Good points, all. If you're telnetting over the Internet; without having a very specific reason to do so, you're already asking for problems that no proxy is going to help you with. Now, monitoring who's trying to telnet to places using Tor I can see as generating a good list of naughty users and misinformed network admins...
Also; this is what CTRL-Z exists to help with if you don't have syndaemon. Before I ran sd I would just leave my mouse on the titlebar of the screen I was typing in, so accidental clicks had no effect.
As for IT "getting over it," I think the concerns are legit, having just had my SSN and other info lost due to a laptop theft at my undergrad. Now, my SSN shouldn't have been on this laptop in the first place; but it's policies and implementations to prevent that kind of stupidity that are important with increased employee mobility. Sure, you want to support people using laptops, but that doesn't mean writing them blank checks.
This is all well and good; but look at Flock, which is Firefox + lots of web 2.0 integration, and very Yahoo-centric. No matter how much moolah Google pours into the Mozilla foundation, at the end of the day, it's still providing crunchy, wholesome GPL'ed software. If Google suddenly turns evil; the code still belongs to the community and if Mozilla won't cut the relationship, someone can fork a version out and cut out the Google-centric features.
A good bit of caution is wise, but let's not look a $56 million/year gift to the OSS community in the mouth overmuch.
Being an American, my providers charge me an arm and a leg for each text received or sent, which is why I'm using goog411 now more than the text; I have ungodly numbers of unused minutes, but have a knee-jerk dislike for paying 15 cents per text when the service is basically free to the provider.
...well, do *you* have the number? I don't. Oh man, I wish we could google it and then call them! [1]
oh, right.
Thanks Dvorak, you missed the point.
[1] If you haven't tried 1-800-GOOG-411 ; it's pretty awesome for getting said phone numbers, and automatically connecting you if you like. Tied in to a phone with Google Maps and GPS/e911? Beauty and ease. My only concern is how Google will monetize the cell phone space; even sponsored text ads would be seriously annoying being read to you by a machine voice, slowly, on Goog411, and would take up even more valuable screenestate on a phone.
It's silliness like this that a good round of impeachment hearings would bring to light all at once. Sure, we get a trickle of privacy invasions, unconstitutional breaches, and so on. But then we're also/. readers, contributors to the EFF and/or ACLU (I donate to both), and generally tuned in, unlike most of the populace. A sudden flood of all the BS that's been going on in the name of counter-terrorism would be a nice slap in the face to wake people up.
I'd argue they don't even need the filibuster and veto-beating votes. F' em all. Make the laws we elected you to make; get us out of Iraq, start fixing the system Bush has so thoroughly broken, restore constitutional order, privacy, and respect for citizens. Will these bills get vetoed? Sure. Let Bush dig a deeper hole for himself. More importantly, get the Republicans in Congress down on record as voting against these things the first time around and in a veto round, and keep sending them up. You grow and encourage your own support base, undermine that of the republicans, and maybe, just maybe, get a few to cross the floor and pass some good legislation the 15th time it goes to vote.
The Dems are playing this whole thing all wrong; it's a prisoner's dilemma with repeat play; while a generous player who always caves may provide a good path to a win-win, the Reps have proven that they will take advantage and not give "earned" slack - so it's time to move to a tit-for-tat strategy for a good long while. Dems - you're the majority party, stop bending over like a beaten-down beta male.
I knew a guy who'd watch a season of Celtics basketball over and over and over again; they exist.
I for one welcome our.. er, am happy that the true stupidity of DRM is biting more consumers. remember DIVX (the circuitcity one?) Anything that reminds consumers that they're getting screwed, even if they may not immediately realize it, is a good thing for raising anti-drm awareness. People who played nice with the monopolies and paid for their DRMed content are now SOL, while people who downloaded pirate versions can watch them whenever, wherever, and on whichever device they choose. Hm.
...Which, technically, is also government regulation, just regulation that's been underutilized in the past few decades. While I'm not exactly a fan of "Big Government;" it does have some usefulness in providing a "fair" and open playing field, which is what net neutrality is about. We all rejoiced when the FCC struck down exclusive cable contracts in apartment buildings (http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/29/2152212), which is an important step at loosening local cable monopolies. Perhaps it could be a good thing?
That seems like a poor choice of defendants. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you first want to bully a small fry without deep pockets and get a judgment supporting your claim, *then* go after the big companies with lawyers on retainers and deep deep pockets?
Remember MS has already created a program (Unlimited Potential) to sell XP (sans Office) for $3/pop to government programs in developing countries. OLPCNews covered this before, during the last MS on XO scare.
This is indeed a great start; I'd also like to see Moz replicate (and take over) the embedded browser controls that many other Windows apps lean on IE's crutch for (Google Earth, Winamp, etc.)
Yeah, too bad that as a VA Comcast subscriber, you might never hear from your congressman again. Not because he's been offed, just because you're probably a Triple-Play (Cable/Voip/Net) subscriber and Comcast now controls everything you see and hear.
So it seems that bt clients now need a "Comcast switch" to ignore RSTs, like you suggest. I seem to recall that the Great Firewall of China is using the same RST approach to block a lot of content.
Thanks, guys, for encouraging us to ignore RSTs. Seems like a *great* idea for your network's long-term health. Why don't you just assign bt traffic an evil bit and let our RFC standards process do the rest?
I was about to reply essentially the same; though now I often use Google Docs if I need someone to edit it; about the same feature-set as RTF (but no footnotes, damnit!) but with a track-changes that doesn't suck the goat balls.
Exactly; the distribution network is now well established, and a torrent download can run circles around any centralized download site. Not only is it easier to grab a torrent off your favorite site and download it, it's faster, too. The radiohead site is clunky and important form-submit buttons (like "place your order") weren't showing for me.
OTOH, at least radiohead's trying, which is more than I can say for most of the rest of the music industry.
Thinking that a prowler was roaming his back yard, a resident of the home, identified only as Doug B. in the district attorney's complaint filed in court, walked outside with a kitchen knife as SWAT officers from the Orange County Sheriff's Department waited with assault rifles.
"It was just a horrifying experience," said Doug B., who requested not to be identified further. "You think you feel safe in your own home. We had no idea what was going on."
Doug B. and his wife did not feel safe in their home for weeks after the incident and wondered why their home was the one selected.
Doug B. was not able to go back to sleep for hours that night, and he rigged the doors and windows before he was able to go to bed.
If you're going to expose a flaw, a) Responsible disclosure, y'all -- find some way to alert the service provider know that they have a hole, and give them a chance to fix it. With the increasing shoot-the-messenger trends, you might do that anonymously, but still. b) if you're gonna exploit it, don't choose some random innocent. This was a family of four who could've easily lost a member or two due to a twitchy finger or false move, not to mention psychological harm to the toddlers having a SWAT team roll in. If you're gonna do something stupid and socially irresponsible like abusing a 911 system (or if responsible disclosure hasn't gotten the hole closed), at least minimize the damage you're doing; send the response to an empty lot/open field.
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Good points, all. If you're telnetting over the Internet; without having a very specific reason to do so, you're already asking for problems that no proxy is going to help you with. Now, monitoring who's trying to telnet to places using Tor I can see as generating a good list of naughty users and misinformed network admins...
However, they clay tablet is probably the only storage media which is only hardened by fires...
Also; this is what CTRL-Z exists to help with if you don't have syndaemon. Before I ran sd I would just leave my mouse on the titlebar of the screen I was typing in, so accidental clicks had no effect.
As for IT "getting over it," I think the concerns are legit, having just had my SSN and other info lost due to a laptop theft at my undergrad. Now, my SSN shouldn't have been on this laptop in the first place; but it's policies and implementations to prevent that kind of stupidity that are important with increased employee mobility. Sure, you want to support people using laptops, but that doesn't mean writing them blank checks.
This is all well and good; but look at Flock, which is Firefox + lots of web 2.0 integration, and very Yahoo-centric. No matter how much moolah Google pours into the Mozilla foundation, at the end of the day, it's still providing crunchy, wholesome GPL'ed software. If Google suddenly turns evil; the code still belongs to the community and if Mozilla won't cut the relationship, someone can fork a version out and cut out the Google-centric features.
A good bit of caution is wise, but let's not look a $56 million/year gift to the OSS community in the mouth overmuch.
best. fr1st p0st. evar.
(heh; this post got bounced by the "slow down cowboy" filter; Slashdot should claim prior art!)
Being an American, my providers charge me an arm and a leg for each text received or sent, which is why I'm using goog411 now more than the text; I have ungodly numbers of unused minutes, but have a knee-jerk dislike for paying 15 cents per text when the service is basically free to the provider.
...well, do *you* have the number? I don't. Oh man, I wish we could google it and then call them! [1]
oh, right.
Thanks Dvorak, you missed the point.
[1] If you haven't tried 1-800-GOOG-411 ; it's pretty awesome for getting said phone numbers, and automatically connecting you if you like. Tied in to a phone with Google Maps and GPS/e911? Beauty and ease. My only concern is how Google will monetize the cell phone space; even sponsored text ads would be seriously annoying being read to you by a machine voice, slowly, on Goog411, and would take up even more valuable screenestate on a phone.
It's silliness like this that a good round of impeachment hearings would bring to light all at once. Sure, we get a trickle of privacy invasions, unconstitutional breaches, and so on. But then we're also /. readers, contributors to the EFF and/or ACLU (I donate to both), and generally tuned in, unlike most of the populace. A sudden flood of all the BS that's been going on in the name of counter-terrorism would be a nice slap in the face to wake people up.
I'd argue they don't even need the filibuster and veto-beating votes. F' em all. Make the laws we elected you to make; get us out of Iraq, start fixing the system Bush has so thoroughly broken, restore constitutional order, privacy, and respect for citizens. Will these bills get vetoed? Sure. Let Bush dig a deeper hole for himself. More importantly, get the Republicans in Congress down on record as voting against these things the first time around and in a veto round, and keep sending them up. You grow and encourage your own support base, undermine that of the republicans, and maybe, just maybe, get a few to cross the floor and pass some good legislation the 15th time it goes to vote.
The Dems are playing this whole thing all wrong; it's a prisoner's dilemma with repeat play; while a generous player who always caves may provide a good path to a win-win, the Reps have proven that they will take advantage and not give "earned" slack - so it's time to move to a tit-for-tat strategy for a good long while. Dems - you're the majority party, stop bending over like a beaten-down beta male.
Gah.
I knew a guy who'd watch a season of Celtics basketball over and over and over again; they exist.
I for one welcome our.. er, am happy that the true stupidity of DRM is biting more consumers. remember DIVX (the circuitcity one?) Anything that reminds consumers that they're getting screwed, even if they may not immediately realize it, is a good thing for raising anti-drm awareness. People who played nice with the monopolies and paid for their DRMed content are now SOL, while people who downloaded pirate versions can watch them whenever, wherever, and on whichever device they choose. Hm.
...Which, technically, is also government regulation, just regulation that's been underutilized in the past few decades. While I'm not exactly a fan of "Big Government;" it does have some usefulness in providing a "fair" and open playing field, which is what net neutrality is about. We all rejoiced when the FCC struck down exclusive cable contracts in apartment buildings (http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/29/2152212), which is an important step at loosening local cable monopolies. Perhaps it could be a good thing?
No need to hack off their fingers now.
Well, THAT takes the joy out of ID theft, now, doesn't it?
That seems like a poor choice of defendants. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you first want to bully a small fry without deep pockets and get a judgment supporting your claim, *then* go after the big companies with lawyers on retainers and deep deep pockets?
I presume most /. types go there to do this: http://xkcd.com/272/
Remember MS has already created a program (Unlimited Potential) to sell XP (sans Office) for $3/pop to government programs in developing countries. OLPCNews covered this before, during the last MS on XO scare.
True, but I would like to only have gecko loaded; these are third party apps loading IE's render engine, instead of using Gecko.
This is indeed a great start; I'd also like to see Moz replicate (and take over) the embedded browser controls that many other Windows apps lean on IE's crutch for (Google Earth, Winamp, etc.)
Heh, would it index my Google desktop search index? Ooh! it just got updated, let's re-index it.
Yeah, too bad that as a VA Comcast subscriber, you might never hear from your congressman again. Not because he's been offed, just because you're probably a Triple-Play (Cable/Voip/Net) subscriber and Comcast now controls everything you see and hear.
Best of luck with that!
What about relinquishing an increasing number of civil rights to the "Papers, please" crowd at Security?
So it seems that bt clients now need a "Comcast switch" to ignore RSTs, like you suggest. I seem to recall that the Great Firewall of China is using the same RST approach to block a lot of content.
Thanks, guys, for encouraging us to ignore RSTs. Seems like a *great* idea for your network's long-term health. Why don't you just assign bt traffic an evil bit and let our RFC standards process do the rest?
I was about to reply essentially the same; though now I often use Google Docs if I need someone to edit it; about the same feature-set as RTF (but no footnotes, damnit!) but with a track-changes that doesn't suck the goat balls.
Exactly; the distribution network is now well established, and a torrent download can run circles around any centralized download site. Not only is it easier to grab a torrent off your favorite site and download it, it's faster, too. The radiohead site is clunky and important form-submit buttons (like "place your order") weren't showing for me.
OTOH, at least radiohead's trying, which is more than I can say for most of the rest of the music industry.
If you're going to expose a flaw, a) Responsible disclosure, y'all -- find some way to alert the service provider know that they have a hole, and give them a chance to fix it. With the increasing shoot-the-messenger trends, you might do that anonymously, but still. b) if you're gonna exploit it, don't choose some random innocent. This was a family of four who could've easily lost a member or two due to a twitchy finger or false move, not to mention psychological harm to the toddlers having a SWAT team roll in. If you're gonna do something stupid and socially irresponsible like abusing a 911 system (or if responsible disclosure hasn't gotten the hole closed), at least minimize the damage you're doing; send the response to an empty lot/open field.
Last I checked, ROT13 was protected under the DMCA...