Using a private "unroutable" IP address affords surprisingly little protection. Using techniques like source routing or a compromise of a trusted host, your network can be quickly and easily penetrated.
Firewalls are needed even if you are using private addresses and NAT to access the Internet. In fact, the main reason to use NAT for a local LAN is so that your LAN IP addresses don't conflict with public addresses!
You have to use NAT with these private addresses, or else external connectivity doesn't work. (without a public address, it's damn near impossible to determine how to get the packets back to you!) And that means some things (for example, many network games) either don't work or work in only limited fashion.
1) Weed out the lousy artists - find something that people will like.
2) Record the music, with the fancy mixers and recording studios so it sounds "right".
3) Distribute the music. With this could be considered promotion.
The real problem here is that the RIAA perform all three functions, but only gets paid at the 3rd step, while the Internet obviates the need for the 3rd step!
Via Gnutella, KaZaA, etc. the method of distribution has largely shifted to the consumer, and people frequently won't pay for something they can do themselves for much cheaper.
Find a way that RIAA, inc. can get paid for 1 and 2 above, and I think we can move on.
And, if you don't think that RIAA is important, and should be disbanded, go to mp3.com and listen to something BESIDES Britney, Nsync, and Pink Floyd. Otherwise, shut up and help figure this out...
One of the things that never ceases to amaze me is the sheer adaptability of life. Who's to say that our way is the only way? who's to say that life must contain water?
The -ONLY- requirement for life is that it must last long enough to reproduce.
In an environment without a moon, so that the planetary tilt shifts and there are more extreme climactic changes, mobility may be more strongly encouraged than it is here, which then might tip the scales in favor of the evolution of intelligence, resulting in an INCREASE of intelligent species.
The long and short? We simply won't know until we find another intelligent species on another planet. And, whatever we find, it will be far stranger than anything we've imagined so far.
Re:The true question....
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The difference in pronunciation is to point out the difference between "wares", which connote legal product, and "warez" which contain illicit references.
Unlike other homonynms like "their" and "there", there is no inferential or sytactical difference in accompanying words that can be used to determine which definition is being used.
They are not synonyms.
"wares" are legal, "warez" are not. Thus, to differentiate between the two, there is a pronunciation difference.
They haven't done anything to help open source or any communities.
Well, lessee... How about Open office? or (looking back) their contributions of NIS/NFS? (originally called YP or Yellow Pages by Sun and distributed today with most distros)
Oh, and don't forget JXTA , which provides very.NET-like P2P connectivity between any two devices.
Is Sun out to help Open Source? Not really, they, like ANYBODY TRYING TO MAKE A LIVING, are out to promote themselves, but at the very least, they don't seem to have any problem co-existing with OSS initiatives, having founded quite a few.
Oh, and openoffice.org, which consumes massive bandwidth (Open Office is 50+ MB per download) is primarily funded by Sun...
What really gets me is how easily this problem can be (largely) remedied.
A router for an ISP is resonsible for (typically) routing to/from a certain range of IP addresses.
Configure the router to simply not route packets coming "from" the local network interface that's not in the designated IP range!
So if it's coming from ISPs network, the return address on the IP packet had better be one of ISPs network addresses, or the packet goes to the bit bucket, better yet logged.
This step ALONE, which costs almost NOTHING in latency or price would make dealing with DDoS or actual hack attempts SO MUCH EASIER!
Of course, you could "spoof" a neighbor computer, but at least you could trace things down to the ISP and neighborhood...
What about the Red Hat Network? I subscribe 'cause it makes my job as admin SOOOO much easier - but the RHN largely consists of servers with BIG, FAT PIPES.
(Who'd use RHN over a modem line!?!?)
Seems like this also might be an excellent point from which to launch a big DDOS attack, no? How closely does RH watch their servers?
Browsing at +3, and seeing no responses that really answer the question: What should Microsoft do? What would be the "right" thing?
As others have noted, while Microsoft put pressure on its competitors, now found to be illegal pressure, much of the demise of MS's competitors has been their own dang fault.
For example, MS did everything they could to get IE as the "default browser" that it is today, but who here has used any recent version of Netscape and been happy with it? 4.x sucks, 6.x is worse, and IE is quite usable. Throw the politics out - which would you prefer?
Mozilla will hopefully change the story, but it's YEARS too late in an industry that works on Internet time.
Word Perfect didn't come out with a decent word processor for Windows for YEARS after Win 3.x became popular.
And so on.
If Linux takes Microsoft, it will be because Microsoft makes a fatal mistake. We don't know what it will be. It might actually be.NOT. It might be their "database" file system. It might be their "subscription" model for Win XP.
Whatever it be, it will be when they make a mistake, bet their farm on it, and lose the farm. So far, they've avoided the big mistakes, and the small/medium mistakes have been offset up by strong-arm tactics and backroom deals.
But, if MS sticks to making products that generally work as expected, and don't charge too much for them, and don't hassle their clients too much, it would be damn near impossible to beat 'em.
How would MS beat Linux?
1) Charge reasonable prices for Windows.
2) Make sure it works reasonably well.
3) Make their products inter-operate.
MS has our fury because they have consistently tried to lock the user in. If they were to follow the above three, they'd be no worse off than google, which despite approaching a monopoly on Internet searching, still has our good will. The boys at google have shown time and again a staunch and admirable "stick to basics" approach to their business that inspires trust and confidence.
MS, on the other hand, lies openly and repeatedly to anybody who will listen about whatever suits their fancy.
I don't know what it will be, but MS will make that fatal mistake - and after making it, they will either go the way of DEC (which was once a titan) or learn from their mistakes like IBM. (who now has our love and grace)
So, my advice? Back off Bill! Take it easy a bit, and work WITH the industry forces, (Internet and related, like Linux) inter-operate, and for once, show some ethics!
That's not all. Try searching for "system.dat". That's the Windows System Registry. There, you can get names, passwords, Install codes, all kinds of neat stuff. Hit Gnutella or Morpheus. Do a regex to get the keys, etc.
It's a common misunderstanding of the GPL... using GPL software does not mean you have to distribute it.
The terms of the GPL simply state that if you sell a GPL product to a customer, you must provide the source to that customer.
Red Hat, Mandrake, and the like are being nice enough to provide iso images of their software for your download - they are not required to.
So what are the ramifications? Well, if the military sells your GPL solution to a 3rd country, they have to provide the source to that 3rd country, as well.
In other words, in this case, GPL (or no) makes no difference at all. GPL code can be "top secret" as long as the customer has full access to the code.
The idea of the GPL is that "If I bought it, I can do as I please with it - and if I sell it, so can whoever I sell it to..."
Lindows is one of those "wannabes". It's not a distro I, a Linux user, would want to use. It's not something that a Windows Gamer would want to use, either.
So what is its core market?
I just don't see one, and Lindows will disappear all on its own.
At heart here, and often forgotten, is the issue of "merchantability". What is that? It's the assurance that something is saleable, that reasonable expectations of performance can be made, and that the product does, in fact, perform its intended function.
Because of this, it can be SOLD. If I sell you a keyboard for $20, you now have the expectation of merchantability. It is expected to work, and both reasonable business sense and many local and federal laws require that if it does not, I either provide something that works, or give you your money back, within a reasonable period of time. (14 days in California)
If we re-institute the concept of merchantability in software, all that would happen is that you could get your money back - thus little to no effect on OSS software.
Red Hat may be impacted, but since they are already selling services rather than products (you can download all their stuff for free) even they would be minimally affected.
So, as an advocate of open source and "free" software, I welcome the issues of product liability and the enforcement of merchantability. It would improve the industry, force it to get better, and would finally provide its customers what they've been promised all along - a better, easier life!
What should happen? A date set for a software "merchantability horizon". All products released before that date would be exempt, any products released/sold after that date would have to fit the definition of merchantability, products sold before that point can continue on their merry way.
Can you imagine how many people would upgrade their Windows if they knew that MS would be liable thereafter if it screwed up?
Scientology vs. Google
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This hack is a known thing. I've done considerable research on this, and Scientology has perhaps the best example of how to "hack" google.
Whatever you think about the Scientology zealots, this is impressive - coordinating thousands of pages, sites, and links in order to single-mindedly achieve an objective... Dominance on the first page of a search for "Scientology" in order to quiet their many critics.
This falls down rather quickly, though. Go to google and search for "Scientology secrets", for example, and you'll find all kinds of anti-Scientology literature.
This case underscores the global nature of society now, an issue further underscored by the Internet itself.
Really and truly, the idea of "jurisdiction" when it comes to "e-anything" is almost incomprehensible. I publish a web page here in California about barbecues and possibly break Indian law. I publish a (perfectly legal in the US) pro-nazi page with swastikas and break German law if Germans ever (god forbid) look at it.
In this kind of environment, "legal" falls to the least common denominator, whatever's left when everything illegal everywhere is removed. Not much of an argument for "free speech" since anything on the 'net is merely communication, after all.
Remember Dimitri?
At issue is that there is no international law (that the US will respect, anyway) and as a result of this deficiency, we see all kinds of craziness.
It's going to get worse before it gets better.(sigh)
Re:And how are they supposed to measure this?
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What next, the state is going to charge me for every minute I'm on the freeway?
They already do. It's called "Gas tax" and is applied in most jurisdictions. Since you use a certain amount of gas per hour, and the size of the vehicle (roughly) determines how much gas you burn, you, in essence, pay a "pound per mile" price for driving down the highway.
Here in California, where gas prices are around $1.25 per gallon, over 1/2 of that cost is in the form of various taxes and fees.
I understand that ratio is considerably higher still in Europe.
A few years ago, I owned a computer store, in my college town. I was routinely asked by many of my student Clientelle how much a copy of WinXX was. when I replied with my near $100 price (dictated by the $70-something OEM price wholesale) I heard snickers and exclamations about price gouging...
I never understood this, as I'd called local retailers and found that my prices were on the cheap side, until I found out what the College was doing.
You could walk in with $20, and a student ID, and "borrow" a copy of Windows, or Office, or whatever! Complete with License sheet and CD. Everything you get in the "OEM" release! They didn't even write down your student ID #!
And, if you didn't return it, you were out only $20...
This, of course, made me FURIOUS, and I made sure that Microsoft knew about it. That's when I started getting Cease and Desist letters alleging that I was commiting software piracy!
That's when the tide turned, and I began to see the light of GNU....
Honestly, I don't recompile for stuff like this. Do I know how to recompile the kernel? Yep. Done so many times. Do you think I actually DO?
Not unless there's a real good reason for it.
I use Linux to get a job done. It does rather well. I like the fact that if I want/need to, the source is available for me to find/fix a bug, and I've found plenty of bugs, (and they are all fixed now in the default distro of XX product)
But I don't compile stuff unless there's a damn good reason.
I don't upgrade KDE until there's an RPM. I don't use software I have to compile unless there's no other option. The time spent just isn't worth it.
So if Alan and his friends at Red Hat decide not to ship with AA fonts, I have ugly fonts. Ugly fonts are still readable, and allow me to get my job done.
The ability to do something does not mean you have a reason sufficient to actually do it!
Actually, the funny part of the GPL is that you don't even have to post the source anywhere - just make it available to the party(ies) you sell it to!
Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse, and Morpheus are all being "nice guys" by making the source downloadable from their sites - there is NO REQUIREMENT that they do this.
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Using a private "unroutable" IP address affords surprisingly little protection. Using techniques like source routing or a compromise of a trusted host, your network can be quickly and easily penetrated.
Firewalls are needed even if you are using private addresses and NAT to access the Internet. In fact, the main reason to use NAT for a local LAN is so that your LAN IP addresses don't conflict with public addresses!
You have to use NAT with these private addresses, or else external connectivity doesn't work. (without a public address, it's damn near impossible to determine how to get the packets back to you!) And that means some things (for example, many network games) either don't work or work in only limited fashion.
None of the links worked using IE 5.0 on Win98.
-Ben
1) Weed out the lousy artists - find something that people will like.
2) Record the music, with the fancy mixers and recording studios so it sounds "right".
3) Distribute the music. With this could be considered promotion.
The real problem here is that the RIAA perform all three functions, but only gets paid at the 3rd step, while the Internet obviates the need for the 3rd step!
Via Gnutella, KaZaA, etc. the method of distribution has largely shifted to the consumer, and people frequently won't pay for something they can do themselves for much cheaper.
Find a way that RIAA, inc. can get paid for 1 and 2 above, and I think we can move on.
And, if you don't think that RIAA is important, and should be disbanded, go to mp3.com and listen to something BESIDES Britney, Nsync, and Pink Floyd. Otherwise, shut up and help figure this out...
These are the requirements for life ON EARTH.
One of the things that never ceases to amaze me is the sheer adaptability of life. Who's to say that our way is the only way? who's to say that life must contain water?
The -ONLY- requirement for life is that it must last long enough to reproduce.
In an environment without a moon, so that the planetary tilt shifts and there are more extreme climactic changes, mobility may be more strongly encouraged than it is here, which then might tip the scales in favor of the evolution of intelligence, resulting in an INCREASE of intelligent species.
The long and short? We simply won't know until we find another intelligent species on another planet. And, whatever we find, it will be far stranger than anything we've imagined so far.
Unlike other homonynms like "their" and "there", there is no inferential or sytactical difference in accompanying words that can be used to determine which definition is being used.
They are not synonyms.
"wares" are legal, "warez" are not. Thus, to differentiate between the two, there is a pronunciation difference.
(Why am I typing this?!)
Well, lessee... How about Open office? or (looking back) their contributions of NIS/NFS? (originally called YP or Yellow Pages by Sun and distributed today with most distros)
Oh, and don't forget JXTA , which provides very .NET-like P2P connectivity between any two devices.
Is Sun out to help Open Source? Not really, they, like ANYBODY TRYING TO MAKE A LIVING, are out to promote themselves, but at the very least, they don't seem to have any problem co-existing with OSS initiatives, having founded quite a few.
Oh, and openoffice.org, which consumes massive bandwidth (Open Office is 50+ MB per download) is primarily funded by Sun...
Love 'em or hate 'em, but don't spread FUD...
With the money he spent on this "cheap" water-cooler, he couldv'e PURCHASED A 1GHZ CPU!
Oh, and it'd work for more than 10 minutes too!
The things a guy will do...
What really gets me is how easily this problem can be (largely) remedied.
A router for an ISP is resonsible for (typically) routing to/from a certain range of IP addresses.
Configure the router to simply not route packets coming "from" the local network interface that's not in the designated IP range!
So if it's coming from ISPs network, the return address on the IP packet had better be one of ISPs network addresses, or the packet goes to the bit bucket, better yet logged.
This step ALONE, which costs almost NOTHING in latency or price would make dealing with DDoS or actual hack attempts SO MUCH EASIER!
Of course, you could "spoof" a neighbor computer, but at least you could trace things down to the ISP and neighborhood...
-Ben
What about the Red Hat Network? I subscribe 'cause it makes my job as admin SOOOO much easier - but the RHN largely consists of servers with BIG, FAT PIPES.
(Who'd use RHN over a modem line!?!?)
Seems like this also might be an excellent point from which to launch a big DDOS attack, no? How closely does RH watch their servers?
Come on... be honest!
Browsing at +3, and seeing no responses that really answer the question: What should Microsoft do? What would be the "right" thing?
.NOT. It might be their "database" file system. It might be their "subscription" model for Win XP.
As others have noted, while Microsoft put pressure on its competitors, now found to be illegal pressure, much of the demise of MS's competitors has been their own dang fault.
For example, MS did everything they could to get IE as the "default browser" that it is today, but who here has used any recent version of Netscape and been happy with it? 4.x sucks, 6.x is worse, and IE is quite usable. Throw the politics out - which would you prefer?
Mozilla will hopefully change the story, but it's YEARS too late in an industry that works on Internet time.
Word Perfect didn't come out with a decent word processor for Windows for YEARS after Win 3.x became popular.
And so on.
If Linux takes Microsoft, it will be because Microsoft makes a fatal mistake. We don't know what it will be. It might actually be
Whatever it be, it will be when they make a mistake, bet their farm on it, and lose the farm. So far, they've avoided the big mistakes, and the small/medium mistakes have been offset up by strong-arm tactics and backroom deals.
But, if MS sticks to making products that generally work as expected, and don't charge too much for them, and don't hassle their clients too much, it would be damn near impossible to beat 'em.
How would MS beat Linux?
1) Charge reasonable prices for Windows.
2) Make sure it works reasonably well.
3) Make their products inter-operate.
MS has our fury because they have consistently tried to lock the user in. If they were to follow the above three, they'd be no worse off than google, which despite approaching a monopoly on Internet searching, still has our good will. The boys at google have shown time and again a staunch and admirable "stick to basics" approach to their business that inspires trust and confidence.
MS, on the other hand, lies openly and repeatedly to anybody who will listen about whatever suits their fancy.
I don't know what it will be, but MS will make that fatal mistake - and after making it, they will either go the way of DEC (which was once a titan) or learn from their mistakes like IBM. (who now has our love and grace)
So, my advice? Back off Bill! Take it easy a bit, and work WITH the industry forces, (Internet and related, like Linux) inter-operate, and for once, show some ethics!
That's not all. Try searching for "system.dat". That's the Windows System Registry. There, you can get names, passwords, Install codes, all kinds of neat stuff. Hit Gnutella or Morpheus. Do a regex to get the keys, etc.
That's scary.
First Post?
The terms of the GPL simply state that if you sell a GPL product to a customer, you must provide the source to that customer.
Red Hat, Mandrake, and the like are being nice enough to provide iso images of their software for your download - they are not required to.
So what are the ramifications? Well, if the military sells your GPL solution to a 3rd country, they have to provide the source to that 3rd country, as well.
In other words, in this case, GPL (or no) makes no difference at all. GPL code can be "top secret" as long as the customer has full access to the code.
The idea of the GPL is that "If I bought it, I can do as I please with it - and if I sell it, so can whoever I sell it to..."
So what is its core market?
I just don't see one, and Lindows will disappear all on its own.
... Just stay out of Canadian Airports, eh?
Because of this, it can be SOLD. If I sell you a keyboard for $20, you now have the expectation of merchantability. It is expected to work, and both reasonable business sense and many local and federal laws require that if it does not, I either provide something that works, or give you your money back, within a reasonable period of time. (14 days in California)
If we re-institute the concept of merchantability in software, all that would happen is that you could get your money back - thus little to no effect on OSS software.
Red Hat may be impacted, but since they are already selling services rather than products (you can download all their stuff for free) even they would be minimally affected.
So, as an advocate of open source and "free" software, I welcome the issues of product liability and the enforcement of merchantability. It would improve the industry, force it to get better, and would finally provide its customers what they've been promised all along - a better, easier life!
What should happen? A date set for a software "merchantability horizon". All products released before that date would be exempt, any products released/sold after that date would have to fit the definition of merchantability, products sold before that point can continue on their merry way.
Can you imagine how many people would upgrade their Windows if they knew that MS would be liable thereafter if it screwed up?
This hack is a known thing. I've done considerable research on this, and Scientology has perhaps the best example of how to "hack" google.
Details here:
http://www.operatingthetan.com/google/
Whatever you think about the Scientology zealots, this is impressive - coordinating thousands of pages, sites, and links in order to single-mindedly achieve an objective... Dominance on the first page of a search for "Scientology" in order to quiet their many critics.
This falls down rather quickly, though. Go to google and search for "Scientology secrets", for example, and you'll find all kinds of anti-Scientology literature.
-Ben
This case underscores the global nature of society now, an issue further underscored by the Internet itself.
Really and truly, the idea of "jurisdiction" when it comes to "e-anything" is almost incomprehensible. I publish a web page here in California about barbecues and possibly break Indian law. I publish a (perfectly legal in the US) pro-nazi page with swastikas and break German law if Germans ever (god forbid) look at it.
In this kind of environment, "legal" falls to the least common denominator, whatever's left when everything illegal everywhere is removed. Not much of an argument for "free speech" since anything on the 'net is merely communication, after all.
Remember Dimitri?
At issue is that there is no international law (that the US will respect, anyway) and as a result of this deficiency, we see all kinds of craziness.
It's going to get worse before it gets better.(sigh)
You do things the hard way! I much prefer:
We could exit here, but I like to be sure..
Sooooo much easier....
-Ben
They already do. It's called "Gas tax" and is applied in most jurisdictions. Since you use a certain amount of gas per hour, and the size of the vehicle (roughly) determines how much gas you burn, you, in essence, pay a "pound per mile" price for driving down the highway.
Here in California, where gas prices are around $1.25 per gallon, over 1/2 of that cost is in the form of various taxes and fees.
I understand that ratio is considerably higher still in Europe.
Is it any wonder?
A few years ago, I owned a computer store, in my college town. I was routinely asked by many of my student Clientelle how much a copy of WinXX was. when I replied with my near $100 price (dictated by the $70-something OEM price wholesale) I heard snickers and exclamations about price gouging...
I never understood this, as I'd called local retailers and found that my prices were on the cheap side, until I found out what the College was doing.
You could walk in with $20, and a student ID, and " borrow " a copy of Windows, or Office, or whatever! Complete with License sheet and CD. Everything you get in the "OEM" release! They didn't even write down your student ID #!
And, if you didn't return it, you were out only $20...
This, of course, made me FURIOUS, and I made sure that Microsoft knew about it. That's when I started getting Cease and Desist letters alleging that I was commiting software piracy!
That's when the tide turned, and I began to see the light of GNU....
I'm never going back!
Here here!
This man speaks WISDOM!
Honestly, I don't recompile for stuff like this. Do I know how to recompile the kernel? Yep. Done so many times. Do you think I actually DO?
Not unless there's a real good reason for it.
I use Linux to get a job done. It does rather well. I like the fact that if I want/need to, the source is available for me to find/fix a bug, and I've found plenty of bugs, (and they are all fixed now in the default distro of XX product)
But I don't compile stuff unless there's a damn good reason.
I don't upgrade KDE until there's an RPM. I don't use software I have to compile unless there's no other option. The time spent just isn't worth it.
So if Alan and his friends at Red Hat decide not to ship with AA fonts, I have ugly fonts. Ugly fonts are still readable, and allow me to get my job done.
The ability to do something does not mean you have a reason sufficient to actually do it!
Actually, the funny part of the GPL is that you don't even have to post the source anywhere - just make it available to the party(ies) you sell it to!
Red Hat, Mandrake, Suse, and Morpheus are all being "nice guys" by making the source downloadable from their sites - there is NO REQUIREMENT that they do this.
So, be thankful!
So you make TWO.
Once booted, Linux has uptimes of months, so it just isn't a problem...