In the end, I believe the terrorists did win. We are now forced to slowly move towards Big Brother. We have to rethink our open, free borders.
I wonder if that was their plan all the long, or a side-effect fortunate to them. Let's look at it: The big stress point in the middle east is the Israel/Palistine conflict. We stuck our noses in the whole mess, probably because of a large influence of the Jewish-American community. Now, the Muslim world hates us for "aiding the infidels", and of course we can't forget all that other fun stuff we've been doing in Iraq...they see foolish, greedy men come to power and decide to play mind games with war... a major terrorist attack on the United States. Once this happens, the foolish men decide to create a "protectionistic" society, with fewer freedoms but "so what, it's safer". Everntually, these foolish men (or others perhaps who succeed them) become abusive of their new power, and attempt more control, using the new rules to not only keep citizens safe from threats, but also to keep citizens from breaking even the most minor of laws, even when they aren't aware their actions where illegal. Of course, they're still doing it "for your own good", but honestly, most people break laws everyday. You don't yield or perhaps you download an MP3, etc...sometimes it's even by accident. Protectionism becomes over-protectionism and now the goal is for a utopian, crime-free scociety. People are imprisoned without trial for longer and longer, both due to a backup in the court system and the evil men's desire to keep things quiet. You could no longer tell which where men and which where pigs.
Eventually, people would start to catch on, and perhaps there will be a similar downfall to the United States as there was to the USSR.
We'd better wake up. Quickly. If all you patriotic Americans who love your country want to keep it, you'd better keep your eyes open, and the eyes of your congressional representatives as well.
The problem I see with PGP is that no one wants to copy someone's key to mail them...that and you'd have to post it somehwere public like a web page, forcing people to track it down; that or have an auto-responder...and what happens when spammers start making a list of public keys? Then you get spam from people listed in your graduating high school class (it started happeneing to me, I have no idea how they correlated my name with that e-mail address, but I believe I can thank classmates.com and the like...), encrypted with your public key, and splattered to your inbox from an open relay. Meanwhile, people who want to legitimately mail you wont' be able to as easily, because they'll need the PGP key. This makes spam EASIER.
The reason we need a whole new system is to prevent forging of addresses. It is entirely possible to design an MTA system that only accepts mail with addresses from the domain the delivering connection originated from. Why do we need relay systems for mail anymore? I don't need to bounce between servers to get an http connection. Surely e-mail can be delivered straight and verifiably?
In that way, when abuse occurs, it can be reported and dealt with, because spammers will have a much harder time sending mail that isn't from them, and will break many more laws than anti-spam laws in order to do so.
PS: About IPv6: Yea, it's taking forever. Network hardware is beginning to support it, Mac OS X (as of v10.3) is ready to just hop into IPv6 mode...one day they'll be a service bulletin on RoadRunner about "IPv6 now supported" once they get their act together. It's not happeneing overnight, and it might really take quite a long time actually, and my point was this is exactly the way a change to the e-mail structure would have to happen, especially with millions of people depending on it.
Why the hell ARE we sill using POP and SMTP? Would it really be that hard to get e-mail users to download the "New, Improved, Spam-Free E-Mail system"? Would developers really be unwilling to implement it?
The big hurdle is fragmentation of the current e-mail system, and the possibility of losing your e-mail address, but it's getting to the point where a large portion (I'm inclined to say "majority") of Internet traffic is spam, and that costs many people a lot of money.
Do like is planned for IPv6 (kinda): Let both systems co-exist for a while until the old one dies off. Hell, make sendmail accept both protocols and just warn you when e-mail comes the old way. Eventually we'll be able to turn that off, once everyone is adjusted to using the new system by default. Include it in clients, include it in servers, give the sysadmins migration instructions and hey, addresses need not even change. Would users even have to realize it happened?
I didn't look in the patch file, I dont' program, administer, or otherwise even use Windows, I have a Mac. Fair warning.
Perhaps it patches system components for URL services? I know Mac OS X (and, IIRC, 9 and perhaps even 8.6) has a URL parsing API (Carbon, docs are currently under construction (wtf?) ) so that if you program requires it you can easily split up a URL and retirieve an IP from the hostname, sepereate the directories into seperate vars if you wish, etc. The Cocca API featrures a URL Loading API, which I haven't examined closely, is apparently a wget (curl -O in a standard Mac shell) equivilent that loads into an object of some sort...talk about potential for abuse!
If Microsoft created such an API for Windows (and I imagine they would), they'd be extra stupid to have IE not use it. As concerned as they are about money, why pay to write the same code twice? (Then again, all those buffer overflows in non-standard string libraries....hmmm.) Anyway, perhaps this is what is being patched to fix IE? I wouldn't consider a.dll to be the kernel, unless is was system32.dll...
Anyone on Slashdot with some Windows know-how care to fill in the big, vague, speculative gap I've left?:-D
According to this article in The Guardian, 'Amnesty believes Ford Motors is in violation of a new United Nations Human Rights code for multinationals which says businesses should 'seek to ensure that the goods and services they provide will not be used to abuse human rights'. The article basically states that '[the] firm supplied technology used to run over Chinese dissidents'.
I hate Microsoft because of their product quality, and strong-arm market dominance tactics. Honestly, however, what the HELL is Amnesty thinking? I do believe I'd have to say that Redmond is in the clear on this one...
I mean, did the conversation go like this or something?
China: Hello? We need OS package for five hundred government computer! Microsoft: Alright, would you like Windows 2000 or Windows XP Professional? China: Whichever one better for trapping dissidents!
Unless she likes games too, this doesn't stand a chance in hell of working out well for you. You are trying to use logic -- guy logic -- to deal with women. The sooner you learn how futile this is, the better it is for you.
The fact that this was modded to +5 Informatve really does prove that I'm on Slashdot.;-)
...or...is it the fact that I found it odd this doesn't have "+5 Funny" prove that I'm on Slashdot? D'OH!
Your average judge or juror won't even know what PGP is.
Of course, however, they will have a firm grip on the concepts of Linux, GNU, C, operating system design and the politics surrounding the GPL and Free Software, as well as how it applies to copyright law.
They'll either choose people who know what they're talking about to serve, or teach them what they need to know.
Sometimes when not looking I will tube words that aren't even close but start with the same letter or something. It's actually quite odd, I'm not sure exactly what it would be called...
..and let's not forget teh Freudian slips to the ex girlfriend when she prings up our relationship and I try to make valid points abou tit...
REUTERS - Cambodian officials have just announced an innovative plan to upgrade their WiFi/motorcycle based Internet routing system. "We well be focusing on cost, capacity, food consumption, and, most of all; reliability," said the Cambodia's manager of Information and Communications, Sum Gai.
The new plan calls for recordable DVDs taped to carrier pigeons to replace the motorcyclists. "They eat less and we don't have to pay them, they can go farther and faster and in a more direct line than the motorbikes can," claimed Gai. "Not only that, but they're really cute. I have three and they're darlings." According to Gai, contractors are already lining up, despite the early stage of planning. "3M called us with a very lucrative offer on discount bulk duct tape, and of course all the major recordable DVD manufacturers are squabbling over which format is superior for pigeon-based transit," said Gai.
Officials plan to release a full proposal to the press next week.
Yes, it certainly will. That screaming sound you'll hear is the sudden stark realization that they've been infiltrated by a doctor who thinks he knows what he's doing. You'll be trusted to make IT decisions within seconds of the higher ups becoming aware of your interest, and the IT department will be relegated to scurrying around in your wake fixing what you "fixed".
...with the way things are run at my local hospital, they shoudl definately allow him to do so. Think of the frequent flier miles the hospital could get from flying in the IT staff from India everyday!
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Agreed.
Wrong. Hand-drawn animation cels are gone. The CGI isn't nessisarily 3D, it's just going to save Disney time and cels.
[isthere]~$ echo "in here"
Eventually, people would start to catch on, and perhaps there will be a similar downfall to the United States as there was to the USSR.
We'd better wake up. Quickly. If all you patriotic Americans who love your country want to keep it, you'd better keep your eyes open, and the eyes of your congressional representatives as well.
Yes.
Yea, exactly...respectable Mac-o-philes should install Linux side-by-side with Mac OS and dual boot! Then, run Windows on VMWare!
The problem I see with PGP is that no one wants to copy someone's key to mail them...that and you'd have to post it somehwere public like a web page, forcing people to track it down; that or have an auto-responder...and what happens when spammers start making a list of public keys? Then you get spam from people listed in your graduating high school class (it started happeneing to me, I have no idea how they correlated my name with that e-mail address, but I believe I can thank classmates.com and the like...), encrypted with your public key, and splattered to your inbox from an open relay. Meanwhile, people who want to legitimately mail you wont' be able to as easily, because they'll need the PGP key. This makes spam EASIER.
The reason we need a whole new system is to prevent forging of addresses. It is entirely possible to design an MTA system that only accepts mail with addresses from the domain the delivering connection originated from. Why do we need relay systems for mail anymore? I don't need to bounce between servers to get an http connection. Surely e-mail can be delivered straight and verifiably?
In that way, when abuse occurs, it can be reported and dealt with, because spammers will have a much harder time sending mail that isn't from them, and will break many more laws than anti-spam laws in order to do so.
PS: About IPv6: Yea, it's taking forever. Network hardware is beginning to support it, Mac OS X (as of v10.3) is ready to just hop into IPv6 mode...one day they'll be a service bulletin on RoadRunner about "IPv6 now supported" once they get their act together. It's not happeneing overnight, and it might really take quite a long time actually, and my point was this is exactly the way a change to the e-mail structure would have to happen, especially with millions of people depending on it.
PPS: Yes, Autechre rules! Second Bad Vilbel!
Which is my point. I doubt the Windows code is in the "kernel" either?
It was Fark'd earlier, now Slashdotted...man, they'll make a fortune on ad views!
Yea, I used "Still no patch for IE", but apparently I missed that story...
Hey wait, this isn't Fark...
/obvious
I have a question:
Why the hell ARE we sill using POP and SMTP? Would it really be that hard to get e-mail users to download the "New, Improved, Spam-Free E-Mail system"? Would developers really be unwilling to implement it?
The big hurdle is fragmentation of the current e-mail system, and the possibility of losing your e-mail address, but it's getting to the point where a large portion (I'm inclined to say "majority") of Internet traffic is spam, and that costs many people a lot of money.
Do like is planned for IPv6 (kinda): Let both systems co-exist for a while until the old one dies off. Hell, make sendmail accept both protocols and just warn you when e-mail comes the old way. Eventually we'll be able to turn that off, once everyone is adjusted to using the new system by default. Include it in clients, include it in servers, give the sysadmins migration instructions and hey, addresses need not even change. Would users even have to realize it happened?
I didn't look in the patch file, I dont' program, administer, or otherwise even use Windows, I have a Mac. Fair warning.
Perhaps it patches system components for URL services? I know Mac OS X (and, IIRC, 9 and perhaps even 8.6) has a URL parsing API (Carbon, docs are currently under construction (wtf?) ) so that if you program requires it you can easily split up a URL and retirieve an IP from the hostname, sepereate the directories into seperate vars if you wish, etc. The Cocca API featrures a URL Loading API, which I haven't examined closely, is apparently a wget (curl -O in a standard Mac shell) equivilent that loads into an object of some sort...talk about potential for abuse!
If Microsoft created such an API for Windows (and I imagine they would), they'd be extra stupid to have IE not use it. As concerned as they are about money, why pay to write the same code twice? (Then again, all those buffer overflows in non-standard string libraries....hmmm.) Anyway, perhaps this is what is being patched to fix IE? I wouldn't consider a
Anyone on Slashdot with some Windows know-how care to fill in the big, vague, speculative gap I've left?
I mean, did the conversation go like this or something?
China: Hello? We need OS package for five hundred government computer!
Microsoft: Alright, would you like Windows 2000 or Windows XP Professional?
China: Whichever one better for trapping dissidents!
...sco.com is only down because it's on the front page of Slashdot!
...or...is it the fact that I found it odd this doesn't have "+5 Funny" prove that I'm on Slashdot? D'OH!
They'll either choose people who know what they're talking about to serve, or teach them what they need to know.
+1 Insightful? Meh.
Sometimes when not looking I will tube words that aren't even close but start with the same letter or something. It's actually quite odd, I'm not sure exactly what it would be called...
..and let's not forget teh Freudian slips to the ex girlfriend when she prings up our relationship and I try to make valid points abou tit...
Sounds like it would make a good new Weebl & Bob episode!
Implelelelelelelelmemtde. Blahhhhhhhhh.
Even "Preview" isn't my friend today.
More details on the system can be found in this
:-D
Here I go, posting it like it's a big joke, and look, it's already been freakin' implelemted!
So hard to come up with a new killer app these days...:-D