I'd agree that Luxembourg is more than a city, but I think that HongKong classifies -- especially now that it's been re-absorbed into China and is no longer a country/colony in it's own right.
Note that (greater) LA is also a multi-city entity (metropolis).
I think that you're still talking about a simple port filter. A stateful multi-layer protection would provide that sort of protection, but it would also want to know about your game.
It might even know the protocol well enough to recognize a Packet Of Death and know to not allow it through the firewall.
It could also be configured to only allow game playing by certain characters, at certain times of the day (even if it does use port 80) and/or require you to provide extra authentication to go out.
For SSH, it might even demand your private akeys (ugh!) and inspect the traffic looking for BPN signs.
note: Most firewalls -- even the simplest ones recognize the FTP protocol and will allow the related data connections thru. Although this may technically make them multi-layer, I consider it a special case because FTP is so old and so widespread that it's almost stupid to not know about it.
Platitudes about being friends of the OS movement aside -- The 'offer' that came from their PR group isn't even close to being within the bounds of what the GPL requires. If you read their response, they're demanding that I go into their binaries and figure out which pieces of GPL code they have in the machine, and then write them with a list.
As a (pirate, at the moment) distributer of GPL software, it's their legal responsibility to inform us about which pieces of they're using so that we can then ask them for the source code. and given that they're the ones who violate the license, I figure that they should be the ones beending over backwards to make things easier for us not the other way 'round.
Technically: having violated the GPL, on the code in their routers, they're now GPL limbo. They have lost all rights distribute the software, and must now do whatever it takes to satisfy the GPL copyright owners that they're not going to do this again.
I take that back.
They have to do whatever it takes to satisfy the GPL copyright owners period. Nominally, I would expect this to be something like payment of legal fees, putting a prominent notice on their website and distributing free source CD's via all of their distributors -- but there's no reason why it couldn't include a $500K 'administrative fee' as well.
Of course, if they keep on stonewalling, some GPL owners could just refuse permission outright.
You don't have to worry about Tempest issues.
At least, not with manual typewriters, anyways.
In any case, I'm completely horrified at the idea of mandating the use of Win2K in an environment where security is an issue. I had a student who, in 4 tries, was unable to install and upgrade his Win2K box before he was infected. I remember a slashdot article about similar problems. As somebody else mentioned: One rogue virus and an attacker could take down the entire defense infrastructure.
It's not like Linux is entirely immune, either (although it does appear to be a good bit more secure and reliable than Wintendos). I'd much rather see a focus on diversity and interoperability (I guess I'm speaking sincere choice, here)
Skylerov took some reasonable effort to ensure that his code wouldn't be used improperly. Nontheless, he ended up in jail in a foreign country and unable to return to his home family and job for a long period of time. And now, the US is denying him a visa to return to the States to defend himself against the accusations that Adobe made (and later withdrew) against him.
I can understand that Cox wouldn't want to be skyleroved.. Yes he works for RedHat and RedHat is a US company.... All the more reason to be worried about being made a 'test case'.
It's one thing to cry 'paranoid'. It's another to be told by your lawyer that, should you take what you consider to be a completely reasonable and prudent action, you run the risk of:
Being arrested and possibly held without bail (risk of flight as a foreign national).
havin your trip schedule completely messed up.
being denied access to your primary employer's home state
having to defend yourself against criminal charges (even if you're found innocent, it could cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars).
If found guilty, you could end up in jail for years.
Given a choice between this, and making a political statement about the stupidity of this law by simply obeying it, what would you do? If you had a family to support, would this change your decision?
Another variation on the burning and oxygen display:
Fill a balloon with propane. light it... Note that you don't get an explosion... just a fireball.. Burns at the interface of air/propane.
Fill second balloon with oxygen/air. Add propane... Do the same thing (I forget the proportions... I think it's 1 Oxygen to 2 propane). Note an actual EXPLOSION because gasses are pre-mixed. This is a good intro to the mathematics of explosives (and things like why car gas tanks don't usually explode like in the movies)
From my experience, I don't think that this site is slashdotted -- just slow because it's across the Pacific. Nontheless, posting the text of the article rarely hurts. What bothers me more is that 7 points have been put into this article in a moderation war.
Personally, I figure that it's better to have this post moderated up than down because it relieves unnecessary load on the pan-pacific links.
I went in half expecting it but was still disappointed to be proven wrong.
When I read the article, what do I find but that for 3 out of 4 (re)loads of the page I end up with an ad for Microsoft shopping. To add insult to injury, the "Resource Guide" next to the ads suggest Auctions at uBid.
While this may just be a coincidence, it seems far too blatent for my liking.
Although Rossmo developed his software in Vancouver, it didn't get a very good reception here. Rossmo used his software to conclude that 50+ women missing in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside weren't a coincidence. Unfortunately for him, the missing women were mostly low-rent prostitutes, and the Downton Eastside includes the postal code with the lowest average rent in Canada. It wasn't the mayor's highest priority by far.
Vancouver's Mayor had more police manpower directed towards a high profile pot shop in the area than the case of the 50 missing women. Rossmo's thesis was pooh-poohed and he was demoted and effectively run off the force.
The missing prostitute case continued to be a willfully low priority of the Vancouver police department until it recieved some publicy (including, I believe, being featured on "America's Most wanted" -- "Vancouver's a great place to be a serial killer -- cops cry '50 missing and all's well!'"
A little over 2 years later, they've charged a guy with killing 15 of those missing women, and are searching for more remains on his pig farm.
From what I've been able to piece together, he abused them, killed them, ran their bodies through a meat grinder (or branch grinder) and buried the ground-up bits on his farm.
In the meantime, Downtown Eastside residents who were formerly unwilling to report mysterious disappearances of friends to the cops have now brought the number of missing women into the 60 person range.
What were you smoking and/or drinking? LSD flashback perhaps?
About two years ago, a friend of mine was on Wreck beach late one night when there was an absolutely spectacular northern lights display that almost covered the sky. As she was watching it, she said aloud "Oh, man, I can just imagine watching this on LSD".
3 guys (strangers) who were just behind her chimed up in unison.
... some people thought it was a crashing/exploding airplane. If that is true it is a lot less arrogant to call the police.
How would you like it if the airplane/spaceship you were in crashed in the middle of nowhere and the only two people who saw it said to themselves "Don't call it in -- It may just be a meteor, and we'll look stupid".
Actually, I believe that even if it is 'just a meteor', astronomers use the calls in to police to help pinpoint if and where the object actually touched the ground.
Under California law, fireworks include "any device containing chemical elements and chemical compounds capable of burning independently of the oxygen of the atmosphere....
Sodium in mineral oil doesn't fit this description... Unless you ship it with water (a really bad idea). It's still a hazardous chemical, but it's not a firework because it won't burn as shipped.
Another story no one believes is the freak in California who stole a TANK and takes a stroll downtown with it.
I know that this occurred in Germany. The kid that did it, ended up overturning the tank into a water-filled ditch. I 'm not sure if he ended up drowning, but I do remember that there was some worry about his safety when he turned the tank over..
None of the other moderations make sense. It's not a troll, it's not redundant. It's not quite funny (until you understand it as stupid).
It's just stupid
If you haven't figured it out yet, the stuff that was made in the 50s' is still so radioactive that One is being stored in it's own cast-lead bowl.
On the other hand stuff made since they realized that they were killing their customers is no longer radioactive -- because they stopped using radioactive elements in the creation!
What language to use depends on many things -- including your experience and the way that you think about problems.
C gives you lots of rope to hang yourself with
OCAML, on the other hand lets you expressivly designate the contitions under which the rope will hang you.
They can disclose your identifying information if you do just about anything worse than sneeze. They reserve the right to disclose your information or "take any other action DBP deems necessary" if you so much as embarass people!
Be very careful not to piss these people off if you use them.
On the bright side,
If you use your domain to spam, they appear to reserve the right to just shut you down completely.
Fax spamming is a little bit easier to shut down with laws, because people doing fax spamming are generally in the same jurisdiction as the person recieving it. It's reall expensive to send a fax to Oklahoma from Fujian province, China. It's cheaper to send a few thousand emails between the two places than to send a single fax.
It's much easier to sue a spammer in your local-calling zone that it is to sue one in China or Korea.
The news isn't so much that they're squirming out of the DOJ agreement. What's news is how they're violating the agreement. If they'd actually stayed within the spirit and word of the agreement, that would have also been news. In that case I would have been pleasantly surprised.
If someone shoots you in the foot, it doesn't always work to just quietly limp away -- even if they've done it half a dozen times before and you've got an injunction against them for it. If nothing else, it's good to make sure that other people know that, despite their claims, they haven't reformed their ways.
It doesn't seem to be tied to any specific event or announcement. I wonder if one of the editors just installed it and fell in love.
No need for it to be tied to a specific event. It actually could be a case that one of the editors has gotten exposure to it and found out how good it was.. I did that to my roommate with RH6.0, and he turned into a bigtime Linux booster. 7.3 and it's non-RedHat bretheren are a good bit better, so I can definitely see a NYT editor going gah gah over it.
Reporters can be a snarky lot. When they find out that they've been lied to for the last decade or so, then can get downright crusaderish.
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps, but I find women speaking english with a German accent more sexy than evil.
That's 1 domain for every 2 or 3 families. I think that they have rather high expectations -- especially at $50/domain/year.
Note that (greater) LA is also a multi-city entity (metropolis).
It could also be configured to only allow game playing by certain characters, at certain times of the day (even if it does use port 80) and/or require you to provide extra authentication to go out.
For SSH, it might even demand your private akeys (ugh!) and inspect the traffic looking for BPN signs.
note: Most firewalls -- even the simplest ones recognize the FTP protocol and will allow the related data connections thru. Although this may technically make them multi-layer, I consider it a special case because FTP is so old and so widespread that it's almost stupid to not know about it.
As a (pirate, at the moment) distributer of GPL software, it's their legal responsibility to inform us about which pieces of they're using so that we can then ask them for the source code. and given that they're the ones who violate the license, I figure that they should be the ones beending over backwards to make things easier for us not the other way 'round.
Technically: having violated the GPL, on the code in their routers, they're now GPL limbo. They have lost all rights distribute the software, and must now do whatever it takes to satisfy the GPL copyright owners that they're not going to do this again.
I take that back.
They have to do whatever it takes to satisfy the GPL copyright owners period. Nominally, I would expect this to be something like payment of legal fees, putting a prominent notice on their website and distributing free source CD's via all of their distributors -- but there's no reason why it couldn't include a $500K 'administrative fee' as well.
Of course, if they keep on stonewalling, some GPL owners could just refuse permission outright.
At least, not with manual typewriters, anyways.
In any case, I'm completely horrified at the idea of mandating the use of Win2K in an environment where security is an issue. I had a student who, in 4 tries, was unable to install and upgrade his Win2K box before he was infected. I remember a slashdot article about similar problems. As somebody else mentioned: One rogue virus and an attacker could take down the entire defense infrastructure.
It's not like Linux is entirely immune, either (although it does appear to be a good bit more secure and reliable than Wintendos). I'd much rather see a focus on diversity and interoperability (I guess I'm speaking sincere choice, here)
I'd like to think that the penguin reference was something of a red herring.
Actually, just about any color herring would do just fine.
I can understand that Cox wouldn't want to be skyleroved.. Yes he works for RedHat and RedHat is a US company.... All the more reason to be worried about being made a 'test case'.
It's one thing to cry 'paranoid'. It's another to be told by your lawyer that, should you take what you consider to be a completely reasonable and prudent action, you run the risk of:
- Being arrested and possibly held without bail (risk of flight as a foreign national).
- havin your trip schedule completely messed up.
- being denied access to your primary employer's home state
- having to defend yourself against criminal charges (even if you're found innocent, it could cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars).
- If found guilty, you could end up in jail for years.
Remember: We already have Skylerov as example of having this happen to a foreign national.Given a choice between this, and making a political statement about the stupidity of this law by simply obeying it, what would you do? If you had a family to support, would this change your decision?
Fill a balloon with propane. light it... Note that you don't get an explosion... just a fireball.. Burns at the interface of air/propane. Fill second balloon with oxygen/air. Add propane... Do the same thing (I forget the proportions... I think it's 1 Oxygen to 2 propane). Note an actual EXPLOSION because gasses are pre-mixed. This is a good intro to the mathematics of explosives (and things like why car gas tanks don't usually explode like in the movies)
Personally, I figure that it's better to have this post moderated up than down because it relieves unnecessary load on the pan-pacific links.
When I read the article, what do I find but that for 3 out of 4 (re)loads of the page I end up with an ad for Microsoft shopping. To add insult to injury, the "Resource Guide" next to the ads suggest Auctions at uBid.
While this may just be a coincidence, it seems far too blatent for my liking.
Vancouver's Mayor had more police manpower directed towards a high profile pot shop in the area than the case of the 50 missing women. Rossmo's thesis was pooh-poohed and he was demoted and effectively run off the force.
The missing prostitute case continued to be a willfully low priority of the Vancouver police department until it recieved some publicy (including, I believe, being featured on "America's Most wanted" -- "Vancouver's a great place to be a serial killer -- cops cry '50 missing and all's well!'"
A little over 2 years later, they've charged a guy with killing 15 of those missing women, and are searching for more remains on his pig farm.
From what I've been able to piece together, he abused them, killed them, ran their bodies through a meat grinder (or branch grinder) and buried the ground-up bits on his farm.
In the meantime, Downtown Eastside residents who were formerly unwilling to report mysterious disappearances of friends to the cops have now brought the number of missing women into the 60 person range.
More info on the missing women case can be found on the CBC website.
Note that he said "an old" girlfriend (as in Ex-but-still-friends). Many of us have those.
About two years ago, a friend of mine was on Wreck beach late one night when there was an absolutely spectacular northern lights display that almost covered the sky. As she was watching it, she said aloud "Oh, man, I can just imagine watching this on LSD".
3 guys (strangers) who were just behind her chimed up in unison.
How would you like it if the airplane/spaceship you were in crashed in the middle of nowhere and the only two people who saw it said to themselves "Don't call it in -- It may just be a meteor, and we'll look stupid".
Actually, I believe that even if it is 'just a meteor', astronomers use the calls in to police to help pinpoint if and where the object actually touched the ground.
Sodium in mineral oil doesn't fit this description... Unless you ship it with water (a really bad idea). It's still a hazardous chemical, but it's not a firework because it won't burn as shipped.
$ units acre-feet litres
- * 1233486.8
In other words, 1 acre at 10 feet deep would give you about 12million litres of water.I know that this occurred in Germany. The kid that did it, ended up overturning the tank into a water-filled ditch. I 'm not sure if he ended up drowning, but I do remember that there was some worry about his safety when he turned the tank over..
It's just stupid
If you haven't figured it out yet, the stuff that was made in the 50s' is still so radioactive that One is being stored in it's own cast-lead bowl.
On the other hand stuff made since they realized that they were killing their customers is no longer radioactive -- because they stopped using radioactive elements in the creation!
C gives you lots of rope to hang yourself with
OCAML, on the other hand lets you expressivly designate the contitions under which the rope will hang you.
Be very careful not to piss these people off if you use them.
On the bright side, If you use your domain to spam, they appear to reserve the right to just shut you down completely.
It's much easier to sue a spammer in your local-calling zone that it is to sue one in China or Korea.
Fox can't shut themselves down for copyright infringement.
As somebody else pointed out:
If someone shoots you in the foot, it doesn't always work to just quietly limp away -- even if they've done it half a dozen times before and you've got an injunction against them for it. If nothing else, it's good to make sure that other people know that, despite their claims, they haven't reformed their ways.
No need for it to be tied to a specific event. It actually could be a case that one of the editors has gotten exposure to it and found out how good it was.. I did that to my roommate with RH6.0, and he turned into a bigtime Linux booster. 7.3 and it's non-RedHat bretheren are a good bit better, so I can definitely see a NYT editor going gah gah over it.
Reporters can be a snarky lot. When they find out that they've been lied to for the last decade or so, then can get downright crusaderish.