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Slashback: Enigma, Google, Java Games
Enigma security concerns. Chris writes "The Enigma cracking client mentioned [this past week] is a huge security risk -- it creates an 'enigma-client' user on Windows systems with the password 'nominal'. I daresay that most /. users who installed the client would want to know about this so they can take corrective action." Thanks to Chris and other who pointed out the security flaw the enigma client has updated their changelog to warn users about this potential flaw and point out a quick work-around. "Users should change 'nominal' to a random password in eclient-XP-Home-install.bat or eclient-XP-Pro-install.bat."
German ISP targets net companies "free lunch". TheAxeMaster writes "Deutsche Telekom AG is the latest ISP to decide to suck money from both customers and content providers according to Computer World. From the article, 'The CEO of Deutsche Telekom AG became the latest head of a major telco to call for Web companies, such as Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., to help pay for the billions of dollars required to build and maintain high-speed Internet infrastructure.' CEO Kai-Uwe Ricke said 'Web companies that use this infrastructure for their business should also make a contribution.' The article suggests that, if implemented, both you AND web sites would have to pay for the privilege of delivering you content through a tiered, 'quality of service' internet."
Total Information Awareness Program lives on. notmtwain writes "Democracy Now follows up on reports that the NSA has continued the TIA (Total Information Awareness) program, which was building an enormous database merging information on internet usage, phone calls, purchase, banking records and reading material. Democracy Now's Amy Goodman interviews Shane Harris, the National Journal Reporter who broke the story. The Total Information Awareness program was supposedly killed by Congress in 2003."
Higgins takes on Microsoft. An anonymous reader writes "InternetNews reports that IBM, Novell, and Parity Communications announced today increased support for the Higgins project at Eclipse. The project, based on early work done at Harvard's Berkman Institute and by SocialPhysics.org is focused on providing open source 'user-centric' identity management. The initiative has been widely reported as a challenge to Microsoft's new Infocard online identity-management system."
Google answers analyst concerns. imlepid writes "Earlier this week Analysts were asking Google to provide more insight into future earnings reports. Well, it appears that the analysts calls have been answered as the Google CFO has warned that growth has slowed. However, today's decline is still being blamed on the tight lips at Google."
Patriot Act provision not just for terrorists. An anonymous reader writes "Pass a law to go after certain criminals, and it will be used for everything possible. A basic lesson, but one that we learn again from an article in the New York Sun, describing a couple of U.S. District Court decisions unsealed earlier in February. The two judges both agree that Congress intended the 'nationwide search' provision for going after email or other Internet data to apply to the investigation of all federal crimes and not just to cases involving terrorism."
Java 4K game contest submissions available. CuriousKangaroo writes "Java Unlimited, as previously reported on Slashdot, is running a contest to develop a game in Java using only four kilobytes of bytecode and resources. Entries are now closed, and judging is about to begin, but you can check out and play all 55 of this year's entries for yourself!"
They never intended to get rid of it, they just gave it a name change so the media would stop asking questions.
Aren't you glad your new US passport has a trackable RFID in it, Citizen Comrade?
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The one game that has been downloaded the most until now (Miners4k is great fun: Reminds me alot of the (a href=http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/>Falling Sand-game.
Trolling is STILL for fags
Fixed that for you.
The annoying part of this free lunch thing is consumers are already paying, and so are content providers. They pay for bandwidth. I cost Apple 4 MBs of bandwidth everytime I get a song on iTMS, and Google must buy bandwidth by the truckload. So it's not like anyone is getting a free ride in the current system. And I'd love to see how well an ISP that cuts out the top 50 sites will do. I'm sure Joe Average will need Internet at home when he can't use Google, MSN, theWashingtonPost.com, Yahoo, Apple, Ebay, Amazon, Wikipedia, and CNN.com
I wonder when the ISPs will get the memo: WITHOUT CONTENT, THEY ARE USELESS!!
1) The government sucks. I hate it. We're all fucked. 2) Google pays for bandwidth. People connecting to google are paying for bandwidth. ISP's are getting payed on both ends for a single connection between google and a user. These ISP's are greedy shitbags. End of story. 3) The government sucks. I hate it. We're all fucked.
"To lead the people, you must walk behind them"
Maybe darpa should charge the telecom companies for using the internet. I mean if it wasn't for their invention, none of us would be here.
I also think that local cities should ban this kind of extreme billing;. We all are paying for this anyway. I soubt that google et al. is gettin free acess.
Seattle did this with bank machines. They banned extra-user fees. They figured that the banks were getting the monthly money from you, and the interac fee, and now some are charging a 'convience' fee.
I have mod points and I am not afraid to use them.
A slew of three-letter acronyms come to mind on the subject of new names for the NSA's little project. I, for one, am voting for "TMI".
First of all, I know that you can't do a lot of under-the-radar damage in 4k of code, and I'm sure they audit the programs to ensure they're just games. Additionally, I'm not paranoid enough to think someone would submit malicious code to a game contest.
/.ers that way.
That said, this is one instance where it would have been nice to be able to play the games as applets in the browser. Note that I am not suggesting that they be submitted (for judgment at least) in this form, as making an applet+application would add some minor but unnecessary overhead to the bytecode; however, it could be a requirement that the entrants also submit an applet version for viewing on the web (inside of the java sandbox), so that guests visiting the site wouldn't have to download and run untrusted code.
Also, it would be much more convenient for us
Best,
Paul
Seems like keeping the games smaller than 4k still doesn't prevent the slashdot effect.
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It was a real-time moon lander program with simple graphics, and it's own input-editing code (since it had to read the keyboard 'the hard way' to avoid blocking input).
Given how much can now be done with a single call in Java these days, I'm not going to bet against much of anything.
I'll try running some of the programs later.
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
RICO is the quintesential example of this. While intended to go after organized crime, it has been used to go after everyone from the RIAA to anti abortion protesters to Major League Baseball and even video store owners who rent adult movies.
Absolute power, and all that.
SURPRISE!!
Everyone with a fucking clue knew that the Patriot Act was going to massively change the legal landscape when it came to warrants and privacy.
Even your representatives in the Government who obviously didn't RTFA (Read The Fucking Act) knew that parts of it were oppressive enough to warrant a sunset clause.
I won't say that there was significant public outcry before The Patriot Act was passed, because there wasn't. The Nation was hysterical over what had happened and as a result, a grab bag of previously rejected legislation was rushed to get included in several hundred pages of legal code.
If we lose liberties present in the Constitution, the Amendments and The Bill of Rights, have the terrorists won?
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So, in response to "3) The government sucks. I hate it. We're all fucked.", I say, you are only fucked if you allow yourselves to be.
Come on, America. Please wake up!
"Empathise with stupidity, and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot." - Iain M. Banks
My other question is...if this does get pushed through, is there anything preventing another company from starting up and basically offering things the way are currently? I mean, if the whole telecom industry decides to force us into tiered internet, couldn't some company just NOT do it, and rake in the cash hand over fist from all the users and companies that flock to them?
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Sure, why not. Kill it off completely. with all the garbage/spam/phishing/commercials the internet is barely worth the trouble as it is now. Convert it back to a pay as you go ( like the old days, when it was almost unheard of outside of the miltary and higher education ) and kill it.
Patriot act? Dont even get me started on that powergrab farce.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
You're just taking bad Chuck Norris jokes and making them worse. Now be quiet before I Fucking Kill (TM) you.
Sincerely,
Steve Ballmer
CEO, Microsoft Corp.
anyway, like I said, original and fun...
The two judges both agree that Congress intended the 'nationwide search' provision for going after email or other Internet data to apply to the investigation of all federal crimes and not just to cases involving terrorism."
They are right too.
Since most of congress did not even read the patriot act, then the "intention" in it is pretty much that of the author's - John Asscraft. We all know how upon becoming AG he went from a champion for privacy rights (he was a major vocal opponent to the Clipper Chip backdoor spy-scheme under Clinton's administration) to an abolitionist of privacy rights (and state's rights for that matter, another bit of personal hypocrisy there). So it is safe to conclude that Asscraft fully intended the pat-riot act to be used as broadly as the DoJ could stretch it.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Where I come from, when you sell something, the buyer owns it now. You don't get to sell it again to someone else.
I already paid (indirectly) AT&T to move bits for me. Are they going to honor that contract?
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When you hate make sure your hate is Politically Correct hate.
you can avoid the other charge by the ATM operator by avoiding such ATMs.
Unless one bank operates all ATMs within 15 kilometers of where you are staying. I don't know if it is still the case in Terre Haute, Indiana, but when I went to school there, First Financial was pretty much the only bank in town. I learned to rely on Wal-Mart for withdrawals using my Visa check card.
It's not "Harvard's Berkman Institute," it's the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.
This could just be me, but I would say that Google DOES use the resources of various ISPs, because they have this little thing they use called a bot. When they trawl the 'net, they aren't sniffing every packet that goes by on every network and compiling an image from there, they are actively searching the 'net, thus using a portion of the network providers ability to serve files to the end user. But isn't this what Google is paying their ISP for? Presumably, with an operation as large as Google's, they are paying for multiple OCs, (but that is a best guess without any authoratative proof to confirm. Any info anybody?).
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The enigma-client installation instructions explicitly tell users to replace "nominal" with a strong random password and provide precise instructions on how to do so. If you're too stupid to follow such simple instructions, you deserve to have your system compromised.
l ient-winXP-Pro-install.html
http://www.bytereef.org/howto/m4-project/enigma-c
Kindof off-topic, but tagging. It's a new /. feature. We (well, subscribers) can finally tag a topic as a DUPE. Joy.
I tend to agree with most what you say but especially with the IG Farben of telecommunications you downplay corporate greed. Did you know that Deutsche Telekom charges their DSL subscribers extra when they want to use their own email rather than the @t-online.de address they are automatically assigned? Yes! Unless you pay them extra, no matter what sender address you wish to use, mail going through their smtp server gets it sender address substituted with your @tonline.de address. With that kind of thinking it will only be a matter of time until they block all outgoing traffic on port tcp/25 (smtp) and charge you twice as much not to fiddle with your sender address.
The most obvious solution to the last mile bottleneck of course is IEEE 802.16 "WiMax". a high-bandwidth wireless network designed especially with getting through on the last mile in mind. Besides being a threat to the last mile cash cow it also competes with telco high-bandwidth wireless services such as UMTS phone and data.
You nailed on the head the most common misconception in this argument. The telcos DO NOT HAVE COMMON CARRIER STATUS FOR ISPs. Not in America anyway. Yes, the TELCO part of the business has common carrier status, but there is a different article (I believe section 6) of the Communications Act which applies to ISPs and they are not granted common carrier status so you can't hold that over their head.
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Remarks which support the current leadership will put the people who make them in line for nice cushy positions behind the iron fist of the New Fascism, (served up American-Style).
I salute you. Really. Please don't report me to the Homeland goon squad for my flagrant association with my brown-skinned friends. I cower under your suspicious glare. Honest. You really do send chills down my spine.
--After all, that recent contract awarded to Haliburton to build spiffy new Detention Camps on American soil will just be there for show, right?
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For the record, awesome game demos like the 96kb .kkrieger that has been on here so many times, assume the presence of the dx 9.0 .dll which is kinda like allowing the java virtual machine; it provides one hell of alot of functionality for free.