Myself, I'm 21, for what that's worth, though I've met plenty of 15-year-olds who are more mature than me, and plenty of flaming idiots who are in their 30s.
"Just how old are you anyway?" is sort of an inside joke on the local newsgroups at the ISP that I use. The newbie flamers answer the question and everyone "in the know" gets a laugh.
The fact is that whining about Jon Katz makes me want to ask the question, but you've gone ahead and answered it even before I could. Woy had to click on two links to get to the point where you could type in this rant and then you had to take the time to do it. Don't you think your clicks and keystrokes could have been used more productively?
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Bruce, I respect you, but this level of paranoia is discomforting. (I even looked to see if there was a . after your name.)
There have been some analyses of Tribe and Trinoo DoS networks posted on Bugtraq in November and December of last year. The people who have been setting this up have been working on it for over a year.
The difficulty with determining where the attack comes from is because of the several levels of indirection going on. In a trinoo network there is a master (a compromised machine hosting a daemon) which controls a number of slaves (also compromised machines). By sending a specially built ICMP reply message (i.e. a ping reply -- most firewalls don't filter these) to the master, it begins the DoS attack. The master sends a special ICMP packet to the slaves who then all forge packets sent to innocent systems with the victim's IP address.
From the victim's point of view, you see packets coming at you from all over. You have to find the slaves that sent the forged packets. Then you have to find the masters that sent the ICMP command to the slaves. Then you have to find the machine that sent the packet that started the attack. Now that machine is probably compromised as well, so you have to find who broke into that one. . .
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
I'd like to know more about the DoS that it looks for.
There was an extensive analysis of trinoo DoS networks on Bugtraq last month. You'll learn a lot more from Security Focus" that you will from the binary or its source.
But, dosn't anyone realize that having the source makes it easier for the trinoo coders to see how they are being detected and then modify the clients? Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Gee, you think the GPL is viral. Patents infect people who don't even see the code.
On one hand, if a sufficiently large block of "Free Patents" were available then perhaps we could make the same kind of patent trades that the big companies do and get access to, say Unisys' patent on GIF, for example.
On the other hand, what corporation is going to deal with a bunch of lawless programmers who would copy "trade secrets" all over the world.
On the gripping hand, if they need the patent, they gotta come to us. Heh heh heh.
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First of all with my limited experience doing low level graphics I seem to remember only being able to write to the screen during the horizontal or vertical refresh of the monitor.
Most people don't poke video data into memory buffers anymore either. You will write with calls to an OS's screen display routines.
The screen flashing from not waiting for the refresh interval was really only a problem on CGA adaptors in IBM PCs. I don't believe EGAs had the problem and certainly VGAs din't have the problem. So, we're taking about display hardware that went out of style more than 10 years ago.
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(1) is questionable. (3) does not even follow from (1) and (2).
Library acquisitions are made to get the most value for a limited budget amount. Professional librarians choose the selections. Truely professional librarians will select information that is if need to and desired by some segment of the the local community no matter how controversial. It is in fact, more costly and time-intensive to filter the Internet than to not do so. Therefore, the decision to filter the Internet is a decision to spend money to impose censorship and needs heavy justification because the Library is a function of local government.
Now the exposure of children to inappropriate material is sufficient justification IMHO, but that is not sufficient justification to impose filtering on adult users as well.
Filtering software uses the narrowest set of definitions available to maximize the market. If someone wants filtering and objects to some stuff that is not filtered, there is a lost customer. Thus the comercially available filters tend to be overbroad, implement the lowest community standard in their market and do not meet the test of implementing "local community standards".
There is no filtering software specifically to remove pornographic material because there exists no algorithm to identify pornographic material that does not also indentify non-pornographic material. Even people can't agree on what is pornographic.
I don't think that it was reported on/., but most commercially available filters filtered out stories about Super Bowl XXXII last month. Is that acceptable behavior from your library internet system?
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
(1) is questionable. (3) does not even follow from (1) and (2).
Library acquisitions are made to get the most value for a limited budget amount. Professional librarians choose the selections. Truely professional librarians will select information that is if need to and desired by some segment of the the local community no matter how controversial. It is in fact, more costly and time-intensive to filter the Internet than to not do so. Therefore, the decision to filter the Internet is a decision to spend money to impose censorship and needs heavy justification because the Library is a function of local government.
Now the exposure of children to inappropriate material is sufficient justification IMHO to install filters in the children's section, but that is not sufficient justification to impose filtering on adult users as well.
Filtering software uses the narrowest set of definitions available to maximize the market. If someone wants filtering and objects to some stuff that is not filtered, there is a lost customer. Thus the comercially available filters tend to be overbroad, implement the lowest community standard in their market and do not meet the test of implementing "local community standards".
There is no filtering software specifically to remove pornographic material because there exists no algorithm to identify pornographic material that does not also indentify non-pornographic material. Even people can't agree on what is pornographic.
I don't think that it was reported on/., but most commercially available filters filtered out stories about Super Bowl XXXII last month. Is that acceptable behavior from your library internet system?
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B. I never see 'first post' posts because I set my filter too high to see them and hence, do not get annoyed like most of the anti-AC retards around here.
But do you see your own posts? If an AC posts, but has his threshold set at 1, is he still an idiot?
C. I still think your original post lacks enough grounding to make your conclusion. I am indeed saddened that someone moderated it up further.
I couldn't imagine why he was bothering to argue with an AC, so I lowerd my threshold to see. I shouldn't have bothered.
D. I just poured a bowl of hot grits down the front of my pants in protest.
Ah, a true troll. Now I can set my threshold back up to 1.
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2. LICENSE GRANT
2.1 Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, COMPAQ hereby grants CUSTOMER a non-exclusive, worldwide, non-transferable, royalty-free license for the term of this Agreement to duplicate and use HARDWARE INFORMATION solely for internal, non-commercial, research purposes.
2.2 CUSTOMER agrees not to distribute the HARDWARE INFORMATION in any form, other than for CUSTOMER's own internal, non-commercial, research purposes.
2.3 CUSTOMER grants to COMPAQ a non-exclusive, royalty-free, world-wide, unrestricted license to sell, duplicate, use, market, sub-license, distribute and create derivative works of DERIVATIVE HARDWARE.
You can't build and sell it and if you build one and modify it somehow (fruity colors?) they get the right to sell your product without compensation. It ain't very open.
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Download Itsyify=itsy-registration@pa.dec.com is unknown
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Thank you for the book reference. I will check it out.
But my argument was more than just an appeal to an authority. I accepted that reversed-timelike things might happen if the future state were highly ordered/tightly constrained. I explained that his example was flawaed. Now you tell me: Why should I expect a highly ordered Big Crunch?
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Yeah? And how many ads for the Superbowl on ABC did you see on Fox?
Not a one, but I didn't see any ads for the Superbowl on ABC either. I only watch TV from the VCR and I fast forward through all ads.
But, you miss the point. ABC and Fox are direct competitors. Now, the parents of ABC and Fox are also competitors, but you find both networks advertising the other's movies.
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Simply put, you open letter is a good start. However is only half done. You need to offer a better suggestion. This orginization in the end simply wants to protect their kids.
I don't think that anyone is complaining about installing filtering software on computers in the children's section. The push in the conservative community is to mandate filtering software on all computers in the library. They don't care that by doing so that they also obstruct access of adults to information that is politically sensitive and non-obscene.
This is the real issue.
Your solution of having the internet computers in a public area is a good one. Anyone who plays pocket pool in the public library deserves to get dragged off the premises by fellows in blue uniforms.
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They haven't even bothered to modify the program. The hdformat program that they distribute is GPLed and they haven't distributed either the required GPL notice or instructions on how to acquire the source of the GPL program from them. Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
I see his point that future boundary conditions imply regions of space where the arrow of time appears reversed. But, he's wrong in suggesting that the fact that a future crunch with all of the matter in the universe condensed means a highly ordered state. Hawking states that it is a highly disordered state and differs from the initial conditions of the Universe whice were in a highly ordered state. It's all condense becuase the Universe is smaller. It's not all condensed in a corner of a largely empty Universe just as the initial state wasn't condensed in the corner of an empty universe.
Also the odds for a future crunch don't look too good with all the observed deviations from a flat univers falling on the side of an open universe.
In short, Dude needs to drink more. We did better as undergrads in philosophy after a bender. Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
What about the advertising? Will Slashdot and Freshmeat still accept (under reasonable terms) advertising from VA's competitors?
Does Time accept advertising from the Showtime Cable channel? Of course.
When a company over influences the content of a subsidiary, it is glaringly obvious. Who can not tell that Disney owns ABC?
Subsidiaries each have their own P&Ls and have to justify the Return on Equity that the parent has invested in them. Good management holds the managers of each of their sublines responsible which means that the management of Slashdot is not going to skew the coverage toward VA hardware sales just because they have a few shares in the parent.
Because *if* it happens, it will be obvious to us all and we will all flee/.
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But, I think that the DVD CCA alluded to it themselves when they said that there were sufficiently large companies in the Linux market that would be acceptable sponsors for such an effort. The DVD CCA wants to make sure that they have some deep pockets to go after in the event that the NDA is breached. The $1 million dollar fine is just the start of the liability that they contemplate.
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Yes, there was a group, with plans to produce a (closed source) DVD player for Linux that formally approached the DVD CCA for a license and were refused. The group was a startup and the DVD CCA felt that they weren't a big enough company to run with the Big Boys. Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Slashdot Mirror
Hmmm. But what if I were carrying uncooked grits in my pockets?
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Myself, I'm 21, for what that's worth, though I've met plenty of 15-year-olds who are more mature than me, and plenty of flaming idiots who are in their 30s.
"Just how old are you anyway?" is sort of an inside joke on the local newsgroups at the ISP that I use. The newbie flamers answer the question and everyone "in the know" gets a laugh.
The fact is that whining about Jon Katz makes me want to ask the question, but you've gone ahead and answered it even before I could. Woy had to click on two links to get to the point where you could type in this rant and then you had to take the time to do it. Don't you think your clicks and keystrokes could have been used more productively?
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Bruce, I respect you, but this level of paranoia is discomforting. (I even looked to see if there was a . after your name.)
There have been some analyses of Tribe and Trinoo DoS networks posted on Bugtraq in November and December of last year. The people who have been setting this up have been working on it for over a year.
The difficulty with determining where the attack comes from is because of the several levels of indirection going on. In a trinoo network there is a master (a compromised machine hosting a daemon) which controls a number of slaves (also compromised machines). By sending a specially built ICMP reply message (i.e. a ping reply -- most firewalls don't filter these) to the master, it begins the DoS attack. The master sends a special ICMP packet to the slaves who then all forge packets sent to innocent systems with the victim's IP address.
From the victim's point of view, you see packets coming at you from all over. You have to find the slaves that sent the forged packets. Then you have to find the masters that sent the ICMP command to the slaves. Then you have to find the machine that sent the packet that started the attack. Now that machine is probably compromised as well, so you have to find who broke into that one. . .
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
I'd like to know more about the DoS that it looks for.
There was an extensive analysis of trinoo DoS networks on Bugtraq last month. You'll learn a lot more from Security Focus" that you will from the binary or its source.
Here are some and Trinoo links.
But, dosn't anyone realize that having the source makes it easier for the trinoo coders to see how they are being detected and then modify the clients?
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Gee, you think the GPL is viral. Patents infect people who don't even see the code.
On one hand, if a sufficiently large block of "Free Patents" were available then perhaps we could make the same kind of patent trades that the big companies do and get access to, say Unisys' patent on GIF, for example.
On the other hand, what corporation is going to deal with a bunch of lawless programmers who would copy "trade secrets" all over the world.
On the gripping hand, if they need the patent, they gotta come to us. Heh heh heh.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
First of all with my limited experience doing low level graphics I seem to remember only being able to write to the screen during the horizontal or vertical refresh of the monitor.
Most people don't poke video data into memory buffers anymore either. You will write with calls to an OS's screen display routines.
The screen flashing from not waiting for the refresh interval was really only a problem on CGA adaptors in IBM PCs. I don't believe EGAs had the problem and certainly VGAs din't have the problem. So, we're taking about display hardware that went out of style more than 10 years ago.
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On a side-note, what happened to TacoHell?
Try this.
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(1) is questionable. (3) does not even follow from (1) and (2).
/., but most commercially available filters filtered out stories about Super Bowl XXXII last month. Is that acceptable behavior from your library internet system?
Library acquisitions are made to get the most value for a limited budget amount. Professional librarians choose the selections. Truely professional librarians will select information that is if need to and desired by some segment of the the local community no matter how controversial. It is in fact, more costly and time-intensive to filter the Internet than to not do so. Therefore, the decision to filter the Internet is a decision to spend money to impose censorship and needs heavy justification because the Library is a function of local government.
Now the exposure of children to inappropriate material is sufficient justification IMHO, but that is not sufficient justification to impose filtering on adult users as well.
Filtering software uses the narrowest set of definitions available to maximize the market.
If someone wants filtering and objects to some stuff that is not filtered, there is a lost customer. Thus the comercially available filters tend to be overbroad, implement the lowest community standard in their market and do not meet the test of implementing "local community standards".
There is no filtering software specifically to remove pornographic material because there exists no algorithm to identify pornographic material that does not also indentify non-pornographic material. Even people can't agree on what is pornographic.
I don't think that it was reported on
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
(1) is questionable. (3) does not even follow from (1) and (2).
/., but most commercially available filters filtered out stories about Super Bowl XXXII last month. Is that acceptable behavior from your library internet system?
Library acquisitions are made to get the most value for a limited budget amount. Professional librarians choose the selections. Truely professional librarians will select information that is if need to and desired by some segment of the the local community no matter how controversial. It is in fact, more costly and time-intensive to filter the Internet than to not do so. Therefore, the decision to filter the Internet is a decision to spend money to impose censorship and needs heavy justification because the Library is a function of local government.
Now the exposure of children to inappropriate material is sufficient justification IMHO to install filters in the children's section, but that is not sufficient justification to impose filtering on adult users as well.
Filtering software uses the narrowest set of definitions available to maximize the market.
If someone wants filtering and objects to some stuff that is not filtered, there is a lost customer. Thus the comercially available filters tend to be overbroad, implement the lowest community standard in their market and do not meet the test of implementing "local community standards".
There is no filtering software specifically to remove pornographic material because there exists no algorithm to identify pornographic material that does not also indentify non-pornographic material. Even people can't agree on what is pornographic.
I don't think that it was reported on
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A. This is the same AC you responded to.
But are you the one, true AC?
B. I never see 'first post' posts because I set my filter too high to see them and hence, do not get annoyed like most of the anti-AC retards around here.
But do you see your own posts? If an AC posts, but has his threshold set at 1, is he still an idiot?
C. I still think your original post lacks enough grounding to make your conclusion. I am indeed saddened that someone moderated it up further.
I couldn't imagine why he was bothering to argue
with an AC, so I lowerd my threshold to see. I shouldn't have bothered.
D. I just poured a bowl of hot grits down the front of my pants in protest.
Ah, a true troll. Now I can set my threshold back up to 1.
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You can't build and sell it and if you build one and modify it somehow (fruity colors?) they get the right to sell your product without compensation. It ain't very open.
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Viewing the source, I see the problem.
This link should work.
I suppose I should blame IE for maximum karma bonus.
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Thank you for the book reference. I will check it out.
But my argument was more than just an appeal to an authority. I accepted that reversed-timelike things might happen if the future state were highly ordered/tightly constrained. I explained that his example was flawaed. Now you tell me: Why should I expect a highly ordered Big Crunch?
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I mean, this happened like, last Thursday.
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Yeah? And how many ads for the Superbowl on ABC did you see on Fox?
Not a one, but I didn't see any ads for the Superbowl on ABC either. I only watch TV from the VCR and I fast forward through all ads.
But, you miss the point. ABC and Fox are direct competitors. Now, the parents of ABC and Fox are also competitors, but you find both networks advertising the other's movies.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Simply put, you open letter is a good start. However is only half done. You need to offer a better suggestion. This orginization in the end simply wants to protect their kids.
I don't think that anyone is complaining about installing filtering software on computers in the children's section. The push in the conservative community is to mandate filtering software on all computers in the library. They don't care that by doing so that they also obstruct access of adults to information that is politically sensitive and non-obscene.
This is the real issue.
Your solution of having the internet computers in a public area is a good one. Anyone who plays pocket pool in the public library deserves to get dragged off the premises by fellows in blue uniforms.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
They haven't even bothered to modify the program. The hdformat program that they distribute is GPLed and they haven't distributed either the required GPL notice or instructions on how to acquire the source of the GPL program from them.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
I see his point that future boundary conditions imply regions of space where the arrow of time appears reversed. But, he's wrong in suggesting that the fact that a future crunch with all of the matter in the universe condensed means a highly ordered state. Hawking states that it is a highly disordered state and differs from the initial conditions of the Universe whice were in a highly ordered state. It's all condense becuase the Universe is smaller. It's not all condensed in a corner of a largely empty Universe just as the initial state wasn't condensed in the corner of an empty universe.
Also the odds for a future crunch don't look too good with all the observed deviations from a flat univers falling on the side of an open universe.
In short, Dude needs to drink more. We did better as undergrads in philosophy after a bender.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
What about the advertising? Will Slashdot and Freshmeat still accept (under reasonable terms) advertising from VA's competitors?
/.
Does Time accept advertising from the Showtime Cable channel? Of course.
When a company over influences the content of a subsidiary, it is glaringly obvious. Who can not tell that Disney owns ABC?
Subsidiaries each have their own P&Ls and have to justify the Return on Equity that the parent has invested in them. Good management holds the managers of each of their sublines responsible which means that the management of Slashdot is not going to skew the coverage toward VA hardware sales just because they have a few shares in the parent.
Because *if* it happens, it will be obvious to us all and we will all flee
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I have no real details for you.
But, I think that the DVD CCA alluded to it themselves when they said that there were sufficiently large companies in the Linux market that would be acceptable sponsors for such an effort. The DVD CCA wants to make sure that they have some deep pockets to go after in the event that the NDA is breached. The $1 million dollar fine is just the start of the liability that they contemplate.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Yes, there was a group, with plans to produce a (closed source) DVD player for Linux that formally approached the DVD CCA for a license and were refused. The group was a startup and the DVD CCA felt that they weren't a big enough company to run with the Big Boys.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Rubbermaid containers with similar technology to tell if your food is going bad!
Hey! I *already know* that the food in my referigerator has gone bad. I don't need my fridge nagging me about it.
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I'm not in the business, so if someone reads what I want and builds it for me, I'm ahead of the game.
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I have 24.95 per month flat rate CDPD from bell Atlantic. (Here's the trick. Get the email only account -- they don't filter packets.)
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