In the UK it's illegal to use a cellphone whilst driving (or it will be on December 1st) so this won't become a problem. Anyway I'm sure the standard 'driving without due care and attention' will cover this kind of thing anyway.
MSNv9 now has the ability to use a proxy at microsof t to do this - it also can tunnel via port 80, making UPNP superfluous. However it still attempts to work the old way.
tmh@sisko:~$ rblcheck 192.168.1.4 192.168.1.4 not RBL filtered by cbl.abuseat.org 192.168.1.4 not RBL filtered by list.dsbl.org 192.168.1.4 not RBL filtered by blackholes.easynet.nl 192.168.1.4 not RBL filtered by dynablock.easynet.nl 192.168.1.4 not RBL filtered by dnsbl.njabl.org 192.168.1.4 not RBL filtered by sbl.spamhaus.org 192.168.1.4 not RBL filtered by l1.spews.dnsbl.sorbs.net
They're not related to teleline.es are they? The ISP that at least once (they've been blocked on my domains for ages) sent around an email saying 'don't worry if other ISPs have blocked you for spamming.. join us and we'll let you spam all you like'.
I got that message and immediately blocked their entire subnet...
I saw revolutions last night (it only came out a couple of days ago here) and really wish I'd not bothered... Couldn't think of anything good to say about it - even the special effects have been done before (fight in mid air... Superman about 20 years ago. Implausible walking things - the original terminator had those, albeit only briefly).
They completely abandoned the plot just to fill it with 'cool' fight sequences, most of which I could have seen on TV instead.
Indeed you're right - I thought I smelled a scam when I read the site earlier... (f/x: checks share price).. 10cents a share. Total value of 62,000 dollars.
Yup. That sure sounds like a company that can afford to develop a mobile phone.
You pick up a new one every day and the cops have to keep tracking new numbers.
That's no how tracking works - they triangulate your position using the relative signal strengths in the cells surrounding you. They can get you within a few feet - some companies are now selling this technology to parents to keep track of children... it's that reliable.
They can pick up the phone based on the number you dial or even key phrases said during the conversation (echelon) - the number of the phone itself is pretty irrelevant these days.
In that case the proper word is not 'bluejacking' it's 'using bluetooth precisely in the way it was designed'. Sending short-range messages is one of its main purposes.
The article implies they're actually using the victims phone to do something nefarious.
It was 'Emulsified High Fat Offal Tubes' - although quoting Yes, Minister is a bit obscure for Slashdot:) I don't think it ever made it across the pond (they'd have never understood it anyway).
Credit cards weren't setup by the government, but they were made possible by it - Lender A lends you the money, and refuse to pay, you go to jail. Without such a law credit cards would never work.
There's nothing like that for email. I'm perfectly at liberty to say 'anyone who sends me email must pay $1' but there's no law to enforce it... certainly not from the spammers - although 99% of spammers are US based they use open relays in korea/poland/russia to send their emails.. and they're not easy to trace either. Even if I could trace them why would they pay? (this is why shareware never worked... nobody actually registers their software - how many people actually pay for winzip for example?)
IMO Spammers when caught should have internet bans placed on them - if a court said Ralsky wasn't allowed to use the internet for 5 years it'd be cheap to implement and hit far harder than a fine (hopefully drive him out of business permanently).
Ordinarily I'd be thinking 'Troll' but the complete uselesness of the IBM lawyers so far (how much are they paying them? They need to get off their asses before SCO win by default) shows what an utter failure the legal system is in this case.
I wouldn't go as far as a carbomb but pickets, petitions, publicity.
I always thought the idea of dumping a tonne of manure of McBride's doorstep was cool:) Relatively cheap too.
Linus and the FSF can't have a GPL that applies to everybody except SCO, because that would violate the GPL itself...:)
There's nothing to stop the FSF bringing out GPLv3 which specifically forbids SCO and their shareholders/families/customers from using software under it, but then each contributor would have to agree to the license change.
Democracy itself is largely a myth... the politicitians will say *anything* to get into power, and, once there, will say *anything* to stay in power.
However, what they actually do is what they damned well please.
Remember the education level of the populace really isn't that high - the average slashdotter is *much* more educated than joe sixpack (60% of people in the US have never read a book, for example). This is why a tall candidate with good hair is a usually a sure win, and 'we're going to raise taxes to so that we can improve transport/healthcare/whatever' is a sure loser, and 'we're going to cut taxes even though the last guy did the same and went bankcrupt. by the way have you seen my latest movie?' is a sure winner.
On the other hand if you said "all birds fly" and nobody *ever* saw a bird that didn't fly, it still wouldn't prove the proposition - because without knowledge of all the universe past present and future you could never prove it.
There are real world examples of this - the idea that prime numbers are an infinite series, for example. Since nobody has ever been able to find an end to the series, it still stands, but you can't *prove* it.
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In the UK it's illegal to use a cellphone whilst driving (or it will be on December 1st) so this won't become a problem. Anyway I'm sure the standard 'driving without due care and attention' will cover this kind of thing anyway.
It needs it for file transfer.
MSNv9 now has the ability to use a proxy at microsof t to do this - it also can tunnel via port 80, making UPNP superfluous. However it still attempts to work the old way.
rblcheck:
tmh@sisko:~$ rblcheck 192.168.1.4
192.168.1.4 not RBL filtered by cbl.abuseat.org
192.168.1.4 not RBL filtered by list.dsbl.org
192.168.1.4 not RBL filtered by blackholes.easynet.nl
192.168.1.4 not RBL filtered by dynablock.easynet.nl
192.168.1.4 not RBL filtered by dnsbl.njabl.org
192.168.1.4 not RBL filtered by sbl.spamhaus.org
192.168.1.4 not RBL filtered by l1.spews.dnsbl.sorbs.net
They're not related to teleline.es are they? The ISP that at least once (they've been blocked on my domains for ages) sent around an email saying 'don't worry if other ISPs have blocked you for spamming.. join us and we'll let you spam all you like'.
I got that message and immediately blocked their entire subnet...
I saw revolutions last night (it only came out a couple of days ago here) and really wish I'd not bothered... Couldn't think of anything good to say about it - even the special effects have been done before (fight in mid air... Superman about 20 years ago. Implausible walking things - the original terminator had those, albeit only briefly).
They completely abandoned the plot just to fill it with 'cool' fight sequences, most of which I could have seen on TV instead.
Indeed you're right - I thought I smelled a scam when I read the site earlier... (f/x: checks share price).. 10cents a share. Total value of 62,000 dollars.
Yup. That sure sounds like a company that can afford to develop a mobile phone.
..especially since slashdot has covered the exact same story about 3 times already over the last year.
You pick up a new one every day and the cops have to keep tracking new numbers.
That's no how tracking works - they triangulate your position using the relative signal strengths in the cells surrounding you. They can get you within a few feet - some companies are now selling this technology to parents to keep track of children... it's that reliable.
They can pick up the phone based on the number you dial or even key phrases said during the conversation (echelon) - the number of the phone itself is pretty irrelevant these days.
Blootooth, fail?
When's the last time you went into a phone shop? - *every single device* is bluetooth enabled.
Some of the the new ones aren't IRDA enabled (IRDA requires a line of sight link, doesn't work in all lighting conditions and is damned slow anyway).
AM? *cough* when's the last time you saw an AM enabled phone?
Penicillin was a naturally occuring fungus (albeit uncommon.. you can't just eat any old patch of mould) but they patented it anyway.
Naturally occuring doesn't seem to count as prior art.
Well I should hope so, otherwise we'd be in deep doodoo.
'Obvious headline of the month'!
In that case the proper word is not 'bluejacking' it's 'using bluetooth precisely in the way it was designed'. Sending short-range messages is one of its main purposes.
The article implies they're actually using the victims phone to do something nefarious.
Every bluetooth phone I've ever owned has required a PIN to be set when you activate it. Without the PIN you can't make a connection.
Then, when connection does succeed, a box pops up on the receiving phone asking whether you want to accept the connection.
It's difficult to see how that could be done without the owner knowing about it.
It was 'Emulsified High Fat Offal Tubes' - although quoting Yes, Minister is a bit obscure for Slashdot :) I don't think it ever made it across the pond (they'd have never understood it anyway).
Without laws nobody would pay.
Credit cards weren't setup by the government, but they were made possible by it - Lender A lends you the money, and refuse to pay, you go to jail. Without such a law credit cards would never work.
There's nothing like that for email. I'm perfectly at liberty to say 'anyone who sends me email must pay $1' but there's no law to enforce it... certainly not from the spammers - although 99% of spammers are US based they use open relays in korea/poland/russia to send their emails.. and they're not easy to trace either. Even if I could trace them why would they pay? (this is why shareware never worked... nobody actually registers their software - how many people actually pay for winzip for example?)
IMO Spammers when caught should have internet bans placed on them - if a court said Ralsky wasn't allowed to use the internet for 5 years it'd be cheap to implement and hit far harder than a fine (hopefully drive him out of business permanently).
Ironic that most geeks never get within 60 feet of a nipple once they've got their knowledge of computers :)
The GPL can't grant rights you don't have under the law, in fact IIRC there's even a paragraph stating this.
Plus exporting to certain hostile regimes is *not* illegal unless the software contains strong encryption, anyway.
Ordinarily I'd be thinking 'Troll' but the complete uselesness of the IBM lawyers so far (how much are they paying them? They need to get off their asses before SCO win by default) shows what an utter failure the legal system is in this case.
:) Relatively cheap too.
I wouldn't go as far as a carbomb but pickets, petitions, publicity.
I always thought the idea of dumping a tonne of manure of McBride's doorstep was cool
To be effective it should be:
This software may not be used by any employees or shareholders of SCO, on anyone related to any of the above.
Ya gotta take down the shareholders - that's all that SCO care about really.
However, they're just that, rumors, and it is not fair to allege that someone has committed a crime when there's no evidence that they've done so.
Quick! Someone tell SCO!
So you're looking for someone who:
(a) Is an SCO customer, and
(b) Reads slashdot
Umm... happy hunting!
I'd love to know how a one word answer managed to get 'insigtful'!
:)
Ahh the wonders of slashdot moderation
Linus and the FSF can't have a GPL that applies to everybody except SCO, because that would violate the GPL itself... :)
There's nothing to stop the FSF bringing out GPLv3 which specifically forbids SCO and their shareholders/families/customers from using software under it, but then each contributor would have to agree to the license change.
Democracy itself is largely a myth... the politicitians will say *anything* to get into power, and, once there, will say *anything* to stay in power.
However, what they actually do is what they damned well please.
Remember the education level of the populace really isn't that high - the average slashdotter is *much* more educated than joe sixpack (60% of people in the US have never read a book, for example). This is why a tall candidate with good hair is a usually a sure win, and 'we're going to raise taxes to so that we can improve transport/healthcare/whatever' is a sure loser, and 'we're going to cut taxes even though the last guy did the same and went bankcrupt. by the way have you seen my latest movie?' is a sure winner.
On the other hand if you said "all birds fly" and nobody *ever* saw a bird that didn't fly, it still wouldn't prove the proposition - because without knowledge of all the universe past present and future you could never prove it.
There are real world examples of this - the idea that prime numbers are an infinite series, for example. Since nobody has ever been able to find an end to the series, it still stands, but you can't *prove* it.