I doubt that the citizens of those countries crippled by the repayment of billions of pounds of debt applied for it.
I doubt that these same citizens had a hand in determining how the money was spent.
I doubt whether many of these people benefitted from the money received at all.
Organizations which engage in this kind of "investment" need to be held accountable for the inability of the beneficiary to repay without starving, working into the ground or otherwise fucking over its inhabitants.
We (and don't forget, we are the people that matter) want proof that this money is being spent in a beneficial, sustainable manner. We want *guarantees* that these huge sums of money are not being frittered away by corrupt officials on projects of dubious merit and questionable long-term benefit.
If the IMF or whoever else cannot give these guarantees and be held accountable if they are not met then they should *not* be able to lend the money.
These developing countries may owe us a lot of money... but we owed them the assurance that it was going to do them some good. Otherwise what was the point?
> Let me know when it compiles out of the box on OpenBSD then I'll believe that it isn't a horrible product.
Well.. it has compiled out of the box for FreeBSD for as long as I can remember.
> As is now, there's a million ways for a webmaster to crash Netscape6/Mozilla, and I'm sure more than one of those bugs will allow arbitrary file execution (meaning it doesn't mesh with OpenBSD in the first place).
A complete audit of the mozilla codebase would be quite an undertaking. I wouldn't be surprised if bugs such as you mention are found at some point in the future.
As it stands, I feel that these sort of security holes would not be as important in a user application (one which is not run as root). And, hey, if you don't like the possibility of somebody being able to execute commands as you... you can always run it sandboxed (say, as user mozilla) to limit the possible damage.
I think we will see Mozilla in ports for FreeBSD and OpenBSD for a long time to come. I also think Mozilla is *the* most important piece of user-level open-source software in existence.
Big sloppy kisses to all the Mozilla folks for all their hard work 8--)
I hope I speak for everyone in the civilised world in offering the USA our deepest sympathies and support.
I hope no-one takes this the wrong way, but on reading about todays tragedy, I felt the need to lookup nostradamus' predictions -
(on the third anti-christ)
Out of the country of Greater Arabia
Shall be born a strong master of Mohammed...
He will enter Europe wearing a blue turban.
He will be the terror of mankind.
Never more horror.
In the year 1999 and seven months
From the sky will come the great King of Terror.
He will bring back to life the King of the Mongols;
Before and after war reigns.
The war will last seven and twenty years. (Guentte)
The sky will burn at forty-five degrees.
Fire approaches the great new city.
By fire he will destroy their city,
A cold and cruel heart,
Blood will pour,
Mercy to none. (Guentte)
I guess its possible to read too much into these things... but.
Si
ps. the quotes above were ripped blatantly from "http://boisdarc.tamu-commerce.edu/www/w/willmc/no stra.htm"
Is it not possible that this sort of patent infringement could have the undesirable effect of dissuading companies from disclosing inventions for patent review?
Income from patents which cure disease and ease suffering in some of the poorest parts of the world is nothing short of blood money.
At least the Brazilian government had the option of infringing on this patent. In the not too distant future, maybe even this will be denied by money-sucking corporations intent upon hoarding their intellectual property to the detriment of those for whom it is most needed.</anti-capitalism>
Si
--
"things... can only get better..." - some pop song
What you say is true. However, it can be a lot harder to implement egress filtering if you are a transit provider. Even worse if you provide connectivity to other transit providers.
Of course, the answer is to implement anti-spoofing filters from the leaf nodes of the internet toward the root. Unfortunately, the outskirts of the net are not home to the most competent/informed administrators.
There are a number of reasons why this is a bad idea -
1) Privacy. Maybe I don't want people (read companies) to know what city I'm currently in.
2) Speed. Most IP traffic is routed between major network providers which do not operate within set geographic boundaries. Knowing that a packet at a major peering point needs to go to Cambridge, England is nowhere near as helpful as knowing the transit provider is PSInet.
3) The last 64 bits of an IPv6 address are often used to store the MAC address of the sending host. This is going to make things like Mobile IP and automatic IP allocation (think DHCP) a breeze.
All these reasons and more are why the (substantially more knowledgable than you and I) members of the IETF working group chose the current system 8-)
Si
ps. go visit www.6bone.net to learn more. Get yourself a free/48 from www.freenet6.net. Use and learn about the technology now because we're going to be building networks with this stuff real soon now.
I have a friend who works for an online casino here in the UK (on the helpdesk phones).
While talking to him, I wondered (and asked, although he didn't know the answer) exactly how these online blackjack/poker/chance games come up with a random sequence of cards.
As many of us will know, it is incredibly difficult (if not impossible) to generate true randosity (?) using a computer (look at TCP sequence number spoofing for an example).
So, given that you are able to observe (with a low stake) the random choice of cards an online game will generate, how difficult is it to predict the next sequence of cards?
I assumed at the time that online casinos must realise this and have some way of defeating it...
For starters, the guys name is Jordan, not Jonathan.
Second, why has this been mod'ed up? These are sad times indeed.
Third, if you did compose the emails referenced at the bottom of your post, I'm glad that you are busying yourself posting trolls to slashdot. At least it occupies your otherwise worthless time and contains your misguided cack-spraffings within an area alloted for such behaviour.
> I imagine looking up the entry for Businesses/ACME Tools (of Hayward, California, USA)
How is this different from the following -
I want to find the website (www) for the BBC (bbc) company (co) in the UK (uk)... www.bbc.co.uk.
Just because the system has been bastardized by this top-level domain insanity doesn't mean it wasn't designed correctly (by some very smart people) many years ago.
The answer does *not* lie in the introduction of more top-level domains and if it happens it will be yet another triumph of marketing bullshit over solid internet engineering practices (something ICANN seems to be rather good at).
> Human nature tells us to achieve to OWN not RENT. (There are soooo many paralells in society that have 'washed' us to believe this.)
Indeed... never confuse human "nature" with human shallow-mindedness and stupidity 8-)
To give my own examples as to why I believe these sort of remote applications won't work -
Users such as myself appreciate *control* of their working environment (computers being a massive part of my own). I prefer free software, and free OSen (I won't proclaim which one in order to pacify the dunder-headed trolls out there) because they tend to give me that control.
At this point in time, I'm not sure a lot of people want this control of their applications and computers... they just want to get on with it. In the future and as people become more aware of their computers as environments rather than tools, I think they will begin to crave the very same thing.
People prefer cars to public transport as a matter of empowerment... the same will be true of computers.
I think a far more useful suggestion is that we, the community who helped build the CDDB database, stop using it and contribute any missing data to the FreeDB service.
Remember, CDDB was once in *exactly* the same state as FreeDB is now (not that that's a bad thing) and grew due to user contributions.
If people are just too lazy to check the FreeDB option in their clients and start contributing, I have little sympathy for them.
Si
ps. I am *not* condoning CDDB's behaviour, I think they suck. But I'm afraid it looks like we're just going to have to live with it.
Re:Backdoor challenge for you hackers...
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So, let me get this right, we have loads of these tiny "off-by-one" errors scattered throughout the code. Each one overflowing a preconceived byte into some area of system memory.
Then we trigger our "hidden" code somewhere else with a similar tactic designed to nuke the frame pointer.
I guess the flaw (apart from the obscene complexity) would be if somebody spotted and fixed *just one* of the potential overflows, our code could be rendered totally useless.
Maybe you could implement some sort of parity-based decoding routine (similar to RAID-5) which could handle this situation.
I'm sure its been discussed here before, but there is no way of verifying the integrity of MP3 encoded audio. That is except decoding it and listening to it yourself.
That's why the real killer will include some sort of massive rating scheme... either that or bandwidth will have to become so abundant that people don't care about the inefficiency of downloading the same track repeatedly.
> So, were those limits actually doing customers good or not? And will this make high-speed access (even if AOL-TW dominated) available in many places it's not right now?
It doesn't matter how fat the pipe is, if your not free to put anything you want down it.
Si
ps. This phrase applies equally well in other areas 8-)
> I don't think I'm the only one that finds it quite annoying to have to exit and restart my browser in order to make it forget my HTTP authemtication information. I believe Netscape and IE both have this problem.
... and the hours of wasted programming time having to implement cookie-based (or alternative) authentication for web-based applications.
I want to train staff to click the log off button, not shut the browser down.
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I doubt that the citizens of those countries crippled by the repayment of billions of pounds of debt applied for it.
I doubt that these same citizens had a hand in determining how the money was spent.
I doubt whether many of these people benefitted from the money received at all.
Organizations which engage in this kind of "investment" need to be held accountable for the inability of the beneficiary to repay without starving, working into the ground or otherwise fucking over its inhabitants.
We (and don't forget, we are the people that matter) want proof that this money is being spent in a beneficial, sustainable manner. We want *guarantees* that these huge sums of money are not being frittered away by corrupt officials on projects of dubious merit and questionable long-term benefit.
If the IMF or whoever else cannot give these guarantees and be held accountable if they are not met then they should *not* be able to lend the money.
These developing countries may owe us a lot of money... but we owed them the assurance that it was going to do them some good. Otherwise what was the point?
Si
> Let me know when it compiles out of the box on OpenBSD then I'll believe that it isn't a horrible product.
Well.. it has compiled out of the box for FreeBSD for as long as I can remember.
> As is now, there's a million ways for a webmaster to crash Netscape6/Mozilla, and I'm sure more than one of those bugs will allow arbitrary file execution (meaning it doesn't mesh with OpenBSD in the first place).
A complete audit of the mozilla codebase would be quite an undertaking. I wouldn't be surprised if bugs such as you mention are found at some point in the future.
As it stands, I feel that these sort of security holes would not be as important in a user application (one which is not run as root). And, hey, if you don't like the possibility of somebody being able to execute commands as you... you can always run it sandboxed (say, as user mozilla) to limit the possible damage.
I think we will see Mozilla in ports for FreeBSD and OpenBSD for a long time to come. I also think Mozilla is *the* most important piece of user-level open-source software in existence.
Big sloppy kisses to all the Mozilla folks for all their hard work 8--)
Si
> they want rock-solid performance and to not have to futz around with 8000 BIOS settings.
... if this is the case, Compaq seem to be winning against all odds with their (damned) BIOS on a disk.
Si
I hope I speak for everyone in the civilised world in offering the USA our deepest sympathies and support.
o stra.htm"
I hope no-one takes this the wrong way, but on reading about todays tragedy, I felt the need to lookup nostradamus' predictions -
(on the third anti-christ)
Out of the country of Greater Arabia
Shall be born a strong master of Mohammed...
He will enter Europe wearing a blue turban.
He will be the terror of mankind.
Never more horror.
In the year 1999 and seven months
From the sky will come the great King of Terror.
He will bring back to life the King of the Mongols;
Before and after war reigns.
The war will last seven and twenty years. (Guentte)
The sky will burn at forty-five degrees.
Fire approaches the great new city.
By fire he will destroy their city,
A cold and cruel heart,
Blood will pour,
Mercy to none. (Guentte)
I guess its possible to read too much into these things... but.
Si
ps. the quotes above were ripped blatantly from "http://boisdarc.tamu-commerce.edu/www/w/willmc/n
Is it not possible that this sort of patent infringement could have the undesirable effect of dissuading companies from disclosing inventions for patent review?
Income from patents which cure disease and ease suffering in some of the poorest parts of the world is nothing short of blood money.
At least the Brazilian government had the option of infringing on this patent. In the not too distant future, maybe even this will be denied by money-sucking corporations intent upon hoarding their intellectual property to the detriment of those for whom it is most needed.</anti-capitalism>
Si
--
"things... can only get better..." - some pop song
What you say is true. However, it can be a lot harder to implement egress filtering if you are a transit provider. Even worse if you provide connectivity to other transit providers.
Of course, the answer is to implement anti-spoofing filters from the leaf nodes of the internet toward the root. Unfortunately, the outskirts of the net are not home to the most competent/informed administrators.
Cheers,
Si
> Use a logical GEOGRAPHIC based struct
/48 from www.freenet6.net. Use and learn about the technology now because we're going to be building networks with this stuff real soon now.
There are a number of reasons why this is a bad idea -
1) Privacy. Maybe I don't want people (read companies) to know what city I'm currently in.
2) Speed. Most IP traffic is routed between major network providers which do not operate within set geographic boundaries. Knowing that a packet at a major peering point needs to go to Cambridge, England is nowhere near as helpful as knowing the transit provider is PSInet.
3) The last 64 bits of an IPv6 address are often used to store the MAC address of the sending host. This is going to make things like Mobile IP and automatic IP allocation (think DHCP) a breeze.
All these reasons and more are why the (substantially more knowledgable than you and I) members of the IETF working group chose the current system 8-)
Si
ps. go visit www.6bone.net to learn more. Get yourself a free
I have a friend who works for an online casino here in the UK (on the helpdesk phones).
While talking to him, I wondered (and asked, although he didn't know the answer) exactly how these online blackjack/poker/chance games come up with a random sequence of cards.
As many of us will know, it is incredibly difficult (if not impossible) to generate true randosity (?) using a computer (look at TCP sequence number spoofing for an example).
So, given that you are able to observe (with a low stake) the random choice of cards an online game will generate, how difficult is it to predict the next sequence of cards?
I assumed at the time that online casinos must realise this and have some way of defeating it...
?
Si
For starters, the guys name is Jordan, not Jonathan.
Second, why has this been mod'ed up? These are sad times indeed.
Third, if you did compose the emails referenced at the bottom of your post, I'm glad that you are busying yourself posting trolls to slashdot. At least it occupies your otherwise worthless time and contains your misguided cack-spraffings within an area alloted for such behaviour.
Arse!
Si
Oh yeah... and a big shout out to puff daddy
> http://www.parascope.com/en/articles/coralCastle.h tm
... you are not seriously suggesting these people have started trademarking C header filenames?
Si
You are talking complete bunk.
I can just imagine you sat there waving your hands trying to explain *why* this is the case... like oh so many market droids and salesmen 8-)
Why don't you run along and try selling some dental plans or something and leave the network engineering to the techies?
Regards,
Si
> I imagine looking up the entry for Businesses/ACME Tools (of Hayward, California, USA)
How is this different from the following -
I want to find the website (www) for the BBC (bbc) company (co) in the UK (uk)... www.bbc.co.uk.
Just because the system has been bastardized by this top-level domain insanity doesn't mean it wasn't designed correctly (by some very smart people) many years ago.
The answer does *not* lie in the introduction of more top-level domains and if it happens it will be yet another triumph of marketing bullshit over solid internet engineering practices (something ICANN seems to be rather good at).
Si
I also notice they pop up a list of "recently" used usernames in the login screen
Yeah, like we shutdown finger and disabled EXPN for no reason whatsoever...
Si
ps. To be fair, I remember seeing something similar in an xdm frontend once so its not only MS who made this mistake.
> access-list 102 deny tcp any any established
you don't need the "established"...
Si
> Human nature tells us to achieve to OWN not RENT. (There are soooo many paralells in society that have 'washed' us to believe this.)
Indeed... never confuse human "nature" with human shallow-mindedness and stupidity 8-)
To give my own examples as to why I believe these sort of remote applications won't work -
Users such as myself appreciate *control* of their working environment (computers being a massive part of my own). I prefer free software, and free OSen (I won't proclaim which one in order to pacify the dunder-headed trolls out there) because they tend to give me that control.
At this point in time, I'm not sure a lot of people want this control of their applications and computers... they just want to get on with it. In the future and as people become more aware of their computers as environments rather than tools, I think they will begin to crave the very same thing.
People prefer cars to public transport as a matter of empowerment... the same will be true of computers.
Si
I think a far more useful suggestion is that we, the community who helped build the CDDB database, stop using it and contribute any missing data to the FreeDB service.
Remember, CDDB was once in *exactly* the same state as FreeDB is now (not that that's a bad thing) and grew due to user contributions.
If people are just too lazy to check the FreeDB option in their clients and start contributing, I have little sympathy for them.
Si
ps. I am *not* condoning CDDB's behaviour, I think they suck. But I'm afraid it looks like we're just going to have to live with it.
So, let me get this right, we have loads of these tiny "off-by-one" errors scattered throughout the code. Each one overflowing a preconceived byte into some area of system memory.
Then we trigger our "hidden" code somewhere else with a similar tactic designed to nuke the frame pointer.
I guess the flaw (apart from the obscene complexity) would be if somebody spotted and fixed *just one* of the potential overflows, our code could be rendered totally useless.
Maybe you could implement some sort of parity-based decoding routine (similar to RAID-5) which could handle this situation.
I'm scared... 8-)
Si
> Just throw in md5sums to verify file integrity
I'm sure its been discussed here before, but there is no way of verifying the integrity of MP3 encoded audio. That is except decoding it and listening to it yourself.
That's why the real killer will include some sort of massive rating scheme... either that or bandwidth will have to become so abundant that people don't care about the inefficiency of downloading the same track repeatedly.
Si
> So, were those limits actually doing customers good or not? And will this make high-speed access (even if AOL-TW dominated) available in many places it's not right now?
It doesn't matter how fat the pipe is, if your not free to put anything you want down it.
Si
ps. This phrase applies equally well in other areas 8-)
Si[plastic] 6 % ls -l /usr/bin/false
/usr/bin/false
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 2932 Jan 16 17:53
... no visual cue indeed.
Si
ps. I thought Microsoft only employed smart people 8-)
Dr Octogon also said -
"Wax in your inner ear, doo-doo in your outer ear
Two cows a zebra will jump through your atmosphere"
So I don't know whether you ought to listen to him 8-)
Si
You can specify whether the font is anti-aliased along with a host of other things in your
XftConfig file.
It also lets you alias fonts you don't have to known fonts etc. etc.
Si
> I don't think I'm the only one that finds it quite annoying to have to exit and restart my browser in order to make it forget my HTTP authemtication information. I believe Netscape and IE both have this problem.
... and the hours of wasted programming time having to implement cookie-based (or alternative) authentication for web-based applications.
I want to train staff to click the log off button, not shut the browser down.
Si
I always though it was Dec who was queer?
Si
I think it was David Kronenbourg on the subject of movie violence mandating film censorship who said (approximately) -
"Where I live, people who can't differentiate fantasy from reality are called 'insane'"
Si