, snot and sausage without the snot.

CowboiKneel (shrieks): I don't like snot!

CmdrTaco: Sshh, dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your snot. I love it. I'm having snot, snot, snot, snot, snot, snot, snot, beaked beans, snot, snot, snot, and snot!

Slashdot Crew (singing): Snot, snot, snot, snot. Lovely snot! Wonderful snot!

Waitress: Shut up!! Baked beans are off.

CmdrTaco: Well could I have his snot instead of the baked beans then?

Waitress: You mean snot, snot, snot, snot, snot, snot...

Slashdot Crew (singing elaborately): Snot, snot, snot, snot. Lovely snot! Wonderful snot! Snot, sno-o-o-o-o-ot, snot, sno-o-o-o-o-ot snot. Lovely snot! Lovely snot! Lovely snot! Lovely snot! Lovely snot! Snot, snot, snot, snot!

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more on zarus & how to put it on your ipaq

[Spiral Man]

hmm, it seems a lot of people are talking about the sharp running some java/amiga thing or something. what it actually appears to be running is qtopia (formerly qpe).

you can find more screenshots here

and more info here here

this runs on top of the familiar linux distribution. and works on a compaq ipaq as well (although, not the 3800 series).

Re:Opera is one alternative [karma is low; plz rat

[Mr. Slippery]

NPL != Free

NPL'd software is free software. There are many free software licenses besides the GPL.

From a list of free software licenses at the GNU website:

The Netscape Public License (NPL)

This is a free software license, not a strong copyleft, and incompatible with the GNU GPL. It consists of the Mozilla Public License with an added clause that permits Netscape to use your added code even in their proprietary versions of the program. Of course, they do not give you permission to use their code in the analogous way. We urge you not to use the NPL.

Bank Transfers in Norway

[kninja]

They'd better get their Credit Cards up and running soon. Norwegians use a bank transfer system called 'giro' which is a form of direct payment, done by a piece of paper listing the account paying and the payee(kind of like a check), or now I think you can do it over the internet, or with a touch tone phone. However, when I lived there, my parents had to wire money to me via the same method, and it cost $25. This is hardly feasable for a $30 watch.

I'm going to go to Norway (to visit friends)and buy one for myself and a few friends in the US. Problem is, the guy told me over email that they are only sold through the mail, not in any stores in Oslo. Good thing the Norwegian mail system is pretty speedy.

This is probably a great product, but the marketing team needs a swift kick in the p@nts.

Although I could make a fortune selling them on eBay... Look for one in January...

Opera crashes a LOT.

[Anonymous Coward]

Opera crashes a LOT. It seems to have memory leak problems. Otherwise, it is way better than the alternatives.

I can?t believe that now one has mentioned this

[mE123]

What about K-Meleon? This is IMHO one of the best *browsers* (i.e. no mail client, no news client, no blot) out there. It uses the gecko (i.e. Mozilla's) rendering engine. It's open source (GPLed). It's almost completely bug less (and the bugs are all UI, not the "I can delete your hard drive" variety). It's multi-lingual. It's secure. It's easy. And to your question it's small (3.89 mb). It kicks butt.


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SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK.
WHEN YOU SLEEP THEY EAT YOUR TOES.

Um... What the FBI Did was Illegal I think

[beefstu01]

This is in reference to the link off of the message- the DoJ press release

No, it really doesn't make sense, but I guess this is the only way to have charges dropped from the Warez rings.

Remember the last moments of the Clinton Presidency? When he made a slew of laws? Well one of these was called the McDade Act(s), which specifically states that no agent undercover may lie. That was one of the dumbest laws passed, considering that it could have prevented 9-11, but it applies to this case. The DoJ prides itself on it's "year-long" undercover investigation, but they should have known that its a big no-no to lie. I'd bet that some of these people "undercover" were asked "are you w/ the feds" in which their answer would obviously be "NO." Thats a lie, and goes against whath the (retarded) McDade act states. Boom, thats it- they were found illegally.

Please don't flame this, because all I'm doing is bringing to light something that most people didn't know. This is like the old police searching a random student at a HS dance, then arresting him for Marijuana possession. THe kid gets off totally free afterwards because the police had no warrant (etc...). I guess that the McDade act is the only trump card that the Warez rings have. I personally believe that McDade is totally stupid, and it will be really sad if they are used to throw out the case.

Re:Um... What the FBI Did was Illegal I think

[geekoid]

Actually, I can see how the feds can use McDade to HELP them.
create some bots, send them to the suspected sites, and IRC channells. thats say Hi! my name is Investigator Smith, I am with the FBI.
BAM, channel goes empty. do this intelligently in enough channels, they'll never know whos the bot and whos real.

yes there are some technicall details, but they cn easily be worked out.

This is like the uproar about radar detectors.
Don't out law them, just build box that peridically trigger them, that way the drivers would never know if its really safe to speed or not.

Ms. Portman is available...

[Big_Ass_Spork]

Contact my friend, The Pimp. Natalie does tricks with his hoes!

Re:Ms. Portman is available...

[The Pimp]

You can have Ms Portman for $35 for straight sex, $25 for a blow job, $56.95 for anal, $75 for group bukake (The Pimp can't spell).

Of course Jupidera can satisfy you for less

Re:Ms. Portman is available...

[The WIPO Troll]

How much for a couple days in WIPO's S&M dungeon? (Essentially "all of the above" plus a little rape and torture.)

better watch for europeans

[20011207]

hi,
there's a much better watch for europeans (i own one myself (since more than 5 years)) and it's really cool!
i admit: in the beginning it's difficult, but due to the design (using diagonal slashes instead of 0s and 1s) you find patterns quite rapidly and then the watch is great.
link: museumsmarket.de

Re:Opera is one alternative [karma is low; plz rat

[Anonymous Coward]

It should, however, be noted that the NPL is not approved by the Open Source Initiative, assuming that you give a shit about such things.

Re:Opera is one alternative [karma is low; plz rat

[benjj]

Errr... Evolution uses GtkHTML which is extremely small and light. If you're having problems using GtkHTML maybe there is something wrong with your machine?

Galeon sometimes feels slow on my K6 333, but flies on my work machine (a dual PII 550MHZ).

Evolution never gives me speed problems with HTML rendering though.

Re:Opera is one alternative [karma is low; plz rat

[Anonymous Coward]

First of all, you should note that mozilla is relicensing everything under a triple license (NPL/GPL/LGPL for some and MPL/GPL/LGPL for others). See here for more info.

But to claim the NPL isn't free is bullshit. The NPL is basically the GPL with a few nods Netscape's way. The main difference is that they can use your code in proprietary products, whereas you can't use theirs in proprietary products.

Pretty much that means that this code acts like a BSD license for Netscape, and a GPL license for you. But since there's no real way for Netscape to yank the code away from you, even if they wanted to, I think it's pretty fair to call mozilla "free". The source code is out there, and there's nothing they can do to stop that. How is that not free?

Read more about the licenses here

beavers

[Anonymous Coward]

You covered massive busts and gaping holes, but you forgot all about the most important thing, beavers.

The difficulty of paying remotely in Europe...

[Dimwit]

I don't know about the binary watch, but I know here in Luxembourg it is next to impossible (and, sometimes, quite illegal) to pay remotely. If I want to pay my doctor, I have to go to my bank and sign a paper transferring money from one person to another.

I could do web banking, but there are two problems: One, it's Windows only (and not due to a limitation in the browser - you get a smart-card reader that only works with Windows. It is *really* secure, though), and two: it's *really* expensive.

So, it's not that odd that they don't take credit cards...

Re:The difficulty of paying remotely in Europe...

[slim]

Hrm, in the UK, as long as you know the payee's branch number and sort code, it's easy to make payments either through online banking or by phoning your bank, and has been for years.

This is why it was so frustrating when I made my first eBay purchase from an American, before PayPal went international: for a while I had a policy of not bidding unless the seller took Visa.

I'm surprised... I thought our system was Europe-wide, maybe I'm wrong.

Anyone else notice?

[Johnny00]

That the pictures of the watches used on the site are computer generated images?

Zaurus interface

[jeti]

To me, the taurus screenshots look like the GUI should be used with a mouse. Maybe you can use it with a pen, barely. But certainly not with your fingers. It looks like a compressed interface for a desktop computer. Not like one for a handheld.

Re:Zaurus interface

[Bill Kendrick]

It is a little more difficult to use the Zaurus interface with your finger than it is on a Palm. Then again, the resolution is so much higher, while the screen's physical size is the same.

I don't have too much of a problem, though.

What I really wish it had (now that I've got USB set up on my Linux box, and can sync MP3s to it to listen to at work and in the car) is the ability to control the Media Player using the directional pad (up/down for volume, left/right for seeking). :)

Re:Opera is one alternative [karma is low; plz rat

[Emil Brink]

and Galeon is the lightest Gecko based browser that I can find.
Well, seems like you need to find SkipStone, then. It's the Gecko engine packaged up using only GTK+ widgets, no GNOME. It's pretty nice.

Corollary:

[Fat Casper]

Gun manufacturers can legally be sued over the actions of criminals who happen to use their products. Using the new definition of terrorism, we should be able to lock up Bill & Co. and throw away the key.

Of course, that also goes for the Linux distros that default install with everything enabled. All those helpless, rooted lusers would be giving the "I was cleaning it and didn't know it was loaded" line.

"The idea that an arbitrary naive human should be able to properly use a given tool without training or understanding is even more wrong for computing than it is for other tools (e.g. automobiles, airplanes, guns, power saws)." -- Doug Gwyn

Re:Corollary:

[leuk_he]

Gun manufacturers can legally be sued

You can sue anyone. winning is a different case. ask bill about this.

It's ethier time or it isn't?

[Zero__Kelvin]

"how to get the binary watch you've always wanted"

Hey Jed ... what time is it? One or zero?

No PayPal?

[WWWWolf]

Too bad it seems a really cumbersome process to get that watch... have these guys never heard of PayPal?

><accent>

Heh, now you know what we kreditkardless un-amerikan web surfers feel like when we come to your amazing web sites. The amerikan sites have... limited ways to get your produkts and international money transfer is often the only way. No wonder the "new ekonomy" is failing - many people forget it is not enough to be the country's best, you have to be the world's best.

Kash on delivery! Now that is the way to order thingks from the internet.

More vodka! We just found out a site of which the amerikans will need to share our pain with.

</accent>

Overlooked part of E-commerce.

[cmacd]

Has got to be the UPS centric shipping plan.

I live just a bit north of the "you nice states" and have had occasions when someone has sent me somthing via UPS. After a 50 mile round trip to the depot to pick the item up, I find that I have been charged 40 bucks for "brokerage" to file the GST. (40 bucks to pay for 2 dollars taxes)

The post office charges 5 for the same "service" and has an arrangement where the package is available for pickup at the drug store in my neighbourhood shopping centre.

It seems the USPS has a bad repuation in the USA, while my experience over the last 30 years has been uniformly good, with only about one package going missing in that time. Most packages even arive with the corners of the boxes still square.

Every package I have ever received via UPS, including domestic shipments has arrived looking as if it traveled via afganistan.

OT Evolution Default Browser

[xrayspx]

If you run the Gnome Control Center (gnomecc), under Document Handlers -> URL Handlers, you can set the browser to whatever you like. I have http set to 'konqueror "%s"', since I use KDE and like my anti-aliased browser fonts.

Now, if only I could get Evolution to show IMAP folders in the Mail Summary on the Summary page, and some sort of visual indicator when new mail is received (a-la a little envelope in my tray) ... I've tried all the mailcheckers I can find, and they only seem to do IMAP-Inbox, not any subfolders beneath Inbox, which does me no good.

Hope that helps.

I see one maggot, it all gets thrown away -- My Fiancee

Situation in Finland

[Anonymous Coward]

You sign up for a service at your bank, eg. Nordea or Osuuspankki or whatever.

They send you an paper with both OTP and re-usable codes of four numbers. To enter the service you use a one-time code. Then you can do transactions, pay for purchases etc. in the SSL-secured page.

You acknowledge the transactions with your re-use numbers. When the sheet is about to be used up, the bank sends you a new one.

It's very convenient. For example, you find some CDs or books to buy at a web page, then enter your information (most times you don't need to "register" as a user if you don't really want to (ie. you're thinking of ordering more from the store at some point)), address, etc. and what method of payment you want.

If you choose eg. Nordea's Solo-service, then you are given a link to the bank's page where you just acknowledge the amount of money. Exiting the bank's service takes you back to the web store. Then you see some kind of a Thank You page. That's it.

Then you get the goods in the snail mail to your nearest post office after a while. The transaction is visible at your account status page, like any payment. It's really simple and best of all, it works NOW!

Slashback: Gaping

[ethereal]

It's pretty sad that this is the first thing I thought of upon reading the headline :(

P.S. If you're too stupid to mouse over the link and see what it is before clicking, please get off the 'net. Don't think, just go.

Re:Opera is one alternative [karma is low; plz rat

[Unknown Bovine Group]

Mozilla != NPL

From mozilla.org:

At the moment, parts of the source are available under either the Netscape Public License (NPL) or the Mozilla Public License (MPL), often in combination with either the GNU General Public License (GPL) or the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL), or both. mozilla.org is working towards having all the code in the tree licensed under a MPL/LGPL/GPL tri-license; for more information, see the Relicensing FAQ.

Re:Opera is one alternative [karma is low; plz rat

[aozilla]

mozilla.org is working towards having all the code in the tree licensed under a MPL/LGPL/GPL tri-license

working towards != is

Re:Opera is one alternative [karma is low; plz rat

[aozilla]

You're right. I must have been thinking of some other license. Was there an initial version of the NPL which was not free?

MDI Vs SDI Re:That M$ Patch...

[mitheral]

Interesting, one of the things on my "Top ten reasons to hate IE" is the fact that if I have a couple dozen websites open there are 24+ IE icons on my task bar. MDI Much better for me. Maybe this should be a poll question.
--
emacs and vi being two. The problem with these editors is that real programmers consider "what you see is what you get' to be just as bad a concept in text editors as it is in women. No the real programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor - complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous- TECO, to be precise.

Binary Fake?

[CrazyDwarf]

I was looking at the page for the binary wristwatch again and I noticed something odd. Why do they not have an actual picture of the watch? The pictures they have appear to me to be computer generated. Has anyone actually seen one of these in person? If so, I'd love to get one.

There was NO bandwidth drop.

[damiangerous]

Airnews' claims of a drop in bandwidth just don't hold water. Supernews
denies it in this message: slrna1prr7.jgf.andrew+nonews@trinity.supernews.net , Giganews denies it, 44fT7.35599$Zd.3333344@bin1.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com , and a major poster himself denies it: uqtq1us4rs471vgmd672m78fqceta7ujnt@4ax.com. Google doesn't archive alt.binaries.news-server-comparison but the messages are only a few days old so any decent news server should still have them.

Lying bastards! (or **very** stupid)

[JThaddeus]

There is no other way to put it! Statements in Microsloth's security bulletin are pure lies. The only way one cannot take them as lies it to believe that Mircosoft engineers are too stupid to recognize the problem:

* The first vulnerability involves a flaw in the handling of the Content-Disposition and Content-Type header fields in an HTML stream. ... A security vulnerability exists because, if an attacker altered the HTML header information in a certain way, it could be possible to make IE believe that an executable file was actually a different type of file -- one that it is appropriate to simply open without asking the user for confirmation.

and

So, is the problem that IE is handling certain MIME types incorrectly?

No. IE handles files appropriate for their MIME types - the problem in this case is that it's possible to convince IE that a file is of a different MIME type than it really is, by altering the Content-Disposition and Content-Header fields. IE would then handle the file in the wrong way, potentially with dangerous results.

Wrong! Lies!! The problem exists because IE refuses to believe the headers and reads the file extension instead. This is completely at odds with the standard.

And here I thought this was illegal:

[Legion303]

Operation Bandwidth:

On December 11, 2001, the longest-running of the undercover operations culminated with the execution of over 30 search warrants across the United States and Canada. This undercover operation, code-named 'Bandwidth,' was a two-year covert investigation established as a joint investigative effort to gather evidence to support identification and prosecution of entities and individuals involved with illegal access to computer systems and the piracy of proprietary software utilizing 'warez' storage sites on the Internet.

Bandwidth, through the joint efforts of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS), the Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General (EPA-OIG), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), supervised by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Nevada, created a 'warez' site, controlled and monitored by the undercover operation, as a means of attracting predicated targets involved with the distribution of pirated software. The undercover 'warez' site has been accessed to transfer over 100,000 files, including over 12,000 separate software programs, movies and games.

If it looks like entrapment, walks like entrapment, and quacks like entrapment....

Any lawyers want to comment?

-Legion

Re:And here I thought this was illegal:

[Anonymous Coward]

More importantly (looking around nervously) anyone know the name/URL of the site?
One place said CoreDump and SFM.

Re:And here I thought this was illegal:

[blibbleblobble]

How do you think their recruitment campaigns work?

Join the police!

• Seduce teenage girls on chat rooms
• Set up warez sites, and swap music
• Watch cute girls on CCTV cameras all day
• Get the fastest-ever police internet connection, and listen to music and videos over it
• Download porn, all in the name of "investigation"

Well, I can see how that might work...

Re:And here I thought this was illegal:

[Anonymous Coward]

I want to know how many EULAs and laws the feds broke while running these sites. Lets see some figures like:

average price of each piece of software x number of dowloads x some number > 1 relating to how often the software on the site recycled

You think they had the permission of every software vendor whose programs passed through these sites?? not to mention the permission of the artists whose music was disseminated.

This isn't like a drug sting where they sell drugs to unsuspecting dealers. No one owns or legally has the rights to drugs...and there is money involved with drugs.... These guys were giving away software to prolly hundreds of people without concent of the copyright holders. What a world.

Re:And here I thought this was illegal:

[Legion303]

You think they had the permission of every software vendor whose programs passed through these sites?? not to mention the permission of the artists whose music was disseminated.

Maybe it's because they figure the copyright owners aren't being deprived of actual merchandise, since the programs were copies and not actual physical disks and box sets.

Shhh, don't tell the guys who were busted.

-Legion

Re:And here I thought this was illegal:

[Anonymous Coward]

haha, that's truly funny. In order for the government to bust people for copyright violations they have to do as much wrong as the people who were supposedly doing it in the first place and assume the companies wouldn't mind. Sounds like the warezies could use that in their favor, "I didn't think the company would mind us distributing their software for trial purposes only. We saved them the packaging costs." hahahaha

It was called Mantis

[inKubus]

It was to be called Mantis, and used scripting language called Mantis Markup Language. It was enormously powerful, completely portable, and simple to use.

It's first use was to be in a MP3 player named "Sonique2" until Lycos hijacked the project from it's creators to use as a copy protected music distribution system. Mantis could have changed the world of UI design... Too bad.

1/2 the students?

[sulli]

Don't more than half the students take SAT prep courses these days? "Oxymoron" is the classic SAT word.

So Opera has SmartTags?

[Anonymous Coward]

Opera I double click on the word, and click 'Dictionary' from the dropdown menu.

Hmmm.... Is it just me, or does that sound like SmartTags, that everyone was bitching about not too long ago?

Re:Opera is one alternative [karma is low; plz rat

[Unknown Bovine Group]

At the moment

quoting just the end != in context

Re:Opera is one alternative [karma is low; plz rat

[aozilla]

quoting just the end != in context

Quoting just the end may or may not = in context. In this case, I didn't take anything out of context. Mozilla is not GPLed.