The idea that pre-schoolers and third graders might have access to explicit images of sex, much less the very extreme and violent type of sex you can find easily on the net, is even newer.
...as opposed to the idea that very young children might be exposed to explicit actual sex, whether between their parents in the same room or animals outside in the field, which dates back to at least the middle ages and probably much, much farther.
If you can't click a link to get there, then there was no act by the owner sufficient to indicate public access is permitted.
By that logic, the ability to type into the Location bar of your browser is effectively illegal. Unless I have knowledge of every link on the internet (a feat which even google cannot accomplish), then I cannot know whether a URL I type is unlinked. Even if I've clicked to reach it before, I can't know whether the link still exists.
...which leads into another ridiculous situation: Say I load a page containing the only existing link to a specific URL. Would you call me guilty of trespass if I click on the link, but, between the time that I loaded the page and the time I clicked, the page was edited to remove the link, such that the URL no longer had any public links available? What if I went back to the page the next day, got a cached copy, and used the no-longer-published link?
Sorry, but even if your interpretation makes sense legally, it is absurd in the real world.
You don't have to hold a gyromouse up. Yeah, they talk about it going wherever you point on the screen, but that's marketing BS. It senses movement (just like a mouse ball) and sends that to the computer without regard for where it is or where it's pointing.
Net result? Fire up a browser, lean back, let your arm hang by your side, put it on an armrest, or whatever other position is comfortable, and surf to your heart's content.
(Yes, I had a GyroPoint mouse many years ago. Cool idea and I probably would have used it for a good while if I didn't prefer a trackball for on-desk usage. Plus it drew power from the keyboard connector and, well, they don't make motherboards with AT-style connectors any more.)
20kHz is the average upper limit of human hearing. Some of us are able to hear higher frequencies, allowing us to do stupid party tricks like complaining about TVs that are left on with no video signal feeding them. But I digress.
One day in a physics lab during my freshman year of college, we were doing audio interference experiments and, after finishing early, I started playing with the audio oscillator I had been assigned. According to this test (which was, admittedly, likely to be somewhat less than 100% accurate) I was capable of hearing sounds up to about 23.5kHz and could sense vibrations up to around 25kHz, although these were perceived as something more like a pressure on my head rather than as sound.
So I have no difficulty in believing that the earlier poster was at one point able to hear up to 25kHz.
Nope. I guess I just forgot that the Debian security team, which backports security fixes, is an anomaly.
More seriously, though, one of the often-touted benefits of open source/free software is that we produce security patches which don't introduce hordes of new features (and bugs). It's sad to see good projects starting to behave like proprietary software vendors and doubly so that it would be something as respectable as openssh.
4. Announce that there is a bug in certain versions when built with certain options (so that those of us who aren't vulnerable in the first place know not to panic).
the vendors would no longer have the head start they needed
Except the vendors didn't get a head start because the vulnerability wasn't disclosed to them either. They were just handed OpenSSH 3.3 and told, "Here. Use this. It doesn't fix the hole that we won't tell you about, but it will prevent it from being exploited." Now, today, the vendors have finally been allowed to see a patch and can start implementing fixes other than "upgrade to the newest version".
Hmm... "There's a problem, we won't tell you what it is, but if you upgrade to the newest version, it will go away, plus you'll get nifty new features along with it!" Where have I heard that before?
we might as well give KDE 3.0 and Gnome 2.0 (not to mention XFree 4.2) enough time to slide from unstable to testing and be included with Woody. Nobody that needs Linux in a production environment can afford to wait 2 years for those to be released
Huh. Guess I'll have to send email around to the front office telling them that we can't use Debian any more because we can't afford to wait 2 years for KDE 3, GNOME 2 and X 4.2 to be released, even though they seem to be doing just fine with a mix of X3/X4.1 as I move them off of KDE1/KDE2 onto WindowMaker.
The vast majority of the time, production/corporate environments need something that is known to work, not the cutting edge.
Not exactly the BSA, but I got a letter from Microsoft's local attourney at work last November "requesting" that we do a self-audit. I passed it off to my boss, he talked to the owner of the company, the owner talked to his lawyer, and the final decision was that if MS wanted to check our licenses, they'd better bring some cops and a search warrant, because that's the only way they're getting past the receptionist (and her Linux-based workstation).
does the DMCA apply if the encryption in question is intended for a use other than to prevent copying
Yes. I haven't reread DMCA lately, but ISTR that it hinges on the presence of a measure (e.g., encryption) which controls access to the copyrighted work. It doesn't need to be a copy-control mechanism.
The ONLY time a user copies the software is on the OS install.
You are, sadly, incorrect. All of this EULA stuff was started by a court buying into the argument that, without a license agreement, running software is a copyright violation because the computer must copy the software from disk into memory.
IOW, you're "copying" the software every time it runs. (And every time it gets swapped out to disk or back into RAM, for that matter...)
Sure, if you follow the "normal" pattern of going into an office for n hours, then going home, that's entirely reasonable. But what about those of us with enlightened bosses who say things like, "Why don't you stay at home and work on project X tomorrow"? In the middle of summer, I'd love to be able to spend the day writing code at the beach while watching my email and maybe sshing in to check out a server problem instead of having to do it from home.
The ability to work from anywhere can also be used to let you get away from it all while working, not just to let work follow you when you're trying to get away.
I could have a pirated copy of Windows XP wisping its way through my body in the form of radio waves.
Better not let Senator Hollings find out - he'd require that you have a DRM device fitted. We might even be required by law to wear tinfoil suits... (But at least we know why everyone dressed like that in old sci-fi shows.)
That one cuts both ways. 10 years ago, when I was furiously debating both sides of evolution vs. creation at any opportunity, the standard textbook example to prove evolution was that a mostly-white species of moths turned mostly-black when industrialization hit the area. That's nice and all, but very few people seemed able to grasp that changing the statistical distribution of existing phenotypes has little-to-no bearing on the development of new genotypes, much less new species. There are underinformed people on all sides of every issue.
That's one of my current pet peeves... There are a lot of "Tron" games out there today, like, for instance, Xtron:
Xtron is a simple one or two player version of the old classic TRON. The game is simple: avoid running into walls, your own tail, and that of your opponent.
That's not the full Tron game! It's just lightcycles, which, IMO, is the lamest of the four games in the arcade Tron. MCP is a nice twist on breakout, but the spiders and tanks are the ones I really liked. But noooooo..., to all the world it seems that "Tron game" means "lightcycles" and nothing else.
Read the article. The vulnerability exists because the transmit LED is usually wired directly into the data stream (which is why they blink irregularly when data is being transmitted). If the LED's response time is fast enough, this allows you to read the data stream from it.
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A line beginning with "begin", two spaces, and one or more non-space characters anywhere in the message body will trigger this bug, based on the CrackMonkey thread. I suspect that this wouldn't work in the headers, but I don't think starting a line off like that wouldn't be RFC-compliant anyhow.
Oh, and I'm a sysadmin who would read one of these messages in text and laugh loud and long if one of my users complained to me about it.
it generally wont do you one bit of good once you hit mid-game
This does a nice job of complementing my read of the previous post about memorization. Sure, memorized strats and gambits may not do much once you hit mid-game, but if you haven't memorized them as well as your opponent, you'll be toast by the time you get there.
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Oh, yeah... I can hardly wait for the Religious Right to find out that kids are watching a "seminal" cartoon...
By that logic, the ability to type into the Location bar of your browser is effectively illegal. Unless I have knowledge of every link on the internet (a feat which even google cannot accomplish), then I cannot know whether a URL I type is unlinked. Even if I've clicked to reach it before, I can't know whether the link still exists.
Sorry, but even if your interpretation makes sense legally, it is absurd in the real world.
...especially if the butterflies are cute girls.
Do not taunt Happy Time Cube!
You don't have to hold a gyromouse up. Yeah, they talk about it going wherever you point on the screen, but that's marketing BS. It senses movement (just like a mouse ball) and sends that to the computer without regard for where it is or where it's pointing.
Net result? Fire up a browser, lean back, let your arm hang by your side, put it on an armrest, or whatever other position is comfortable, and surf to your heart's content.
(Yes, I had a GyroPoint mouse many years ago. Cool idea and I probably would have used it for a good while if I didn't prefer a trackball for on-desk usage. Plus it drew power from the keyboard connector and, well, they don't make motherboards with AT-style connectors any more.)
20kHz is the average upper limit of human hearing. Some of us are able to hear higher frequencies, allowing us to do stupid party tricks like complaining about TVs that are left on with no video signal feeding them. But I digress.
One day in a physics lab during my freshman year of college, we were doing audio interference experiments and, after finishing early, I started playing with the audio oscillator I had been assigned. According to this test (which was, admittedly, likely to be somewhat less than 100% accurate) I was capable of hearing sounds up to about 23.5kHz and could sense vibrations up to around 25kHz, although these were perceived as something more like a pressure on my head rather than as sound.
So I have no difficulty in believing that the earlier poster was at one point able to hear up to 25kHz.
From every programmer ever?
Nope. I guess I just forgot that the Debian security team, which backports security fixes, is an anomaly.
More seriously, though, one of the often-touted benefits of open source/free software is that we produce security patches which don't introduce hordes of new features (and bugs). It's sad to see good projects starting to behave like proprietary software vendors and doubly so that it would be something as respectable as openssh.
You forgot:
4. Announce that there is a bug in certain versions when built with certain options (so that those of us who aren't vulnerable in the first place know not to panic).
the vendors would no longer have the head start they needed
Except the vendors didn't get a head start because the vulnerability wasn't disclosed to them either. They were just handed OpenSSH 3.3 and told, "Here. Use this. It doesn't fix the hole that we won't tell you about, but it will prevent it from being exploited." Now, today, the vendors have finally been allowed to see a patch and can start implementing fixes other than "upgrade to the newest version".
Hmm... "There's a problem, we won't tell you what it is, but if you upgrade to the newest version, it will go away, plus you'll get nifty new features along with it!" Where have I heard that before?
we might as well give KDE 3.0 and Gnome 2.0 (not to mention XFree 4.2) enough time to slide from unstable to testing and be included with Woody. Nobody that needs Linux in a production environment can afford to wait 2 years for those to be released
Huh. Guess I'll have to send email around to the front office telling them that we can't use Debian any more because we can't afford to wait 2 years for KDE 3, GNOME 2 and X 4.2 to be released, even though they seem to be doing just fine with a mix of X3/X4.1 as I move them off of KDE1/KDE2 onto WindowMaker.
The vast majority of the time, production/corporate environments need something that is known to work, not the cutting edge.
Not exactly the BSA, but I got a letter from Microsoft's local attourney at work last November "requesting" that we do a self-audit. I passed it off to my boss, he talked to the owner of the company, the owner talked to his lawyer, and the final decision was that if MS wanted to check our licenses, they'd better bring some cops and a search warrant, because that's the only way they're getting past the receptionist (and her Linux-based workstation).
We haven't heard from them since.
does the DMCA apply if the encryption in question is intended for a use other than to prevent copying
Yes. I haven't reread DMCA lately, but ISTR that it hinges on the presence of a measure (e.g., encryption) which controls access to the copyrighted work. It doesn't need to be a copy-control mechanism.
The ONLY time a user copies the software is on the OS install.
You are, sadly, incorrect. All of this EULA stuff was started by a court buying into the argument that, without a license agreement, running software is a copyright violation because the computer must copy the software from disk into memory.
IOW, you're "copying" the software every time it runs. (And every time it gets swapped out to disk or back into RAM, for that matter...)
Sure, if you follow the "normal" pattern of going into an office for n hours, then going home, that's entirely reasonable. But what about those of us with enlightened bosses who say things like, "Why don't you stay at home and work on project X tomorrow"? In the middle of summer, I'd love to be able to spend the day writing code at the beach while watching my email and maybe sshing in to check out a server problem instead of having to do it from home.
The ability to work from anywhere can also be used to let you get away from it all while working, not just to let work follow you when you're trying to get away.
I could have a pirated copy of Windows XP wisping its way through my body in the form of radio waves.
Better not let Senator Hollings find out - he'd require that you have a DRM device fitted. We might even be required by law to wear tinfoil suits... (But at least we know why everyone dressed like that in old sci-fi shows.)
Make sure you weld the doors shut
Yeah! It'll be just like the Dukes of Hazzard!
vi /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt
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It is completely standard in all implementations. ufstype is purely for reference purposes and may be set to any arbitrary value.
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OK, it's been revised. What next?
That one cuts both ways. 10 years ago, when I was furiously debating both sides of evolution vs. creation at any opportunity, the standard textbook example to prove evolution was that a mostly-white species of moths turned mostly-black when industrialization hit the area. That's nice and all, but very few people seemed able to grasp that changing the statistical distribution of existing phenotypes has little-to-no bearing on the development of new genotypes, much less new species. There are underinformed people on all sides of every issue.
That's not the full Tron game! It's just lightcycles, which, IMO, is the lamest of the four games in the arcade Tron. MCP is a nice twist on breakout, but the spiders and tanks are the ones I really liked. But noooooo..., to all the world it seems that "Tron game" means "lightcycles" and nothing else.
Furrfu.
Or will they do better if inculcated with a firm grasp on reality?
Uh, dude? We're talking about giant robots with laser swords here...
Read the article. The vulnerability exists because the transmit LED is usually wired directly into the data stream (which is why they blink irregularly when data is being transmitted). If the LED's response time is fast enough, this allows you to read the data stream from it.
A line beginning with "begin", two spaces, and one or more non-space characters anywhere in the message body will trigger this bug, based on the CrackMonkey thread. I suspect that this wouldn't work in the headers, but I don't think starting a line off like that wouldn't be RFC-compliant anyhow.
Oh, and I'm a sysadmin who would read one of these messages in text and laugh loud and long if one of my users complained to me about it.
and who the heck would say "EKEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"?
The same people who would build Castle Arrrggh.
it generally wont do you one bit of good once you hit mid-game
This does a nice job of complementing my read of the previous post about memorization. Sure, memorized strats and gambits may not do much once you hit mid-game, but if you haven't memorized them as well as your opponent, you'll be toast by the time you get there.