HaHa! I got some on my pager too (only the first 240 bytes I think). I think at least Airtouch might have been affected by this.
I cleaned about 4 dozen actuals out of the queue after stopping sendmail and I have a 200mb worth of rejection messages logged today after I installed the patch. Must have been popular.
better yet, alter gnutella to forge it's return as zeropaid.com - then see what happens!
Re:You leave trails everywhere...
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I've made a point of leaving pseudonymium in my wake. I was thinking of using a random function to improve my anti-contribution to searchability ever since I discovered I re-used a pseudonym.
Can we use the DMCA to control personal information? Would restrictions on reverse engineering protect our DNA from illicit sequencing by fast food database marketeers?
Seriously, I once looked up an job candidate post-interview for fact-checking purposes and inadvertantly discovered his penchant for high-profile, public S&M. Did I go too far? Or did he cross the line by telling me what university he went to, his thesis topic, and his email address?
Always Always Always Cross Out The "We Own Everything, Every Thing You Touch, Every Utterance, Every Waking Thought, Every Subconcious Imperative, Your Soul" Assignment Clause.
Long ago I asked an Copyright Lawyer (back when I thought I was hot s**t) and he said these were probably not enforceable, but back then you couldn't get Software Patents either.
I always write in language to "...limit the assignment to work product produced at the specific direction of Faceless Corporation..."
Interestingly corporate legal departments hate this and try to jam bad contract language down your throat anyway. Don't fall for this - if the clause is non-enforceable, they don't need it, right? The joke is it still costs you money to ditch a non-enforceable clause, and it still takes money to defend against the attempted enforcement of it. Better not to have it, so you don't have to worry about idiots attempting to extract your immortal soul with hot pincers...when you're all atheists anyway.
Where do you think RMS gets off being such a stick in the mud, eh? Don't give an inch when it's your genitalia and the other guys has a Sawzit!
Oh, jeez, let Hemos get a little ahead in the rat race, and before ya know it, he starts pushing these right-wing libertarian rant sites...welcome to the club, Hemos. Isn't funny how this stuff starts to make more sense when you're a self-starter who makes it into the money?
The essential truth here is the genie is already out of the bottle. The harder the pols and the crats squeeze, the less they will be able to get their greedy fingers onto. You socialists - this is not about having enough taxes to provide for infrastructure and the safety net, this is about power. The State covets it, and they's not gonna get it, furthermore, they may not even be able to deny power from us!
It's easy for the impressionable to blame the Demon Internet for all sorts of social problems. What's truly amazing, tho, is how impressively easy it is for internet users to really shrug most of this off. See how little impact the country-specific censorship and gambling rules really have, for example. The State will never catch up. And when our guys go over to the Dark Side - weeel fr'instance, who cares about Dorothy Denning now?
It really does seem to me this will make little difference in a few years. Even the physical nexus will stop being an issue because people will vote with their feet - and sensible jurisdictions will step out of the way, coming or going.
Yah, it may be these guys were up to no good, but it's immoral for the DA to shotgun charges at people hoping they stick. It increases the cost of justice.
I think your question is off the mark, tho. You should ask:
What legal basis is there for charging this? Is there already a law which establishes the connection?
What does the prosecutor intend to accomplish with the charges? Do they want to send a message, have negotiating room for a plea bargain, or maybe establish political capital?
What is the implication to the rest of us? Is there be a presumption of intent or commission based on the possesion of the tool? Does having the tool create a reasonable presumption for a search?
It's a good idea for people to worry about the state getting out of hand, and slashdot readers have a special interest.
Looks like I can dust off the mainframe lines in my resume, maybe change "timesharing" to "Application Server".
The idea of margin-shaving ($x/user) may seem attractive at first but carried to it's logical conclusion leads to the PC revolution all over again. There are still individual PCs with more computing power than the equivalent mainframe process devoted to their needs. Centralized IS still is about as innovative as dry toast, further compounding the issue.
Also remember that unused capacity is a sunk cost. All sorts of hilarious schemes have been developed in the mainframe data center to recover investment in un-used capacity. They all seem to reduce net reliability and flexibility. On the PC unused capacity seems to benefit the user or M$ more or less.
I do kind of miss my 3270-horrible and VM and Assembly and APL. But I don't miss SNA and APPC/VTAM and PDS and ISPDF et al. I don't recall Mainframes as being incredibly fault-tolerant per se. It has more to do with how much you want to spend on reliable systems planning, administration, and applications development.
For those who think Beowulf or other clustering is unsuited to running billing or invoicing or other mundane apps - don't get your hopes up. I imagine a network of pic microcontrollers could do the job. The reason for the big iron of course has to do with the Tons of Slow Overhead (this is mainframe joke, look up TSO), which requires lots of computing power in the first place.
Final point, for those of you with ISPs: The main reason for buying a mainframe is because...you already have a mainframe. But it is funny to look at server racks packed to the gills and compare them to big iron, which is boxes of racks packed to the gills.
jeez, this was in scientific american last year!
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Y'know, my take on this is: If Linux doesn't do something you want it to do, why aren't you fixing it?
If arrogant assholes send you tons of angry e-mails because of something you wrote, hey, you're getting noticed, right? Isn't that why you write articles?
Informing people the party is over misses the point. Linux is not a revolution, when we throw the bastards out the GPL doesn't leave us any wiggle room to install new ones.
I often hear these software engineering sheep bleating around here. "We are owned," they baa, "we must do what they say."
It is my personal opinion, based upon the released information, that the feds, bunch of scaredy-ass obnoxious no-nothings at certain major corporations, and a corrupt and deliberately ignorant legal system conspired to heave-ho Mr. Mitnick down a major shaft.
I agree w/jmr, Goldstein, etc - it could happen to anyone. Furthermore, with current trend towards increasing the number of ways to run afoul of the law during the commission of everday life, I predict it will happen to everyone.
To the petulant fascist ninnies who seem to be whining "he broke the LAW! Screw up the rest of his life!" - a policy of marginalizing everyone who runs afoul of bad laws and bad law enforcement is ultra-foolish! Especially since there's no way left to vote with your feet on this planet. Which do you think is better for society - permanenently stigmatizing even the slightest of infractions (thus marginalizing the infractor), or respecting the premise of repaying one's debt to society? We all have to live together on the same planet - what is the logical outcome of marginalizing people like Mitnick?
I'm voting with my checkbook (again!) - my lunch money today goes to one of those Mitnick accounts as my stick-a-finger-in-the-eye-of-the-feds gesture de jour.
I limit it to lunch money because there's still plenty of evidence of Mitnick's ethical shortcoming (even though truth will never out because of the dishonesty of the prosecution), and I'm also sure there exist feds who are honest enough to focus their efforts on honest-to-badness social predators.
I think this could be considered misappropriation of the content from the astrovision screen.
After all, replacing the logo denied attribution. I'm sure both of the networks identified the product as copyrighted material and reserved rights of reproduction.
By modifying the image they changed the information from "news" to "content", "reproduced it", and then falsely labeled it as their own.
So maybe this is a copyright violation. It sure doesn't seem like "fair use".
Or maybe they were sampling, yeah, it was a dj track....
Actually, I'm thinking a wrecking bar and a powerful bolt-cutter (e.g. mini jaws of life) would be the handiest things to have in the event of serious exigency. Just in case.
Y'know, mass murder is within the capability of anyone who pays attention in chemistry, physics, biology, math, history, or just knows how to look things up in the public library.
By fourth or fifth grade (in the US - earlier in Signapore, I hear) you can learn enough to get access to the means (historically demonstrated) of killing by the dozens, or even hundreds, or even just one or two obnoxious tormenters.
Someone moderate up the reply by insomniacs dream. Most of the defenses of not open-sourcing (including the so-far top moderated reply) are pretty naive - e.g. aserting because there exist some folks not as smart as the Seti@Home scientists, therefore no one is smarter? C'mon! Or to say "it's SETI, therefore it's for the good", i.e. the ends justify the means?
In march-april I had an extended email discussion with the seti@home project managers about open sourcing the client in order to improve client security. Fundamentally, they felt providing the source was bad because:
Someone would spoof the client and ruin the project;
Some well-meaning idiot would "extend" the client and ruin the project (yeah, like not having the source prevents this);
Someone would steal their science (the data);
There is no way to open the source and maintain security for the server;
Someone would fork the client and they would have no way of knowing what client was used;
The saucer nuts would run their own seti project and claim the seti@home project was a cover-up (like this hadn't already happened?)
They didn't have any more time to review the issues (which was my main point for open-sourcing!)
Since the open source community had already addressed many of these issues at the time, I felt their responses were spurious. My gut feeling was they had other issues which they did not want to expose.
I had initially pointed out the security issues with a closed source client and asked if open source was possible to address the issue. On the basis of the responses I received, I recommended a ban on the Seti@Home software to my customers. Some agreed and banned Seti@Home.
Personally I feel Seti@Home and other closed-source distributed clients are a bad idea because they are not subject to review and they treat the user with contempt. It's not a collaboration if the participants have no voice.
Go to it on the web page guy! this is my personal bugaboo. I have projects going where I can only get smd parts.
There's got to be an easier way to do traces. But I think the hobbyist workbench is gonna need a reflow/wave solder, a stereo microscope, and a robot pick and place before too long.
I complained about this to one of my designer friends and he pointed out it's possible to make your own chips via outsourcing - just need a spare $5k.
For all digital stuff I think CPLDS/FPGAs are the way to go. This means GPL-ed IP is required. I'm wondering if it's possible to make a proto board with CPLD routing? In any case simulation *will* be required.
Also consider chips like the PIC micro, which may not be the most elegant solution, but it certainly rocks in the cost-optimal dimension.
On the other hand, I think the libertarians have been here already.
I wish could have some real government deconstruction, instead of legislators just pretending to "get government off our backs"...When was the last time you heard someone campaign for fewer laws?
In the mean time these folks at DOJ treat the system as entitled sinecure.
Choice creates customer confusion is marketing FUD. In the traditional provider relationship, the provider wants the advantage in the balance of information. They can use this advantage to control the customer.
I wish we could come up with networking schemes which would cut these guys off at the knees. I'm thinking of that ISP in Tucson AZ who bypassed the telco - Gain Communications...?
yo fool, origin of USA was revolt against excess government, including taxation, gun confiscation, and otherwise heavy-handed misgovernment. Which seems to be in vogue lately.
And we don't derive rights from Constitution neither - it only guarantees already-existing rights (subtopic: 10th article of Bill of Rights could be construed as preventing even constitutional amendments which remove rights).
Primary ostensible purpose of salestax is to retire bonds. In many cases the shell game of fund accounting allow local governments to plead empty pockets with millions or billions tucked away under the hat.
It's always acceptable to question motives of those advocating of taxation...don't you think?
This will really send the idjits a message. Anyone can run root server, and anyone can pick the resolution they want. Then slashdot can have it's own "geek cachet" servers, WIPO be damned.
Slashdot Mirror
Reminds me of the CHRISTMA EXEC that hit IBM's internal email and some academic sites back in `88, or was it `89?
HaHa! I got some on my pager too (only the first 240 bytes I think). I think at least Airtouch might have been affected by this.
I cleaned about 4 dozen actuals out of the queue after stopping sendmail and I have a 200mb worth of rejection messages logged today after I installed the patch. Must have been popular.
f u r r f u ! !
better yet, alter gnutella to forge it's return as zeropaid.com - then see what happens!
I've made a point of leaving pseudonymium in my wake. I was thinking of using a random function to improve my anti-contribution to searchability ever since I discovered I re-used a pseudonym.
Can we use the DMCA to control personal information? Would restrictions on reverse engineering protect our DNA from illicit sequencing by fast food database marketeers?
Seriously, I once looked up an job candidate post-interview for fact-checking purposes and inadvertantly discovered his penchant for high-profile, public S&M. Did I go too far? Or did he cross the line by telling me what university he went to, his thesis topic, and his email address?
Don't forget to post anonymously!
Always Always Always Cross Out The "We Own Everything, Every Thing You Touch, Every Utterance, Every Waking Thought, Every Subconcious Imperative, Your Soul" Assignment Clause.
Long ago I asked an Copyright Lawyer (back when I thought I was hot s**t) and he said these were probably not enforceable, but back then you couldn't get Software Patents either.
I always write in language to "...limit the assignment to work product produced at the specific direction of Faceless Corporation..."
Interestingly corporate legal departments hate this and try to jam bad contract language down your throat anyway. Don't fall for this - if the clause is non-enforceable, they don't need it, right? The joke is it still costs you money to ditch a non-enforceable clause, and it still takes money to defend against the attempted enforcement of it. Better not to have it, so you don't have to worry about idiots attempting to extract your immortal soul with hot pincers...when you're all atheists anyway.
Where do you think RMS gets off being such a stick in the mud, eh? Don't give an inch when it's your genitalia and the other guys has a Sawzit!
Oh, jeez, let Hemos get a little ahead in the rat race, and before ya know it, he starts pushing these right-wing libertarian rant sites...welcome to the club, Hemos. Isn't funny how this stuff starts to make more sense when you're a self-starter who makes it into the money?
The essential truth here is the genie is already out of the bottle. The harder the pols and the crats squeeze, the less they will be able to get their greedy fingers onto. You socialists - this is not about having enough taxes to provide for infrastructure and the safety net, this is about power. The State covets it, and they's not gonna get it, furthermore, they may not even be able to deny power from us!
It's easy for the impressionable to blame the Demon Internet for all sorts of social problems. What's truly amazing, tho, is how impressively easy it is for internet users to really shrug most of this off. See how little impact the country-specific censorship and gambling rules really have, for example. The State will never catch up. And when our guys go over to the Dark Side - weeel fr'instance, who cares about Dorothy Denning now?
It really does seem to me this will make little difference in a few years. Even the physical nexus will stop being an issue because people will vote with their feet - and sensible jurisdictions will step out of the way, coming or going.
Yah, it may be these guys were up to no good, but it's immoral for the DA to shotgun charges at people hoping they stick. It increases the cost of justice.
I think your question is off the mark, tho. You should ask:
- What legal basis is there for charging this? Is there already a law which establishes the connection?
- What does the prosecutor intend to accomplish with the charges? Do they want to send a message, have negotiating room for a plea bargain, or maybe establish political capital?
- What is the implication to the rest of us? Is there be a presumption of intent or commission based on the possesion of the tool? Does having the tool create a reasonable presumption for a search?
It's a good idea for people to worry about the state getting out of hand, and slashdot readers have a special interest.Looks like I can dust off the mainframe lines in my resume, maybe change "timesharing" to "Application Server".
The idea of margin-shaving ($x/user) may seem attractive at first but carried to it's logical conclusion leads to the PC revolution all over again. There are still individual PCs with more computing power than the equivalent mainframe process devoted to their needs. Centralized IS still is about as innovative as dry toast, further compounding the issue.
Also remember that unused capacity is a sunk cost. All sorts of hilarious schemes have been developed in the mainframe data center to recover investment in un-used capacity. They all seem to reduce net reliability and flexibility. On the PC unused capacity seems to benefit the user or M$ more or less.
I do kind of miss my 3270-horrible and VM and Assembly and APL. But I don't miss SNA and APPC/VTAM and PDS and ISPDF et al. I don't recall Mainframes as being incredibly fault-tolerant per se. It has more to do with how much you want to spend on reliable systems planning, administration, and applications development.
For those who think Beowulf or other clustering is unsuited to running billing or invoicing or other mundane apps - don't get your hopes up. I imagine a network of pic microcontrollers could do the job. The reason for the big iron of course has to do with the Tons of Slow Overhead (this is mainframe joke, look up TSO), which requires lots of computing power in the first place.
Final point, for those of you with ISPs: The main reason for buying a mainframe is because...you already have a mainframe. But it is funny to look at server racks packed to the gills and compare them to big iron, which is boxes of racks packed to the gills.
Check out Scientific American (from last year). This stuff looks more and more interesting everyday.
If Linux doesn't do something you want it to do, why aren't you fixing it?
If arrogant assholes send you tons of angry e-mails because of something you wrote, hey, you're getting noticed, right? Isn't that why you write articles?
Informing people the party is over misses the point. Linux is not a revolution, when we throw the bastards out the GPL doesn't leave us any wiggle room to install new ones.
I often hear these software engineering sheep bleating around here. "We are owned," they baa, "we must do what they say."
"Gaaah" is what I say.
It is my personal opinion, based upon the released information, that the feds, bunch of scaredy-ass obnoxious no-nothings at certain major corporations, and a corrupt and deliberately ignorant legal system conspired to heave-ho Mr. Mitnick down a major shaft.
I agree w/jmr, Goldstein, etc - it could happen to anyone. Furthermore, with current trend towards increasing the number of ways to run afoul of the law during the commission of everday life, I predict it will happen to everyone.
To the petulant fascist ninnies who seem to be whining "he broke the LAW! Screw up the rest of his life!" - a policy of marginalizing everyone who runs afoul of bad laws and bad law enforcement is ultra-foolish! Especially since there's no way left to vote with your feet on this planet. Which do you think is better for society - permanenently stigmatizing even the slightest of infractions (thus marginalizing the infractor), or respecting the premise of repaying one's debt to society? We all have to live together on the same planet - what is the logical outcome of marginalizing people like Mitnick?
I'm voting with my checkbook (again!) - my lunch money today goes to one of those Mitnick accounts as my stick-a-finger-in-the-eye-of-the-feds gesture de jour.
I limit it to lunch money because there's still plenty of evidence of Mitnick's ethical shortcoming (even though truth will never out because of the dishonesty of the prosecution), and I'm also sure there exist feds who are honest enough to focus their efforts on honest-to-badness social predators.
I think this could be considered misappropriation of the content from the astrovision screen.
After all, replacing the logo denied attribution. I'm sure both of the networks identified the product as copyrighted material and reserved rights of reproduction.
By modifying the image they changed the information from "news" to "content", "reproduced it", and then falsely labeled it as their own.
So maybe this is a copyright violation. It sure doesn't seem like "fair use".
Or maybe they were sampling, yeah, it was a dj track....
Actually, I'm thinking a wrecking bar and a powerful bolt-cutter (e.g. mini jaws of life) would be the handiest things to have in the event of serious exigency. Just in case.
Actually I recall a serious thread some time back on the premise of patenting the process of obtaining a patent....
Y'know, mass murder is within the capability of anyone who pays attention in chemistry, physics, biology, math, history, or just knows how to look things up in the public library.
By fourth or fifth grade (in the US - earlier in Signapore, I hear) you can learn enough to get access to the means (historically demonstrated) of killing by the dozens, or even hundreds, or even just one or two obnoxious tormenters.
So...where are all the corpses?
hey, wnight - this is a the germ of a good idea.
Reading back through your posts, I see also see you addressing the other issues of validating results etc.
Since this is somewhat offtopic it probably won't get moderated up - but i'll be in touch!
.../jmo
Someone moderate up the reply by insomniacs dream. Most of the defenses of not open-sourcing (including the so-far top moderated reply) are pretty naive - e.g. aserting because there exist some folks not as smart as the Seti@Home scientists, therefore no one is smarter? C'mon! Or to say "it's SETI, therefore it's for the good", i.e. the ends justify the means?
In march-april I had an extended email discussion with the seti@home project managers about open sourcing the client in order to improve client security. Fundamentally, they felt providing the source was bad because:
Since the open source community had already addressed many of these issues at the time, I felt their responses were spurious. My gut feeling was they had other issues which they did not want to expose.
I had initially pointed out the security issues with a closed source client and asked if open source was possible to address the issue. On the basis of the responses I received, I recommended a ban on the Seti@Home software to my customers. Some agreed and banned Seti@Home.
Personally I feel Seti@Home and other closed-source distributed clients are a bad idea because they are not subject to review and they treat the user with contempt. It's not a collaboration if the participants have no voice.
comdex has been annoyingly worthless for years. Give 'em an enema, guys!
Go to it on the web page guy! this is my personal bugaboo. I have projects going where I can only get smd parts.
There's got to be an easier way to do traces. But I think the hobbyist workbench is gonna need a reflow/wave solder, a stereo microscope, and a robot pick and place before too long.
I complained about this to one of my designer friends and he pointed out it's possible to make your own chips via outsourcing - just need a spare $5k.
For all digital stuff I think CPLDS/FPGAs are the way to go. This means GPL-ed IP is required. I'm wondering if it's possible to make a proto board with CPLD routing? In any case simulation *will* be required.
Also consider chips like the PIC micro, which may not be the most elegant solution, but it certainly rocks in the cost-optimal dimension.
hey, this is actually a good idea! Go Hacktivism!
On the other hand, I think the libertarians have been here already.
I wish could have some real government deconstruction, instead of legislators just pretending to "get government off our backs"...When was the last time you heard someone campaign for fewer laws?
In the mean time these folks at DOJ treat the system as entitled sinecure.
Choice creates customer confusion is marketing FUD. In the traditional provider relationship, the provider wants the advantage in the balance of information. They can use this advantage to control the customer.
I wish we could come up with networking schemes which would cut these guys off at the knees. I'm thinking of that ISP in Tucson AZ who bypassed the telco - Gain Communications...?
yo fool, origin of USA was revolt against excess government, including taxation, gun confiscation, and otherwise heavy-handed misgovernment. Which seems to be in vogue lately.
And we don't derive rights from Constitution neither - it only guarantees already-existing rights (subtopic: 10th article of Bill of Rights could be construed as preventing even constitutional amendments which remove rights).
Primary ostensible purpose of salestax is to retire bonds. In many cases the shell game of fund accounting allow local governments to plead empty pockets with millions or billions tucked away under the hat.
It's always acceptable to question motives of those advocating of taxation...don't you think?
YES!
"Source Code is Protected Speech"
Does this make my source code less likely to infringe someone's patent? What does this mean for copyrights? Can I slander with source code?
Downer: Isn't the 9th Circuit usually reversed?
Man, I keep saying this over and over.
This will really send the idjits a message. Anyone can run root server, and anyone can pick the resolution they want. Then slashdot can have it's own "geek cachet" servers, WIPO be damned.
Directory plurality, that's what we need!
no, because groups of obnoxious posters are know to exist. Also, if everyone is set on 3, no new opinions will exist....