Philips invented the Compact Disc, and holds the patent to the technology. The "Red Book" is the technical specification for the Compact Disc (tm Philips) media format, and CD audio is often referred to as "Red Book audio" as a result. You may have heard some game soundtracks described in this manner, simply meaning that the game's soundtrack is played as an audio track from the CD as the game plays.
The Philips Red Book specification is very... well, SPECIFIC. It sure as hell doesn't include any leeway for record companies to deliberately introduce noise or bad data in order to try and fool CD-ROM drives. In other words, if a record company's product has been altered in such a manner, it is technically NOT A COMPACT DISC and may not legally display the Philips Compact Disc Digital Audio logo.
And, of course, if a record store advertises, describes, and sells you a "piracy-protected" disc as a Compact Disc, then it is MISLEADING you as to the nature of the product for which you are paying -- a no-no for retailers, and something which will bite them on the ass.
Of course, now that the source of 95% of the world's online pirated software has been shut down, big-name software companies will no doubt be dropping their exorbitant pricing -- the justification for which was the rate of online piracy.
In June 1943, the US Supreme Court ruled that Marconi's patents on radio were invalid, and that the technology had in fact been invented by Nikola Tesla.
you can download IE6(or 5) and get outlook express. That makes it completely free. There is no way(legally) to get outlook without having to pay for Microsoft Office.
Wrong.
Outlook is included with Exchange Server and can be installed on any number of clients at no extra cost.
OK, so the Big Two US antivirus companies appear to be voluntarily cooperating with the FBI as far as non-detection of FBI keyloggers is concerned. How long until:
1. Companies are pressured to install government backdoors in their software
2. It becomes illegal to produce software without government backdoors
3. It becomes illegal to download/use software without government backdoors
4. It becomes illegal to download/use software which DETECTS or REMOVES software containing government backdoors
Tell that to the Nazis who were prosecuted at Nuremburg for doing things which were perfectly legal when they were done, but which were made illegal by Ex Post Facto laws passed after the conclusion of the war.
Of course, the things which were perfectly legal when they were done were such things as concentration camps and gas chambers, so it's not awfully Politically Correct to point this out, but... it doesn't change the fact that the USA has, in at least one high-profile case, thrown the notion of Ex Post Facto completely out the window when it suited it.
Here's how I do it. First, Javascript is turned off in all browsers. Second, all http traffic is proxied through squid , and I include the following lines in squid.conf:
The first three lines block all content from any URL that contains one of the strings specified; the fourth line blocks all content from any of the URLs listed in the textfile/etc/banlist.txt. banlist.txt contains the URL of every ad-server I've come across since I started recording them about a year ago. If you feel like grabbing the list, I've stuck it up here: http://www.nzgames.com/simon/banlist.txt.
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The following is reproduced in its entirety from
http://www.clark.net/pub/rothman/morton.htm, and is used without
permission.
- -----
God and PGP vs. the Snoopy Grey People:
How Secure E-Mail Helps Me Keep My Vows
By Father William J. Morton
Communication, confidentiality and encryption.
Let's start with a simple syllogism:
1. Communication that leads to healing and wholeness is rooted in trust.
2. Trust requires confidentiality.
3. Therefore, communication which leads to healing and wholeness requires
confidentiality.
It's as simple as that. It is my experience as a parish priest that none of
the problems of life can be worked out by the individual operating alone.
Essentially, we need to know that there is one other person who knows what
we are going through and has compassion for us. Beyond that there are the
healing aspects of a relationship which is built on trust.
However, before we share our darkest secrets or heaviest burdens with
someone else we must trust that person. Trust means that we expect the
other person to do us no harm. Specifically when it comes to "telling
things" it means that we expect the other person to keep their mouth shut.
For many years I have maintained confidentiality concerning things that are
told to me. Sometimes the people who have accepted that confidentiality
have grown in their trust and have been able to deal with the major issues
in their lives.
If the Internet is expected to transform personal communication then
confidentiality must be guaranteed. The only way that confidentiality can
be assured is strong encryption in the hands and machines of every person.
The flow of personal information through cyberspace would be just too
tempting for the grey people.
The grey people are the bureaucrats. They are the ones who equate
confidentiality with secrecy. Secrecy implies conspiracy in the
bureaucrat's mind. It is the mindset of the information gatherer, the
filer, the sorter, the tracker, the little grey person in a little grey
cell. "If it is hidden from me it must be secret and therefore it must be
important." The little grey person deals with secrets all day long. Sorts
them, collates them, files them with a clockish soul. "Here is the secret
of the new bomb, stamped and filed with death. Here is the diplomat's
secret negotiation, indexed and cross referenced with destruction. Here is
a secret I cannot see, here is a code I cannot break, it must be pried at
and loosened and brought into the light of my gaze. It is a danger to my
ability to file and track, sort and index."
A little too Kafkaesque? Perhaps. Is there a difference between privacy,
confidentiality and secrecy? Is one good and the other bad? Our society is
based on secrecy. We trust priests to keep the secret of our confession.
Priests take vows to maintain the secrecy, the sanctity of the confession.
We trust lawyers and doctors to maintain the secrecy of our confidences.
And if we are to trust the 'net to carry those confidences then we must
have PGP and other forms of strong encryption.
That is certainly true from an Anglican perspective. We have a strong
tradition of the use of the letter as a means of spiritual guidance,
confession-related or otherwise. Actually this tradition goes deep into the
roots of the Catholic Church. Some of the books regarded as "spiritual
classics" are compilations of correspondence between a person and their
spiritual director. Until the advent of PGP, e-mail was not a suitable
place for such correspondence. It's one thing to have your correspondence
published 100 years after the fact; it's quite another to run the risk of
having your personal thoughts posted to a Usenet newsgroup or read by the
sysop of a BBS. Now people know that even if they hit the wrong button and
send their e-mail to the wrong place, it is secure. Legislation that would
make encryption illegal or require a mandatory back door would totally
compromise any trust in e-mail or any other form of electronic text system
such as word processors.
Whether in Canada or the States or Russia, whether a clergyman is doing
counseling or hearing a confession, and whether the faith is Anglican or
Hindu, the issues here will be the same--trust, privacy, and the dignity
that arises from both. We must not ever let the grey people steal them from
us.
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Hash: RIPEMD160
Simple way around THAT.
1. Write your plaintext.
2. Encrypt it with solid non-USA crypto, producing cyphertext document X.
3. Encrypt cyphertext document X with weak USA crypto, producing cyphertext
document Y.
4. Send cyphertext document Y.
The transmitted document isn't created with illegal crypto, so no red
lights flash at Carnivore HQ.
Easy.
c
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Hash: RIPEMD160
W2K Pro does NOT install Personal Web Server as part of the default
install. Neither is it part of the default install in 98SE.
It *does* come as part of the default install with W2K Server/Advanced
Server/Datacenter Server.
You haven't said anything to contradict my post. I didn't say it was part
of the default install of Win2K Pro - I just said it came with it.
In Win2K Pro, simply go:
Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Add/Remove Windows Components | IIS
It'll ask to be pointed to the location of the Win2K Pro install cabs, and
then that's it. IIS installation up and running.
Slashdot Mirror
"Not having bombed"? Talk about understatement. Blizzard has never had a title sell FEWER THAN A MILLION COPIES.
Buy a Mac... and use Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook Express, and Microsoft Internet Explorer!
Think Different!
Note - JC did not say another ID GAME would be code-released. He just said "another old game".
Philips invented the Compact Disc, and holds the patent to the technology. The "Red Book" is the technical specification for the Compact Disc (tm Philips) media format, and CD audio is often referred to as "Red Book audio" as a result. You may have heard some game soundtracks described in this manner, simply meaning that the game's soundtrack is played as an audio track from the CD as the game plays.
The Philips Red Book specification is very... well, SPECIFIC. It sure as hell doesn't include any leeway for record companies to deliberately introduce noise or bad data in order to try and fool CD-ROM drives. In other words, if a record company's product has been altered in such a manner, it is technically NOT A COMPACT DISC and may not legally display the Philips Compact Disc Digital Audio logo.
And, of course, if a record store advertises, describes, and sells you a "piracy-protected" disc as a Compact Disc, then it is MISLEADING you as to the nature of the product for which you are paying -- a no-no for retailers, and something which will bite them on the ass.
Of course, now that the source of 95% of the world's online pirated software has been shut down, big-name software companies will no doubt be dropping their exorbitant pricing -- the justification for which was the rate of online piracy.
Right?
*cough*
In June 1943, the US Supreme Court ruled that Marconi's patents on radio were invalid, and that the technology had in fact been invented by Nikola Tesla.
you can download IE6(or 5) and get outlook express. That makes it completely free. There is no way(legally) to get outlook without having to pay for Microsoft Office.
Wrong.
Outlook is included with Exchange Server and can be installed on any number of clients at no extra cost.
OK, so the Big Two US antivirus companies appear to be voluntarily cooperating with the FBI as far as non-detection of FBI keyloggers is concerned. How long until:
1. Companies are pressured to install government backdoors in their software
2. It becomes illegal to produce software without government backdoors
3. It becomes illegal to download/use software without government backdoors
4. It becomes illegal to download/use software which DETECTS or REMOVES software containing government backdoors
Fun fun fun! Dum de dum... "Land of the what?"
McAfee is a "product group" of Network Associates, Inc. Another one of NAI's product groups is PGP Security.
NOW how much do you trust recent versions of PGP...?
For some reason, Roald Dahl comes to mind. No idea why.
Yup, he got me with that one :)
Tell that to the Nazis who were prosecuted at Nuremburg for doing things which were perfectly legal when they were done, but which were made illegal by Ex Post Facto laws passed after the conclusion of the war.
Of course, the things which were perfectly legal when they were done were such things as concentration camps and gas chambers, so it's not awfully Politically Correct to point this out, but... it doesn't change the fact that the USA has, in at least one high-profile case, thrown the notion of Ex Post Facto completely out the window when it suited it.
Here's how I do it. First, Javascript is turned off in all browsers. Second, all http traffic is proxied through squid , and I include the following lines in squid.conf:
/ads /Ads
/etc/banlist.txt. banlist.txt contains the URL of every ad-server I've come across since I started recording them about a year ago. If you feel like grabbing the list, I've stuck it up here: http://www.nzgames.com/simon/banlist.txt.
acl adblock url_regex
acl bannerblock url_regex banner
acl popupblock url_regex popup
acl banlist url_regex "/etc/banlist.txt"
The first three lines block all content from any URL that contains one of the strings specified; the fourth line blocks all content from any of the URLs listed in the textfile
Why on earth did you install and run IIS and/or download email before patching the machine?
:)
(pause)
You WERE installing from a legit CD-ROM now, weren't you?
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The following is reproduced in its entirety from
http://www.clark.net/pub/rothman/morton.htm, and is used without
permission.
- -----
God and PGP vs. the Snoopy Grey People:
How Secure E-Mail Helps Me Keep My Vows
By Father William J. Morton
Communication, confidentiality and encryption.
Let's start with a simple syllogism:
1. Communication that leads to healing and wholeness is rooted in trust.
2. Trust requires confidentiality.
3. Therefore, communication which leads to healing and wholeness requires
confidentiality.
It's as simple as that. It is my experience as a parish priest that none of
the problems of life can be worked out by the individual operating alone.
Essentially, we need to know that there is one other person who knows what
we are going through and has compassion for us. Beyond that there are the
healing aspects of a relationship which is built on trust.
However, before we share our darkest secrets or heaviest burdens with
someone else we must trust that person. Trust means that we expect the
other person to do us no harm. Specifically when it comes to "telling
things" it means that we expect the other person to keep their mouth shut.
For many years I have maintained confidentiality concerning things that are
told to me. Sometimes the people who have accepted that confidentiality
have grown in their trust and have been able to deal with the major issues
in their lives.
If the Internet is expected to transform personal communication then
confidentiality must be guaranteed. The only way that confidentiality can
be assured is strong encryption in the hands and machines of every person.
The flow of personal information through cyberspace would be just too
tempting for the grey people.
The grey people are the bureaucrats. They are the ones who equate
confidentiality with secrecy. Secrecy implies conspiracy in the
bureaucrat's mind. It is the mindset of the information gatherer, the
filer, the sorter, the tracker, the little grey person in a little grey
cell. "If it is hidden from me it must be secret and therefore it must be
important." The little grey person deals with secrets all day long. Sorts
them, collates them, files them with a clockish soul. "Here is the secret
of the new bomb, stamped and filed with death. Here is the diplomat's
secret negotiation, indexed and cross referenced with destruction. Here is
a secret I cannot see, here is a code I cannot break, it must be pried at
and loosened and brought into the light of my gaze. It is a danger to my
ability to file and track, sort and index."
A little too Kafkaesque? Perhaps. Is there a difference between privacy,
confidentiality and secrecy? Is one good and the other bad? Our society is
based on secrecy. We trust priests to keep the secret of our confession.
Priests take vows to maintain the secrecy, the sanctity of the confession.
We trust lawyers and doctors to maintain the secrecy of our confidences.
And if we are to trust the 'net to carry those confidences then we must
have PGP and other forms of strong encryption.
That is certainly true from an Anglican perspective. We have a strong
tradition of the use of the letter as a means of spiritual guidance,
confession-related or otherwise. Actually this tradition goes deep into the
roots of the Catholic Church. Some of the books regarded as "spiritual
classics" are compilations of correspondence between a person and their
spiritual director. Until the advent of PGP, e-mail was not a suitable
place for such correspondence. It's one thing to have your correspondence
published 100 years after the fact; it's quite another to run the risk of
having your personal thoughts posted to a Usenet newsgroup or read by the
sysop of a BBS. Now people know that even if they hit the wrong button and
send their e-mail to the wrong place, it is secure. Legislation that would
make encryption illegal or require a mandatory back door would totally
compromise any trust in e-mail or any other form of electronic text system
such as word processors.
Whether in Canada or the States or Russia, whether a clergyman is doing
counseling or hearing a confession, and whether the faith is Anglican or
Hindu, the issues here will be the same--trust, privacy, and the dignity
that arises from both. We must not ever let the grey people steal them from
us.
- -----
c
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RTF article.
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Simple way around THAT.
1. Write your plaintext.
2. Encrypt it with solid non-USA crypto, producing cyphertext document X.
3. Encrypt cyphertext document X with weak USA crypto, producing cyphertext
document Y.
4. Send cyphertext document Y.
The transmitted document isn't created with illegal crypto, so no red
lights flash at Carnivore HQ.
Easy.
c
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W2K Pro does NOT install Personal Web Server as part of the default
install. Neither is it part of the default install in 98SE.
It *does* come as part of the default install with W2K Server/Advanced
Server/Datacenter Server.
You haven't said anything to contradict my post. I didn't say it was part
of the default install of Win2K Pro - I just said it came with it.
In Win2K Pro, simply go:
Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Add/Remove Windows Components | IIS
It'll ask to be pointed to the location of the Win2K Pro install cabs, and
then that's it. IIS installation up and running.
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:) )
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(Jeez Sam, you pop up everywhere
Scramdisk is indeed a very useful - and dare I say it, almost NECESSARY -
tool. ObURL: www.scramdisk.clara.net.
shg (Scramdisk user since 1997)
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How about correspondence while at work, seeking legal advice regarding a
lawsuit which one is bringing against one's employer?
Real life example. Yesterday, actually.
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Is the source available, has it been examined and verified to be backdoor-free, and if so by whom?
All those zombies are probably running Windows 2000 Professional. Hell, it comes with IIS out-of-the-box.
Control Panel | Add/Remove Programs | Add/Remove Windows Components | IIS
Amen. I'm glad you said this, because now I don't have to finish my version of this post (currently under construction in another window).
Mod this up!
I'm grasping at a good description here, but the Turing memorial seems very... appropriate. Very dignified.
Yeah, you never hear the real truth - that Cisco runs the Internet.