That happened on my birthday...
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The Challenger
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No better way to totally fubar a kid's birthday than to explode a space shuttle carrying an elementary school teacher aboard. Of course, I was just as socially inept and cynical then, so I put a bright side on it by talking about the best fireworks ever for my birthday...
I think N2H2 execs must not understand that The Simpons is a tragicomedy, and the episode on using kids' ideas and behaviour for marketing by subverting the school should *not* be the foundation for revenue streams.
They claim no schools have cancelled their service due to this. Did any of the schools KNOW about this? Is this tied to that wave program that got exposed during the initial voices from the helmouth series?
OK, I shoulda been more explicit
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The ASCII Cam
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So you wouldn't want to be filming a blank WALL, but if you took a snapshot of a plant, a messy desktop, of even a face (or other body parts), (i.e. any image with lots of noise) this would be an interesting vector to play with. I haven't read the source to see what size pool of ascii characters they're choosing from, so it may be too small to provide good security. Might be good for the first xor block in a CBC cipherstream.
Exactly! DirecTV did fall back to lawyers for a bit, but in general they did the absolute correct thing--fix the damned problem. Mad props to the proigrammer/team that handled the multipart code. If only more companies would respond to security threats and other flaws by fixing them instead of legally snuffing out their discoverers.
Actually, SSL Certificates are IP-neutral, they tie a domain name to a business. If you can steal the certificate, the corresponding private key, and hack the DNS traffic, you are now the valid site, technologically speaking.
REad the essay carefully. The restraints being put on the consumers are not legal, nor are the legally enforceable. The techonlogy is and will continue to be designed to disenfranchise you. There are no digital outs. you cannot record at full quality. Not because MIBs will hunt you down, but becase there's no place to plug in, and there's no record functionality. Any production of machines able to do these will be an immediate black market item in Oz (US) and probably manufacturing will be ceased.
can a company be so mindbogglingly stupid? I cannot conceive of a non-comedic board meeting with the legal team to decide to pursue 'bake-off' as a trademark under infringement. Expecially right now. I would've expected it in mid-99 when they could've used their legal team to sap some dollars out of the tech boom [1], but trying it now is squeezing water from a stone.
Of course, this is from a company that asks you to sign up for their spam with a damn popup on their front page, so. Surf their brands to see what you should boycott. Lay off the haagen-dazs, green giant, old el paso, and of course, pilsbury.
[1] Of course, it would've been stupid then for the same reasons it is now, but I could at least see a good corp-think argument for it.
From the article:
"One of the obscene Web sites took information from the Salem Police Benevolent Association site and parodied it by changing words and downloading pictures from the site"
Remember the parody translation engine problems of late where companies sue people for providing jive and Sweedish Chef translations through screen-scraping? This is probably the same. Of course, the police site has no TOS that excludes screenscraping, but it does claim "all right reserved", so using (ahem) 'copyrighted' material is probably the tact they're taking--he's being charged for "misuse of computer system information," not slander or libel.
If he gets a half-assed decent attorny, 1A and fair use of information for purposed of parody should apply, nevertheless, especially since the article implys that he did not download the images from the website, just pointed to them.
It'd be a damn shame if an archive or wget extract of the offending sites got out to the general public.;) Anyone in salem wanna dig around? The only Hemmah's WHOIS turns up aren't in salem (on'e in fargo...)
If it survives reentry, it deserves to take over the world...
Um. parachute reentry?
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so, how do baloons and parachutes work? Baloons work by being lighter than the air around them (hence, hot-air baloons work in cold air, helium (or hydrogen) baloons work in standard air. PArachutes work by using the resistance of the air to slow one down.
Neither of these really work outside the atmosphere!
I can only presume they only fly you up to a height that, while arguably 'in space' is not totally out of the atmosphere--just most of it.
I think I won't be first in line for this. MAybe 100th.
Linux and Windows that is. A lot of the astronauts have win95 laptops, but
Linux Journal has an article about two programs developed and run for the ISS on Linux.
Has anyone thought to try to intercept the transmission? is it encrypted? is it encrypted well? It's not like we're talking rocket science. Wait. It's not like we're talking private cable, or unknown locations--it's trajectory is known.
I'd presume the transmission is encrypted, but if it's 40bit, let's get Distributed.net or EFF to set up a real-time cracking system.
Someone--no, not just someone--the head of a well-known publishing company and its authors--is clued?
what a concept. This may revolutionize my book-buying tendencies. I wonder if BookPeople has a Baen publishing section (wise-ass reply, "look in sci-fi/fantasy")
I'm impressed beyond words. This is great. After the gloom and doom of the MPAA and RIAA repeating their tired arguments from the betamax time-shifting trials 20 years later, it's wonderful to see that some people who are at the head of their corporations 'get it'.
BUCHAREST, January 8 (Xinhua) -- The Romanian government will adopt a law package for the development of e-business, newspaper reports said Monday. The package includes the law on e-commerce, digital signature and fraud in this field, Communication and Information Technology Minister Dan Nica was quoted as saying by the daily Ziarul Financiar.
Nica said that the ministry's specialists had already consulted with specialized parliamentary commissions on the bill, which was sent to all those interested, mainly to the IT community in Romania, for their opinions. According to Nica, the law package is almost ready, and the Ministry of Justice will complete it over the next days with the stipulations of penalties for fraud on the Internet. He said that Romania would soon have a regime of fraud treatment similar to those in Western Europe and the United States.
The law on e-commerce will stipulate the rules of such activities and the consumer and seller protection measures. After this minimum legal framework is created, Romanian authorities are to initiate bills of e- document and e-archive, e-notary and e- public administration, as well as a separate set of changes of bank, insurance and capital market laws to represent the legal basis for e-financing and e-banking activities.
--Cost of steel and welding supplies: $1,245.
--Cost of labour on New Years Eve: $724
--Cost of having an entire city gape blankly at a hunk of steel, without a bone in sight: priceless.
When I'm at a conference or using a laptop in general, I do write in html because a) it gives you massive cred to any shoulder-surfers and b) it can be less power-intensive and less prone to laptop mouse problems.
There's a running joke at my office on my constant threats to start doing all wordprocessing in HTML, because MS Word crashes, eats documents and/or corrupts them irrecoverably so often with me.
For a serious standard, I think we should support HTML but only as a subset of SGML (read: SGML would provide the standard, HTML would be used by us lazy asses, but would be supported within the standard)
To be totally Machievaellian, they might need to pad their Q4 HD sales. What better way to do that than to release information that the next generation of HDs will be unusable?
Not only illegal--impossible. Even with your own OS/free OS/etc..
This is so incredibly wrong-headed, I can't even begin. It's applying the DivX DVD-pay-per-use system to hard drives. What happens when it goes under? Do we all get 'free' aaccess to our hard drives for a year before they become paperweights with all our data locked on them??
My ass. Time to start stockpiling non-compliant HDs and other devices.
Y'know, I've always wanted to play those clock-speed dependent 286 games again.
But seriously, Ogg's been Ogged. Frauenhofer is making a kamikaze attack without regard to future repercussions. The irony is wonderful.
I forsee the rattling will continue. The Ogg Vorbis format will exit beta and enter into the Internet's various mirroring services and freenet-style anti-censorship services, the company Xiph will get sued out of existance, the CODEC will survive, plugins for Xamp and Winamp will abound, business as usual will continue. Anyone remember why we should be using PNGs instead of GIFs?? right. do you? same deal.
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No better way to totally fubar a kid's birthday than to explode a space shuttle carrying an elementary school teacher aboard. Of course, I was just as socially inept and cynical then, so I put a bright side on it by talking about the best fireworks ever for my birthday...
I think N2H2 execs must not understand that The Simpons is a tragicomedy, and the episode on using kids' ideas and behaviour for marketing by subverting the school should *not* be the foundation for revenue streams.
They claim no schools have cancelled their service due to this. Did any of the schools KNOW about this? Is this tied to that wave program that got exposed during the initial voices from the helmouth series?
So you wouldn't want to be filming a blank WALL, but if you took a snapshot of a plant, a messy desktop, of even a face (or other body parts), (i.e. any image with lots of noise) this would be an interesting vector to play with. I haven't read the source to see what size pool of ascii characters they're choosing from, so it may be too small to provide good security. Might be good for the first xor block in a CBC cipherstream.
Exactly! DirecTV did fall back to lawyers for a bit, but in general they did the absolute correct thing--fix the damned problem. Mad props to the proigrammer/team that handled the multipart code. If only more companies would respond to security threats and other flaws by fixing them instead of legally snuffing out their discoverers.
Actually, SSL Certificates are IP-neutral, they tie a domain name to a business. If you can steal the certificate, the corresponding private key, and hack the DNS traffic, you are now the valid site, technologically speaking.
http://slashdot.org/yro/00/02/27/1549234.shtml
MP3s stole -14B from the RIAA in 99.
REad the essay carefully. The restraints being put on the consumers are not legal, nor are the legally enforceable. The techonlogy is and will continue to be designed to disenfranchise you. There are no digital outs. you cannot record at full quality. Not because MIBs will hunt you down, but becase there's no place to plug in, and there's no record functionality. Any production of machines able to do these will be an immediate black market item in Oz (US) and probably manufacturing will be ceased.
OK, I retract my disbelief. Have they been haxored yet? I wouldn't expect a company suing over bakeoffs to have all the latest patches.
can a company be so mindbogglingly stupid? I cannot conceive of a non-comedic board meeting with the legal team to decide to pursue 'bake-off' as a trademark under infringement. Expecially right now. I would've expected it in mid-99 when they could've used their legal team to sap some dollars out of the tech boom [1], but trying it now is squeezing water from a stone.
Of course, this is from a company that asks you to sign up for their spam with a damn popup on their front page, so. Surf their brands to see what you should boycott. Lay off the haagen-dazs, green giant, old el paso, and of course, pilsbury.
[1] Of course, it would've been stupid then for the same reasons it is now, but I could at least see a good corp-think argument for it.
I just have this to say:
Series PS 17
Reindeer Flotilla
From the article:
;) Anyone in salem wanna dig around? The only Hemmah's WHOIS turns up aren't in salem (on'e in fargo...)
"One of the obscene Web sites took information from the Salem Police Benevolent Association site and parodied it by changing words and downloading pictures from the site"
Remember the parody translation engine problems of late where companies sue people for providing jive and Sweedish Chef translations through screen-scraping? This is probably the same. Of course, the police site has no TOS that excludes screenscraping, but it does claim "all right reserved", so using (ahem) 'copyrighted' material is probably the tact they're taking--he's being charged for "misuse of computer system information," not slander or libel.
If he gets a half-assed decent attorny, 1A and fair use of information for purposed of parody should apply, nevertheless, especially since the article implys that he did not download the images from the website, just pointed to them.
It'd be a damn shame if an archive or wget extract of the offending sites got out to the general public.
If it survives reentry, it deserves to take over the world...
so, how do baloons and parachutes work? Baloons work by being lighter than the air around them (hence, hot-air baloons work in cold air, helium (or hydrogen) baloons work in standard air. PArachutes work by using the resistance of the air to slow one down.
Neither of these really work outside the atmosphere!
I can only presume they only fly you up to a height that, while arguably 'in space' is not totally out of the atmosphere--just most of it.
I think I won't be first in line for this. MAybe 100th.
Linux and Windows that is. A lot of the astronauts have win95 laptops, but
Linux Journal has an article about two programs developed and run for the ISS on Linux.
Check Linux-Equipped Astronauts Project for more info and a way to help.
Has anyone thought to try to intercept the transmission? is it encrypted? is it encrypted well? It's not like we're talking rocket science. Wait. It's not like we're talking private cable, or unknown locations--it's trajectory is known.
I'd presume the transmission is encrypted, but if it's 40bit, let's get Distributed.net or EFF to set up a real-time cracking system.
Someone--no, not just someone--the head of a well-known publishing company and its authors--is clued?
what a concept. This may revolutionize my book-buying tendencies. I wonder if BookPeople has a Baen publishing section (wise-ass reply, "look in sci-fi/fantasy")
I'm impressed beyond words. This is great. After the gloom and doom of the MPAA and RIAA repeating their tired arguments from the betamax time-shifting trials 20 years later, it's wonderful to see that some people who are at the head of their corporations 'get it'.
Now, if only they had a better webmaster...
From the wire:
XINHUA
January 8, 2001, Monday
HEADLINE: Romania to Adopt E-business Law, XINHUA
BUCHAREST, January 8 (Xinhua) -- The Romanian government will adopt a law package for the development of e-business, newspaper reports said Monday. The package includes the law on e-commerce, digital signature and fraud in this field, Communication and Information Technology Minister Dan Nica was quoted as saying by the daily Ziarul Financiar.
Nica said that the ministry's specialists had already consulted with specialized parliamentary commissions on the bill, which was sent to all those interested, mainly to the IT community in Romania, for their opinions. According to Nica, the law package is almost ready, and the Ministry of Justice will complete it over the next days with the stipulations of penalties for fraud on the Internet. He said that Romania would soon have a regime of fraud treatment similar to those in Western Europe and the United States.
The law on e-commerce will stipulate the rules of such activities and the consumer and seller protection measures. After this minimum legal framework is created, Romanian authorities are to initiate bills of e- document and e-archive, e-notary and e- public administration, as well as a separate set of changes of bank, insurance and capital market laws to represent the legal basis for e-financing and e-banking activities.
--Cost of steel and welding supplies: $1,245.
--Cost of labour on New Years Eve: $724
--Cost of having an entire city gape blankly at a hunk of steel, without a bone in sight: priceless.
When I'm at a conference or using a laptop in general, I do write in html because a) it gives you massive cred to any shoulder-surfers and b) it can be less power-intensive and less prone to laptop mouse problems.
I like my MP3s steamed with some butter, garlic, and a few Frauenhaufer execs shredded on top.
Oh. stReaming MP3s. My mistake. But MP3 recipes are important, too...
There's a running joke at my office on my constant threats to start doing all wordprocessing in HTML, because MS Word crashes, eats documents and/or corrupts them irrecoverably so often with me.
For a serious standard, I think we should support HTML but only as a subset of SGML (read: SGML would provide the standard, HTML would be used by us lazy asses, but would be supported within the standard)
To be totally Machievaellian, they might need to pad their Q4 HD sales. What better way to do that than to release information that the next generation of HDs will be unusable?
Not only illegal--impossible. Even with your own OS/free OS/etc..
This is so incredibly wrong-headed, I can't even begin. It's applying the DivX DVD-pay-per-use system to hard drives. What happens when it goes under? Do we all get 'free' aaccess to our hard drives for a year before they become paperweights with all our data locked on them??
My ass. Time to start stockpiling non-compliant HDs and other devices.
Have you ever heard of any major e-commerce site using OBSD as their primary server software?
You mean like MS and MSN Hotmail?
Oh, wait, those are backended by FreeBSD, not Open. But still.
Y'know, I've always wanted to play those clock-speed dependent 286 games again.
But seriously, Ogg's been Ogged. Frauenhofer is making a kamikaze attack without regard to future repercussions. The irony is wonderful.
I forsee the rattling will continue. The Ogg Vorbis format will exit beta and enter into the Internet's various mirroring services and freenet-style anti-censorship services, the company Xiph will get sued out of existance, the CODEC will survive, plugins for Xamp and Winamp will abound, business as usual will continue. Anyone remember why we should be using PNGs instead of GIFs?? right. do you? same deal.