Gah! I knew that, and then I forgot to point it out! Too many things in my head this morning, I guess.
I was thinking that after it goes through all of the Norwegian courts, charges could be pressed from neighboring countries. Maybe Australia or the US will eventually get in the game, and try to bring Jon to injustice. If enough courts around the world keep fighting this utterly clear-cut case, then eventually most of the world will end up forcing themselves into rational legislation, at least on one issue.
As an aside,I was under the belief that Norway was likely to petition to be admitted to the EU in the next year or so. Is this correct?
Some of his stuff is contemporary fantasy, some is borderline science fiction, all of it is BRILLIANT! "Fool on the Hill" and "Sewer, Gas, & Electric" are must reads.
Damn! As soon as I saw the subject, I was going to jump in and recommend Neil Gaiman. However, SOMEONE beat me to it!
So the best I can do is second it. I'm reading American Gods right now, have read Neverwhere, and have the entire Sandman series of comics. (As a friend said, Gaiman disproves the statement that all 'adult comics/graphic novels' are written by (and for) horny 20-year-olds who never got laid. Neil is simply one of the best authors alive today.
OK, the government has no case, and they're appealing? GREAT! Take it all the way to the highest court in the land. Get a ruling that's binding for the entire EU! Make it clear with as much authority as legally possible that JON IS INNOCENT!
That's why I'm in favour of this latest development.
www.ckua.com: What happens when campus radio grows up.
CKUA was founded as the radio station on the University of Alberta campus, some 75(!!!) years ago. It moved off campus at some point, and became a government-owned public broadcaster. Then the government dumped them on their own, and they've been living off of listener donations ever since.
Why do you care? Because it's the best damned radio in the western world, as far as I can find. Intelligent broadcasters (it's a disservice to call them DJs), fantastic music, fascinating programs (a 14-part series on the history of Folkways Records, for instance) and available on the internet.
Yes this is a plug. No, I have no stake in them (other than listening to them, and wanting them to survive)
FM doesn't HAVE to suck, but like everything else, 90% is crap. If we all ignored the crap, then sooner or later it would disappear.
Unfortunately, the comment on the processor isn't quite right.
The UltraSparc II only goes up to 480MHz, and the UltraIII starts at 750. In between is the grey area of the IIe and IIi, and the ONLY Sun box with a 550MHz processor is the SunBlade 100/150.
If that's their web server, then the CPU is the least of their worries--the thing has internal IDE drives, two (only) 33MHz narrow PCI slots, and not much else. Assuming that one of the PCI slots is used for a faster and/or redundant network connection (QFE card most likely), then the other one is the only connection to SCSI disks. That CPU, low-end as it is (for Sun), is definitely going to spend its time waiting for the rest of the system.
(And yes, I know that was your second point--I just wanted to back it up with some detail)
Hmm. Interesting way of dividing OS from app functionality. I don't have any formal background in OS design (or even programming) so I don't know if that's a standard idea or not.
But it begs the question: Does putting more and more app-level services (i.e. NFS servers, etc.) into the kernel go against that philosophy? It seems to me that it does.
Hmm. You'd have to be pretty negligent to have a dirty toaster oven cause a fire. I can't imagine that a lawsuit like that would stick, but that could be because I've been away from the US for five years now.
Even so, my point still holds: Toaster ovens aren't a licensed item, and if someone is negligent, you would sue them for damages--not have them arrested for breaking the law, nor hunt them down and make them pay.
If damages are caused (and fairly assessed), and negligence is clearly proven, then a damages suit is (perhaps) a fair cop.
I was with you right up until the point where you talk about legislation and licensing. This is, a Bad Idea, in my mind.
First of all, legislation is country-specific, and because we're talking about network attacks, that's a fairly pointless endeavor.
Secondly, computers aren't guns! Computers aren't even cars! They're household appliances. You can start a fire with a toaster oven that takes out an entire row of condos, but nobody legislates that you have to clean your toaster oven every 30 hours of use. Making the software manufacturers more responsible might help, but I'm not convinced that that's a valid solution either.
Ultimately, the systems that really NEED security, and the people that really WANT security will get it--and maintain it against attacks from the attack-of-the-day.
Regardless of your points and his, you're both missing an important point. This article wasn't about the ones deliberately attacking you, it's the ones who through negligence or laziness are letting their machines be used.
In the 'shooting out the tires' scenario, it would be a stolen car used. Where's the justice in that?
Jack Valenti is indeed a dipshit. A dipshit with fangs.
It's his psychotic ravings and implied threats that have given him control over the MPAA. He knows that the harder he tightens the thumbscrews the more people there will be who 'escape' MPAA policy. However, he also knows that he has the leisure to snap the necks of those people in due time, and besides--he LIKES watching peoples' thumbs get turned to jelly!
This is, of course, entirely metaphorical. I'm not suggesting there's any evidence that he's ever tortured his opponents for fun, but his heart is FAR blacker than that of the RIAA. If Hilary Rosen is a cold blooded paranoid power-hungry freak, then Jack Valenti is the evil overlord beyond all of Rosen's petty human weaknesses.
And in my mind, that's why the MPAA won't go along.
Really, is Linux a Secure OS(tm)? No, not really. It's not as popular as Windows, and the security model is better developed than Windows (courtesy of the Unix legacy), which leads to it having fewer exploited exploits, but...
Is it really that much more secure? Not really.
The key to security is implementation. Solaris isn't inherently incredibly secure. Secure Solaris is. Linux? Nah. the NSA Linux? I imagine so!
FreeBSD (and the other BSDs even) was designed with the intention of being secure, and so it is far moreso. So is NSA Linux and Secure Solaris. That ha nothing to do with the inherent security of the base product, though.
"If you are in business, you can't afford to do business with VeriSign/Network Solutions."
Bloody hell, if this message could be moderated above the five it's already at, I'd hack slashdot to do it.
Likewise with headers. This one simple statement absolutely defines the trustworthiness, reliability, and dependability of Verisign/NetSol. None. They're slimy incompetent companies that shouldn't be allowed to exist.
OK, I already know the answer to this one: Because you CAN!
However, from a practical point of view, I can't imagine any reason to run Linux on a box that comes with a very tightly (and well) designed BSD Unix OS.
OK, your first point is very accurate, other than that it doesn't go far enough. Display a book, set up a digital camera, and run the output straight into a text recognition program. I bet you could script an entire book's text in an hour or so.
However... " Contrast this with music where it is next to impossible to replicate the work"
Are you kidding? This is exactly equivalent, and in fact, easier in some ways. No matter how encrypted it is, at some point audio gets converted to sound. (electronic, and then acoustic). It's dead simple to tap into the signal going to the speakers, and redirect that to an ADC and then the storage format of your choice.
Lossy? Well marginally. Less lossy than MP3. Less lossy than cassette tape. Probably less lossy than reel-to-reel. More lossy than copying CDs directly.
Simple. As long as there's an unencrypted stream somewhere before our brain, it's easily breakable.
Port Chicago was a 5 KILOton explosion. Hiroshima was about a 12 kiloton explosion. Neither were anywhere near a megaton, and Hiroshima _was_ bigger than Port Chicago.
Which isn't to say that the conspiracy has even a slight bit of validity.
I'll start with a disclaimer: I can't get to the site right now, so I can't read the details. If this really IS just patenting hardware aesthetics that change colour, then this is (a) frivolous, and (b) affected by prior art. In other words, it's an Amazon patent.
I've liked Apple all along, even if I haven't always (ever?) liked their computers that much. They have been innovators, designers, and inventors. Now they're turning into litigators. Sigh.
"Paying by fingerprint is far more private than handing over a check with my bank account, address, phone number, and in some states my social security number on it. It also beats generating credit card receipts containing my account number, which can still be used online."
These are all good points, but what happens when someone compromises your fingerprint?
Bank accounts, credit cards, even social security numbers are all changeable and replaceable. Fingerprints you're stuck with for life.
Heh. That's about what I was thinking. I was actually a chem student at the UofEh, but some friends were in CS, and we ended up back and forth a fair bit. While I was there, the UACS budget was getting tight, and the MTS system was gradually getting put down, so the fund raiser du jour was the semiannual terminal bash--literally. For $2.00, you could take a swing as an AJ510 terminal with a four pound sledgehammer. I've got to say, those AJs were SOLID!
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Gah! I knew that, and then I forgot to point it out! Too many things in my head this morning, I guess.
I was thinking that after it goes through all of the Norwegian courts, charges could be pressed from neighboring countries. Maybe Australia or the US will eventually get in the game, and try to bring Jon to injustice. If enough courts around the world keep fighting this utterly clear-cut case, then eventually most of the world will end up forcing themselves into rational legislation, at least on one issue.
As an aside,I was under the belief that Norway was likely to petition to be admitted to the EU in the next year or so. Is this correct?
Some of his stuff is contemporary fantasy, some is borderline science fiction, all of it is BRILLIANT! "Fool on the Hill" and "Sewer, Gas, & Electric" are must reads.
Damn! As soon as I saw the subject, I was going to jump in and recommend Neil Gaiman. However, SOMEONE beat me to it!
So the best I can do is second it. I'm reading American Gods right now, have read Neverwhere, and have the entire Sandman series of comics. (As a friend said, Gaiman disproves the statement that all 'adult comics/graphic novels' are written by (and for) horny 20-year-olds who never got laid. Neil is simply one of the best authors alive today.
OK, the government has no case, and they're appealing? GREAT! Take it all the way to the highest court in the land. Get a ruling that's binding for the entire EU! Make it clear with as much authority as legally possible that JON IS INNOCENT!
That's why I'm in favour of this latest development.
www.ckua.com: What happens when campus radio grows up.
CKUA was founded as the radio station on the University of Alberta campus, some 75(!!!) years ago. It moved off campus at some point, and became a government-owned public broadcaster. Then the government dumped them on their own, and they've been living off of listener donations ever since.
Why do you care? Because it's the best damned radio in the western world, as far as I can find. Intelligent broadcasters (it's a disservice to call them DJs), fantastic music, fascinating programs (a 14-part series on the history of Folkways Records, for instance) and available on the internet.
Yes this is a plug. No, I have no stake in them (other than listening to them, and wanting them to survive)
FM doesn't HAVE to suck, but like everything else, 90% is crap. If we all ignored the crap, then sooner or later it would disappear.
Unfortunately, the comment on the processor isn't quite right.
The UltraSparc II only goes up to 480MHz, and the UltraIII starts at 750. In between is the grey area of the IIe and IIi, and the ONLY Sun box with a 550MHz processor is the SunBlade 100/150.
If that's their web server, then the CPU is the least of their worries--the thing has internal IDE drives, two (only) 33MHz narrow PCI slots, and not much else. Assuming that one of the PCI slots is used for a faster and/or redundant network connection (QFE card most likely), then the other one is the only connection to SCSI disks. That CPU, low-end as it is (for Sun), is definitely going to spend its time waiting for the rest of the system.
(And yes, I know that was your second point--I just wanted to back it up with some detail)
Hmm. Interesting way of dividing OS from app functionality. I don't have any formal background in OS design (or even programming) so I don't know if that's a standard idea or not.
But it begs the question: Does putting more and more app-level services (i.e. NFS servers, etc.) into the kernel go against that philosophy? It seems to me that it does.
Hmm. You'd have to be pretty negligent to have a dirty toaster oven cause a fire. I can't imagine that a lawsuit like that would stick, but that could be because I've been away from the US for five years now.
Even so, my point still holds: Toaster ovens aren't a licensed item, and if someone is negligent, you would sue them for damages--not have them arrested for breaking the law, nor hunt them down and make them pay.
If damages are caused (and fairly assessed), and negligence is clearly proven, then a damages suit is (perhaps) a fair cop.
Um...that's all I had to say. No content. Move along folks.
I was with you right up until the point where you talk about legislation and licensing. This is, a Bad Idea, in my mind.
First of all, legislation is country-specific, and because we're talking about network attacks, that's a fairly pointless endeavor.
Secondly, computers aren't guns! Computers aren't even cars! They're household appliances. You can start a fire with a toaster oven that takes out an entire row of condos, but nobody legislates that you have to clean your toaster oven every 30 hours of use. Making the software manufacturers more responsible might help, but I'm not convinced that that's a valid solution either.
Ultimately, the systems that really NEED security, and the people that really WANT security will get it--and maintain it against attacks from the attack-of-the-day.
Regardless of your points and his, you're both missing an important point. This article wasn't about the ones deliberately attacking you, it's the ones who through negligence or laziness are letting their machines be used.
In the 'shooting out the tires' scenario, it would be a stolen car used. Where's the justice in that?
Jack Valenti is indeed a dipshit. A dipshit with fangs.
It's his psychotic ravings and implied threats that have given him control over the MPAA. He knows that the harder he tightens the thumbscrews the more people there will be who 'escape' MPAA policy. However, he also knows that he has the leisure to snap the necks of those people in due time, and besides--he LIKES watching peoples' thumbs get turned to jelly!
This is, of course, entirely metaphorical. I'm not suggesting there's any evidence that he's ever tortured his opponents for fun, but his heart is FAR blacker than that of the RIAA. If Hilary Rosen is a cold blooded paranoid power-hungry freak, then Jack Valenti is the evil overlord beyond all of Rosen's petty human weaknesses.
And in my mind, that's why the MPAA won't go along.
Really, is Linux a Secure OS(tm)? No, not really. It's not as popular as Windows, and the security model is better developed than Windows (courtesy of the Unix legacy), which leads to it having fewer exploited exploits, but...
Is it really that much more secure? Not really.
The key to security is implementation. Solaris isn't inherently incredibly secure. Secure Solaris is. Linux? Nah. the NSA Linux? I imagine so!
FreeBSD (and the other BSDs even) was designed with the intention of being secure, and so it is far moreso. So is NSA Linux and Secure Solaris. That ha nothing to do with the inherent security of the base product, though.
"If you are in business, you can't afford to do business with VeriSign/Network Solutions."
Bloody hell, if this message could be moderated above the five it's already at, I'd hack slashdot to do it.
Likewise with headers. This one simple statement absolutely defines the trustworthiness, reliability, and dependability of Verisign/NetSol. None. They're slimy incompetent companies that shouldn't be allowed to exist.
DON'T SUPPORT THEM! EVER! ANYONE!
I'd agree, except for one thing: Has .NET ever been given a release date?
Ummm...nitric acid in solid form? For that matter, solvents in solid form??!!
Fascinating. Quite fascinating.
Really? If so then, he should be comparing live audio performances to book/poetry readings.
My comparison is effectively between the recorded word, and the recorded sound. Comparing to live audio is...irrelevant.
OK, I already know the answer to this one: Because you CAN!
However, from a practical point of view, I can't imagine any reason to run Linux on a box that comes with a very tightly (and well) designed BSD Unix OS.
OK, your first point is very accurate, other than that it doesn't go far enough. Display a book, set up a digital camera, and run the output straight into a text recognition program. I bet you could script an entire book's text in an hour or so.
However...
" Contrast this with music where it is next to impossible to replicate the work"
Are you kidding? This is exactly equivalent, and in fact, easier in some ways. No matter how encrypted it is, at some point audio gets converted to sound. (electronic, and then acoustic). It's dead simple to tap into the signal going to the speakers, and redirect that to an ADC and then the storage format of your choice.
Lossy? Well marginally. Less lossy than MP3. Less lossy than cassette tape. Probably less lossy than reel-to-reel. More lossy than copying CDs directly.
Simple. As long as there's an unencrypted stream somewhere before our brain, it's easily breakable.
Good thing you put that disclaimer in there.
Port Chicago was a 5 KILOton explosion. Hiroshima was about a 12 kiloton explosion. Neither were anywhere near a megaton, and Hiroshima _was_ bigger than Port Chicago.
Which isn't to say that the conspiracy has even a slight bit of validity.
I'll start with a disclaimer: I can't get to the site right now, so I can't read the details. If this really IS just patenting hardware aesthetics that change colour, then this is (a) frivolous, and (b) affected by prior art. In other words, it's an Amazon patent.
I've liked Apple all along, even if I haven't always (ever?) liked their computers that much. They have been innovators, designers, and inventors. Now they're turning into litigators. Sigh.
I imagine you've seen how easy it is to do this by now, but in case you missed it:
l #5
http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0205.htm
"Paying by fingerprint is far more private than handing over a check with my bank account, address, phone number, and in some states my social security number on it. It also beats generating credit card receipts containing my account number, which can still be used online."
These are all good points, but what happens when someone compromises your fingerprint?
Bank accounts, credit cards, even social security numbers are all changeable and replaceable. Fingerprints you're stuck with for life.
Heh. That's about what I was thinking. I was actually a chem student at the UofEh, but some friends were in CS, and we ended up back and forth a fair bit. While I was there, the UACS budget was getting tight, and the MTS system was gradually getting put down, so the fund raiser du jour was the semiannual terminal bash--literally. For $2.00, you could take a swing as an AJ510 terminal with a four pound sledgehammer. I've got to say, those AJs were SOLID!
Ummm...maybe people in different countries than you don't care as much about your dirty accounting laundry.
Canada. USA. Different countries.