NO IT IS NOT. Follow your own link and see what you find.
Here is why, in the bnetd programmer's own words:
This site has been disabled as requested by Blizzard Entertainment and it will remain closed as we have no legal recourse other than to fight a long protracted lawsuit against a large corporation. This is due to 17 USC Section 512(c)(1)(C) (AKA DMCA, supposedly required to be passed by WIPO treaties). Blizzard claims bnetd is in violation of 17 USC Section 1201(b), though we do not agree with their interpretation. Blizzard refused to specify a specific list of files on this site so the whole thing must be blocked. We are very sorry for the inconvenience but there is nothing we can do.
I am glad that most scientific research doesn't hit the "slashdot meter" before funding decisions are made. I doubt that computers, penicillin, semiconductors, or much else would pass the "knee-jerk" judgments on this forum.
Anyway, it occurred to me that, when added to other sensors now being deployed at airports (portal monitoring), that this might have real value in security applications.
If they don't know how to then will have to help them. After all, that's what friends are for.
If users can't (i.e., *AOL-HELL* users, they are probably a lost cause already.
Besides, a slashdot denizen just told *them* how to do it, if they are willing to take five minutes on google (or with the most basic internet book or magazine) to figure it out.
Failing either of these alternatives, they are a dead loss.
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I get the point. No one has any right to comment on anyone's actions anywhere else, because we are not superior to them.
OK.
Real moral depth to this position. Ultra-radical relativism?
By the way, you failed. You do sound like an asshole.
I absolutely agree. IPv6 and certified secure OSs would be a great first step. Interoperability rules preventing certain *unreliable vendors* from providng software to government agencies connected to this new network would be a second step. This might actually worry mickeysoft enough to make them straighten out some of their security problems.....Then again, it probably wouldn't do that, but it might help to catalyze alternatives.
Try satellite channels. I have dishnetworks *and* a cable modem through comcast. The best of both worlds. My Tivo keeps the satellite service under control:),
and the cable modem is so fast I smile whenever I sit in front of my computers.
I'd add to to that. My cable modem will be pried from my cold dead hands before I will go back to dialup.
I pay comcast $49.99 for 784K up 2Meg down. Keep your dialup, and if you are a cable modem subscribe in Manassas, VA, please go use dsl, so my circuit stays under-used.
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Yes *we* did. As a professional poltiical scientist, I prefer the new title.
This is the same kind of "simple maths" that produced phony dot-com valuations and business plans.
I have no idea what it takes to keep slashdot running, but I am sure that it is more expensive now that VA runs it than it was when the guys started the site.
That said, they should set the subscription rate at what they need, and see whether the slashdot "community" is willing to pay its own way.
I am all for subscribing, but alleging that ad-blockers are stealing is insane. What right do advertisers have to *my* screen real estate? Do they pay any part of my ISP fees?
My computer -- read that *my* computer -- will only have data on it that *I* control. What next, laws against fair use of web based product -- oh sorry, we already have those.
Darn...
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I agree whole-heartedly with this. Within the bounds of propriety - (after all, this is a for profit business - traded publicly on the stock exchange) - we would all gain from a better understanding of the real costs of running slashdot.
I for one am more than willing to subscribe, but only if I know that my subscription will make some difference.
Slashdot Mirror
Your mom was complaining about latex extensions?!!!
Ye gods man, go home and give her a hug!!
I agree with your points though.
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NO IT IS NOT. Follow your own link and see what you find.
Here is why, in the bnetd programmer's own words:
This site has been disabled as requested by Blizzard Entertainment and it will remain closed as we have no legal recourse other than to fight a long protracted lawsuit against a large corporation. This is due to 17 USC Section 512(c)(1)(C) (AKA DMCA, supposedly required to be passed by WIPO treaties). Blizzard claims bnetd is in violation of 17 USC Section 1201(b), though we do not agree with their interpretation. Blizzard refused to specify a specific list of files on this site so the whole thing must be blocked. We are very sorry for the inconvenience but there is nothing we can do.
Accuracy Please!!!
What he said!!!
(Just a little Karma whoring on the side).
Irrespective of ultimate mortality, those who are saved will likely die differently than from sleeping sickness.
Sometimes the lack of morality around here really depresses me.
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Men and women are undoubtedly different... (ask anyone!)
Overcoming the "older" fad that women were and remain inferior is a positive good, however.
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Is it just me, or have the many weaknesses in 802.1x security already been beaten to death?
It is clearly a broken and insecure technology. Workarounds are possible, but don't fix the underlying problem.
There. Now you don't need to read this and you can go look at userfriendly.
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>..Just think of the millions of people using AOL...
I just did, and now no longer have an appetite.
thanks
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"Get away from computers?" What do you mean?
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Sharks are not mammals, they are fish.
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[Insert predictably cynical attitude by know-it-all]
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I am glad that most scientific research doesn't hit the "slashdot meter" before funding decisions are made. I doubt that computers, penicillin, semiconductors, or much else would pass the "knee-jerk" judgments on this forum.
Anyway, it occurred to me that, when added to other sensors now being deployed at airports (portal monitoring), that this might have real value in security applications.
Flame away dudes!!
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I believe that *I* should censor *your* net access.
You obviously are incapable of thinking for yourself.
Just leave that task for someone else.
Idiot.
If they don't know how to then will have to help them. After all, that's what friends are for.
If users can't (i.e., *AOL-HELL* users, they are probably a lost cause already.
Besides, a slashdot denizen just told *them* how to do it, if they are willing to take five minutes on google (or with the most basic internet book or magazine) to figure it out.
Failing either of these alternatives, they are a dead loss.
D
I get the point. No one has any right to comment on anyone's actions anywhere else, because we are not superior to them.
OK.
Real moral depth to this position. Ultra-radical relativism?
By the way, you failed. You do sound like an asshole.
I absolutely agree. IPv6 and certified secure OSs would be a great first step. Interoperability rules preventing certain *unreliable vendors* from providng software to government agencies connected to this new network would be a second step. This might actually worry mickeysoft enough to make them straighten out some of their security problems.....Then again, it probably wouldn't do that, but it might help to catalyze alternatives.
Convenience. Efficiency.
Hopefully security (I am only being partially ironic).
Dbbbbbbb
> let NASA get back to what it does best: world class astrological research
While O'Keefe may be good at finance, I hope that he keeps the astrologers out of NASA.
Especially that irritating west indian psychic from cable tv advertisements.
Over and Out.
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Try satellite channels. I have dishnetworks *and* a cable modem through comcast. The best of both worlds. My Tivo keeps the satellite service under control :),
and the cable modem is so fast I smile whenever I sit in front of my computers.
Sweet.
After all. How much is your time worth?
No. I am a happy broadbander too.
I use @home through comcast cable. It is wonderful, and I will never willingly go to anything slower.
I'd add to to that. My cable modem will be pried from my cold dead hands before I will go back to dialup.
I pay comcast $49.99 for 784K up 2Meg down. Keep your dialup, and if you are a cable modem subscribe in Manassas, VA, please go use dsl, so my circuit stays under-used.
D
Yes *we* did. As a professional poltiical scientist, I prefer the new title.
Thank You.
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It'll be tough wearing them alongside the "rose-colored" glasses that you will need for this to seem like a worthwhile product.
What a let-down, geez!!
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This is the same kind of "simple maths" that produced phony dot-com valuations and business plans.
I have no idea what it takes to keep slashdot running, but I am sure that it is more expensive now that VA runs it than it was when the guys started the site.
That said, they should set the subscription rate at what they need, and see whether the slashdot "community" is willing to pay its own way.
I am all for subscribing, but alleging that ad-blockers are stealing is insane. What right do advertisers have to *my* screen real estate? Do they pay any part of my ISP fees?
My computer -- read that *my* computer -- will only have data on it that *I* control. What next, laws against fair use of web based product -- oh sorry, we already have those.
Darn...
I agree whole-heartedly with this. Within the bounds of propriety - (after all, this is a for profit business - traded publicly on the stock exchange) - we would all gain from a better understanding of the real costs of running slashdot.
I for one am more than willing to subscribe, but only if I know that my subscription will make some difference.
D