We can pass anti-layoff laws to protect coder's jobs.
Unemployment is a BAD thing - real people who may not be able to change are told to leave their job - their sole source of income, lose their health insurance (so if they get sick - the hospitals will refuse to take care of them until they are so sick it is likely too late to save them), and have their homes and cars seized and sold.
Here is the First Amendment of the US Constitution:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
People won't stand for paying $100/mo for dialup or $200/month for broadband, which is quite likely if this UNFUNDED MANDATE (hear that Republican party and George W. Bush) is force on ISPs since they'll need a lot more hardware to deal with the data retention, both storage and network hardware (since every packet might have to be duplicated).
And it is over the top the USDOJ accusing ISPs for being soft on child porn. I thought not being soft on child porn was the job of the JUSTICE SYSTEM and not private industries. I.E. it is not the ISP's job.
I though the justice system enforced laws and ISPs ran the Internet. Silly me.
Perhaps they want someone to break the trivial system without emailing them (i.e. without permission) and then file a DMCA suit or have a DMCA criminal prosecution brought again that person.
If they win, they've got a precedent that even a trivially breakable system "effectively protects a right of a copyright owner" or "effectively controls access to a work" under the DMCA.
Then they can put protection on everything, not worry about people boycotting CDs that actually stop them from making fair use or copying, not worry about updating the protections when they are cracked and not worry about effectiveness from a technical standpoint at all.
However, now every use outside of what they want is still illegal and fair use is illegal. People won't complain, since they are still able to DO what they want. Then they prosecute someone who made a copy of a CD for their car and win, and send the message that fair use is legally dead on all copy-protected media (which would be 100% of new media) and you'd better buy a new copy or face 5 years in prison and/or having everything you own sold off by a court and 25% of your wages (*) gone for life and a bankrupt estate when you die.
It is a circumvention hack by the content industry against the fair use protections in title 17 which was part of the bargain in granting copyright in the first place.
It essentially uses the DMCA to fully repeal fair use with regard to CDs.
Then any consumer that steps out of line (i.e. does anything they don't like) is breaking the law.
Fair use is seen as criminal, people claiming it likewise, the content industry can change the culture such that we the people consider the doing of anything they don't like to be illegal and thus pass more laws to restrict us and we won't mind.
It is a circumvention hack on the minds of the American public too.
Too bad their circumventions are legal.
(*) That is, if anyone will hire you - anyone that does could be nabbed under "negligent hiring" or not fire you - anyone that does could be nabbed under "negligent retention" for hiring/not firing a criminal.
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I ran it from a test account I created to contain the damage.
It tried to remove the home directory itself!
Couldn't do it and it gave up without damaging any files.
Only severely misconfigured UNIX systems allow deleting one's own home directory, because the directory above your home, which is what you need permission on, you don't have write (you don't have/home writable, right)?
Nice as a proof of concept, but won't work anymore.
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We can pass anti-layoff laws to protect coder's jobs.
Unemployment is a BAD thing - real people who may not be able to change are told to leave their job - their sole source of income, lose their health insurance (so if they get sick - the hospitals will refuse to take care of them until they are so sick it is likely too late to save them), and have their homes and cars seized and sold.
Here is the First Amendment of the US Constitution:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
And yet we have the DMCA.
Someone got a 37 month Federal prison sentence for making a joke about that topic.
s +bush+burning+Richard+Humphreys&btnG=Search
It is a VERY bad idea. Its more than just being investigated, having to get a lawyer, and inconvience and expense.
It is about being sentenced to hard time in the Federal pen.
Here are links to the case where it actually happened:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=37+month
It happend to Richard Humphreys and it wasn't China, it was Portland, Oregon.
Not running Windows where M$ has control of your OS is another step to take.
People won't stand for paying $100/mo for dialup or $200/month for broadband, which is quite likely if this UNFUNDED MANDATE (hear that Republican party and George W. Bush) is force on ISPs since they'll need a lot more hardware to deal with the data retention, both storage and network hardware (since every packet might have to be duplicated).
And it is over the top the USDOJ accusing ISPs for being soft on child porn. I thought not being soft on child porn was the job of the JUSTICE SYSTEM and not private industries. I.E. it is not the ISP's job.
I though the justice system enforced laws and ISPs ran the Internet. Silly me.
Perhaps they want someone to break the trivial system without emailing them (i.e. without permission) and then file a DMCA suit or have a DMCA criminal prosecution brought again that person.
If they win, they've got a precedent that even a trivially breakable system "effectively protects a right of a copyright owner" or "effectively controls
access to a work" under the DMCA.
Then they can put protection on everything, not worry about people boycotting CDs that actually stop them from making fair use or copying, not worry about updating the protections when they are cracked and not worry about effectiveness from a technical standpoint at all.
However, now every use outside of what they want is still illegal and fair use is illegal. People won't complain, since they are still able to DO what they want. Then they prosecute someone who made a copy of a CD for their car and win, and send the message that fair use is legally dead on all copy-protected media (which would be 100% of new media) and you'd better buy a new copy or face 5 years in prison and/or having everything you own sold off by a court and 25% of your wages (*) gone for life and a bankrupt estate when you die.
It is a circumvention hack by the content industry against the fair use protections in title 17 which was part of the bargain in granting copyright in the first place.
It essentially uses the DMCA to fully repeal fair use with regard to CDs.
Then any consumer that steps out of line (i.e. does anything they don't like) is breaking the law.
Fair use is seen as criminal, people claiming it likewise, the content industry can change the culture such that we the people consider the doing of anything they don't like to be illegal and thus pass more laws to restrict us and we won't mind.
It is a circumvention hack on the minds of the American public too.
Too bad their circumventions are legal.
(*) That is, if anyone will hire you - anyone that does could be nabbed under "negligent hiring" or not fire you - anyone that does could be nabbed under "negligent retention" for hiring/not firing a criminal.
2nd possible felony post here I've seen in the last 15 minutes.
Good luck.
I do support your civil disobedience and your helping the community - I just hope your good deed does go unpunished.
You may have just committed a felony.
Mark your calender for 2010, which is when you'll be getting out if they get you this year.
Yes, tar pits and honey pots are quite legal.
It is a valid form of striking back - making the attacker waste his/her/its time.
#define spoon for (int i=0; i1000; i++) { fork(); }
Bizarre, that page talking about Apple vulnerabilities having a Department of Homeland Security logo on it.
Like anything important to homeland security would be on a Mac.
Heck, I wouldn't even trust HOME security to a Mac.
I thought Bill Gates was in charge ultimately.
How are you going to download a browser if you don't already have a browser?
Don't say FTP.
Where do Linux drivers go?
The kernel!
While we are on that subject, why does umount fail even when fuser sees nothing using the FS?
Sometimes it seems there are ghost references to the FS.
Only a reboot fixes it.
Extremely stable my foot.
Try putting a system with an aic7xxx SCSI host adapter (very std host adapter) into standby mode using ACPI.
Watch it fail to do so and for ahc_dv_0 to use all available CPU cycles until the next reboot.
Still isn't fixed - there are tons of complaints about it but no official fix.
Yeah, but BSD is so far behind you'd barely realize it. :)
Instead of a flat text file for kernel configuration, Linux should use an XML file.
It is more structured, which facilitates viewing in an XML capable web browser and editing in an XML editor.
They still have shell accounts?
:)
Where? What country?
Would he have a one click launch sequence?
Would he patent it?
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What if they combine "at will" with non-compete agreements?
Then you lose both ways.
Remember the recent Linux contamination
...
Something like:
if (blah || blah || uid=0) {
blah;
}
I ran it from a test account I created to contain the damage.
/home writable, right)?
It tried to remove the home directory itself!
Couldn't do it and it gave up without damaging any files.
Only severely misconfigured UNIX systems allow deleting one's own home directory, because the directory above your home, which is what you need permission on, you don't have write (you don't have
Nice as a proof of concept, but won't work anymore.
A decade of PCP? Do you have any brain cells left after that?!
:)
Oh, you said PHP. Well my question still stands.