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Slashback: VeriSign, Balance, Manifestation
Linux antivirus developers join Kaspersky Labs prostoalex writes "The Linux development team of Romania-based RAV AntiVirus, acquired this June by US-based Microsoft, joined Russia-based Kaspersky Labs. This transition took place after Microsoft confirmed there will be no Linux or Novell version of antivirus software. Kaspersky Labs now works on RAV Migration program for Unix/Linux users, since the company officials deem this market as one of the fastest-growing."
VeriSign must love attention. talon77 writes "Netsys is reporting that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Verisign due to their Sitefinder. It's about time."
And Anonymous Brave Guy writes "VeriSign are in legal trouble yet again, this time for handing over a domain name to a former employee of the former holder. Also some interesting tidbits in here about the impact of the sex.com case, the fact that since July domain names are regarded as property under U.S. law, and the idea that VeriSign might themselves be held accountable for punitive damages awarded against someone who takes over a domain name improperly."
Piling on, Anonymous submits: "Verisign seems to have issues with returning proper response packets for DNS queries on unused domains, so we thought we would give them a quick reminder in case they forgot what the right answer was. You can find pictures here. (This was on their building in Mountain View, and the signs said 'Verisign/Netsol, as if people didn't hate you enough already... How greedy/stupid are you? [Made with figlet/vim/a2ps/poster.c]')"
Update: 10/02 00:37 GMT by T : And (ooops!) this part got chopped off: "Note that the Verisign web search is powered by Inktomi for search and overture for ads, both of which are now owned by Yahoo. You can always vote with your dollars and your clicks."
Ohio uncappers peer at the ToS. Mike writes "Looks like Broadband Reports has posted a follow up to what happened to those Ohio Cable broadband users who had FBI agents confiscate their hardware for uncapping their modems (See original BBR story here, Slashdot story here). Looks like most of the offenders settled for fines and community service, but one took the case all the way, and eventually got it overturned because the cable company's AUP failed to clearly mention their legal stance on uncapping."
Thorn-in-side lessons, part IIXIIXV. jlechem writes "Lindows and Microsoft are at it again. Wired News is running a story about Lindows refusing to take down the settlement website reported on by Slashdot earlier. CEO Michael Robertsone stated 'Our plan is to continue to offer the MSfreePC service in spite of your threats. If required, we will be a voice in the courtroom defending a consumer's right to use technology and an online process to secure their settlement claims.'"
MPAA Scratches Oscar Screeners xstein writes "In a follow up to this story, the major studios have agreed to go along the MPAA's proposal to stop sending out screener tapes and DVDs to Academy members. The agreement would include MPAA's seven studio members, Disney, WB, Sony, Universal, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, and MGM, as well as their affiliates, which include New Line, Miramax, Focus Features and Sony Pictures Classics. Dreamworks, although not an MPAA member, also agreed to the ban. This move scratches a longstanding tradition, and is seen to hurt smaller, independent-minded movies distributed by MPAA members the most, though may allow truly independent studios such as Lions Gate to gain extra attention with their screener tapes. E! Online and Salon.com have the scoop."
Phantom Offices?
Ray B writes "On September 18th, Slashdot posted about an article on the Phantom video game console. Of particular note in the primary article investigating the Phantom's founder(s), was that the company did not even have physical offices.
Just four days later, the Phantom email Newsletter #2 is issued, with the first bit of news being:
"Infinium Labs recently signed a five-year lease on 10,000 sq. ft. of prime office space to locate its corporate offices in the Centre Pointe Building in downtown Sarasota, Florida. The Centre Pointe offices are in close proximity to many of the company's early investors, its corporate legal counsel and the industrial design firm that is developing the Phantom Game System(TM) prototypes"
Coincidence or damage control?"
Well, start with the Python then and work your way up. Wolfbone writes "A recent edition of 'Global Business,' a BBC World Service programme available here in RealAudio form, contains an admission that the BBC cannot afford to put it's entire archive online, contradicting an earlier Slashdot story and the BBC's own report. Even though it only has 11.56 Petabytes of the stuff, some of it recorded on wax cylinders, it would be too expensive, apparently, to keep their earlier promise. The rest of the programme is about the more general problems of long term archiving of data and how some organizations still don't trust digital electronic formats and prefer to stick with paper and microfiche."
Segway recall: in and out in 10 minutes! ptorrone writes "I got my Segway HT updated today, the 'recall' is a simple software update, it took 10 minutes and that was about it. To clarify what the recall is ...the HTs are not being sent back, Segway has people in each state of the USA and they update them. So far all owners have been notified and thousands have updated. The update makes it harder for people to ride after numerous low battery alerts (3 people out of 6,000 thought something else). Here are my pictures from the update procedure."
How do i join the class action. I don't use my site much, just to put pics up for family and friends and stuff.. but the idea behind it really pisses me off. I have spam checkers (and sendmail) going apeshit about all these domains suddenly existing.. I don't really want a portion of the settlement (how unamerican of me) but I'd rather it go to schools. I just want versign to learn in the only way corporations do, with their wallet.
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
10 minutes... from a laptop... through a little plug...
How long before h4xx0rs are offering simple 10-minute updates to make Segways go 20 mph?
Actually, you're right.
If the BBC were to use P2P to distribute this work, it would definitely be the case that would legitimize a massive, decentralized P2P network. If some of the stuff were to be controversial (e.g. stuff critical of China) that would also be justification for that same network to provide annonymity.
Let the MPAA and RIAA try to vilify P2P then.
-- I have monkeys in my pants.
Valenti says a new program developed by Caltech researchers allows a movie file to be downloaded in five seconds
Did I miss something here? Is this some quantum leap in information theory/signal compression? Or maybe Caltech was doing some tests in their labs on a gigabit Ethernet connection, and Valenti thought that it meant that any home user could achieve such download times as well?
There's 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
The domain was registered in 1990. From my experience, it is much more likely that the former employee, seeing the business benefit of the Internet, registered the domain listing him/herself as the registrant because most companys didn't give a sh*t about domain names in 1990. That was particularly true of startups. As I have done, the former employee was probably doing them a favor, gratis, and after years of use the company thinks that a domain that was never *truly* theirs, was theirs once the realized the worth of it.
For the record, I turned over the domains (and trademarks) that I registered to my former employer when I left, without them even asking. The schmucks didn't even offer to re-imburse me for the nominal fees.
Given the extremely limited distribution that a lot of indie films get and given how hard/expensive it is to make prints and such there is a strong chance that your average Academy voter would be unable to see one of the indie contenders in the theater. If the Academy member's cannot be sent a video or DVD then there's a strong chance they won't see the movie at all...and they probably wouldn't vote for a movie they haven't seen.
"Where quality is like a dead stinking rat - you just can't miss it."
I've written a simple C program to do something similar, except it generates Netcraft queries of pseudorandom but legit-looking domain names, thus pushing up Apache's Netcraft rank at the expense of IIS. A competent programmer could probably adapt it to generate HTML that requests a PNG image while rewriting it in one of the Three P's of Dynamic Web Pages (Perl, Python, and PHP).
Will I retire or break 10K?
I emailed the law firm involved, and was stunned to actually get an answer:
;-)
The NXDOMAIN issue is part of the case as well - in Federal Court we have
mere "notice" pleading - frankly we could have simply said "they broke the
internet and we want the Court to fix it" and that would have been enough to
get the case started...Slashdot rocks and I do read the postings
Ira
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Daniel"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 6:50 PM
Subject: Verisign Case
> It appears you are attempting to sue Verisgn (we applaud you at Slashdot) but are suing them for something completely unrelated: a 404 error. The error that should be discussed is the NXDOMAIN error!
> Thank you, and best of luck with nailing the bastards.
knee-jerk? check. post? check. okay, time to read the article.
The thing that gets me is that broadband providers never have a minimum speed that they guarantee. If they do, it's something extremely small; ie, Earthlink guarantees 2400bps on its DSL service. However they usually do have a maximum speed which, if exceeded, they'll take notice. The double standard amuses me, "If we're giving the customer piss poor service we don't care but if they're getting really good connection speeds we do." Hmmm...
Reinvent the wheel only at either a lower cost, greater effectiveness, or your own personal enrichment and satisfaction.
ICANN was set up to oversee all the registrars but it seems they are just allowing Verisign to get away with whatever it wants to.
I've had Verisign attempt to hijack domains by pretending they didn't receive payments, I had them actually take domains claiming they were unpaid for when they were, I've had them steal my own domain name, transfer it to another of thier companies and then resell it to me for $1,200.
Can't ICANN be held responsible for what they are allowing Verisign to get away with?
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Technically, we are beyond survival.
Wow, great job tracking down these e-mails. Also, don't forget to contact the companies actually paying for SiteFinder, especially if you or your business have a relationship with them. Here are a few of them (websites only, someone else can find the contacts). Let them know what they're association with VeriSign is contributing to (domain name hijacking, disruption of internet standards, interference with spam filters, etc.) and that you'll encourage others to avoid (boycott) their products where ever possible. Some might not care (the gambling sites, for instance), but some should probably know better (E-bay, Dell, Pixar, etc.), and I bet that most don't have a clue and probably think they're being "net savvy" by promoting their products this way (such as the upcoming movies "Veronica Guerin" and "Brother Bear").
Let them know that what they're associated with is possibly illegal, is the subject of at least one class action lawsuit, and has some of the largest and active Internet communities and the Internet's governing body up in arms. And if they don't respond, you really should avoid their sites and services, miss their movie, or tell purchasing to avoid their computers as much as possible.
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