Notes on this: Dima is not yet out of jail. Bond is posted, but he now has to process out of Santa Clara County Jail.
Background: When I was a dumb college kid many years ago, I flaked out on several speeding tickets and such, and wound up with several warrants for Failure to Appear. The total dollar amount was $1400, and as a minimum wage cashier for a pet shop there was no way in hell I could pay it. So, on Sunday evening of Spring Break week, I turned myself in to the local PD. 2 court appearances later (different jurisdictions) both judges declared time served, making me a free man in theory. Reality was it took a day and a half from the judge declaring me free to me walking out of LA County Jail a free man. Dima is a bit higher profile than I am, but it's still going to take some time.
Even when he hits the streets, he is still imprisoned, just in a 3000 mile wide cell. He is not a free man until he hits international airspace on a jet bound for Moscow. He is still separated from his family, his job, and his school, and facing 5 years imprisonment in a foreign country.
Ergo, we must continue to turn up the heat. This is yet another small victory, like Adobe, but the war is far from over. On a positive note, press coverage is picking up, and more publicity is a very good thing. Let's not lose our momentum here folks, onward... Free Dima!
I support the right of my employer to rummage through my mail. They own the hardware, software, infrastructure, etc. as was noted by others above. There is one other consideration however. If you are unhappy with the frequency in which your employer exercises this right, quit. I currently work for a company where although we have the right to do this, we choose not to exercise it except in extreme circumstances. Frankly, if your company's PHBs are doing this, they're certainly abusing you in other ways as well, and it's time to find some better PHBs. They do exist-I work for some of them. But you have to be skilled to be hired by them, and you have to be persistent to find them-they don't hire as often because there is little turnover. It may not be easy, but I assure you the rewards are worth the effort.
The guy was arrested for creating and selling a device which breaks Adobe's "encryption".
He is the EMPLOYEE of Elcomsoft. He wrote the software for them. THEY sold it in the US. Either Elcomsoft or the distributor selling the product in the US is responsible. NOT Mr. Skylarov. According to your logic, the RIAA didn't take the right course of action in suing Napster, Inc. They should have simply driven to company HQ and arrested everybody that walked out the building.
"If you are not already aware, Elcomsoft are the makers of a heinous Spam-ware package, Advanced Direct Remailer, which circumvents an outgoing SMTP server, and sends directly to recipient servers.
So? I hate spam as much as the next guy. So what. The point is that the DMCA is shit, and this poor bastard is being held under the flimsiest of excuses. If we start applying different standards to spammers, who's next? Jews? Blacks? Asians? It's all or nothing buddy. See Franklin's quote about those who would give up liberty... Regards,
Sealand/Havenco are skating on thin ice. They have a great idea, but the cold reality of the situation is that all of their bandwidth comes from one place (mainland England, I belive.)
Not true. Their bandwidth is currently satellite. While they obviously have to downlink somewhere, it's pretty irrelevant where that downlink is. They have plans for fiber, but are waiting for the money to be there-what's the point of having lots of bandwidth with no customers to use it... However, the point that they are dependent on England is well taken. Trying to get supplies from France or something would be an expensive bitch. Clearly, if the UK decided to get nasty Sealand would be in for some rough waters, so to speak.
I think the question i would like to answer is did MAPS have an effect ?
Worked for me. I'm a sysadmin for a small to medium company, with about 150 mail users. Most had no spam problem to speak of, but several were deluged. After setting up MAPS, I found we rejected on average 30-50 messages per day, with an all time high of 262 in a 24 hr period. Every mail is rejected with text containing my direct phone number, inviting a call if the reject is in error. Over 2 months, I have yet to see a single legitimate bounce. I'd call that very effective... Regards,
Anyone seen a good resource/howto for authenticating 2k boxes against OpenLDAP? Seems that iPlanet has this going somehow with their product. There's no way in hell we're iplementing AD at my site. As it stands, I've yet to find any decent documentation for how to setup a schema that MS will be happy with, and more importantly how to tell 2k to consult same. FWIW, Apple's done a great job of this with OS X-admin users have to be in the NetInfo db, but mere mortals can be looked up from any LDAP server with noting more than a check box in System Prefs. Nice. Somehow, I have a feeling this is one thing Redmond *isn't* going to steal...
So you "saw a group [you] liked" on TV, downloaded some music, then owed it all to Napster? How's that? Why did you like this band if you weren't already familiar with their music? Does Napster deserve 100% of the credit for you showing up and giving this band money?
Well, yes. I'm not in the habit of going to a live show because somebody can put together 20 minutes of decent material on TV. While the TV show turned me on to them, it wasn't enough for me to run out and blow a cool 20 on a CD. So, Napster was the missing link. Without it, no CD sales, no show sales-give me 6 mos. without seeing 'em again and I might forget who they were altogether-and this is not the kind of group you'll find on MTV. Rather obscure. Additionally, I've got a 3 year old kid, so going out is rather a pain in the ass, I won't do it on the spur of the moment.
cd they downloaded. Sounds to me it was *you* who were irrational here. You tell them you napstered their songs and still bought the cds and went to concert, and they're supposed to jump up and down, hail napster? Because of (4) people?
Not all the songs were available on Napster, but I'd have purchased the CD nonetheless. I don't have any kind of silly idea that musicians should go unpaid-not surprising seeing as how music was my career before I found I could make considerably more as a sysadmin. As for the 4 people comment, well, it's 5 including me, and in a 200 seat hall, while not overwhelming, I would not call the numbers insignificant either. I would love to have a 2.5% raise. Beats the hell outta a poke in the eye with a sharp stick...
About 2 months ago I saw a group I liked on a Nationally televised show (name withheld to protect the guilty from pro-napster nastygrams). I subsequently hit Napster and downloaded several tracks. I liked 'em, so I found the groups website and found they were playing locally. I purposefully held off on purchasing the CDs so that I could get them at the local gig-ensuring more profit for the group. I also bought a shirt and brought 4 people with me. End result, the group grossed well over $100 between tix and merch. And were it not for the tracks on Napster, the whole thing would've been dead before it started.
After the gig, the members of the group came out and mingled with the audience. I mentioned to one of the members that our presence was due to Napster, she made a comment about Napster being evil. I followed up with an email to the group, specifically outlining precisely what happened and how much they made directly due to Napster. They just don't get it. They're too caught up in the concept that it's a violation of copyright to grok the fact that they are benefiting from it. The irrational fear that they are losing money is totally blinding them to the reality of the situation. You can lead a horse to water...
It's all about progress. Some people embrace it and thrive, others fear it and try to stop it. They seldom succeed, and often damage themselves in the process-although many never even figure this out.
Anyway, I guess my point is that I'm not too worried about critical secrets being found on a compromised Mac, but that a phalanx of grandmas will have their iMacs on their cable modems end up being used as DDoS hosts.
This comment brought up a lovely visual picture of Monty Python's Hell's Grannies going 1337.
How do the electricians get that cable through the wall and conduit? Fish Tape. Probably run you 20-30 bills at Home Depot or such. It's a long skinny relatively stiff length of steel, you run it through the wall or hole in the floor or whatever, then take your cat 5 (or electrical wire), tape it to the fish tape with a piece of electrical tape, and pull it through. Works wonders. Beats the hell outta trying to stick coat hangers through the holes...
I'm sure the poster didn't mean to take one of the most eloquent turns of phrase of the 20th century, "the surly bonds of earth...", and apply it toward the Communists space efforts.
Damn straight I did. The original poem was written by a US pilot serving the RCAF in '41; he was fighting against the Germans, along with Communist allies. Remember the photos of Stalin, Churchill, and FDR? At the time the verse was written the Communists were our allies against the 3rd Reich. Just because Reagan lifted it to use for his Challenger speech doesn't make it off limits for the rest of us. And just what the hell is wrong with the Soviet's space efforts? Are we Americans the only ones allowed to be recognized for our space efforts? Wake up, the cold war ended years ago...
Your blurb makes it sound like the only reason getting a man into space was good was because it meant that the Americans decided to put a man on the moon. What ever happened to getting a man into space (and back safely) being an amazing, incredible feat in itself?
Mea culpa. I didn't mean for it to come across that way, but I see how it could. What it comes down to is this: I consider the moon landing to be one of the greatest accomplishments in the history of human kind, and the USSR was the prime motivator behind it. Yuri and the USSR earned their place in history with his flight; not only did they make that amazing feat of their own, they also pushed the envelope of space exploration by their goading of the US. There's no way the US would have done it in '69 without Sputnik and Vostok (and I strongly suspect Kennedy's assassination/martyrdom was also key here).
So, I celebrate both achievements, and appreciate just how closely they were related. And I raise my glass to the USSR and Yuri for both their groundbreaking flight and the resulting impact they had on the US space program. The moon landing almost certainly would not have happened when it did if we were honoring John Glenn as the first in orbit.
This sure sounds like somebody's nutty idea on how to ride out a rolling blackout. If it is, and you're looking to power everything but the kitchen sink for a 1-2 hr period, a UPS ain't gonna cut it. Get a generator, or better yet a solar array. I did the rough math for my house, I use about 500kwh/month. Some rough estimates of a solar array were around $7-10k. The cool thing is, if I generate more than I use, PG&E is required by law to buy it from me. For the moment I'm holding on to see what happens. With power rates capped around $0.13/kwr, it's not yet fully cost efficient to go solar. But, if the PUC or Bankruptcy judge allows rates to approach $0.20/kwr I get close to the break-even point. So, if they get their rate increase, it makes the grid power expensive enough to justify my generating my own, with the added benefit of immunity to blackouts... But, for somebody who just *has* to be able to watch the boob tube when power is out, cost efficiency isn't the whole story. Regards,
1 am PST, it's been posted for 15 minutes, and the damn thing's already/.ed-and no, it's not running on a Mac, at least not according to Netcraft... Here's the Google cache... Regards,
As many astute readers have pointed out, Java's a platform-independent language. It doesn't matter if it's Pentium IV or Amiga. If there's a compiler for it, it will run.
While I agree entirely with your post, I feel obligated to point out that your "one sentence" is actually 3... :-P
When I was young and foolish I wasted many an hour blowing Smurfs to hell... The game was called Castle Smurfenstein, and was basically ripped off from Wolfenstein. They claimed that SMURF stood for Secret Military Undergound Resistance Force, and that the smurfs were actually Hitler's last chance at revenge. They would make all the worlds children peace loving and docile, then the smurfs would pop up with submachine guns and blow 'em all away, thereby reviving the third reich...
There is something rather pleasing about sticking a virtual gun in a Smurf's chest, hearing it beg for it's little blue life, and then blowing it to hell...;-) I may have to go find myself an Apple II emulator and relive my glory days as Smurfbutcher Bob... Regards,
Important Note: Power Mac G4 and PowerBook G4 computers introduced in January 2001 are not compatible with Mac OS X Public Beta.
So, in your world new hardware is expected to run the Beta software which came out before it did? Duh. OSXPB was released months before these machines, and by the time they hit the streets X will be close behind if not first. Why the hell would Apple spend one iota of energy making thier HW compatible with a prerelease Beta? Newsflash: they don't run MacOS 7.1 either. Pity. 7.1 was stable as hell.
Use some common sense folks. It goes a long way...
And it still seemed slow and resource hungry compared to SuSE 6.4 for PPC. Explain that one.
Besides the fact that X Server was ALWAYS a bastard stepchild, it's completely irrelevant. Past Performance Is No Guarantee of Future Results. We're talking about X final release. Even X PB is not much of an indicator. Wait 'till the debug code is gone before passing judgement. Duh.
Anyone in the know care to comment? I've heard lots of good stuff, and the country/climate seem to fit my tastes. Would love to hear more about the quality of life, freedoms, etc... Regards,
Dunno if this'll moderate up high enough this late in the game, but what the hell...
I have found that Get Connected has a huge database of plans, rates, calling areas, etc... Also, they index DSL, Long Distance, ISPs, cable/satellite TV, calling cards, just about any connectivity need. Pretty useful site.
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Notes on this: Dima is not yet out of jail. Bond is posted, but he now has to process out of Santa Clara County Jail.
Background: When I was a dumb college kid many years ago, I flaked out on several speeding tickets and such, and wound up with several warrants for Failure to Appear. The total dollar amount was $1400, and as a minimum wage cashier for a pet shop there was no way in hell I could pay it. So, on Sunday evening of Spring Break week, I turned myself in to the local PD. 2 court appearances later (different jurisdictions) both judges declared time served, making me a free man in theory. Reality was it took a day and a half from the judge declaring me free to me walking out of LA County Jail a free man. Dima is a bit higher profile than I am, but it's still going to take some time.
Even when he hits the streets, he is still imprisoned, just in a 3000 mile wide cell. He is not a free man until he hits international airspace on a jet bound for Moscow. He is still separated from his family, his job, and his school, and facing 5 years imprisonment in a foreign country.
Ergo, we must continue to turn up the heat. This is yet another small victory, like Adobe, but the war is far from over. On a positive note, press coverage is picking up, and more publicity is a very good thing. Let's not lose our momentum here folks, onward... Free Dima!
I support the right of my employer to rummage through my mail. They own the hardware, software, infrastructure, etc. as was noted by others above. There is one other consideration however. If you are unhappy with the frequency in which your employer exercises this right, quit. I currently work for a company where although we have the right to do this, we choose not to exercise it except in extreme circumstances. Frankly, if your company's PHBs are doing this, they're certainly abusing you in other ways as well, and it's time to find some better PHBs. They do exist-I work for some of them. But you have to be skilled to be hired by them, and you have to be persistent to find them-they don't hire as often because there is little turnover. It may not be easy, but I assure you the rewards are worth the effort.
Regards,
The guy was arrested for creating and selling a device which breaks Adobe's "encryption".
He is the EMPLOYEE of Elcomsoft. He wrote the software for them. THEY sold it in the US. Either Elcomsoft or the distributor selling the product in the US is responsible. NOT Mr. Skylarov. According to your logic, the RIAA didn't take the right course of action in suing Napster, Inc. They should have simply driven to company HQ and arrested everybody that walked out the building.
Regards,
"If you are not already aware, Elcomsoft are the makers of a heinous Spam-ware package, Advanced Direct Remailer, which circumvents an outgoing SMTP server, and sends directly to recipient servers.
So? I hate spam as much as the next guy. So what. The point is that the DMCA is shit, and this poor bastard is being held under the flimsiest of excuses. If we start applying different standards to spammers, who's next? Jews? Blacks? Asians? It's all or nothing buddy. See Franklin's quote about those who would give up liberty...
Regards,
Sealand/Havenco are skating on thin ice. They have a great idea, but the cold reality of the situation is that all of their bandwidth comes from one place (mainland England, I belive.)
Not true. Their bandwidth is currently satellite. While they obviously have to downlink somewhere, it's pretty irrelevant where that downlink is. They have plans for fiber, but are waiting for the money to be there-what's the point of having lots of bandwidth with no customers to use it... However, the point that they are dependent on England is well taken. Trying to get supplies from France or something would be an expensive bitch. Clearly, if the UK decided to get nasty Sealand would be in for some rough waters, so to speak.
Regards,
I think the question i would like to answer is did MAPS have an effect ?
Worked for me. I'm a sysadmin for a small to medium company, with about 150 mail users. Most had no spam problem to speak of, but several were deluged. After setting up MAPS, I found we rejected on average 30-50 messages per day, with an all time high of 262 in a 24 hr period. Every mail is rejected with text containing my direct phone number, inviting a call if the reject is in error. Over 2 months, I have yet to see a single legitimate bounce. I'd call that very effective...
Regards,
Glad to know I'm not the only fan of Slippery Jim around here... ;-)
Regards,
Anyone seen a good resource/howto for authenticating 2k boxes against OpenLDAP? Seems that iPlanet has this going somehow with their product. There's no way in hell we're iplementing AD at my site. As it stands, I've yet to find any decent documentation for how to setup a schema that MS will be happy with, and more importantly how to tell 2k to consult same. FWIW, Apple's done a great job of this with OS X-admin users have to be in the NetInfo db, but mere mortals can be looked up from any LDAP server with noting more than a check box in System Prefs. Nice. Somehow, I have a feeling this is one thing Redmond *isn't* going to steal...
Regards,
So you "saw a group [you] liked" on TV, downloaded some music, then owed it all to Napster? How's that? Why did you like this band if you weren't already familiar with their music? Does Napster deserve 100% of the credit for you showing up and giving this band money?
Well, yes. I'm not in the habit of going to a live show because somebody can put together 20 minutes of decent material on TV. While the TV show turned me on to them, it wasn't enough for me to run out and blow a cool 20 on a CD. So, Napster was the missing link. Without it, no CD sales, no show sales-give me 6 mos. without seeing 'em again and I might forget who they were altogether-and this is not the kind of group you'll find on MTV. Rather obscure. Additionally, I've got a 3 year old kid, so going out is rather a pain in the ass, I won't do it on the spur of the moment.
cd they downloaded. Sounds to me it was *you* who were irrational here. You tell them you napstered their songs and still bought the cds and went to concert, and they're supposed to jump up and down, hail napster? Because of (4) people?
Not all the songs were available on Napster, but I'd have purchased the CD nonetheless. I don't have any kind of silly idea that musicians should go unpaid-not surprising seeing as how music was my career before I found I could make considerably more as a sysadmin. As for the 4 people comment, well, it's 5 including me, and in a 200 seat hall, while not overwhelming, I would not call the numbers insignificant either. I would love to have a 2.5% raise. Beats the hell outta a poke in the eye with a sharp stick...
Regards,
About 2 months ago I saw a group I liked on a Nationally televised show (name withheld to protect the guilty from pro-napster nastygrams). I subsequently hit Napster and downloaded several tracks. I liked 'em, so I found the groups website and found they were playing locally. I purposefully held off on purchasing the CDs so that I could get them at the local gig-ensuring more profit for the group. I also bought a shirt and brought 4 people with me. End result, the group grossed well over $100 between tix and merch. And were it not for the tracks on Napster, the whole thing would've been dead before it started.
After the gig, the members of the group came out and mingled with the audience. I mentioned to one of the members that our presence was due to Napster, she made a comment about Napster being evil. I followed up with an email to the group, specifically outlining precisely what happened and how much they made directly due to Napster. They just don't get it. They're too caught up in the concept that it's a violation of copyright to grok the fact that they are benefiting from it. The irrational fear that they are losing money is totally blinding them to the reality of the situation. You can lead a horse to water...
It's all about progress. Some people embrace it and thrive, others fear it and try to stop it. They seldom succeed, and often damage themselves in the process-although many never even figure this out.
Regards,
That finds the prospect of a drunken bender at the taqueria a truly terrifying proposal? At any price?
Regards,
Anyway, I guess my point is that I'm not too worried about critical secrets being found on a compromised Mac, but that a phalanx of grandmas will have their iMacs on their cable modems end up being used as DDoS hosts.
This comment brought up a lovely visual picture of Monty Python's Hell's Grannies going 1337.
h3LL's 9rANNI35 pwN j00!!!
Regards,
How do the electricians get that cable through the wall and conduit? Fish Tape. Probably run you 20-30 bills at Home Depot or such. It's a long skinny relatively stiff length of steel, you run it through the wall or hole in the floor or whatever, then take your cat 5 (or electrical wire), tape it to the fish tape with a piece of electrical tape, and pull it through. Works wonders. Beats the hell outta trying to stick coat hangers through the holes...
Regards,
I'm sure the poster didn't mean to take one of the most eloquent turns of phrase of the 20th century, "the surly bonds of earth...", and apply it toward the Communists space efforts.
Damn straight I did. The original poem was written by a US pilot serving the RCAF in '41; he was fighting against the Germans, along with Communist allies. Remember the photos of Stalin, Churchill, and FDR? At the time the verse was written the Communists were our allies against the 3rd Reich. Just because Reagan lifted it to use for his Challenger speech doesn't make it off limits for the rest of us. And just what the hell is wrong with the Soviet's space efforts? Are we Americans the only ones allowed to be recognized for our space efforts? Wake up, the cold war ended years ago...
Regards,
Your blurb makes it sound like the only reason getting a man into space was good was because it meant that the Americans decided to put a man on the moon. What ever happened to getting a man into space (and back safely) being an amazing, incredible feat in itself?
Mea culpa. I didn't mean for it to come across that way, but I see how it could. What it comes down to is this: I consider the moon landing to be one of the greatest accomplishments in the history of human kind, and the USSR was the prime motivator behind it. Yuri and the USSR earned their place in history with his flight; not only did they make that amazing feat of their own, they also pushed the envelope of space exploration by their goading of the US. There's no way the US would have done it in '69 without Sputnik and Vostok (and I strongly suspect Kennedy's assassination/martyrdom was also key here).
So, I celebrate both achievements, and appreciate just how closely they were related. And I raise my glass to the USSR and Yuri for both their groundbreaking flight and the resulting impact they had on the US space program. The moon landing almost certainly would not have happened when it did if we were honoring John Glenn as the first in orbit.
Regards,
This sure sounds like somebody's nutty idea on how to ride out a rolling blackout. If it is, and you're looking to power everything but the kitchen sink for a 1-2 hr period, a UPS ain't gonna cut it. Get a generator, or better yet a solar array. I did the rough math for my house, I use about 500kwh/month. Some rough estimates of a solar array were around $7-10k. The cool thing is, if I generate more than I use, PG&E is required by law to buy it from me. For the moment I'm holding on to see what happens. With power rates capped around $0.13/kwr, it's not yet fully cost efficient to go solar. But, if the PUC or Bankruptcy judge allows rates to approach $0.20/kwr I get close to the break-even point. So, if they get their rate increase, it makes the grid power expensive enough to justify my generating my own, with the added benefit of immunity to blackouts... But, for somebody who just *has* to be able to watch the boob tube when power is out, cost efficiency isn't the whole story.
Regards,
1 am PST, it's been posted for 15 minutes, and the damn thing's already /.ed-and no, it's not running on a Mac, at least not according to Netcraft... Here's the Google cache...
Regards,
While I agree entirely with your post, I feel obligated to point out that your "one sentence" is actually 3...
:-P
Regards,
When I was young and foolish I wasted many an hour blowing Smurfs to hell... The game was called Castle Smurfenstein, and was basically ripped off from Wolfenstein. They claimed that SMURF stood for Secret Military Undergound Resistance Force, and that the smurfs were actually Hitler's last chance at revenge. They would make all the worlds children peace loving and docile, then the smurfs would pop up with submachine guns and blow 'em all away, thereby reviving the third reich...
;-) I may have to go find myself an Apple II emulator and relive my glory days as Smurfbutcher Bob...
There is something rather pleasing about sticking a virtual gun in a Smurf's chest, hearing it beg for it's little blue life, and then blowing it to hell...
Regards,
Looks like they're referring to the Linux Counter project:Here's his record.
Regards,
Best be careful there-gonna get this blocked by the censorware...
:-|
Regards,
Important Note: Power Mac G4 and PowerBook G4 computers introduced in January 2001 are not compatible with Mac OS X Public Beta.
So, in your world new hardware is expected to run the Beta software which came out before it did? Duh. OSXPB was released months before these machines, and by the time they hit the streets X will be close behind if not first. Why the hell would Apple spend one iota of energy making thier HW compatible with a prerelease Beta? Newsflash: they don't run MacOS 7.1 either. Pity. 7.1 was stable as hell.
Use some common sense folks. It goes a long way...
Regards,
And it still seemed slow and resource hungry compared to SuSE 6.4 for PPC. Explain that one.
Besides the fact that X Server was ALWAYS a bastard stepchild, it's completely irrelevant. Past Performance Is No Guarantee of Future Results. We're talking about X final release. Even X PB is not much of an indicator. Wait 'till the debug code is gone before passing judgement. Duh.
Regards,
Anyone in the know care to comment? I've heard lots of good stuff, and the country/climate seem to fit my tastes. Would love to hear more about the quality of life, freedoms, etc...
Regards,
Dunno if this'll moderate up high enough this late in the game, but what the hell...
I have found that Get Connected has a huge database of plans, rates, calling areas, etc... Also, they index DSL, Long Distance, ISPs, cable/satellite TV, calling cards, just about any connectivity need. Pretty useful site.
Regards,