Sure Windoze apps have buffer overflow holes like [insert good analogy here], but when was the last time your WinVERSION came installed with a plaintext remote login server? Or have you seen Windoze setup with directory services exporting crackable password hashes?.. Unix is safer in many respects (especially to the scheduled-to-be-obsolete Win95/98/ME series), but I don't know that it's a cold statement of fact to say everyone knows that UNIX is safer than Windows. Depends on the attack vector.
Ever notice how commercial Unix vendors still use telnet?
It's too much hassle to ship separate crypto versions of a software product. It's too much hassle (read MONEY) to worry about changing crypto laws, and offending the gov't as a _customer_, and maintaining and distributing separate products.
When export crypto is enforced it has a chilling effect not only outside the US, but inside the US as well. Software shops are not free software hobbyists.
I am viscerally disgusted every time I have to deal with completely broken security (e.g. plaintext email, telnet, ftp, nis,...) partly due to "export" crypto laws.
The renewed concern about nuclear weapons in South Asia comes a little more than three years after the events of May 1998: the five nuclear tests conducted by India at Pokharan in the northwestern desert state of Rajasthan, followed three weeks later by six nuclear explosions conducted by Pakistan in its southwestern region of Chaghai. These tit-for-tat responses mirrored the nuclear buildup by the U.S. and the former Soviet Union, with a crucial difference: the two cold war superpowers were separated by an ocean and never fought each other openly.
No offense, but I didn't enjoy Quake, too dark and dizzy, and therefore feel zero urge to buy it. I have no pirated games if you're implying that. Is it bad to want to play with this Quake2 and free data files?
All of the Q2 data files remain copyrighted and licensed under the original terms, so you cannot redistribute data from the original game, but if
you do a true total conversion, you can create a standalone game based on this code.
This doesn't sound like "normal course of business" under US Code Title 18, Sec. 2512. Oh #$@& it's Australia. Well like I was saying, bust out the IANALs.
Very often I hear ppl telling me about this or that commercial they saw on TV. It's so gratifying to be able to say "Sorry, I don't watch TV, and so I didn't see that funny Mastercard (tm) commercial."
Don't you feel sorry for the ppl who are so scared of their identity that they pay to advertise company logos on their clothing?
Reminds me of the time a sometimes friend of mine accidentally erased/etc/passwd on a box he and another guy were using for penetration tests. He said that he had to crack the box to get back in and wouldn't tell me how he did it (at the time I knew nothing about linux).
Have you considered endorsing a presidential candidate? (I'm thinking that Ralph Nader would be a staunch ally of our freedom complaints.) Besides dropping the geek vote into the bucket, it'll get lots of us registered if they hear you say, "Go vote for this guy or girl because..."
i use icewm on a P100 (admittedly faster than a 486-33). it is very quick.
<pet peeve>Distributions shouldn't default to running all those daemons. IMHO, that's why the recent DDoS's was possible.</pet peeve>// slashdot is a cigarette break for nonsmokers
Dear anonymous coward, I am actually bored enuff to answer this rhetorical question (tho Troll I suspect you be!): >What is the point to this hot grits >crap? Please give me some answers. >Am I the only one that gets anoyed >over this stuff?
There are two races on the earth. Human and Troll. Trolls are young. As they grow up they "experience a freakish metamorphis" and mutate into Humans. This is known as the breeding phase. Usually it stops after sufficient Trolls have been produced.
> I went to school in Colorado at a high > school similar to Columbine. I totally > related to Katz's articles on his Hellmouth > series.
I just wished the Columbine kids were left alone by media, including sympathetic eyes. Everytime I see tragedy rehashed in the media, I feel like I'm watching Jerry Springer. [2 cents]
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Sure Windoze apps have buffer overflow holes like [insert good analogy here], but when was the last time your WinVERSION came installed with a plaintext remote login server? Or have you seen Windoze setup with directory services exporting crackable password hashes? .. Unix is safer in many respects (especially to the scheduled-to-be-obsolete Win95/98/ME series), but I don't know that it's a cold statement of fact to say everyone knows that UNIX is safer than Windows. Depends on the attack vector.
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Ever notice how commercial Unix vendors still use telnet?
...) partly due to "export" crypto laws.
It's too much hassle to ship separate crypto versions of a software product. It's too much hassle (read MONEY) to worry about changing crypto laws, and offending the gov't as a _customer_, and maintaining and distributing separate products.
When export crypto is enforced it has a chilling effect not only outside the US, but inside the US as well. Software shops are not free software hobbyists.
I am viscerally disgusted every time I have to deal with completely broken security (e.g. plaintext email, telnet, ftp, nis,
I hope this post is not lost in the chaff.
The renewed concern about nuclear weapons in South Asia comes a little more than three years after the events of May 1998: the five nuclear tests conducted by India at Pokharan in the northwestern desert state of Rajasthan, followed three weeks later by six nuclear explosions conducted by Pakistan in its southwestern region of Chaghai. These tit-for-tat responses mirrored the nuclear buildup by the U.S. and the former Soviet Union, with a crucial difference: the two cold war superpowers were separated by an ocean and never fought each other openly.
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http://www.sciam.com/2001/1201issue/1201ramana.ht
No offense, but I didn't enjoy Quake, too dark and dizzy, and therefore feel zero urge to buy it. I have no pirated games if you're implying that. Is it bad to want to play with this Quake2 and free data files?
ah nevermind.
readme.txt:
All of the Q2 data files remain copyrighted and licensed under the original terms, so you cannot redistribute data from the original game, but if
you do a true total conversion, you can create a standalone game based on this code.
are there free data files somewhere?
if so, could someone post a minihowto?
in view of the recent warez busts.
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist/zeitgeist-no v.html has it.
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html
isn't a permanent link, maybe that would explain discrepancy.
up2date was better than their web portal idea, but it was only a matter of time until competition came along.
Government action:
#1 legally restrict secure communications
#2 build private network for security
:o)
anyone know what to do?
Don't ya think?
on the case!
This doesn't sound like "normal course of business" under US Code Title 18, Sec. 2512. Oh #$@& it's Australia. Well like I was saying, bust out the IANALs.
I was surprised that they held on to one of mine something like 6 months after expiration. I'm glad they're being sued.
I don't know why every is saying that ftp can't work with virtual host names when there is a proftpd config for it.
see subject
Scientific American recently had an accurate article on the MPAA v. DeCSS situation. As for regular TV, um, those guys can't tie their shoes anyway.
Very often I hear ppl telling me about this or that commercial they saw on TV. It's so gratifying to be able to say "Sorry, I don't watch TV, and so I didn't see that funny Mastercard (tm) commercial."
Don't you feel sorry for the ppl who are so scared of their identity that they pay to advertise company logos on their clothing?
Reminds me of the time a sometimes friend of mine accidentally erased /etc/passwd on a box he and another guy were using for penetration tests. He said that he had to crack the box to get back in and wouldn't tell me how he did it (at the time I knew nothing about linux).
Have you considered endorsing a presidential candidate? (I'm thinking that Ralph Nader would be a staunch ally of our freedom complaints.) Besides dropping the geek vote into the bucket, it'll get lots of us registered if they hear you say, "Go vote for this guy or girl because ..."
i use icewm on a P100 (admittedly faster than a 486-33). it is very quick.
<pet peeve>Distributions shouldn't default to running all those daemons. IMHO, that's why the recent DDoS's was possible.</pet peeve> // slashdot is a cigarette break for nonsmokers
>What is the point to this hot grits
>crap? Please give me some answers.
>Am I the only one that gets anoyed
>over this stuff?
There are two races on the earth. Human and Troll. Trolls are young. As they grow up they "experience a freakish metamorphis" and mutate into Humans. This is known as the breeding phase. Usually it stops after sufficient Trolls have been produced.
> I went to school in Colorado at a high
> school similar to Columbine. I totally
> related to Katz's articles on his Hellmouth
> series.
I just wished the Columbine kids were left alone by media, including sympathetic eyes. Everytime I see tragedy rehashed in the media, I feel like I'm watching Jerry Springer. [2 cents]