Just confirming that Flickr is indeed blocked. Trying to access the site gives a "This Site is Restricted" msg. Wikipedia on the other hand seems to be working just fine.
I am just curious about how common it is for employers to monitor their staff. Recently, I discovered some spyware installed on all the machines in my organisation that takes screenshots of the desktop at ten-minute intervals in addition to logging keystrokes. (Activity Monitor from www.softactivity.com)
None of the employees were made aware of the fact that they would be monitored and this degree of intrusion has compromised personal information, passwords, bank accounts etc. This kind of websurfing has previously never been discouraged at our workplace.
The software comes with an easy uninstaller so i went ahead and uninstalled it from all the computers in my department. (The IT dept. subsequently came to "check" the computers in our dept. and i discovered the software had once again been installed on the machines) But the only reason I discovered it in the first place is that I randomly check what processes are running on my machine. Most people simply would not know to check for random or strange processes and the few people I have told about this don't really seem too bothered or surprised by the fact that the company is doing this.
This is an extremely underhanded way of keeping a check on your employees. Though I do not agree with this type of monitoring, it may have been acceptable had we been told from the very start that our computer usage would be monitored. Has anyone else had experience with their computers being monitored in this way?
Try this hypothetical situation: The government succeeds in forcing Google to hand over their data. As a response Google shuts down their search engine in protest. Can you imagine the kind of havoc that will have on the internet today? Unfortunately, i doubt Google can do something like that by virtue of it's responsibility to its shareholders... still... a chilling scenario no?
I've simply quit flying in and out of the US. Other countries, though they have all ramped up their security, don't seem to exhibit the crazed paranoia that the US does. Personally, i prefer to fly to Canada and then drive a car down to the US or vice versa.
Having never visited Israel, I don't have any first-hand experience about their paranoia/security levels, but at a guess I'd say it's pretty similar to the US experience.
Most airports that I've flown through don't put me through ridiculous security measures or pull me to the side and interrogate me. And I'm a bearded, skinny brown guy from Pakistan with a nervous twitch:P
I have to ask... this is a joke right? It feels like a satire piece. "Robot runs riot", "threw off its shackles and went on a rampage". Staff were left "fearful and shaken". The "crazed automaton" "barged" into a hospital room and "the psychotic pill-pusher refused to leave, sending both doctor and patient fleeing for their lives."
"how much liberty are you willing to give up for some security?"
None whatsoever.
Doesn't it bother anyone at all that the reasons behind "security problems" are never addressed by the "administration". instead more and more draconian measures are introduced to counter the rise of perceived threats to national security.
liberty, freedom, or whatever else you wish to call it, is not a privelege for the elites that need to be protected at all costs. it is a fundamental human right and as such should be seized at every turn of life. there is no reason to sacrifice liberty for the sake of security. security must be addressed by assessing the very serious issues that are often at the heart of extremist agitation. Robert Fisk once called the attacks on the twin towers "the awesome cruelty of a doomed people". and yes it was that and more. it was the cry of a desperate people that have been marginalised, oppressed and manipulated for too long.
i apologise for the ranting in this post, but it sickens me when well educated, knowledgable people pose a question that is simply a cop out. security and liberty are mutually exclusive. security does not beget liberty. it creates a prison and nothing more!!
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dunno what the heck you mean by that, but got this at the end of the page...
"Cannot find server or DNS Error
Internet Explorer"
and i'm using Mozilla.96
so could you explain that to me again please??
is responsible for a large amount of the VR research that is currently going on (Jaron Lanier et al.) also, there is some research being conducted to allow blind people to "see" by connecting their optic pathways directly to some kind of video input.... this too was credited to Gibson as being the main influence.
from what i've read about this worm it's quite unlikely that this new version is, as you say, "phase two" of the original worm. the original worm was "given" the name CodeRed after it was released, whereas this one get's it from a comment placed within the source.
This article is a perfect example of why i gave up reading cnn a long time ago. The article starts off innocently enough describing the various aspects of the story, yet ends with a completely irrelevant blurb about how a "russian news agency" reported on an alien visitation in some soviet city more than ten years ago. what the point of mentioning that was, was entirely lost to me.
"Looks like Microsoft may finally have some competition for the optical IntelliMouse."
...considering there has been a better designed, more functional, and cheaper optical mouse available from Logitech for some time now, not to mention the optical mouse that Sun distributed for use with the Sparc stations, i'd say Apple's a little late getting in on the bandwagon!!
these people should be taken to a remote and desolate corner of the milky way and shot repeatedly in the kneecaps, just around the same time that a very blunt spoon slowly drills it's way through one eye and lemonjuice is poured into the other; then left in the cold confines of their "commercialized universe" while their body implodes/explodes (not sure which occurs, but either one suits the purpose) from depressurization.
ps. if any of you care to add to the various imaginable tortures that may be inflicted upon persons capable of such grotesquely blatant and whimsical capitalist exploitation, please feel free to do so...
technology is progressing faster than mans capacity to fully understand the consequences of its use. only in retrospect do we notice the damage technological progress has inflicted on the world at large. Japan is out there...on the very cutting edge of technological development. I can only hope that their discipline and responsibility plays a major role in further development of technology.
As far as internet usage in third world countries is concerned, much like the economies and industries of various third world countries, and specifically of Pakistan, it is a developing process. it is quite acceptable and heavily used within the limited circles it exists in. however, with increasing awareness and steady competition from burgeoning ISP's, internet usage is growing. moving from urban city centres into smaller towns and communities. The Government of Pakistan promotes the "computerisation" of educational institutions and bureacratic departments while remaining vaguely neutral over the freedom and anarchist ideals the internet symbolises. however, the overall impression one comes away with regarding internet usage in Pakistan is that it is slowly expanding, gaining acceptance within various different social circles. Moreso, it seems, than in American social circles, where internet usage actually appears to be on the decline!!
An article in this months Scientific American reported the following:
"A November 1999 research report from Cyber Dialogue, an Internet database marketing firm, warned e-commerce companies that they were going to have to work harder in the future: the stampede onto the Internet has slowed in the U.S. The survey cites three constraints to growth. First, it takes money to get connected, and many of those off-line simply can't afford Internet access. Second, a third of American adults believe that they have no need for the Internet and have no intention of getting on-line. Third, 27.7 million Americans have tried the Internet--and dropped it; the number is triple that measured in 1997." the article may be found at http://www.sciam.com/2000/0300issue/0300cyber.ht ml
Personally found Tie-tanic rather dull, especially when compared to the likes of Troops or even the ascii version of episode iv. Now there was some classy and innovative spoofing!admittedly the editing et. al. in this film was done rather nicely, however i still found it lacking, especially in content. look, i hated Titanic just as much as the next guy/girl/objectionable entity, but the irreverant desecration of the mythos of star wars should not need to involve the utter crap that was Titanic. Star Wars stands in a league by itself and even though i can think of myriad uses that the Death Star may be put to, from the instantaneous vaporisation of Barney to a Brittany Spears zap-a-thon, there is absoloutely no need to keep reminding people how horrible Titanic actually was!! it is a traumatic memory that has passed me by and i hope to grow older, and perhaps not too badly brain damaged!!
It seems to me that people becoming more and more enraptured by the film, The Matrix, tend to forget or ignore what William Gibson's been writing about for more than twenty odd years. The father of cyberpunk laid out the very concept the Wachowski's use in their movie. Heck if i'm not mistaken, he even called it The Matrix way back in Neuromancer. Admittedly Johnny Mnemonic (another Keanu Reeves flick) was not exactly the best adaptation of his book; The Matrix as a virtual reality environment embedded into the everyday reality of our lives is a concept Gibson's been writing about for ages. (And his writings are included in several college curriculums throughout N.America)
I am glad the Wachowski's created the film and in it's own "kickass" manner did a fair job of it too. Yet it peeves me that nowhere, and nohow did noone mention Gibson, even as a passing reference!
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ISPAK announced they noticed a decrease in internet traffic by approximately 20-25% after the ban
Just confirming that Flickr is indeed blocked. Trying to access the site gives a "This Site is Restricted" msg. Wikipedia on the other hand seems to be working just fine.
I don't know if it's just me doing something wrong, but it seems IMDb is down. Amazon seems to be working fine right now though.
Easy. log on to irc, buy back the data you lost and send out legalese spam to 45 million people.
Must have been great to see the reaction of whoever was checking the bill on this experiment
1. 100 bottles of red wine: $2,000
2. Inflatable doll: $50
3. Models for zombie cavewoman photo shoot: $500
4. Look on UWA accountant's face: Priceless
15 Arabs and 4 Egyptians to be precise. There were no Afghans or Iraqis involved in the 9/11 attacks.
I wonder how long these will take to make their way to bugmenot
I am just curious about how common it is for employers to monitor their staff. Recently, I discovered some spyware installed on all the machines in my organisation that takes screenshots of the desktop at ten-minute intervals in addition to logging keystrokes. (Activity Monitor from www.softactivity.com)
None of the employees were made aware of the fact that they would be monitored and this degree of intrusion has compromised personal information, passwords, bank accounts etc. This kind of websurfing has previously never been discouraged at our workplace.
The software comes with an easy uninstaller so i went ahead and uninstalled it from all the computers in my department. (The IT dept. subsequently came to "check" the computers in our dept. and i discovered the software had once again been installed on the machines) But the only reason I discovered it in the first place is that I randomly check what processes are running on my machine. Most people simply would not know to check for random or strange processes and the few people I have told about this don't really seem too bothered or surprised by the fact that the company is doing this.
This is an extremely underhanded way of keeping a check on your employees. Though I do not agree with this type of monitoring, it may have been acceptable had we been told from the very start that our computer usage would be monitored. Has anyone else had experience with their computers being monitored in this way?
Try this hypothetical situation: The government succeeds in forcing Google to hand over their data. As a response Google shuts down their search engine in protest. Can you imagine the kind of havoc that will have on the internet today? Unfortunately, i doubt Google can do something like that by virtue of it's responsibility to its shareholders... still... a chilling scenario no?
I've simply quit flying in and out of the US. Other countries, though they have all ramped up their security, don't seem to exhibit the crazed paranoia that the US does. Personally, i prefer to fly to Canada and then drive a car down to the US or vice versa.
:P
Having never visited Israel, I don't have any first-hand experience about their paranoia/security levels, but at a guess I'd say it's pretty similar to the US experience.
Most airports that I've flown through don't put me through ridiculous security measures or pull me to the side and interrogate me. And I'm a bearded, skinny brown guy from Pakistan with a nervous twitch
Recommend you try out Azureus (azureus.sourceforge.net) probably the single best torrent client i've used so far...
So you're a DoD ADP R&D PM who owns a PDA with FIPS 140-2 and you sent TFA to the IA... who you had previously sent a brochure on NSA's 802.11
:)
did i miss anything?
I have to ask... this is a joke right? It feels like a satire piece. "Robot runs riot", "threw off its shackles and went on a rampage". Staff were left "fearful and shaken". The "crazed automaton" "barged" into a hospital room and "the psychotic pill-pusher refused to leave, sending both doctor and patient fleeing for their lives."
a little over the top, no?
"how much liberty are you willing to give up for some security?"
None whatsoever.
Doesn't it bother anyone at all that the reasons behind "security problems" are never addressed by the "administration". instead more and more draconian measures are introduced to counter the rise of perceived threats to national security.
liberty, freedom, or whatever else you wish to call it, is not a privelege for the elites that need to be protected at all costs. it is a fundamental human right and as such should be seized at every turn of life. there is no reason to sacrifice liberty for the sake of security. security must be addressed by assessing the very serious issues that are often at the heart of extremist agitation. Robert Fisk once called the attacks on the twin towers "the awesome cruelty of a doomed people". and yes it was that and more. it was the cry of a desperate people that have been marginalised, oppressed and manipulated for too long.
i apologise for the ranting in this post, but it sickens me when well educated, knowledgable people pose a question that is simply a cop out. security and liberty are mutually exclusive. security does not beget liberty. it creates a prison and nothing more!!
dunno what the heck you mean by that, but got this at the end of the page...
.96
"Cannot find server or DNS Error
Internet Explorer"
and i'm using Mozilla
so could you explain that to me again please??
is responsible for a large amount of the VR research that is currently going on (Jaron Lanier et al.) also, there is some research being conducted to allow blind people to "see" by connecting their optic pathways directly to some kind of video input.... this too was credited to Gibson as being the main influence.
from what i've read about this worm it's quite unlikely that this new version is, as you say, "phase two" of the original worm. the original worm was "given" the name CodeRed after it was released, whereas this one get's it from a comment placed within the source.
just wondering when cnn developed such a witty sense of humour? that onomatopoeia's killing me man!
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http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/07/23/flash.boom/ind
This article is a perfect example of why i gave up reading cnn a long time ago. The article starts off innocently enough describing the various aspects of the story, yet ends with a completely irrelevant blurb about how a "russian news agency" reported on an alien visitation in some soviet city more than ten years ago. what the point of mentioning that was, was entirely lost to me.
the art of cold war propaganda is alive and well.
"Looks like Microsoft may finally have some competition for the optical IntelliMouse."
...considering there has been a better designed, more functional, and cheaper optical mouse available from Logitech for some time now, not to mention the optical mouse that Sun distributed for use with the Sparc stations, i'd say Apple's a little late getting in on the bandwagon!!
these people should be taken to a remote and desolate corner of the milky way and shot repeatedly in the kneecaps, just around the same time that a very blunt spoon slowly drills it's way through one eye and lemonjuice is poured into the other; then left in the cold confines of their
"commercialized universe" while their body implodes/explodes (not sure which occurs, but either one suits the purpose) from depressurization.
ps. if any of you care to add to the various imaginable tortures that may be inflicted upon persons capable of such grotesquely blatant and
whimsical capitalist exploitation, please feel free to do so...
oh, and...Have a nice day!
technology is progressing faster than mans capacity to fully understand the consequences of its use. only in retrospect do we notice the damage technological progress has inflicted on the world at large. Japan is out there...on the very cutting edge of technological development. I can only hope that their discipline and responsibility plays a major role in further development of technology.
As far as internet usage in third world countries is concerned, much like the economies and industries of various third world countries, and specifically of Pakistan, it is a developing process. it is quite acceptable and heavily used within the limited circles it exists in. however, with increasing awareness and steady competition from burgeoning ISP's, internet usage is growing. moving from urban city centres into smaller towns and communities. The Government of Pakistan promotes the "computerisation" of educational institutions and bureacratic departments while remaining vaguely neutral over the freedom and anarchist ideals the internet symbolises. however, the overall impression one comes away with regarding internet usage in Pakistan is that it is slowly expanding, gaining acceptance within various different social circles. Moreso, it seems, than in American social circles, where internet usage actually appears to be on the decline!!
t ml
An article in this months Scientific American reported the following:
"A November 1999 research report from Cyber Dialogue, an Internet database marketing firm, warned e-commerce companies that they were going to have to work harder in the future: the stampede onto the Internet has slowed in the U.S. The survey cites three constraints to growth. First, it takes money to get connected, and many of those off-line simply can't afford Internet access. Second, a third of American adults believe that they have no need for the Internet and have no intention of getting on-line. Third, 27.7 million Americans have tried the Internet--and dropped it; the number is triple that measured in 1997." the article may be found at
http://www.sciam.com/2000/0300issue/0300cyber.h
Personally found Tie-tanic rather dull, especially when compared to the likes of Troops or even the ascii version of episode iv. Now there was some classy and innovative spoofing!admittedly the editing et. al. in this film was done rather nicely, however i still found it lacking, especially in content. look, i hated Titanic just as much as the next guy/girl/objectionable entity, but the irreverant desecration of the mythos of star wars should not need to involve the utter crap that was Titanic. Star Wars stands in a league by itself and even though i can think of myriad uses that the Death Star may be put to, from the instantaneous vaporisation of Barney to a Brittany Spears zap-a-thon, there is absoloutely no need to keep reminding people how horrible Titanic actually was!! it is a traumatic memory that has passed me by and i hope to grow older, and perhaps not too badly brain damaged!!
It seems to me that people becoming more and more enraptured by the film, The Matrix, tend to forget or ignore what William Gibson's been writing about for more than twenty odd years. The father of cyberpunk laid out the very concept the Wachowski's use in their movie. Heck if i'm not mistaken, he even called it The Matrix way back in Neuromancer. Admittedly Johnny Mnemonic (another Keanu Reeves flick) was not exactly the best adaptation of his book; The Matrix as a virtual reality environment embedded into the everyday reality of our lives is a concept Gibson's been writing about for ages. (And his writings are included in several college curriculums throughout N.America)
I am glad the Wachowski's created the film and in it's own "kickass" manner did a fair job of it too. Yet it peeves me that nowhere, and nohow did noone mention Gibson, even as a passing reference!