While I agree with the ruling, it would be nice to have a DNS-like system for telephone numbers. Map names to numbers, allow the numbers to change while the name stays the same.
The Economic Espionage Act of 1996 doesn't require that the defendant benefit from the act of espionage, it refers to the benefit of "any foreign government, foreign instrumentality, or foreign agent". That's worded specifically to include foreign companies. It doesn't even matter what your intent was, if you knew (or should have known) that your act of espionage would benefit them, then you have violated this law.
And let's be clear -- this WAS an act of corporate espionage. He knowingly stole trade secrets from his work and posted them online. Put him in jail, and any hippies who think what he did was right, you can go join him.
Theo de Raadt is not afraid to stand up for what he believes in, and I think DARPA has made a bad decision.
What makes me angry is that, as an American citizen, DARPA's money is MY money, and they are using it as a bludgeon to silence anyone against the current war in Iraq.
I for one am going to donate
money to the project via PayPal. I urge you to do the same.
If you want to help but can't afford to donate, at least send him an email telling him that you support him. It's a lonely road and he could probably use the support.
Uhhh, no, actually the first poster was right. If you can't be bothered to read a single paragraph, then don't bother calling someone a "suck-ass". The paragraph says you are signing over the rights to not just the "contents of your entry" but more importantly, the concepts embodied therein.
I love my dual Dvorak/QWERTY Kinesis Classic QD keyboard. Their website is here -- you can dynamically switch back and forth between qwerty and Dvorak while you adjust to the new layout.
It's great for programmers because you can actually remap any key to any other key and even program macros directly into the keyboard's memory, so if I have a particular repetitive sequence of commands that I use in my editor, I can temporarily map, say ALT+6 to that sequence of keys. Doing it at the hardware level is great because it works on every OS, etc.
And Dvorak is wonderful too. I don't have to wear wrist braces any more. I can touch type VERY fast. It's a good keyboard design for playing games.
Only thing that bothers me is that laptops still come with QWERTY. I want a Dvorak laptop. I don't want to be pulling keys off and trying to stick them in different places.
I don't think this will work. Do not call lists (for telephone spam) work fairly well because it's rather easy for the government and/or utilities to investigate who is violating a DNC list. This is made even easier by the fact that phone/fax spam from abroad is almost non-existent in the USA.
With email, it is far more difficult to stop. First, the jurisdictional issues. Second, it is trivial for an email spammer to hide his identity -- there are plenty of open relays to bounce through.
I already receive spam for "500,000 opt-in email addresses on CD!" -- when do-not-email lists are in place, I'm sure I will be getting adverts for "500,000 do-not-email addresses on CD!". And nobody will be able to stop them.
Don't set it to localhost, that's too slow (as it will actually try to connect to localhost each time). Set it to 0.0.0.0 -- it won't even try to connect.
I find it rather odd that geeks, the typical early adopters, are resisting improved audio formats. SACD sounds frigging great -- you might want to give it a listen before you decide to reject it out of hand because you're in a huff over digital rights management.
We're going to be able to copy SACDs and DVD-A's just like we're able to copy DVDs now -- it's simply not possible to make a player that outputs a digital bitstream to a D/A converter without being able to copy the bitstream. I agree that I'm miffed because it won't be convenient -- I think region encoding is horrid...but seeing as I don't copy my DVDs and CDs that much anyways, it's not a problem for me. I buy a CD or DVD, I keep it in excellent condition, and I play it when I want to! It's been that way since I was buying vinyl, with the exception of region encoding.
I for one, am hoping that SACDs catch on and that artists start producing multi-channel, super hi-fi albums on a regular basis (Peter Gabriel is reportedly experimenting with multi channel music). And no, DVD-A doesn't count as super hi-fi in my book (it's still PCM encoded albeit with an expanded dynamic range).
Only thing that would make me think twice is if they made region encoding any more of a nuisance than it already is.
Nobody is asking about the legality of filming people in public. What's at issue here is the legality of a person choosing NOT to have their image taken.
I find it interesting that police officers can drive over the speed limit and run through red lights with their sirens on, but if Joe "gray" hat driver does the same thing, he gets a ticket or goes to jail. Give me a break dude.
I submitted this story about a month ago and of course it got rejected. Now it gets accepted and it lacks all of the *good* information, such as the fact that a Quicktime trailer has been out for over a month now for Naqoyqatsi.
The first two (Koyanisqatsi and Powaqatsi) have just been mass released on DVD, in advance of the upcoming theater release of Naqoyqatsi (these words are roughly taken from the Hopi language).
Godfrey Reggio is an interesting chap -- he grew up in a monastery and when he left, he turned to film. Probably the best thing he ever did was to find Ron Fricke, who is the directory of photography for all 3 qatsi movies. Ron Fricke put out his own film, Baraka -- the quality of the photography in Baraka is WAY better than in the qatsi movies (because it was filmed 70mm camera rigs of Fricke's own design instead of the 35mm that was available for the qatsi movies), and Baraka takes a less moralizing approach to the imagery. Not to mention Baraka's music is better -- Philip Glass is OK, but the qatsi movies aren't his best work.:) If you buy the Baraka DVD, try to find the original DVD edition (not the special collector's edition), I've heard lots of complaints that the film->DVD transfer is better in the original DVD.
And to the slashdot editors -- I know this might get modded down as offtopic, but do a better job. Why not look back through your old rejected stories when you're about to post a "new" (shitty) one?
I hate to be negative but this is not really useful. As Geek Art it's kinda cool -- but let's not kid ourselves about it having any value for kernel hackers. It's just some pretty pictures that Linux scene whores can look at and say "Oooh ahhh I grok the kernel now" -- but don't expect any of those people to submit patches or new device drivers anytime soon.
You know, the Linux kernel is not massive -- you can spend a couple hours looking at source code and get a much better idea than you would with these kinds of visualizations. And if you can't read source code like that, then you shouldn't really be wasting your time looking at pictures.
I suggest YOU go read the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. The founders of the United States held that certain rights are God given or "natural", i.e. they cannot be abridged by anyone or anything -- unless you voluntarily enter into an agreement.
Since security researchers by and large have not entered into agreements with Microsoft (the EULA, a non-binding and probably invalid "contract" not withstanding), they can exercise their NATURAL rights to speak freely.
This is why the founding fathers were a bit more radical than they are given credit for. They would not have agreed with the statement "If Congress passes a law, then it stands as the law of the land no matter what." If the law attempts to abridge your God given rights, then your rights simply trump the law and you can and probably SHOULD actively disregard/disobey it.
If only information worked that way. Most of the 9/11 hijackers spoke several languages, had lived in the Middle East, Europe, and the US for several years, and were well-educated (engineers for example).
Sometimes people are just evil. Ignorance isn't the explanation, nor is education the solution.
Gould has been sick for a long time. He managed to stay alive long enough to see published his magnum opus, "The Structure of Evolutionary Theory."
From the recent interview with Gould (conducted March 15, 2002):
Now, Mr. Gould is trying to write himself into the illustrious annals of scientific history. This month, Harvard University Press is publishing his 1,464-page magnum opus, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, a work 20 years in the making that seeks nothing less than to reformulate Darwin's theory of evolution.
What's interesting and revealing about Gator's approach is that the well-known Nimda worm spread by injecting popup download code into IIS-served web pages, exploiting a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that caused the user NOT to be prompted before the dowloaded program executed.
I'm sick of people asking "When will we see widespread commercial application of AI". AI researchers often quote the so-called "moving frontier" problem, that is, as soon as an AI application becomes useful enough to solve real-world problems, it ceases to be known as AI and looks a whole lot more mundane.
For example, computer vision -- there are publicly-traded companies out there which have been doing machine vision for YEARS. These systems are used by all major chip manufacturers, most major paper and textile manufacturers, etc. to catch recognize and catch defects in products before they leave the assembly line. Cognex is a $1B a year company -- they exclusively do machine vision and visual pattern recognition for industrial applications.
Another example of a company applying AI would be Virage, who has several patents relating to image/video searching and indexing.
Many investment houses use neural networks to profile and model investments, and plenty of large financials use expert systems and neural networks to for data mining, employee profiling, and so on.
Expert systems have been applied to computer security as well -- Rapid 7 (my company) sells a network security scanner which uses the Jess expert system from Sandia labs. The value of the expert system is, it allows the product to use discovered vulnerabilities to further exploit the network, discovering more vulnerabilities, which enable more probes to be performed, etc.
That's a retarded philosophy. The whole idea of a plugin is YOU PLUG IT IN. Qualcomm does not ship NAI Inc.'s PGP plugin with its Eudora email client, yet I'd say it's pretty seamless (you install PGP and it automatically installs and configures the Eudora plugin for you).
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There is a list of GPG mailer plugins and modules for common mailers, including Eudora, Outlook, Netscape, KMail, emacs, Pine, Mutt, etc.
Failing that, you can always write your own.
You are missing the point. The DMCA and its relatives will make it illegal to circumvent, or enable the circumvention of, any copy protection device.
So it isn't just about the record industries not making fair use EASY -- it's about them making fair use ILLEGAL -- which certainly compromises our right to fair use, doesn't it?
I agree that schools should not focus exclusively on one technology or platform. You write that:
"The bad guy in this case is usually non-cs
management who think they're doing the student
a favor while actually ruining the possibility
for the student to receive a solid academic
education."
This is only half the story. It is also possible to give the student a solid "academic" gorunding but in doing so, ruin the possibility for the student to GET A JOB when he graduates (which is why 99.999% of students are shelling out the money for postsecondary C.S. education in the first place).
Ultimately it is the student's responsibility to gain exposure to commercial software that he is likely to encounter in the marketplace (this most definitely includes Windows NT/2k/XP and Microsoft Visual Studio, but also Linux)...this will greatly increase his chances of getting a development level position.
Therefore I have no problems with C.S. departments teaching Windows development -- as long as they don't entirely ignore UNIX. The converse is also fine IMHO. Even better would be both. But schools which do neither out of some sort of agnostic concern are doing their students a disservice.
How could a crowd disperse if they were unable to move across slippery ground, or if they were themselves covered in slippery goo? Sounds like it would make it more difficult to disperse a crowd than, say, tear gas.
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While I agree with the ruling, it would be nice to have a DNS-like system for telephone numbers. Map names to numbers, allow the numbers to change while the name stays the same.
And let's be clear -- this WAS an act of corporate espionage. He knowingly stole trade secrets from his work and posted them online. Put him in jail, and any hippies who think what he did was right, you can go join him.
What makes me angry is that, as an American citizen, DARPA's money is MY money, and they are using it as a bludgeon to silence anyone against the current war in Iraq.
I for one am going to donate money to the project via PayPal. I urge you to do the same.
If you want to help but can't afford to donate, at least send him an email telling him that you support him. It's a lonely road and he could probably use the support.
Uhhh, no, actually the first poster was right. If you can't be bothered to read a single paragraph, then don't bother calling someone a "suck-ass". The paragraph says you are signing over the rights to not just the "contents of your entry" but more importantly, the concepts embodied therein.
Something tells me YOU are not a lawyer either.
It's great for programmers because you can actually remap any key to any other key and even program macros directly into the keyboard's memory, so if I have a particular repetitive sequence of commands that I use in my editor, I can temporarily map, say ALT+6 to that sequence of keys. Doing it at the hardware level is great because it works on every OS, etc.
And Dvorak is wonderful too. I don't have to wear wrist braces any more. I can touch type VERY fast. It's a good keyboard design for playing games.
Only thing that bothers me is that laptops still come with QWERTY. I want a Dvorak laptop. I don't want to be pulling keys off and trying to stick them in different places.
I don't think this will work. Do not call lists (for telephone spam) work fairly well because it's rather easy for the government and/or utilities to investigate who is violating a DNC list. This is made even easier by the fact that phone/fax spam from abroad is almost non-existent in the USA.
With email, it is far more difficult to stop. First, the jurisdictional issues. Second, it is trivial for an email spammer to hide his identity -- there are plenty of open relays to bounce through.
I already receive spam for "500,000 opt-in email addresses on CD!" -- when do-not-email lists are in place, I'm sure I will be getting adverts for "500,000 do-not-email addresses on CD!". And nobody will be able to stop them.
Don't set it to localhost, that's too slow (as it will actually try to connect to localhost each time). Set it to 0.0.0.0 -- it won't even try to connect.
We're going to be able to copy SACDs and DVD-A's just like we're able to copy DVDs now -- it's simply not possible to make a player that outputs a digital bitstream to a D/A converter without being able to copy the bitstream. I agree that I'm miffed because it won't be convenient -- I think region encoding is horrid...but seeing as I don't copy my DVDs and CDs that much anyways, it's not a problem for me. I buy a CD or DVD, I keep it in excellent condition, and I play it when I want to! It's been that way since I was buying vinyl, with the exception of region encoding.
I for one, am hoping that SACDs catch on and that artists start producing multi-channel, super hi-fi albums on a regular basis (Peter Gabriel is reportedly experimenting with multi channel music). And no, DVD-A doesn't count as super hi-fi in my book (it's still PCM encoded albeit with an expanded dynamic range).
Only thing that would make me think twice is if they made region encoding any more of a nuisance than it already is.
Nobody is asking about the legality of filming people in public. What's at issue here is the legality of a person choosing NOT to have their image taken.
I find it interesting that police officers can drive over the speed limit and run through red lights with their sirens on, but if Joe "gray" hat driver does the same thing, he gets a ticket or goes to jail. Give me a break dude.
I submitted this story about a month ago and of course it got rejected. Now it gets accepted and it lacks all of the *good* information, such as the fact that a Quicktime trailer has been out for over a month now for Naqoyqatsi.
:) If you buy the Baraka DVD, try to find the original DVD edition (not the special collector's edition), I've heard lots of complaints that the film->DVD transfer is better in the original DVD.
The first two (Koyanisqatsi and Powaqatsi) have just been mass released on DVD, in advance of the upcoming theater release of Naqoyqatsi (these words are roughly taken from the Hopi language).
Godfrey Reggio is an interesting chap -- he grew up in a monastery and when he left, he turned to film. Probably the best thing he ever did was to find Ron Fricke, who is the directory of photography for all 3 qatsi movies. Ron Fricke put out his own film, Baraka -- the quality of the photography in Baraka is WAY better than in the qatsi movies (because it was filmed 70mm camera rigs of Fricke's own design instead of the 35mm that was available for the qatsi movies), and Baraka takes a less moralizing approach to the imagery. Not to mention Baraka's music is better -- Philip Glass is OK, but the qatsi movies aren't his best work.
And to the slashdot editors -- I know this might get modded down as offtopic, but do a better job. Why not look back through your old rejected stories when you're about to post a "new" (shitty) one?
I hate to be negative but this is not really useful. As Geek Art it's kinda cool -- but let's not kid ourselves about it having any value for kernel hackers. It's just some pretty pictures that Linux scene whores can look at and say "Oooh ahhh I grok the kernel now" -- but don't expect any of those people to submit patches or new device drivers anytime soon.
You know, the Linux kernel is not massive -- you can spend a couple hours looking at source code and get a much better idea than you would with these kinds of visualizations. And if you can't read source code like that, then you shouldn't really be wasting your time looking at pictures.
Since security researchers by and large have not entered into agreements with Microsoft (the EULA, a non-binding and probably invalid "contract" not withstanding), they can exercise their NATURAL rights to speak freely.
This is why the founding fathers were a bit more radical than they are given credit for. They would not have agreed with the statement "If Congress passes a law, then it stands as the law of the land no matter what." If the law attempts to abridge your God given rights, then your rights simply trump the law and you can and probably SHOULD actively disregard/disobey it.
Sometimes people are just evil. Ignorance isn't the explanation, nor is education the solution.
Duh.r ies/freebsd_advisory-898.html
Telnet AYT options overflow:
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-21.html
Telnet TERMCAP vulnerability:http://www.linuxsecurity.com/adviso
From the recent interview with Gould (conducted March 15, 2002):
This theatre is old and no longer has the greatest reputation.
See these reviews for more information.
What's interesting and revealing about Gator's approach is that the well-known Nimda worm spread by injecting popup download code into IIS-served web pages, exploiting a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that caused the user NOT to be prompted before the dowloaded program executed.
For example, computer vision -- there are publicly-traded companies out there which have been doing machine vision for YEARS. These systems are used by all major chip manufacturers, most major paper and textile manufacturers, etc. to catch recognize and catch defects in products before they leave the assembly line. Cognex is a $1B a year company -- they exclusively do machine vision and visual pattern recognition for industrial applications.
Another example of a company applying AI would be Virage, who has several patents relating to image/video searching and indexing.
Many investment houses use neural networks to profile and model investments, and plenty of large financials use expert systems and neural networks to for data mining, employee profiling, and so on.
Expert systems have been applied to computer security as well -- Rapid 7 (my company) sells a network security scanner which uses the Jess expert system from Sandia labs. The value of the expert system is, it allows the product to use discovered vulnerabilities to further exploit the network, discovering more vulnerabilities, which enable more probes to be performed, etc.
That's a retarded philosophy. The whole idea of a plugin is YOU PLUG IT IN. Qualcomm does not ship NAI Inc.'s PGP plugin with its Eudora email client, yet I'd say it's pretty seamless (you install PGP and it automatically installs and configures the Eudora plugin for you).
You are missing the point. The DMCA and its relatives will make it illegal to circumvent, or enable the circumvention of, any copy protection device.
So it isn't just about the record industries not making fair use EASY -- it's about them making fair use ILLEGAL -- which certainly compromises our right to fair use, doesn't it?
I agree that schools should not focus exclusively on one technology or platform. You write that:
"The bad guy in this case is usually non-cs
management who think they're doing the student
a favor while actually ruining the possibility
for the student to receive a solid academic
education."
This is only half the story. It is also possible to give the student a solid "academic" gorunding but in doing so, ruin the possibility for the student to GET A JOB when he graduates (which is why 99.999% of students are shelling out the money for postsecondary C.S. education in the first place).
Ultimately it is the student's responsibility to gain exposure to commercial software that he is likely to encounter in the marketplace (this most definitely includes Windows NT/2k/XP and Microsoft Visual Studio, but also Linux)...this will greatly increase his chances of getting a development level position.
Therefore I have no problems with C.S. departments teaching Windows development -- as long as they don't entirely ignore UNIX. The converse is also fine IMHO. Even better would be both. But schools which do neither out of some sort of agnostic concern are doing their students a disservice.
How could a crowd disperse if they were unable to move across slippery ground, or if they were themselves covered in slippery goo? Sounds like it would make it more difficult to disperse a crowd than, say, tear gas.