I'm glad she lost, the CBSC made some very good points that she REALLY should have thought of first. The most amusing part of the article (IMHO)was the bit at the end about Howard Stern, tasteless is certainly a start about alot stuff he pulls, unnecessarily tasteless is a bit more descriptive (yea, yea, harsher words can certainly be used, but...)
These both appear to be UUNet DNS servers, atleast according to ARIN whois. 198.6.1.162 is listed as one of the DNS servers for reverse mapping for 198.6.0.0 - 198.6.255.255 as is 198.6.1.83, as for 198.6.1.82 it is listed as a host with ARIN and is listed as one of the name servers responsible for reverse mapping for the same address block when you use nslookup, which means it is likely used for the same purposes.
Now, it is highly unlikely that the NSA or anyone else would be doing anything else from these servers, they're probably kept decently busy doing DNS stuff, besides, they're mission critical boxes for UUNet. This doesn't mean that the IPs aren't being spoofed though.
It seems to me that it's improbable that this would be the info to look for, though it is certainly possible. 198.6.1.82 and 198.6.1.83 seem to be located in Fairfax, VA, so who knows....there's all sorts of possibilites
How do you prove it? Well, if you had REALLY read the whole document, you'd have seen how it was proved. There ARE two RSA Public keys contained in the code. These are readily exctracted from the code, once you have the key, you can verify it's owner from information held inside the key itself.
be afraid, be VERY afraid.....and read more thoroughly next time
Ya know, i'd be willing to let them ban encryption IF it was illegal for them to use it as well AND if they consented to letting US monitor all THEIR traffice (military included).
However, since they will give some 'National Security' BS, and wouldn't follow any of the laws if that happened anyways, then we have every right to encrypt whatever we want.
Check out www.firingsquad.com, they've got a really good guide that goes into alot of this stuff. A previous post covered the chipset stuff well, the BIOS was also mentioned, but what hasn't been mentioned is the Max _Cacheable_ memory, if you install more RAM than the mobo can cache, you'll notice a performance hit. For example, the VIA MVP3 chipset with 512k L2 cache will only cache 128 megs, bump it up to 1MB L2, and you can cache (go figger) 256 megs. However, the mobo i've got supports up to 768 megs, but over 256 does me no good. I don't know what the specs like this are like for the BX, GX and the like.
Also, alot of motherboards require you to use registered memory for modules that are 256MB or bigger. This may depend on the chipset and BIOS as well though.
This really reminds me of the Gargoyles that worked for CIC in Snow Crash (If you haven't read it do so yesterday). Very fun stuff, kinda scary though, if you're that paranoid.
Working in an atmosphere like the ones described in the article can be the most invigorating as well as the most destructive way to work. There are times when I love putting in hours of work, give me some techno and caffeine, i'll rock all over a project with almost no sleep. But there are times when i just need a break and I won't work more than 8 hours. It's a way of life, some people thrive on it, my favorite part is the parties after a group of us have worked crazy hours for a week or two. I must say that having computers as a job and a hobby certainly contribute to being able to put my body and mind through this though....
Two other options that come to mind would allow you to use a regular NIC. There are numerous wireless products that will let you plug a NIC into a wireless transciever or hub. However this is probably about as expensive as what you've been looking at already. At the moment, it seems that cheap and wireless are mutually exclusive, at least in the LAN arena. However, another thing to look at is using your home wiring. There are products out there that will allow you to connect 10Base equpment via your existing electrical wiring. This will likely be cheaper than wireless equipment.
Microsoft is far from being perfect, however, I would rather deal with them, then this Triumvirate. Netscape was once a brilliant start-up, now they're simply part of AOL, who is probably second to MS on the most hated list. They scored points with the community with the Mozilla Open Source project, but where has that goine? Sun has produced some really cool stuff, but where is their true commitment? Their own bottom line.
I can see far worse things coming out of this alliance than we could dream of happening with MS. This may be paranoid, but I can see it being illegal for anyone who isn't licensed to own a device that can do much more than e-mail or web browse. It'll be impossible to sit down at one machine and do everything. With stuff like this and the Apple buyout rumors, I think we're getting closer than we may think to the evil mega-corps such as depicted by 1984/Blade Runner.
How scary is the thought of McMicroAOLExxonDisneySoftInc.gov (Or whatever combinations of current corps scare you the most)??
I thought he didn't like some of the stuff that was being done with LinuxHQ, but he's basically copied Kernelnotes and hasn't given them any credit. My impression is that he needs to grow up. That may not be the case, but that's the impression i get.
What happens if Linus and AC get fed up the with infighting and petty bickering that has been popping up with increasing regularity? I see two things happening. One, some groups keep a standardized kernel and co-develop it together, but they do this for commercial interests. While they continue to provide their distros for free, and are willing to work with all comers, certain segments denounce them because of their commercial interests. Which brings me to number two. These segments continue with their own distros, some groups work well together, others don't, eventually they end up with kernels that are incompatible, the stronger alliances maintain compatiblity, but no one is compatible with the commercial vendors.
Now, what have we ended up with? We're right back where commercial unix is today, although for mostly different reasons. I'm probably going to get flamed a bit, but think on this. We wanted Linux to be widely accepted for many reasons, now that this is starting to happen, we are bitching at eachother over (mostly) trivial things. If Linux is going to be everything we want it to be, we need to stop fighting, we need to allow for the commercial interests of companies like RedHat, while maintaining the diversity provided by user based groups such as Debian. If the commercial and non-commercial sides can manage to get over their differences and work together as, Linux will go places we never imagined. If we can't let that happen, Linux is likely to become the next OS/2.
From what I gathered from the article, they aren't closing access to the top level servers, in fact they aren't changing anything on the top level servers. They are taking away access to the zone files for the top level domains. You can still use whois and all that, personally it's an unfortunate consequence of people abusing those files. I can't tell you how much mail (e-mail and snail mail) I suddenly recieved after registering a domain for myself. I've stopped the address the domain is registered under because of all the spam it gets. However, I do think that they are also using it to deny access to competitors who should be given access. It doesn't seem to be as horrid as the original post makes it seem, but I'm sure that their motives aren't exactly pure. Goes to show how badly we need new domain policy and infrastructure in place.
I don't think that slashdot infringes on that patent, there may be some places that do. The patent is overly broad and hopefully will get shot down at some point. The system in place here is obviously similar to the system described by Gates 'n Co., but so was Westinghouse's two filament lightbulb to Edison's single filament light bulb. Similarity does not equal patent infringment, and relatively minor differences between products often mean that a patent that may seem to be infringed upon actually isn't.
Beyond this specific case, i noticed another comment that mentioned the 'patent everything' phenomenon. I agree that this really needs to be stopped, companies know that the majority of the patents that they have been granted are overly broad and unenforceable, but they also know that in all probability there are at least one or two of theirs that aren't and those two will more than make up for the money spent getting the other few thousand, and will likely bring them lots of $$$. Software patents are a tricky thing because it is so easy for people to come up with similar looking things that function totally differently. There is some place for software patents, like encryption methods, encoding methods, compression methods, just as an example. I think it comes down to the fact that 99 to 100% of the people in the patent office don't understand the technology, if they did, alot of patents wouldn't be awarded.
What isn't an 'Addiction' today, are people who spend 10+ hours a day watching TV addicted?? Of course not, they're just relaxing. The 'Net can be a really engrossing place, and I think this net addiction thing is stupid, people who feel the need to escape will find a way to do so, consciously or not. That article was a piece of crap. It seems to me that people use the word addiction to escape blame for their problems. Instead of saying, 'I need help', it's 'Oh, I'm addicted to ', like it's 'the things fault'. Anyone else agree?? When are people going to stop talking about "I'm addicted to "?? Unfortunately, it's probably never.
Oh no, I'm on the web for 10 hrs a day, I must be addicted (oh, that's right, it's my job.....)
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I'm glad she lost, the CBSC made some very good points that she REALLY should have thought of first. The most amusing part of the article (IMHO)was the bit at the end about Howard Stern, tasteless is certainly a start about alot stuff he pulls, unnecessarily tasteless is a bit more descriptive (yea, yea, harsher words can certainly be used, but...)
These both appear to be UUNet DNS servers, atleast according to ARIN whois. 198.6.1.162 is listed as one of the DNS servers for reverse mapping for 198.6.0.0 - 198.6.255.255 as is 198.6.1.83, as for 198.6.1.82 it is listed as a host with ARIN and is listed as one of the name servers responsible for reverse mapping for the same address block when you use nslookup, which means it is likely used for the same purposes.
Now, it is highly unlikely that the NSA or anyone else would be doing anything else from these servers, they're probably kept decently busy doing DNS stuff, besides, they're mission critical boxes for UUNet. This doesn't mean that the IPs aren't being spoofed though.
It seems to me that it's improbable that this would be the info to look for, though it is certainly possible. 198.6.1.82 and 198.6.1.83 seem to be located in Fairfax, VA, so who knows....there's all sorts of possibilites
How do you prove it? Well, if you had REALLY read the whole document, you'd have seen how it was proved. There ARE two RSA Public keys contained in the code. These are readily exctracted from the code, once you have the key, you can verify it's owner from information held inside the key itself.
be afraid, be VERY afraid.....and read more thoroughly next time
Ya know, i'd be willing to let them ban encryption IF it was illegal for them to use it as well AND if they consented to letting US monitor all THEIR traffice (military included).
However, since they will give some 'National Security' BS, and wouldn't follow any of the laws if that happened anyways, then we have every right to encrypt whatever we want.
Check out www.firingsquad.com, they've got a really good guide that goes into alot of this stuff. A previous post covered the chipset stuff well, the BIOS was also mentioned, but what hasn't been mentioned is the Max _Cacheable_ memory, if you install more RAM than the mobo can cache, you'll notice a performance hit. For example, the VIA MVP3 chipset with 512k L2 cache will only cache 128 megs, bump it up to 1MB L2, and you can cache (go figger) 256 megs. However, the mobo i've got supports up to 768 megs, but over 256 does me no good. I don't know what the specs like this are like for the BX, GX and the like.
Also, alot of motherboards require you to use registered memory for modules that are 256MB or bigger. This may depend on the chipset and BIOS as well though.
This really reminds me of the Gargoyles that worked for CIC in Snow Crash (If you haven't read it do so yesterday). Very fun stuff, kinda scary though, if you're that paranoid.
Working in an atmosphere like the ones described in the article can be the most invigorating as well as the most destructive way to work. There are times when I love putting in hours of work, give me some techno and caffeine, i'll rock all over a project with almost no sleep. But there are times when i just need a break and I won't work more than 8 hours. It's a way of life, some people thrive on it, my favorite part is the parties after a group of us have worked crazy hours for a week or two. I must say that having computers as a job and a hobby certainly contribute to being able to put my body and mind through this though....
Two other options that come to mind would allow you to use a regular NIC. There are numerous wireless products that will let you plug a NIC into a wireless transciever or hub. However this is probably about as expensive as what you've been looking at already. At the moment, it seems that cheap and wireless are mutually exclusive, at least in the LAN arena. However, another thing to look at is using your home wiring. There are products out there that will allow you to connect 10Base equpment via your existing electrical wiring. This will likely be cheaper than wireless equipment.
Microsoft is far from being perfect, however, I would rather deal with them, then this Triumvirate. Netscape was once a brilliant start-up, now they're simply part of AOL, who is probably second to MS on the most hated list. They scored points with the community with the Mozilla Open Source project, but where has that goine? Sun has produced some really cool stuff, but where is their true commitment? Their own bottom line.
I can see far worse things coming out of this alliance than we could dream of happening with MS. This may be paranoid, but I can see it being illegal for anyone who isn't licensed to own a device that can do much more than e-mail or web browse. It'll be impossible to sit down at one machine and do everything. With stuff like this and the Apple buyout rumors, I think we're getting closer than we may think to the evil mega-corps such as depicted by 1984/Blade Runner.
How scary is the thought of McMicroAOLExxonDisneySoftInc.gov (Or whatever combinations of current corps scare you the most)??
I thought he didn't like some of the stuff that was being done with LinuxHQ, but he's basically copied Kernelnotes and hasn't given them any credit. My impression is that he needs to grow up. That may not be the case, but that's the impression i get.
What happens if Linus and AC get fed up the with infighting and petty bickering that has been popping up with increasing regularity? I see two things happening. One, some groups keep a standardized kernel and co-develop it together, but they do this for commercial interests. While they continue to provide their distros for free, and are willing to work with all comers, certain segments denounce them because of their commercial interests. Which brings me to number two. These segments continue with their own distros, some groups work well together, others don't, eventually they end up with kernels that are incompatible, the stronger alliances maintain compatiblity, but no one is compatible with the commercial vendors.
Now, what have we ended up with? We're right back where commercial unix is today, although for mostly different reasons. I'm probably going to get flamed a bit, but think on this. We wanted Linux to be widely accepted for many reasons, now that this is starting to happen, we are bitching at eachother over (mostly) trivial things. If Linux is going to be everything we want it to be, we need to stop fighting, we need to allow for the commercial interests of companies like RedHat, while maintaining the diversity provided by user based groups such as Debian. If the commercial and non-commercial sides can manage to get over their differences and work together as, Linux will go places we never imagined. If we can't let that happen, Linux is likely to become the next OS/2.
From what I gathered from the article, they aren't closing access to the top level servers, in fact they aren't changing anything on the top level servers. They are taking away access to the zone files for the top level domains. You can still use whois and all that, personally it's an unfortunate consequence of people abusing those files. I can't tell you how much mail (e-mail and snail mail) I suddenly recieved after registering a domain for myself. I've stopped the address the domain is registered under because of all the spam it gets. However, I do think that they are also using it to deny access to competitors who should be given access. It doesn't seem to be as horrid as the original post makes it seem, but I'm sure that their motives aren't exactly pure. Goes to show how badly we need new domain policy and infrastructure in place.
I don't think that slashdot infringes on that patent, there may be some places that do. The patent is overly broad and hopefully will get shot down at some point. The system in place here is obviously similar to the system described by Gates 'n Co., but so was Westinghouse's two filament lightbulb to Edison's single filament light bulb. Similarity does not equal patent infringment, and relatively minor differences between products often mean that a patent that may seem to be infringed upon actually isn't.
Beyond this specific case, i noticed another comment that mentioned the 'patent everything' phenomenon. I agree that this really needs to be stopped, companies know that the majority of the patents that they have been granted are overly broad and unenforceable, but they also know that in all probability there are at least one or two of theirs that aren't and those two will more than make up for the money spent getting the other few thousand, and will likely bring them lots of $$$. Software patents are a tricky thing because it is so easy for people to come up with similar looking things that function totally differently. There is some place for software patents, like encryption methods, encoding methods, compression methods, just as an example. I think it comes down to the fact that 99 to 100% of the people in the patent office don't understand the technology, if they did, alot of patents wouldn't be awarded.
What isn't an 'Addiction' today, are people who spend 10+ hours a day watching TV addicted?? Of course not, they're just relaxing. The 'Net can be a really engrossing place, and I think this net addiction thing is stupid, people who feel the need to escape will find a way to do so, consciously or not. That article was a piece of crap. It seems to me that people use the word addiction to escape blame for their problems. Instead of saying, 'I need help', it's 'Oh, I'm addicted to ', like it's 'the things fault'. Anyone else agree?? When are people going to stop talking about "I'm addicted to "?? Unfortunately, it's probably never.
Oh no, I'm on the web for 10 hrs a day, I must be addicted (oh, that's right, it's my job.....)