Mark Cuban is an idiot. You'd think that someone that made most of their money sending media over the Internet would at least understand how it works. TCP/IP itself is a "peer-to-peer" technology. Despite how many ISPs run their service, one of the overarching ideas of TCP/IP is that any machine can connect to any other machine, and if the other machine accepts the connection, can communicate. TCP/IP does not care which machine is the client or the server, and in some cases for some protocols, it is the server that connects to the client. So really, Mark Cuban is against the Internet as a whole, has shown that he is a crackpot, and can rightfully go back to obscurity where he belongs.
I had a LiveJournal, and when their terms of service changed in a way I didn't like, I closed my account (and then grew out of the "look-at-me" complex that normally fuels blogs). If you don't like what they're doing, then go somewhere else. There are plenty of other blogging services that aren't as idiotic and clueless. I'm not saying what LiveJournal is a good thing, nor am I arguing that they're right. I am saying that LiveJournal doesn't have a monopoly in the free blog world, and if you really want, you can go somewhere else easily. Since you control the content of your blog, if you're worried about people not seeing you've moved, post an entry in your LiveJournal linking to your new blog. Should be fine by their Terms of Service.
Really, then how does AllOfMP3 offer this for their Online Encoding Exclusives? Their Online Encoding Exclusives library seems to be the majority of their music, and they offer it in MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, FLAC, Monkey's Audio, and WAV format. They seem to transcode the WAV file to whatever format the buyer chooses.
Regardless of how you feel about AllOfMP3's compliance with copyright law, you can't deny that they have much less computing power than Apple with iTunes or Amazon, and yet they figured out how to do this without breaking the bank.
My problem with gateways is that they are the ideal place for someone to capture user name and password combinations for 'legacy' IM services. I'm probably not the first person to think of this, but how easy would it be to modify the relay software to, on a successful log in to AIM, MSN, ICQ, or Yahoo to dump the user name and password to a file? Blammo! A large database of "confirmed good" accounts. What you can do with this is, of course, only limited by your imagination. I suppose that on a small scale, this wouldn't be that useful - you'd only be able to log in and talk to people on someone else's list, but if it's a business IM account, or if you'd like to get into the IM spamming game, this would be a great way to start.
This doesn't even begin to touch on the fact that Jabber servers could grab your 'legacy' IMs and do all sorts of nasty things to the messages as they go through the system, such as modify them, store them, or data mine them to offer you targeted advertisement.
No thanks. I'll stick with my end-to-end OTR encryption for my messages and Gaim and use Gaim to connect to the legacy IM services.
I use Password Gorilla. It is written in Tcl/Tk and therefore is very cross-platform. They even have a.app for Mac usage! The Windows version is a standalone executable that is completely self contained so the machine that you use it on doesn't require you to install anything. It reads Password Safe password files. It's nice to have if you're on a machine that Password Safe does not support or if you cannot install software. I keep the Windows, Linux, and Mac versions on a keychain drive along with my (encrypted) password list.
If you're more the command line type, there is also pwsafe that supports the Password Safe format but allows you to add and get passwords from the command line.
One of the benefits of both of these pieces of software is that they allow you to generate completely random passwords. Completely random passwords are quite secure, and are a great way to make it a nightmare for any script kiddie to guess or crack your password. However, that leaves one passphrase that you need to remember and guard - the passphrase to your password managing program. I personally suggest Diceware as a great, truly random way to generate a completely random passphrase. You can even do it while you're away from the computer if you'd like and if you're paranoid. It's also a great way to generate passphrases for SSH keys, PGP keys, or whole-disk encryption.
I'm talking about short things - namely a few pertinent pages of a specifications sheet. If you are working on any sort of semi-large product, most of the time you have a printed specification that was done professionally - where you're not expending ink out of your printer to do it, or if not, you have one printed copy that everybody passes around and writes comments on, and if you need to share a page or two, you go to a conveniently located copier. It's not rocket science. That's not the main thrust of my argument though. If it is difficult for someone to switch between two windows on their computer, then I cannot comprehend how they can walk and chew gum at the same time, walk and talk with a colleague, write an email while quoting the previous parts, or drive without ramming into something. Sure, it might be a minor inconvenience, but there are solutions other than a huge monitor. If you're strapped for ink (as I was when I was a student), then bring some blank paper and make notes about the content in the other window, sort of a cheat sheet. That's what people did before printers were cheap and before second monitors had anywhere to plug in.
I'm not saying that they're not cool and I'm not saying that they're not useful. I'm just saying that it's wasteful to make the company spring for it if it is clear that they don't see the benefit. Unfortunately, those are the breaks, and that's life.
And you apparently think that I care what I'm moderated. Furthermore, you think that AOL is going to read these comments. Honestly, the reason I posted that obscenity filled rant was not to make a point, not to persuade anybody, and not to influence people. It was an emotional release, pure and simple, and when it was posted, that's what people wanted: a pure, emotional release. Hence why I got modded up. Now that cooler heads are prevailing, I'm getting modded down. I'm fine with this and this is right. Notice, however, that after that, once I had cooled off, I posted something with no obscenity trying to spell out what I thought from a rational standpoint.
As far as I'm concerned, the hacker/free software community needs both raw emotion (Theo DeRaadt, Richard Stallman) and reason (Linus Torvals most of the time, Andrew Tridgell), otherwise people think we're all the same - mindless automatons who care only about the code or sweaty stinky geeks that overreact when the pizza toppings are wrong.
In closing, who taught you that obscenity negates someone's argument? Sure, it many not be appropriate in polite company, but since when has how an argument been worded negated its value? Do you think that AOL was requesting was appropriate in polite company? If I choose to go off on an obscenity related rant, it doesn't change the fact that I don't like AOL, that I think they have had too much influence on the Internet, that they've been allowed to do things that smaller companies or individuals wouldn't be allowed to do, and that I hope their business model disintegrates before them and that these points are clear from how the argument is worded.
(Okay, now that I'm actually not angry, I'll actually write something less obscenity-laden.)
It's a shame that AOL feels that they need to do this. Speaking as a hacker, I know about three people on my buddy list that actually use the stock AIM client, and all of them complain about it. Their ads jumping out and making noise, allowing users to set "buddy sounds" like buddy icons, and their decision to make their official client so resource heavy are reasons that I've heard. Also the fact that they bundled WeatherBug and other spyware in the past. The fact that anybody uses their official client should surprise them.
It is for reasons like this that I made the jump to Jabber a few years ago. While I really like the protocol and like how it works and allows me to communicate how I choose, not in a way that makes the server admins money, very few people know about it, and those that do know about it do not want to leave their current friends behind. gaim was good because if you wanted to use Jabber and AIM and didn't want to have to find an AIM transport that was up more often than down, free, and not snooping on your messages, it allowed you to be on both networks. I know other clients exist, but none are as cross-platform as gaim, and none were as easy to find as gaim. By renaming themselves, they are losing what made them useful to Joe Sixpack - name recognition. If you said to someone "I want to talk to you on AIM, here's GAIM", they could probably figure it out. If you told someone that you wanted to IM them, and told them to open Pidgin, you'll probably get a blank stare, at best.
There are two things that I can really see needed to be fixed. The first is fixing Jabber clients so they are as easy to use as AIM and so they auto-import buddy lists and other settings without having to talk to a single AIM transport which may be out of date, offline, or snooping messages. The second, and much more important, is fixing the legal system so that companies cannot extort smaller competitors by trademarking their name after their competitor came up with one. I can assure you that if the gaim team had tried to trademark AIM before AOL did, they would have been denied.
This is a sad day. Yes, I'm sure version 2.0 will be great, and we'll see a lot of features, but it highlights how screwed up the legal system is. If you go to the main gaim page (http://gaim.sf.net/) and read about the history of gaim, you'll see that it was called gaim before AOL trademarked AIM. What sort of legal system allows you to steal legally like this? Does this mean I can trademark fAIM for "Fuck AOL Instant Messenger"? On that note:
AOL, fuck you. Seriously. You've done nothing but retard the Internet. Ever since the September that never ended, you have been nothing but a bunch of freeloading jerkoffs. I hope all of you die of ass cancer and we run out of pain killers. May your children grow up to be like the Menendez brothers. You are nothing but a much of monkey fucking suits puffing on cigars as you torch that which made you rich. I hope you all die in a fire and die of anal rape.
This is the first post on Slashdot where I'll probably be modded troll or flamebait, and I accept that. I just think that people who are angry should get a release from this too.
Wow, if switching between two windows is enough to make you incur a full context switch then I'm glad that I don't have to ride in a car you're driving. I have a single monitor running at 1024x768 most of the time, and I can have open a text editor, specifications for what I'm coding and API reference. They key is to use the space you have efficiently.
And if that doesn't work, printing out the one or two pages you need to frequently reference and being adult about how you handle those pages so you don't have to re-print costs much less than another monitor. Plus it's much easier to mark them up to help preserve state.
You can turn off the fairy cursor. I made this one change, and the playability of the game improved about 100%.
It could be worse. You could be damned to the Hell of eternal "HEY LISTEN!". At least the fairy knows she's best seen and not heard in this game. (Though really, I'm still scarred for life from "HEY LISTEN!")
Yes, please do this. Please list all of the player keys in the open that are no longer valid for this disc but might be valid for other discs. I'm sure nobody will think of using these player keys for a software hack. For the love of god someone please forward this to the AACS people, this is a wonderful idea.
(Ironically, the captcha for this post was "plunder".)
IIRC, in Linux you have direct access to the hardware in a driver that resides entirely in kernel mode, and there is an instruction filtering process to prevent malicious operations.
You are incorrect in that statement. You do not have direct access to the hardware. Everything you do goes through a userspace interface to the driver. This is the direct analogue to what you have said about Vista - there is a small kernel of functionality in kernel space, but the bulk of access goes through userspace. Direct access would be a user-owned process writing directly to the registers and memory of the video card or other device, which does not happen. (Although, if I recall correctly, this is what SVGAlib did, which was why programs needed to be SUID-root to function.)
In past versions of Windows (3.1, 95, 98, ME), user processes were allowed to directly access hardware. Starting with Windows NT, user processes were not allowed to do so. Linux (and UNIX since the availibility of hardware access controls) enforces a separation between userspace processes and hardware through the kernel. All access to this hardware goes through the kernel, unlike in previous versions of Windows where you could do whatever you pleased outside the guidance of the kernel.
You are running the game in a regular user account, but at some level that user is executing arbitrary code in kernel mode.
Again, incorrect. The game is executing the game code in userspace. When the game needs to get something done that requires the kernel's help (which is a lot, actually), it engages the services of the kernel through system calls. The kernel then services the requests at the behest of the program - it does not allow the program to run roughshot over the OS. The kernel is servicing the program, the program is not enacting its will upon the OS. This allows the operating system to enforce policy upon the program.
Also, I really dislike the term "arbitrary code". Here's why. An operating system is "arbitrary code", and the method for executing "arbitrary code" takes place regularly - your bootloader loads the OS into memory and jumps to it. At what point is code no longer "arbitrary"? When it's the code that you want to be running or expect to be running? What makes that less arbitrary than any other code? In the field of security, it's generally meant to mean code that is not intended to be run by the user or code that is not intended to be allowed to run in kernel mode. When you look at it from this side, arbitrary code is not executed by userspace programs unless there is a bug in the kernel which can occur under any OS.
If my understanding is accurate, the reason is because Vista is actually more secure than Linux if you are using your PC for games.
I think that you are somewhat mistaken. Both are "secure" OSes in a very loose sense of the term. However, both have their share of bugs which make them less secure.
Speaking as someone who considers themselves inclined towards the dominant side of the dominant/submissive spectrum and who has been in several dominant/submissive based relationships, I am appaled at how these so called dominants handled themselves. While most people see a harsh dominant as someone who is constantly an asshole, there is more to it than that. While most people see a harsh dominant coming on strong in public, being degrading, or sending abusive messages with pictures of them in several states of undress, that's not what it's about. I certainly feel for the people that got hurt in this situation, but, at least partially, it's their own damn fault for acting like an asshole and pretending to be something that they're not. I suppose that's what one would expect from the Internet. To expect anything less than being made fun of by someone else on the Internet is foolhardy.
The title for this article is misleading. The article says that the contract that ICANN signed does not prohibit tiered pricing, but nowhere in the article does it say that this will be implemented by Verisign or other registries. So let's cool down for a second and act rationally. The article is basically the author thinking out loud about what this could lead to, not what is certain to happen.
I think it has a lot to do with motivation. Many people feel that the Government/Bush is doing what it/he can (sometimes misdirected) to thwart terrorist attacks.
What I find ironic is that many people who were against the Nixon administration (which did similar things to the Bush adminstration) actually support the Bush adminstration. Almost as if their disillusionment with the political system wore off once they actually had to support a family.
This is called "chaffing", and it was proposed by none other than Ron Rivest. There is a paper on his website describing it. It seems like a natural way to implement something like this.
This is a wonderful idea. While slightly off-topic, there is a similar idea for computer games and software called The Scratchware Manifesto.
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My main machine at home is an AMD-64 machine running Debian unstable. Debian has been running on AMD-64 for some time now, but there's never been an official release with it as yet.
The mailing list for the AMD-64 port was created on May 25, 2003.
As a side note, if it was a wireless service then it is a simple matter of checking the MAC address that had the IP at that time and tracking it back.
Unless, of course, someone was spoofing their MAC address. Then it doesn't really get you anywhere. As a bonus, check out the IEEE database for MAC addresses by company.
DVD Shrink gets rid of "Prohibited User Operations". These are instructions in the DVD that disable keys, removing skipping and other features. It is not turned on by default if I remember correctly, but when it's turned on, it works great.
That's a good thing - if you have a Redbox near you. Unfortunatly, despite living in a fairly large college town, there aren't any around. NetFlix has a shipping facility a few miles away from my place and I get my movies quickly.
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Mark Cuban is an idiot. You'd think that someone that made most of their money sending media over the Internet would at least understand how it works. TCP/IP itself is a "peer-to-peer" technology. Despite how many ISPs run their service, one of the overarching ideas of TCP/IP is that any machine can connect to any other machine, and if the other machine accepts the connection, can communicate. TCP/IP does not care which machine is the client or the server, and in some cases for some protocols, it is the server that connects to the client. So really, Mark Cuban is against the Internet as a whole, has shown that he is a crackpot, and can rightfully go back to obscurity where he belongs.
You mean like this?
You rang?
I had a LiveJournal, and when their terms of service changed in a way I didn't like, I closed my account (and then grew out of the "look-at-me" complex that normally fuels blogs). If you don't like what they're doing, then go somewhere else. There are plenty of other blogging services that aren't as idiotic and clueless. I'm not saying what LiveJournal is a good thing, nor am I arguing that they're right. I am saying that LiveJournal doesn't have a monopoly in the free blog world, and if you really want, you can go somewhere else easily. Since you control the content of your blog, if you're worried about people not seeing you've moved, post an entry in your LiveJournal linking to your new blog. Should be fine by their Terms of Service.
Really, then how does AllOfMP3 offer this for their Online Encoding Exclusives? Their Online Encoding Exclusives library seems to be the majority of their music, and they offer it in MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA, FLAC, Monkey's Audio, and WAV format. They seem to transcode the WAV file to whatever format the buyer chooses.
Regardless of how you feel about AllOfMP3's compliance with copyright law, you can't deny that they have much less computing power than Apple with iTunes or Amazon, and yet they figured out how to do this without breaking the bank.
My problem with gateways is that they are the ideal place for someone to capture user name and password combinations for 'legacy' IM services. I'm probably not the first person to think of this, but how easy would it be to modify the relay software to, on a successful log in to AIM, MSN, ICQ, or Yahoo to dump the user name and password to a file? Blammo! A large database of "confirmed good" accounts. What you can do with this is, of course, only limited by your imagination. I suppose that on a small scale, this wouldn't be that useful - you'd only be able to log in and talk to people on someone else's list, but if it's a business IM account, or if you'd like to get into the IM spamming game, this would be a great way to start.
This doesn't even begin to touch on the fact that Jabber servers could grab your 'legacy' IMs and do all sorts of nasty things to the messages as they go through the system, such as modify them, store them, or data mine them to offer you targeted advertisement.
No thanks. I'll stick with my end-to-end OTR encryption for my messages and Gaim and use Gaim to connect to the legacy IM services.
I use Password Gorilla. It is written in Tcl/Tk and therefore is very cross-platform. They even have a .app for Mac usage! The Windows version is a standalone executable that is completely self contained so the machine that you use it on doesn't require you to install anything. It reads Password Safe password files. It's nice to have if you're on a machine that Password Safe does not support or if you cannot install software. I keep the Windows, Linux, and Mac versions on a keychain drive along with my (encrypted) password list.
If you're more the command line type, there is also pwsafe that supports the Password Safe format but allows you to add and get passwords from the command line.
One of the benefits of both of these pieces of software is that they allow you to generate completely random passwords. Completely random passwords are quite secure, and are a great way to make it a nightmare for any script kiddie to guess or crack your password. However, that leaves one passphrase that you need to remember and guard - the passphrase to your password managing program. I personally suggest Diceware as a great, truly random way to generate a completely random passphrase. You can even do it while you're away from the computer if you'd like and if you're paranoid. It's also a great way to generate passphrases for SSH keys, PGP keys, or whole-disk encryption.
I'm talking about short things - namely a few pertinent pages of a specifications sheet. If you are working on any sort of semi-large product, most of the time you have a printed specification that was done professionally - where you're not expending ink out of your printer to do it, or if not, you have one printed copy that everybody passes around and writes comments on, and if you need to share a page or two, you go to a conveniently located copier. It's not rocket science. That's not the main thrust of my argument though. If it is difficult for someone to switch between two windows on their computer, then I cannot comprehend how they can walk and chew gum at the same time, walk and talk with a colleague, write an email while quoting the previous parts, or drive without ramming into something. Sure, it might be a minor inconvenience, but there are solutions other than a huge monitor. If you're strapped for ink (as I was when I was a student), then bring some blank paper and make notes about the content in the other window, sort of a cheat sheet. That's what people did before printers were cheap and before second monitors had anywhere to plug in.
I'm not saying that they're not cool and I'm not saying that they're not useful. I'm just saying that it's wasteful to make the company spring for it if it is clear that they don't see the benefit. Unfortunately, those are the breaks, and that's life.
And you apparently think that I care what I'm moderated. Furthermore, you think that AOL is going to read these comments. Honestly, the reason I posted that obscenity filled rant was not to make a point, not to persuade anybody, and not to influence people. It was an emotional release, pure and simple, and when it was posted, that's what people wanted: a pure, emotional release. Hence why I got modded up. Now that cooler heads are prevailing, I'm getting modded down. I'm fine with this and this is right. Notice, however, that after that, once I had cooled off, I posted something with no obscenity trying to spell out what I thought from a rational standpoint.
As far as I'm concerned, the hacker/free software community needs both raw emotion (Theo DeRaadt, Richard Stallman) and reason (Linus Torvals most of the time, Andrew Tridgell), otherwise people think we're all the same - mindless automatons who care only about the code or sweaty stinky geeks that overreact when the pizza toppings are wrong.
In closing, who taught you that obscenity negates someone's argument? Sure, it many not be appropriate in polite company, but since when has how an argument been worded negated its value? Do you think that AOL was requesting was appropriate in polite company? If I choose to go off on an obscenity related rant, it doesn't change the fact that I don't like AOL, that I think they have had too much influence on the Internet, that they've been allowed to do things that smaller companies or individuals wouldn't be allowed to do, and that I hope their business model disintegrates before them and that these points are clear from how the argument is worded.
(Okay, now that I'm actually not angry, I'll actually write something less obscenity-laden.)
It's a shame that AOL feels that they need to do this. Speaking as a hacker, I know about three people on my buddy list that actually use the stock AIM client, and all of them complain about it. Their ads jumping out and making noise, allowing users to set "buddy sounds" like buddy icons, and their decision to make their official client so resource heavy are reasons that I've heard. Also the fact that they bundled WeatherBug and other spyware in the past. The fact that anybody uses their official client should surprise them.
It is for reasons like this that I made the jump to Jabber a few years ago. While I really like the protocol and like how it works and allows me to communicate how I choose, not in a way that makes the server admins money, very few people know about it, and those that do know about it do not want to leave their current friends behind. gaim was good because if you wanted to use Jabber and AIM and didn't want to have to find an AIM transport that was up more often than down, free, and not snooping on your messages, it allowed you to be on both networks. I know other clients exist, but none are as cross-platform as gaim, and none were as easy to find as gaim. By renaming themselves, they are losing what made them useful to Joe Sixpack - name recognition. If you said to someone "I want to talk to you on AIM, here's GAIM", they could probably figure it out. If you told someone that you wanted to IM them, and told them to open Pidgin, you'll probably get a blank stare, at best.
There are two things that I can really see needed to be fixed. The first is fixing Jabber clients so they are as easy to use as AIM and so they auto-import buddy lists and other settings without having to talk to a single AIM transport which may be out of date, offline, or snooping messages. The second, and much more important, is fixing the legal system so that companies cannot extort smaller competitors by trademarking their name after their competitor came up with one. I can assure you that if the gaim team had tried to trademark AIM before AOL did, they would have been denied.
This is a sad day. Yes, I'm sure version 2.0 will be great, and we'll see a lot of features, but it highlights how screwed up the legal system is. If you go to the main gaim page (http://gaim.sf.net/) and read about the history of gaim, you'll see that it was called gaim before AOL trademarked AIM. What sort of legal system allows you to steal legally like this? Does this mean I can trademark fAIM for "Fuck AOL Instant Messenger"? On that note:
AOL, fuck you. Seriously. You've done nothing but retard the Internet. Ever since the September that never ended, you have been nothing but a bunch of freeloading jerkoffs. I hope all of you die of ass cancer and we run out of pain killers. May your children grow up to be like the Menendez brothers. You are nothing but a much of monkey fucking suits puffing on cigars as you torch that which made you rich. I hope you all die in a fire and die of anal rape.
This is the first post on Slashdot where I'll probably be modded troll or flamebait, and I accept that. I just think that people who are angry should get a release from this too.
Again, fuck you, AOL.
Wow, if switching between two windows is enough to make you incur a full context switch then I'm glad that I don't have to ride in a car you're driving. I have a single monitor running at 1024x768 most of the time, and I can have open a text editor, specifications for what I'm coding and API reference. They key is to use the space you have efficiently.
And if that doesn't work, printing out the one or two pages you need to frequently reference and being adult about how you handle those pages so you don't have to re-print costs much less than another monitor. Plus it's much easier to mark them up to help preserve state.
Key example: they list the Northgate OmniKey Ultra instead of the IBM Model M which came out five years earlier and was much better.
You can turn off the fairy cursor. I made this one change, and the playability of the game improved about 100%.
It could be worse. You could be damned to the Hell of eternal "HEY LISTEN!". At least the fairy knows she's best seen and not heard in this game. (Though really, I'm still scarred for life from "HEY LISTEN!")
Yes, please do this. Please list all of the player keys in the open that are no longer valid for this disc but might be valid for other discs. I'm sure nobody will think of using these player keys for a software hack. For the love of god someone please forward this to the AACS people, this is a wonderful idea.
(Ironically, the captcha for this post was "plunder".)
In past versions of Windows (3.1, 95, 98, ME), user processes were allowed to directly access hardware. Starting with Windows NT, user processes were not allowed to do so. Linux (and UNIX since the availibility of hardware access controls) enforces a separation between userspace processes and hardware through the kernel. All access to this hardware goes through the kernel, unlike in previous versions of Windows where you could do whatever you pleased outside the guidance of the kernel.
Again, incorrect. The game is executing the game code in userspace. When the game needs to get something done that requires the kernel's help (which is a lot, actually), it engages the services of the kernel through system calls. The kernel then services the requests at the behest of the program - it does not allow the program to run roughshot over the OS. The kernel is servicing the program, the program is not enacting its will upon the OS. This allows the operating system to enforce policy upon the program.
Also, I really dislike the term "arbitrary code". Here's why. An operating system is "arbitrary code", and the method for executing "arbitrary code" takes place regularly - your bootloader loads the OS into memory and jumps to it. At what point is code no longer "arbitrary"? When it's the code that you want to be running or expect to be running? What makes that less arbitrary than any other code? In the field of security, it's generally meant to mean code that is not intended to be run by the user or code that is not intended to be allowed to run in kernel mode. When you look at it from this side, arbitrary code is not executed by userspace programs unless there is a bug in the kernel which can occur under any OS.
I think that you are somewhat mistaken. Both are "secure" OSes in a very loose sense of the term. However, both have their share of bugs which make them less secure.
Speaking as someone who considers themselves inclined towards the dominant side of the dominant/submissive spectrum and who has been in several dominant/submissive based relationships, I am appaled at how these so called dominants handled themselves. While most people see a harsh dominant as someone who is constantly an asshole, there is more to it than that. While most people see a harsh dominant coming on strong in public, being degrading, or sending abusive messages with pictures of them in several states of undress, that's not what it's about. I certainly feel for the people that got hurt in this situation, but, at least partially, it's their own damn fault for acting like an asshole and pretending to be something that they're not. I suppose that's what one would expect from the Internet. To expect anything less than being made fun of by someone else on the Internet is foolhardy.
The title for this article is misleading. The article says that the contract that ICANN signed does not prohibit tiered pricing, but nowhere in the article does it say that this will be implemented by Verisign or other registries. So let's cool down for a second and act rationally. The article is basically the author thinking out loud about what this could lead to, not what is certain to happen.
What I find ironic is that many people who were against the Nixon administration (which did similar things to the Bush adminstration) actually support the Bush adminstration. Almost as if their disillusionment with the political system wore off once they actually had to support a family.
This is called "chaffing", and it was proposed by none other than Ron Rivest. There is a paper on his website describing it. It seems like a natural way to implement something like this.
So, who wants to hack on this?
This is a wonderful idea. While slightly off-topic, there is a similar idea for computer games and software called The Scratchware Manifesto.
My main machine at home is an AMD-64 machine running Debian unstable. Debian has been running on AMD-64 for some time now, but there's never been an official release with it as yet.
The mailing list for the AMD-64 port was created on May 25, 2003.
Unless, of course, someone was spoofing their MAC address. Then it doesn't really get you anywhere. As a bonus, check out the IEEE database for MAC addresses by company.
DVD Shrink gets rid of "Prohibited User Operations". These are instructions in the DVD that disable keys, removing skipping and other features. It is not turned on by default if I remember correctly, but when it's turned on, it works great.
That's a good thing - if you have a Redbox near you. Unfortunatly, despite living in a fairly large college town, there aren't any around. NetFlix has a shipping facility a few miles away from my place and I get my movies quickly.