Reporting details is an enabler for those who would imitate... I got it! How about arrests for thinking a crime!
Seriously, I thing that it's rediculous to calculate the "lost" revenue from something that would never have been purchased. I will watch the Matrix DVD that my brother gave me for my birthday a few years back - but I wouldn't have bothered to buy the damned thing, not even for two bucks.
The world of Information Security has been turned on its ear in the past two years. Little - if any - corporate security measures are focused on methodology such as Threat Analysis or Risk Assessment. The brave new world is mandated compliance - with Sarbanes-Oxley taking the lead at publicly-traded corporations.
Symantec probably has their eye on the data-retention provisions of SOX and GLBA. This is their sales message - because CEO's get jail-time for SOX violations.
Netscape Navigator versions, Too! This was usually the first source-tree. I remember Solaris and Digital Unix versions, which used the Indigo Magic colours (pink) for text-fields, like the URL bar.
Jim Barksdale came from SGI, and had a line back to them during his time at Netscape. Many of the vintage Jamie Zawinski rants about x toolkits date to this period, when he worked on Indys and Indigo II's.
SECRECY NEWS
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2004, Issue No. 100
November 14, 2004
THE ARRIVAL OF SECRET LAW
TSA THREATENS TO ARREST LEAKERS
SUPPORT SECRECY NEWS
THE ARRIVAL OF SECRET LAW
Last month, Helen Chenoweth-Hage attempted to board a United
Airlines flight from Boise to Reno when she was pulled aside by
airline personnel for additional screening, including a pat-down
search for weapons or unauthorized materials.
Chenoweth-Hage, an ultra-conservative former Congresswoman (R-ID),
requested a copy of the regulation that authorizes such pat-downs.
"She said she wanted to see the regulation that required the
additional procedure for secondary screening and she was told that
she couldn't see it," local TSA security director Julian Gonzales
told the Idaho Statesman (10/10/04).
"She refused to go through additional screening [without seeing the
regulation], and she was not allowed to fly," he said. "It's
pretty simple."
Chenoweth-Hage wasn't seeking disclosure of the internal criteria
used for screening passengers, only the legal authorization for
passenger pat-downs. Why couldn't they at least let her see that?
asked Statesman commentator Dan Popkey.
"Because we don't have to," Mr. Gonzales replied crisply.
"That is called 'sensitive security information.' She's not
allowed to see it, nor is anyone else," he said.
Thus, in a qualitatively new development in U.S. governance,
Americans can now be obligated to comply with legally-binding
regulations that are unknown to them, and that indeed they are
forbidden to know.
This is not some dismal Eastern European allegory. It is part of a
continuing transformation of American government that is leaving
it less open, less accountable and less susceptible to rational
deliberation as a vehicle for change.
Harold C. Relyea once wrote an article entitled "The Coming of
Secret Law" (Government Information Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 2,
1988) that electrified readers (or at least one reader) with its
warning about increased executive branch reliance on secret
presidential directives and related instruments.
Back in the 1980s when that article was written, secret law was
still on the way. Now it is here.
A new report from the Congressional Research Service describes with
welcome clarity how, by altering a few words in the Homeland
Security Act, Congress "significantly broadened" the government's
authority to generate "sensitive security information," including
an entire system of "security directives" that are beyond public
scrutiny, like the one former Rep. Chenoweth-Hage sought to
examine.
The CRS report provides one analyst's perspective on how the secret
regulations comport or fail to comport with constitutional rights,
such as the right to travel and the right to due process. CRS
does not make its reports directly available to the public, but a
copy was obtained by Secrecy News.
See "Interstate Travel: Constitutional Challenges to the
Identification Requirement and Other Transportation Security
Regulations," Congressional Research Service, November 4, 2004:
Much of the CRS discussion revolves around the case of software
designer and philanthropist John Gilmore, who was prevented from
boarding an airline flight when he refused to present a photo ID.
(A related case involving no-fly lists has been brought by the
ACLU.)
"I will not show government-issued identity papers to travel in my
own country," Mr. Gilmore said.
Mr. Gilmore's insistence on his right to preserve anonymity while
traveling on commercial aircraft is naturally debatable -- but the
government will not debate it. Instead, citing the statute on
"sensitive security information," the Bush Administration says the
case cannot be argued in open court.
A PS that isn't plugged in is no danger! Sure, there are big capacitors in there, but after a couple of days, even these have trickled to a full discharge.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't think our boys behind "Command Here" or "X-Focus" work for free, after being locked out of the building!
There will always be an Apple Computer.
And I've got a Swans scarf to prove it, Boy-o!
Was something missing?
Reporting details is an enabler for those who would imitate... I got it! How about arrests for thinking a crime!
Seriously, I thing that it's rediculous to calculate the "lost" revenue from something that would never have been purchased. I will watch the Matrix DVD that my brother gave me for my birthday a few years back - but I wouldn't have bothered to buy the damned thing, not even for two bucks.
The site now reads:
I haven't included linkage... I think we've all seen gotse.cx.
"But that's O.K. I don't have anythig to hide!"
"Mrs. Buttle, we deeeply regret..."
Welcome to the brave new world...
Oh I agree. We just need to get the Volcano to go along!
Bye bye, WA! I guess we'll never know who's Governor, now...
The world of Information Security has been turned on its ear in the past two years. Little - if any - corporate security measures are focused on methodology such as Threat Analysis or Risk Assessment. The brave new world is mandated compliance - with Sarbanes-Oxley taking the lead at publicly-traded corporations.
Symantec probably has their eye on the data-retention provisions of SOX and GLBA. This is their sales message - because CEO's get jail-time for SOX violations.
It's distressed denim for all my CPU's. Or is it strained carrots? Whirled peas? Dangit!
Jim Barksdale came from SGI, and had a line back to them during his time at Netscape. Many of the vintage Jamie Zawinski rants about x toolkits date to this period, when he worked on Indys and Indigo II's.
Xscreensaver is a side-effect of this...
I'd be interested if the gcc is fine!
There is no port here for Opie, etc. In fact, I don't know if there is GCC/libc!
Let's let 'em DIE if they can't pay.
That's "Aytch-Tee-Tee-Pee-Colon-Slash-Slash-Slashdot-Dot- Org".
SGI guys always used to rip Sun as slow, too. Sorry to see how low-end MIPS-64 seems to be these days...
But, try some disaster recovery scenarios out, with a trashed /usr partition...
Ouch. This is normal for Solaris.
You can still go ahead and pick your own. Most of us do...
Yeah. This is a guy who's linked sh to ksh, and doesn't mind that /lib is linked to /usr/lib!
Where do we get "old" QNX 6.2 isos?
from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
Volume 2004, Issue No. 100
November 14, 2004
THE ARRIVAL OF SECRET LAW
Last month, Helen Chenoweth-Hage attempted to board a United Airlines flight from Boise to Reno when she was pulled aside by airline personnel for additional screening, including a pat-down search for weapons or unauthorized materials.
Chenoweth-Hage, an ultra-conservative former Congresswoman (R-ID), requested a copy of the regulation that authorizes such pat-downs.
"She said she wanted to see the regulation that required the additional procedure for secondary screening and she was told that she couldn't see it," local TSA security director Julian Gonzales told the Idaho Statesman (10/10/04).
"She refused to go through additional screening [without seeing the regulation], and she was not allowed to fly," he said. "It's pretty simple."
Chenoweth-Hage wasn't seeking disclosure of the internal criteria used for screening passengers, only the legal authorization for passenger pat-downs. Why couldn't they at least let her see that? asked Statesman commentator Dan Popkey.
"Because we don't have to," Mr. Gonzales replied crisply.
"That is called 'sensitive security information.' She's not allowed to see it, nor is anyone else," he said.
Thus, in a qualitatively new development in U.S. governance, Americans can now be obligated to comply with legally-binding regulations that are unknown to them, and that indeed they are forbidden to know.
This is not some dismal Eastern European allegory. It is part of a continuing transformation of American government that is leaving it less open, less accountable and less susceptible to rational deliberation as a vehicle for change.
Harold C. Relyea once wrote an article entitled "The Coming of Secret Law" (Government Information Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 2, 1988) that electrified readers (or at least one reader) with its warning about increased executive branch reliance on secret presidential directives and related instruments.
Back in the 1980s when that article was written, secret law was still on the way. Now it is here.
A new report from the Congressional Research Service describes with welcome clarity how, by altering a few words in the Homeland Security Act, Congress "significantly broadened" the government's authority to generate "sensitive security information," including an entire system of "security directives" that are beyond public scrutiny, like the one former Rep. Chenoweth-Hage sought to examine.
The CRS report provides one analyst's perspective on how the secret regulations comport or fail to comport with constitutional rights, such as the right to travel and the right to due process. CRS does not make its reports directly available to the public, but a copy was obtained by Secrecy News.
See "Interstate Travel: Constitutional Challenges to the Identification Requirement and Other Transportation Security Regulations," Congressional Research Service, November 4, 2004:
Much of the CRS discussion revolves around the case of software designer and philanthropist John Gilmore, who was prevented from boarding an airline flight when he refused to present a photo ID. (A related case involving no-fly lists has been brought by the ACLU.)
"I will not show government-issued identity papers to travel in my own country," Mr. Gilmore said.
Mr. Gilmore's insistence on his right to preserve anonymity while traveling on commercial aircraft is naturally debatable -- but the government will not debate it. Instead, citing the statute on "sensitive security information," the Bush Administration says the case cannot be argued in open court.
Further
Conservatives: Kill Mothers, Murder Iraqi Children
Liberals: Pretend they don't Murder Iraqi Children, Collect votes from Mothers
A PS that isn't plugged in is no danger! Sure, there are big capacitors in there, but after a couple of days, even these have trickled to a full discharge.
Next time you'll bypass that Hyundai Enterprise2 clone, and go for the real thing.
Signed,
Every IT Manager on Earth