...that soon after Cowpland left, something like this would happen. I used to respect Corel for being brave (or is that dumb?) enough to try to take on MS in the Office app market, and folks like Adobe in the graphics market. They had (or have?) a really good product core in the Corel Draw line, but I think the battle on the Office package front, plus diluting the company even more with unfocused forays in linux weakened what was Canada's greatest software giant into the MS fodder it has become today. Sad news.
I heard (through the hempstalk?)that the fellow who co-founded Lotus Corporation (and wrote the first kick-ass versions in assembler) was one of the original LSD gang (you know, leary and those *losers*).
My point? Just that "drugs are for losers" is nothing more than another sociopolitcalcorporate cheer, and about as meaningful and truthful as "god hates fags", in other words, it is based on fear, uncertainty and doubt; intending to control, corral, and stifle active minds.
I truly do not think any thing labelled a "drug" is bad in-of-itself, it is how, where, when and by whom they are used. Take it from someone who in his youth drew his own rather shaky experiental line at heroine, and today leads a semi productive life, has committed no proprty or personal crimes, spent no time in jail, and would plot the overthrow of the western world if he could get up off his stoned butt for long enough to formulate a plan.
As for programming and beer, I have found that like most of things, only recreational computing makes sense when "under the influence" or spirits or the kind.
Oh, here's a lookup on the a word in the subject line for those of you NOT on drugs;-)
you folks being so up front and honest about it. I realize this is not a commercial site, but still, a full acounting the morning after. Gotta like that! I'll change my password if I can remember what it was;-)
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[OT Rant] Wine White Cold, Red Hot...NOT!!!
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White wine is served cold. Red wine is served at room temperature.
no,no, NO!!!!! ALL fine wines are served at cellar temperature, some reds are brought up (clarets especially) a bit early to loose the chill, but a good pinot should not be 70 degrees or so! As for white wine, the best white wines have almost no taste if the are too cold.
Course, we are talking FINE wines here!
back to topic....I liked the story of how this company got started.
Your comment begs the question. Who sets the standards? The church? which church? Without insulting too many people, I would have to say that morally and ethically the christian church is one of the most hypocritical social forces in the world.
The notion that individuals may do as they please is not entirely right either, so I do not totally disgree with what you say. In an ideal world however, this do as you please attitude would be fine, so long as it was grounded in respect, for self, and other. Being somewhat pagan (I like to call myself a cyber-pagan), I favor the wicann notion of "do what though wilt so long as it harms none", which oddly enough mirrors the sort of christian "love your neighbor as yourself".
I wonder if therein lies the rub, we *are* following that golden rule, treating others as we would ourselves, but in a society which has robbed us of self respect, our actions towards others are not as they should or would be if we had healthy self respect.
Where does this lead? On a long search for the roots of this loss, or a search for a new found self respect?
Unfortunately, like most westerners I am ignorant and apathetic: I don't know and I don't care.
Does this mean I can make THC molecules at my kitchen table now? No more meeting dudes in parking lots after midnight?
Or, better still, if I really set my mind to it, can I build my very own Natalie Portman?
I am not usually a troll, but this chilly weather in Toronto is affecting my brain.
on topic....I work for a an Incredibly Big Machine (nudge nudge, wink wink), aren't they they folks that came up with STM? A few years ago I found a webpage or two with some neat pictures they took of individual atoms all lined up to spell...well, you can guess.
..or "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch" as the master of Grok advised us in "The moon is a Harsh Mistress", his brilliant work on freedom in a post modern society over 30 years ago. Geez seems like sci-fi deja-vu day for me. Well, just read my sig...
Anyways, seems I have to remind my 20-something coworkers of maxims like this daily. If they tell you it's free it ain't...., Air Miles is NOT a way for you to get cheap flights, and Teddy's Club "Z" points aren't just about free TV's and stuff, its all about giving your personal private information away for free while the big corporations taking it tell you that little sample packet of new shampoo is a valuable real prize. Its all about *them* knowing you bought condoms last week on the way home from the bar, and something slightly more embarrassing a few days later.
While grabbing some links for this post, I came across something that while not completely summing up these thoughts, gave me an idea: let's call us all, no matter what decade we were born in, part of Generation "Z".
Okay, so this is all kinda off topic right? Not quite, remember the subject? Seems there are some young folks who realize the truth of that acronym, and are taking these supposed Free Lunches into their own hands, molding them into something which reveals their true nature and at great personal risk, sharing them with the rest of us...for free. Ironic, isn't it?
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This book help form my now all to realist views
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I must have read it soon after it came out. Yup, I'm that old. Devoured all of his *along the same lines stuff* as it came out, the aformentioned Stand on Zanzibar, the Sheep Look Up (which prophesied the all too common today random acts of public violence by a decade or two). Most of the rest of his stuff I read just didn't have the same eerie ring of truth to come these 3 books did. and shockwave rider was the best of the 3 in my mind, perhaps not for the breadth or writing style, but surely for the notions and concepts he examined.
For any person trying to get a handle on society today (or just wanting to know who really started the cyberpunk movement), his 3 distopian novels are seminal, sublime, and just damn good reading.
Keep in mind they were written before the advent of the internet, personal computers, online banking, identity theft, the "cashless" society, and you will realize this dude was a visionary, if not a prophet of the new millenium. If we are fortunate, perhaps some of his more hopeful ideas will come to be as well: First release the truth, then we fire all the lawyers and advertisers.
Actually, despite the "science-fictioness" of the patent, the gentleman who submitted it appears to know what he is doing. He even works at Cern on the largest particle accelerator/collider in the world on a project involving crashing electrons and positrons into each other at very high speed and seeing what happens. Cool stuff. Off topic, but cool nonetheless. Still, the patent itself may be a joke.
I have a fellow sitting beside me at work who has a RAM disk on his Win95 box. I asked him why. His answer: "The icon looks cool in the My Computer folder".
Can you say the same about a Linux Ramdisk? Bet a MAC one looks *really* neat.
Honey, when are you going to:
lose weight
quit smoking
clean up the house
clean up the yard
take the dog for a walk?
Not tonite dear! I'm gonna eat drink and be merry, we all gonna be cushed by a NEO impact tomorrow!
Seriously, I bet the dinosuars were all just haning out eating up veggies(or each other) making baby dinosuars, or minding their own business when THEIR world ended.
Ironically, Pagan Pride Day is September 23rd. It is intentionaly scheduled for the Autumnal Equinoxe...the Harvest festival. Neat coincidence that this oft-persecuted group holds it's day dedicated to public awareness at the same time as another unrelated group brings freedom of speech (and thought) to the public.
I found this quote - "Often challenges are motivated by a desire to protect children from "inappropriate" sexual content or "offensive" language. Although this is a commendable motivation, Free Access to Libraries for Minors, an interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights (ALA's basic policy
concerning access to information) states that, "Librarians and governing bodies should maintain
that parents--and only parents--have the right and the responsibility to restrict the access of
their children--and only their children--to library resources." Censorship by librarians of constitutionally protected speech, whether for protection or for any other reason, violates the
First Amendment." - from the ALA's Banned Book Week site to be quite telling, it almost implies, to my mind at least, that any effort by the state to "filter" content in a library is censorship. I wonder if there will be some sort of constitutional challenge to efforts like this?
Is this an effort to protect children, an effort to restrict free speech (or access to speach), or just lack of willingness for parents to take responsibility for the development of their children's mores? What is the involvemnet of the EFF, ACLU or other civil rights groups to this disturbing abuse of state power?
As a Canadian, therefore a bit removed from the effects of issue itself, I am still disturbed by the implications. Are there any Canadian/.'s aware of similar issues up here?
Maybe the can bundle the armed robot reported in slashdot last week, with the laser system, have it scan the sky, shooting down the birds before they get to the laser...oooops, that was a 747 not a goose.
Does the blood of the Puritans still run so cold through the veins of people on this continent?
Why are we so concerned with children being exposed to sexuality, when the real dangers of drugs like crack and violence proliferate?
Seriously, I think we are wasting time trying to protect our young from at best a red-herring of "danger", while allowing them to grow up violent and illiterate. Such a shame.
All that being said, to address the question on it's own merits, I have a recolection of the possiblilty of regulating "adult" content sites, forcing them to place certain tags on webpages, or creating a new TDL such as.SEX or perhaps.AC (for Adult Content). The Adult Entertainment industry is making HUGE buck off the net, why not force them to take some fairly simple steps to allow censorship to be easily implemented? why are Libraries, and other "community" based organizations being forced to waste all this time and effort, when the onus should clearly be on the manufacturer of the potentialy offensive material. While manufacturer regulation would work for sites originating in the US (and/or Canada perhaps), the very global nature of the WEB makes it almost completely valueless...I mena, where can you gamble online? ANYWHERE....but where are the sites hosted? NIMBY.
....and now I have the technology to prove it empirically....
Actually, I find this very interesting, worthwhile, and like much advanced sensing technology, a bit scary...working for a very security conscious company, I can see them adding a sniffer to the badge operated doors...doubt I would ever get through;-)
I have seen the Masset installation, I think. A couple of years ago I was in the Queen Charlotte Islands (that's off the North West coast of BC, or just South East of the Alaska Archipilego). THere is a town there that had a fairly large military base, which had recently been pretty much abandoned, and basically given over to the Haida Gwaii people to use. However, there is still an installation, known locally as the "bear-cage", a huge collection of radio antennas forming a tall circle, plus all sort of other antennas....spooky place! Rather good idea to put it there, the islands have a population of around 4000, (not including the only rasta cattle I have ever seen, a self sustaining population of now-feral cows) and the only way there is by plane or ferry. I am not sure where CFS Alert is (East Coast?)
Brief article that it was, an important point which was not covered is how the vulnerabilities are supposed to be reported to those who are responsible for ensuring systesm are not vulnerable? If I recall correctly, one of the reasons L0pht first went public with their stuff was the the software companies were not responding to reports of security holes in their products. Granted, releasing tools which make it easy for anyone to exploit a vulernability is not a wise idea, but trying to keep security holes "secret" will only increase the FUD factor for admins responsible for application/OS security. I do aggree with his point that there is a serious social issue at work here. It has almost become "fashioanble" to deface websites, this digital vandalism though is more far reaching than spray paining dirty words on buildings, or breaking school windows on weekends. And while the actions of these people in defacing and launching DOS attacks result in lost business etc, I think that once goverments and terrorist organizations really get into this sport of stuff, it could get much much worse. It's sad to see such a powerful force for positive social change be fubar'd by a bunch of adolescent wannabe's trying to impress their peers. Okay, so I am a UPA Troll, but that's different:-)
I admit I know far too little to really *understand* if the SETI@HOME stuff is worth the CPU cycles. A couple of the posts here make decent cases against SETI@HOME, and while DNET may be trivial in some senses (brute force cypher cracking, compared to locating extraterrestial life in the universe?), at least I can see progress towards a known end....I have been running both since around xmas, and just this weekend, turned of SETI, as I was just sarting up the funy ruler thingy on DNET, then the rulers went away, and DNET was back to RC stuff...and it flew! I had my fastest crunch this weekend, so this article on the new SETI client, is just the thing I needed to convince myself to let it go for now...just for now...I do have this notion of just how cool it would be to see a huge spike on thhat display...
What's next? Copyrighting your conversations?...and if somoeone repeats part of it, and it get's back to you...slap them with a lawsuit!
My understanding is that most of the posts on USENET are considered "informal discussion", and as such are not copywriteable. I think in order for a posting to be copywritten, it must satisfy intellectual property requirements. Ideas, facts and short phrases are usually not considered "original" works, and therefore not copywrittable.
There is also a notion of "implied release", whereby anyone who posts to USENET, by doing so, gives tacit release for the "work" to be reproduced.
All that aside, common sense should prevail. If I write a poem or a song and post it, as it is an original work, that exists in another medium (like the napkin I wrote it on), it is copywritten. If I reply to some kooky poster by saying "you silly twit! how can you think paranormal aliens are amongst us!". I would be fool to try to expect copywrite protection for my insult.
Don't use this C++ nonsense. Abstractions and translations from the native language of processors into some human construct only obfuscates an already deep and dark discussion between the human brain and the silicon slave...so, real programmers type... copy con myprog.exe
Being one of those who haunt the darker corners of USENET, some time ago I cam across a certain individual there whose posts incited readers to reply with what can only be called "flames". While there are many on USENET who are involved in flamewars, and many labeled kooks, this is the first instance I know of where an American is suing anotrher American for libel (actually, libel per se)and defamation related to USENET posts.
The person who has filed suit also claims he is going to bring civil and seek criminal RICO related charges against ANYONE who he judges has posted defaming comments about him.
One interesting twist, is that on a number of occasions, he has stated he will consider NOT filingsuit against those who "turn" on the gang, and give him information he can use against others.
The groups which are home to this ongoing battle of words are: alt.sports.gymnastics, alt.romance and alt.seduction fast.
The individual who brought suit runs a web based sports handicapping and seduction-related publishing business called Snodgrass Publishing, his site can be reached here
The Civil Court Docket for his first of what he promises to be many suits is here.
I will leave it to anyone who wishes to investigate the various postings in these groups, and read the court docket (though it lacks any information other than dates for meetings/hearings, etc) to decide if this is kookery, or someone defending their civil rights.
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...that soon after Cowpland left, something like this would happen. I used to respect Corel for being brave (or is that dumb?) enough to try to take on MS in the Office app market, and folks like Adobe in the graphics market. They had (or have?) a really good product core in the Corel Draw line, but I think the battle on the Office package front, plus diluting the company even more with unfocused forays in linux weakened what was Canada's greatest software giant into the MS fodder it has become today. Sad news.
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I heard (through the hempstalk?)that the fellow who co-founded Lotus Corporation (and wrote the first kick-ass versions in assembler) was one of the original LSD gang (you know, leary and those *losers*).
;-)
My point? Just that "drugs are for losers" is nothing more than another sociopolitcalcorporate cheer, and about as meaningful and truthful as "god hates fags", in other words, it is based on fear, uncertainty and doubt; intending to control, corral, and stifle active minds.
I truly do not think any thing labelled a "drug" is bad in-of-itself, it is how, where, when and by whom they are used. Take it from someone who in his youth drew his own rather shaky experiental line at heroine, and today leads a semi productive life, has committed no proprty or personal crimes, spent no time in jail, and would plot the overthrow of the western world if he could get up off his stoned butt for long enough to formulate a plan.
As for programming and beer, I have found that like most of things, only recreational computing makes sense when "under the influence" or spirits or the kind.
Oh, here's a lookup on the a word in the subject line for those of you NOT on drugs
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you folks being so up front and honest about it. I realize this is not a commercial site, but still, a full acounting the morning after. Gotta like that! I'll change my password if I can remember what it was ;-)
Going on means going far
White wine is served cold. Red wine is served at room temperature.
no,no, NO!!!!! ALL fine wines are served at cellar temperature, some reds are brought up (clarets especially) a bit early to loose the chill, but a good pinot should not be 70 degrees or so! As for white wine, the best white wines have almost no taste if the are too cold.
Course, we are talking FINE wines here!
back to topic....I liked the story of how this company got started.
Going on means going far
Your comment begs the question. Who sets the standards? The church? which church? Without insulting too many people, I would have to say that morally and ethically the christian church is one of the most hypocritical social forces in the world.
The notion that individuals may do as they please is not entirely right either, so I do not totally disgree with what you say. In an ideal world however, this do as you please attitude would be fine, so long as it was grounded in respect, for self, and other. Being somewhat pagan (I like to call myself a cyber-pagan), I favor the wicann notion of "do what though wilt so long as it harms none", which oddly enough mirrors the sort of christian "love your neighbor as yourself".
I wonder if therein lies the rub, we *are* following that golden rule, treating others as we would ourselves, but in a society which has robbed us of self respect, our actions towards others are not as they should or would be if we had healthy self respect.
Where does this lead? On a long search for the roots of this loss, or a search for a new found self respect?
Unfortunately, like most westerners I am ignorant and apathetic: I don't know and I don't care.
Going on means going far
Does this mean I can make THC molecules at my kitchen table now? No more meeting dudes in parking lots after midnight?
Or, better still, if I really set my mind to it, can I build my very own Natalie Portman?
I am not usually a troll, but this chilly weather in Toronto is affecting my brain.
on topic....I work for a an Incredibly Big Machine (nudge nudge, wink wink), aren't they they folks that came up with STM? A few years ago I found a webpage or two with some neat pictures they took of individual atoms all lined up to spell...well, you can guess.
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..or "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch" as the master of Grok advised us in "The moon is a Harsh Mistress", his brilliant work on freedom in a post modern society over 30 years ago. Geez seems like sci-fi deja-vu day for me. Well, just read my sig...
Anyways, seems I have to remind my 20-something coworkers of maxims like this daily. If they tell you it's free it ain't...., Air Miles is NOT a way for you to get cheap flights, and Teddy's Club "Z" points aren't just about free TV's and stuff, its all about giving your personal private information away for free while the big corporations taking it tell you that little sample packet of new shampoo is a valuable real prize. Its all about *them* knowing you bought condoms last week on the way home from the bar, and something slightly more embarrassing a few days later.
While grabbing some links for this post, I came across something that while not completely summing up these thoughts, gave me an idea: let's call us all, no matter what decade we were born in, part of Generation "Z".
Okay, so this is all kinda off topic right? Not quite, remember the subject? Seems there are some young folks who realize the truth of that acronym, and are taking these supposed Free Lunches into their own hands, molding them into something which reveals their true nature and at great personal risk, sharing them with the rest of us...for free. Ironic, isn't it?
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I must have read it soon after it came out. Yup, I'm that old. Devoured all of his *along the same lines stuff* as it came out, the aformentioned Stand on Zanzibar, the Sheep Look Up (which prophesied the all too common today random acts of public violence by a decade or two). Most of the rest of his stuff I read just didn't have the same eerie ring of truth to come these 3 books did. and shockwave rider was the best of the 3 in my mind, perhaps not for the breadth or writing style, but surely for the notions and concepts he examined.
For any person trying to get a handle on society today (or just wanting to know who really started the cyberpunk movement), his 3 distopian novels are seminal, sublime, and just damn good reading.
Keep in mind they were written before the advent of the internet, personal computers, online banking, identity theft, the "cashless" society, and you will realize this dude was a visionary, if not a prophet of the new millenium.
If we are fortunate, perhaps some of his more hopeful ideas will come to be as well: First release the truth, then we fire all the lawyers and advertisers.
Going on means going far
Actually, despite the "science-fictioness" of the patent, the gentleman who submitted it appears to know what he is doing.
He even works at Cern on the largest particle accelerator/collider in the world on a project involving crashing electrons and positrons into each other at very high speed and seeing what happens. Cool stuff. Off topic, but cool nonetheless.
Still, the patent itself may be a joke.
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I have a fellow sitting beside me at work who has a RAM disk on his Win95 box. I asked him why. His answer: "The icon looks cool in the My Computer folder".
Can you say the same about a Linux Ramdisk? Bet a MAC one looks *really* neat.
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Bare Naked Ladies would fit in one of these arrays?
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Honey, when are you going to:
lose weight
quit smoking
clean up the house
clean up the yard
take the dog for a walk?
Not tonite dear! I'm gonna eat drink and be merry, we all gonna be cushed by a NEO impact tomorrow!
Seriously, I bet the dinosuars were all just haning out eating up veggies(or each other) making baby dinosuars, or minding their own business when THEIR world ended.
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I need a vacation...wait, I just got back from 2 weeks away from work...okay, I need some filtering software of my own ;-)
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Ironically, Pagan Pride Day is September 23rd. It is intentionaly scheduled for the Autumnal Equinoxe...the Harvest festival. Neat coincidence that this oft-persecuted group holds it's day dedicated to public awareness at the same time as another unrelated group brings freedom of speech (and thought) to the public.
/.'s aware of similar issues up here?
I found this quote -
"Often challenges are motivated by a desire to protect children from "inappropriate" sexual content or "offensive" language. Although this is a commendable motivation, Free Access to Libraries for Minors, an interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights (ALA's basic policy concerning access to information) states that, "Librarians and governing bodies should maintain that parents--and only parents--have the right and the responsibility to restrict the access of their children--and only their children--to library resources." Censorship by librarians of constitutionally protected speech, whether for protection or for any other reason, violates the First Amendment."
- from the ALA's Banned Book Week site to be quite telling, it almost implies, to my mind at least, that any effort by the state to "filter" content in a library is censorship. I wonder if there will be some sort of constitutional challenge to efforts like this?
Is this an effort to protect children, an effort to restrict free speech (or access to speach), or just lack of willingness for parents to take responsibility for the development of their children's mores? What is the involvemnet of the EFF, ACLU or other civil rights groups to this disturbing abuse of state power?
As a Canadian, therefore a bit removed from the effects of issue itself, I am still disturbed by the implications. Are there any Canadian
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Maybe the can bundle the armed robot reported in slashdot last week, with the laser system, have it scan the sky, shooting down the birds before they get to the laser...oooops, that was a 747 not a goose.
Going on means going far
Does the blood of the Puritans still run so cold through the veins of people on this continent? .SEX or perhaps .AC (for Adult Content). The Adult Entertainment industry is making HUGE buck off the net, why not force them to take some fairly simple steps to allow censorship to be easily implemented?
Why are we so concerned with children being exposed to sexuality, when the real dangers of drugs like crack and violence proliferate?
Seriously, I think we are wasting time trying to protect our young from at best a red-herring of "danger", while allowing them to grow up violent and illiterate. Such a shame.
All that being said, to address the question on it's own merits, I have a recolection of the possiblilty of regulating "adult" content sites, forcing them to place certain tags on webpages, or creating a new TDL such as
why are Libraries, and other "community" based organizations being forced to waste all this time and effort, when the onus should clearly be on the manufacturer of the potentialy offensive material.
While manufacturer regulation would work for sites originating in the US (and/or Canada perhaps), the very global nature of the WEB makes it almost completely valueless...I mena, where can you gamble online? ANYWHERE....but where are the sites hosted? NIMBY.
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....and now I have the technology to prove it empirically.... Actually, I find this very interesting, worthwhile, and like much advanced sensing technology, a bit scary...working for a very security conscious company, I can see them adding a sniffer to the badge operated doors...doubt I would ever get through ;-)
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they do call these things microcomputers after all. Finally the name almost fits the size.
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I have seen the Masset installation, I think. A couple of years ago I was in the Queen Charlotte Islands (that's off the North West coast of BC, or just South East of the Alaska Archipilego). THere is a town there that had a fairly large military base, which had recently been pretty much abandoned, and basically given over to the Haida Gwaii people to use. However, there is still an installation, known locally as the "bear-cage", a huge collection of radio antennas forming a tall circle, plus all sort of other antennas....spooky place! Rather good idea to put it there, the islands have a population of around 4000, (not including the only rasta cattle I have ever seen, a self sustaining population of now-feral cows) and the only way there is by plane or ferry.
I am not sure where CFS Alert is (East Coast?)
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Brief article that it was, an important point which was not covered is how the vulnerabilities are supposed to be reported to those who are responsible for ensuring systesm are not vulnerable? :-)
If I recall correctly, one of the reasons L0pht first went public with their stuff was the the software companies were not responding to reports of security holes in their products.
Granted, releasing tools which make it easy for anyone to exploit a vulernability is not a wise idea, but trying to keep security holes "secret" will only increase the FUD factor for admins responsible for application/OS security.
I do aggree with his point that there is a serious social issue at work here. It has almost become "fashioanble" to deface websites, this digital vandalism though is more far reaching than spray paining dirty words on buildings, or breaking school windows on weekends.
And while the actions of these people in defacing and launching DOS attacks result in lost business etc, I think that once goverments and terrorist organizations really get into this sport of stuff, it could get much much worse.
It's sad to see such a powerful force for positive social change be fubar'd by a bunch of adolescent wannabe's trying to impress their peers.
Okay, so I am a UPA Troll, but that's different
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I admit I know far too little to really *understand* if the SETI@HOME stuff is worth the CPU cycles. A couple of the posts here make decent cases against SETI@HOME, and while DNET may be trivial in some senses (brute force cypher cracking, compared to locating extraterrestial life in the universe?), at least I can see progress towards a known end....I have been running both since around xmas, and just this weekend, turned of SETI, as I was just sarting up the funy ruler thingy on DNET, then the rulers went away, and DNET was back to RC stuff...and it flew! I had my fastest crunch this weekend, so this article on the new SETI client, is just the thing I needed to convince myself to let it go for now...just for now...I do have this notion of just how cool it would be to see a huge spike on thhat display...
Going on means going far
My understanding is that most of the posts on USENET are considered "informal discussion", and as such are not copywriteable. I think in order for a posting to be copywritten, it must satisfy intellectual property requirements. Ideas, facts and short phrases are usually not considered "original" works, and therefore not copywrittable.
There is also a notion of "implied release", whereby anyone who posts to USENET, by doing so, gives tacit release for the "work" to be reproduced.
All that aside, common sense should prevail. If I write a poem or a song and post it, as it is an original work, that exists in another medium (like the napkin I wrote it on), it is copywritten. If I reply to some kooky poster by saying "you silly twit! how can you think paranormal aliens are amongst us!". I would be fool to try to expect copywrite protection for my insult.
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The Mary Poppins MAC, it's supercalifragilisticexpealidocious!
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Don't use this C++ nonsense. Abstractions and translations from the native language of processors into some human construct only obfuscates an already deep and dark discussion between the human brain and the silicon slave...so, real programmers type... copy con myprog.exe
Going on means going far
The person who has filed suit also claims he is going to bring civil and seek criminal RICO related charges against ANYONE who he judges has posted defaming comments about him.
One interesting twist, is that on a number of occasions, he has stated he will consider NOT filingsuit against those who "turn" on the gang, and give him information he can use against others.
The groups which are home to this ongoing battle of words are: alt.sports.gymnastics, alt.romance and alt.seduction fast.
The individual who brought suit runs a web based sports handicapping and seduction-related publishing business called Snodgrass Publishing, his site can be reached here
The Civil Court Docket for his first of what he promises to be many suits is here.
I will leave it to anyone who wishes to investigate the various postings in these groups, and read the court docket (though it lacks any information other than dates for meetings/hearings, etc) to decide if this is kookery, or someone defending their civil rights.
btw, I go by a similar name on USENET.
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