However, this is one more example of corporations or government taking AWAY the rights of parents to make their own decisions on how to raise their children. If oarents want their children not to play these games, they have the responsibility to monitor their activities and prevent them. This is just another case in which the decision is made for the parent beforehand, such that Circuit City is saying parents shouldn't let kids play these games so we are going to make sure they can't have them.
If you truly advocated parents taking responsibility for their children you are on teh wrong side of this argument; this is part of the drive to have the government and corporations take care of our children so we do not have to and have more time to work for them instead of spending it with our kids.
IIRC, When I read about similar methods during the 80's, execution required a few hundred dollars of equipment from the local Radio Shack. the cost mainly depends on how far away the "victim" is and how accurately you need to reproduce what they see.
You are correct about the shielding issues, though..
Once again, our worst suspicions are confirmed. These "businesses" want to make sure they send mail and email to people who do not want their junk. And why not? Junk mail and spam enrich the USPS and "businesses' whose sole product is a list of mail and/or email addresses and other data. These are the people who are currently lobbying against "opt-in."
I was thinking more along the lines of the 30 man code in Contra on the original NES, up down left right b a start. It was the first game code published in Nintendo Power, and one of the first game codes I remember being published anywhere...
There is one, Caldera, a corporation merging with SCO has provided OpenLinux for years, as for SCo they are known for their OpenServer and UnixWare products.
No, Linus is not upset about it. He has a trademark on Linux, not OpenLinux or RedHat Linux or even Yellow Dog Linux, and has treated it as such.
But the Newton is the only device that allows you to write in normal proper human language (versus some bizzare made-up alphabet), including script, with a pen. It has pcmcia, IR, and localtalk so it could conceivably get on a network/ the internet numerous ways, without the need for a prorietary unecessarily expensive internet provider (like you get stuck with with the Palm. I like to be able to choose between various providers, thank you very much.)
Port 25 is mail, 21 is ftp, 23 is the default telnet port
Re:"niggles" is a RACIST slur!
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Actually, the problems in the US public education system, particularly with regard to the quality of education African Americans are receiving. If they don't know what "niggardly" means, but they know full well what the other word means, what are we teaching our children? To paraphrase the NAACP official fropm your link, someone is being niggardly with their education.
It also reminds me of another tragedy regarding the story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." In the original story, "an old Negro" played a fiddle at the party where the story of the headless horseman is told to Ichabod Crane. In the more politically correct versions of the story this character is "an old man" because it is not thought important to mention his blackness.
Of course this story is rich in detail and changing even one word changes a lot in the story. In this case, it results in most illustrations of the story, the classic Disney film, and even the recent movie all being devoid of black characters, because there aren't any in the politically correct version of this story. Certainly this is a step in the direction of racial parity!
In general it is unwise for us to consider the course of treating all African Americans as if they were uneducated buffoons incapable of any more than a third grade vocabulary as a remedy to the prior sins of Indo-European conquest and more specifically the slavery and racism perpetuated in America. And it is not necessary in all circles to assume everyone has suffered the general ignorance which is teh American way of life. It is clear from the story that the mayor, who happens to be of African American descent, knew full well what the word meant. In fact it is even possible that the man who originally lodged the complaint knew what it meant as well, since he had motivation for playing the "race card" (he wanted the white official's job and knew the mayor was taking flak fro not having more blacks in important positions).
Perpetuating ignoprance helps no one. Only through clearer understanding, the free dissemination of information and a better education of ourselves, beyond improvements in the system through which we educate others, can we even begin to find the methods through which we might solve the problems not only of our own nations and backyards, but of the world as a whole.
Officers were able to track down the company that hosted the sites and discovered the people who produced them did so with a fraudulent application. Because of that, the sites were shut down Friday, Capt. Gould said.
Now, now, just because it is Microsoft Frontpage does not make it fraudulent...
Actually, according to this article, The Salem Police have a habit of keeping equipment which has been used as evidence and using it for their own purposes. The rules for seizure of property, mostly enacted to fund the drug war, allow the police to immediately seize and even sell property prior to any trial. If you are found innocent, good luck trying to get your stuff. "Suspicion" of crime is enough for you to lose everything.
It shall be an affirmative defense to a prosecution for unauthorized access to a computer system that:
(a) The person reasonably believed that the owner of the computer system, or a person empowered to license access thereto, had authorized him to access; or
(b) The person reasonably believed that the owner of the computer system, or a person empowered to license access thereto, would have authorized him to access without payment of any consideration; or
(c) The person reasonably could not have known that his access was unauthorized.
Since the images and indeed the code for the website are published and freely available, therefore set up for anyone to access, he cannot have been guilty of unauthorized access. Thank you for playing.
Perhaps you should be educated as well. A honey pot is indeed as you claim a system meant to be cracked, but it is a trap. It is not advertised, in other words. You are thinking of the "crack this box" systems, which are different in that they are secure systems set up as a challenge for crackers. Honey pots are systems which are vulnerable by design so crackers will be attracted to them and indeed can be caught and prosecuted.
As for the white hats cracking honey pots, obviously they would have no idea of the purpose of the system unless they were able to get in further and surmise this on their own. If they were to plug the holes in the system, as suggested in prior posts, they would effectively be closing the doors to all your mousetraps and removing the cheese. Very helpful, indeed!
Yes but in the case of DIVX there was a more viable alternative, DVD. This may go more the way of the Pentium III debacle, where initially there was a furor over the rights infringing serial number propagation, but as people realized they had no choice if they wanted multiple x86 processors, etc they bought them anyway.
Also businesses bought the PIII's because they had no problem with these things. I think that what these people are banking on is that the big OEM's and businesses are not going to care about the content protection problems as long as a viable fix for their current manufacturing processes is provided. Since IBM is one of those and is backing the proposal, I'd think they probably have some ideas about how to shut them up.
So basically the denizens of/. are free to use l0phted and otherwise old hardware all they want, but anyone wanting a modern box will be forced to help these goons. That is what is so bad about this.
No, that is the interface. The interface is not how things look, it is how things are done in the program. User Input. Pictures are secondary. If we have toolbars in multiple apps that is great, but if they arent the same and the menus arent the same and the keyboard commands are not the same how can you possibly call it a consistent interface?
Oh and the example of Acrobat is way off too. Of course when I go to a site and click on a pdf and the acrobat plugin loads it looks a lot like Acrobat, to my great surprise. But how similar is the acrobat interface to the Explorer interface? Beyond the fact that both have toolbars, menus, and hotlinks, none. The menus and toolbars and keyboard shortcuts are not the same.
One of these days we will have apps with consistent interfaces on x86, but Microsoft still doesn't get it. Apple did it but only by taking control away from programmers. We could try to do it in Linux but it would require an effort on everyone's part to conform to a standard.
By the way why do people want a File menu in every freaking window?
The military got electronic voting, why not us?
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During this election, the military made a special effort to make sure those votes (mostly for Bush) got through from the military personnel overseas. Historically those votes have taken some time to get through, and any votes that take longer than a week to get to the US and counted, don't count.
Some military personnel, particularly on submarines, were allowed to vote electronically. It was not the internet we know and love that was used AFAIK, but the secure military network. Still it seems that the same technologies could be used for civilian voting and would make it easier for civilians to vote (god forbid that happens).
In Applied Cryptography, several methods of implementing electronic voting, with source code examples, are discussed. One of the important technologies utilized was electronic signatures, which have only recently been given the weight of paper signatures (as they are harder to fake). In a normal election, votes get thrown out all the time, dead people vote (in this election a dead man won the Senate race in Missouri) and there is a lot of fraud, so anyone trying to argue that electronic voting will just mean hackers stuffing ballots and votes lost in the ether is really right in line with the people who try to say that it is more secure to walk up to a $5 an hour clerk and have your credit card impressed into carbon paper (which is immediately thrown in the trash...) or to speak it into a cell or cordless phone than to enter it into a computer, encrypt it then send it over the wire to a computer. technophobes making excuses to maintain a status quo that prevents empowerment of individuals and keeping down the masses.
They published the source. If you go here, you should see kernel updates and such, basically anything Dell sent you with the system plus anything new, and you can download the source if you so desire. I did not check to see whether there was a patch for your specific issue, but people's suggestions to check scsi settings seem valid.
Dell never shipped X4XX servers with AMI RAID, though they did with X3XX.
at least the record companies have some intent of paying (albeit a piddling) amount to the artists
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which society is worse off -- the one that has companies that steals from artists to make a profit, or the one that renumerates them???
Interesting quotations. Now I will first say that the society which supports its artists rather than stealing from them is the more healthy, then proceed to explain why I believe Napster is part of the transition towards such a society.
Under the current system, the record labesl do not exist for the artists or for the listeners but for themselves. Any money paid to the artists must first be returned to the label to cover costs. They make investments in artists, but they are guaranteed a return because the investment rather than being a true risk is a debt the artist must repay one way or the other.
Under the current system artists sign contracts obligating them to the will and financial well-being of the label. In return they are promoted by the label. Signing this contract has been a necessary evil because the system of distributing music in order to promote an artists' tour schedule (which is where artists will make money if they are ever to do so) has been expensive up until now, requiring the production and distribution of cd's and big payoffs to radio stations. It was an old boy network, as well, because one needed connnections to get these deals done.
That is the world which is coming to an end as a result of efforts like napster, and one which the RIAA is trying to protect. If artists can distribute their music through MP3's they do not need labels for distribution. They do not have to censor their music because TimeWarnerAolDisney or Walmart does not like it. They do not have to adhere to a label's production schedule and they do not have to allow themselves to be subordinated to a system in which trite bubblegum crap is hailed far above any real art or message.
On the internet we have our own radio stations and our own kind of digital music network. This is what the RIAA is afraid of and why the RIAA has attacked anyone who strives to promote such an effort. Already big-name artists are defecting, are embracing mp3 and defying the record labels. The little guys were already there because they had no label to defy, nothing to lose and everything to gain.
True it will be hard for artists to convince TicketMaster and the rest of the concert booking establishment to go with the new model, but proof of concept will be millions of fans downloading your mp3, going to your website, attending the concerts you have been able to book.
Eventually I would imagine a sort of artists' guild could be formed, not like a union, but a bona fide guild that negotiates not with the management, but directly with the customers... owners and executives of radio stations and studios, owners of concert venues, and ticket selling monopolies. Maybe even MTV. But really, the whole radio/video concept stands ready for obsolescence. The Internet will eventually be the real venue for viewing videos and eventually movies, for listening to music, and this is precisely what the RIAA is fighting. They are protecting their legalized slavery and monopoly. They do not care about the artists.
Notice that when the artists asked for part of the settlement with mp3.com they were denied out of hand. Of course this was no surprise to anyone who knows what is truly happening here.
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However, this is one more example of corporations or government taking AWAY the rights of parents to make their own decisions on how to raise their children. If oarents want their children not to play these games, they have the responsibility to monitor their activities and prevent them. This is just another case in which the decision is made for the parent beforehand, such that Circuit City is saying parents shouldn't let kids play these games so we are going to make sure they can't have them.
If you truly advocated parents taking responsibility for their children you are on teh wrong side of this argument; this is part of the drive to have the government and corporations take care of our children so we do not have to and have more time to work for them instead of spending it with our kids.
IIRC, When I read about similar methods during the 80's, execution required a few hundred dollars of equipment from the local Radio Shack. the cost mainly depends on how far away the "victim" is and how accurately you need to reproduce what they see. You are correct about the shielding issues, though..
Once again, our worst suspicions are confirmed. These "businesses" want to make sure they send mail and email to people who do not want their junk. And why not? Junk mail and spam enrich the USPS and "businesses' whose sole product is a list of mail and/or email addresses and other data. These are the people who are currently lobbying against "opt-in."
I was thinking more along the lines of the 30 man code in Contra on the original NES, up down left right b a start. It was the first game code published in Nintendo Power, and one of the first game codes I remember being published anywhere...
Furthermore, this meands that if you are younger than 40 and are told you are not hired because you are too young, tough noogies.
Actually, 1 cup alcohol and 1 cup water = 1 cup 50% alcohol and water. It is a beginner's chemistry experiment. Try it!
Well, they actually have been doing just that. Clearly you did not read this article. They are after OpenNap with a vengeance, so watch out...
Absolutely, one should rather spend time dilegently sharpening one's skills at the gentlemen's game of Quake III Arena. Clearly.
There is one, Caldera, a corporation merging with SCO has provided OpenLinux for years, as for SCo they are known for their OpenServer and UnixWare products.
No, Linus is not upset about it. He has a trademark on Linux, not OpenLinux or RedHat Linux or even Yellow Dog Linux, and has treated it as such.
But the Newton is the only device that allows you to write in normal proper human language (versus some bizzare made-up alphabet), including script, with a pen. It has pcmcia, IR, and localtalk so it could conceivably get on a network/ the internet numerous ways, without the need for a prorietary unecessarily expensive internet provider (like you get stuck with with the Palm. I like to be able to choose between various providers, thank you very much.)
Port 25 is mail, 21 is ftp, 23 is the default telnet port
Actually, the problems in the US public education system, particularly with regard to the quality of education African Americans are receiving. If they don't know what "niggardly" means, but they know full well what the other word means, what are we teaching our children? To paraphrase the NAACP official fropm your link, someone is being niggardly with their education.
It also reminds me of another tragedy regarding the story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." In the original story, "an old Negro" played a fiddle at the party where the story of the headless horseman is told to Ichabod Crane. In the more politically correct versions of the story this character is "an old man" because it is not thought important to mention his blackness.
Of course this story is rich in detail and changing even one word changes a lot in the story. In this case, it results in most illustrations of the story, the classic Disney film, and even the recent movie all being devoid of black characters, because there aren't any in the politically correct version of this story. Certainly this is a step in the direction of racial parity!
In general it is unwise for us to consider the course of treating all African Americans as if they were uneducated buffoons incapable of any more than a third grade vocabulary as a remedy to the prior sins of Indo-European conquest and more specifically the slavery and racism perpetuated in America. And it is not necessary in all circles to assume everyone has suffered the general ignorance which is teh American way of life. It is clear from the story that the mayor, who happens to be of African American descent, knew full well what the word meant. In fact it is even possible that the man who originally lodged the complaint knew what it meant as well, since he had motivation for playing the "race card" (he wanted the white official's job and knew the mayor was taking flak fro not having more blacks in important positions).
Perpetuating ignoprance helps no one. Only through clearer understanding, the free dissemination of information and a better education of ourselves, beyond improvements in the system through which we educate others, can we even begin to find the methods through which we might solve the problems not only of our own nations and backyards, but of the world as a whole.
Officers were able to track down the company that hosted the sites and discovered the people who produced them did so with a fraudulent application. Because of that, the sites were shut down Friday, Capt. Gould said.
Now, now, just because it is Microsoft Frontpage does not make it fraudulent...
They probably did the Pope, too, but the famous case was Jerry Falwell screwing his mother in an outhouse.
Actually, according to this article, The Salem Police have a habit of keeping equipment which has been used as evidence and using it for their own purposes. The rules for seizure of property, mostly enacted to fund the drug war, allow the police to immediately seize and even sell property prior to any trial. If you are found innocent, good luck trying to get your stuff. "Suspicion" of crime is enough for you to lose everything.
Actually, though IANAL it clearly states that:
It shall be an affirmative defense to a prosecution for unauthorized access to a computer system that:
(a) The person reasonably believed that the owner of the computer system, or a person empowered to license access thereto, had authorized him to access; or
(b) The person reasonably believed that the owner of the computer system, or a person empowered to license access thereto, would have authorized him to access without payment of any consideration; or
(c) The person reasonably could not have known that his access was unauthorized.
Since the images and indeed the code for the website are published and freely available, therefore set up for anyone to access, he cannot have been guilty of unauthorized access. Thank you for playing.
They were burned in Europe.
The prior art is in Juno itself,even if it could not be found elsewhere. Sheesh this is stupid.
Perhaps you should be educated as well. A honey pot is indeed as you claim a system meant to be cracked, but it is a trap. It is not advertised, in other words. You are thinking of the "crack this box" systems, which are different in that they are secure systems set up as a challenge for crackers. Honey pots are systems which are vulnerable by design so crackers will be attracted to them and indeed can be caught and prosecuted.
As for the white hats cracking honey pots, obviously they would have no idea of the purpose of the system unless they were able to get in further and surmise this on their own. If they were to plug the holes in the system, as suggested in prior posts, they would effectively be closing the doors to all your mousetraps and removing the cheese. Very helpful, indeed!
Yes but in the case of DIVX there was a more viable alternative, DVD. This may go more the way of the Pentium III debacle, where initially there was a furor over the rights infringing serial number propagation, but as people realized they had no choice if they wanted multiple x86 processors, etc they bought them anyway.
Also businesses bought the PIII's because they had no problem with these things. I think that what these people are banking on is that the big OEM's and businesses are not going to care about the content protection problems as long as a viable fix for their current manufacturing processes is provided. Since IBM is one of those and is backing the proposal, I'd think they probably have some ideas about how to shut them up.
So basically the denizens of /. are free to use l0phted and otherwise old hardware all they want, but anyone wanting a modern box will be forced to help these goons. That is what is so bad about this.
No, that is the interface. The interface is not how things look, it is how things are done in the program. User Input. Pictures are secondary. If we have toolbars in multiple apps that is great, but if they arent the same and the menus arent the same and the keyboard commands are not the same how can you possibly call it a consistent interface? Oh and the example of Acrobat is way off too. Of course when I go to a site and click on a pdf and the acrobat plugin loads it looks a lot like Acrobat, to my great surprise. But how similar is the acrobat interface to the Explorer interface? Beyond the fact that both have toolbars, menus, and hotlinks, none. The menus and toolbars and keyboard shortcuts are not the same. One of these days we will have apps with consistent interfaces on x86, but Microsoft still doesn't get it. Apple did it but only by taking control away from programmers. We could try to do it in Linux but it would require an effort on everyone's part to conform to a standard. By the way why do people want a File menu in every freaking window?
During this election, the military made a special effort to make sure those votes (mostly for Bush) got through from the military personnel overseas. Historically those votes have taken some time to get through, and any votes that take longer than a week to get to the US and counted, don't count.
Some military personnel, particularly on submarines, were allowed to vote electronically. It was not the internet we know and love that was used AFAIK, but the secure military network. Still it seems that the same technologies could be used for civilian voting and would make it easier for civilians to vote (god forbid that happens).
In Applied Cryptography, several methods of implementing electronic voting, with source code examples, are discussed. One of the important technologies utilized was electronic signatures, which have only recently been given the weight of paper signatures (as they are harder to fake). In a normal election, votes get thrown out all the time, dead people vote (in this election a dead man won the Senate race in Missouri) and there is a lot of fraud, so anyone trying to argue that electronic voting will just mean hackers stuffing ballots and votes lost in the ether is really right in line with the people who try to say that it is more secure to walk up to a $5 an hour clerk and have your credit card impressed into carbon paper (which is immediately thrown in the trash...) or to speak it into a cell or cordless phone than to enter it into a computer, encrypt it then send it over the wire to a computer. technophobes making excuses to maintain a status quo that prevents empowerment of individuals and keeping down the masses.
They are talking about the automagical update daemon service. Redhat requires you to pay for a subscription.
They published the source. If you go here, you should see kernel updates and such, basically anything Dell sent you with the system plus anything new, and you can download the source if you so desire. I did not check to see whether there was a patch for your specific issue, but people's suggestions to check scsi settings seem valid.
Dell never shipped X4XX servers with AMI RAID, though they did with X3XX.
at least the record companies have some intent of paying (albeit a piddling) amount to the artists
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which society is worse off -- the one that has companies that steals from artists to make a profit, or the one that renumerates them???
Interesting quotations. Now I will first say that the society which supports its artists rather than stealing from them is the more healthy, then proceed to explain why I believe Napster is part of the transition towards such a society.
Under the current system, the record labesl do not exist for the artists or for the listeners but for themselves. Any money paid to the artists must first be returned to the label to cover costs. They make investments in artists, but they are guaranteed a return because the investment rather than being a true risk is a debt the artist must repay one way or the other.
Under the current system artists sign contracts obligating them to the will and financial well-being of the label. In return they are promoted by the label. Signing this contract has been a necessary evil because the system of distributing music in order to promote an artists' tour schedule (which is where artists will make money if they are ever to do so) has been expensive up until now, requiring the production and distribution of cd's and big payoffs to radio stations. It was an old boy network, as well, because one needed connnections to get these deals done.
That is the world which is coming to an end as a result of efforts like napster, and one which the RIAA is trying to protect. If artists can distribute their music through MP3's they do not need labels for distribution. They do not have to censor their music because TimeWarnerAolDisney or Walmart does not like it. They do not have to adhere to a label's production schedule and they do not have to allow themselves to be subordinated to a system in which trite bubblegum crap is hailed far above any real art or message.
On the internet we have our own radio stations and our own kind of digital music network. This is what the RIAA is afraid of and why the RIAA has attacked anyone who strives to promote such an effort. Already big-name artists are defecting, are embracing mp3 and defying the record labels. The little guys were already there because they had no label to defy, nothing to lose and everything to gain.
True it will be hard for artists to convince TicketMaster and the rest of the concert booking establishment to go with the new model, but proof of concept will be millions of fans downloading your mp3, going to your website, attending the concerts you have been able to book.
Eventually I would imagine a sort of artists' guild could be formed, not like a union, but a bona fide guild that negotiates not with the management, but directly with the customers... owners and executives of radio stations and studios, owners of concert venues, and ticket selling monopolies. Maybe even MTV. But really, the whole radio/video concept stands ready for obsolescence. The Internet will eventually be the real venue for viewing videos and eventually movies, for listening to music, and this is precisely what the RIAA is fighting. They are protecting their legalized slavery and monopoly. They do not care about the artists.
Notice that when the artists asked for part of the settlement with mp3.com they were denied out of hand. Of course this was no surprise to anyone who knows what is truly happening here.