IANAL, but in Arizona, at least, and probably many other states, the act of domain hijacking is a felony (it's considered unauthorized computer access, or some such language). So is ID theft. There may be federal statutes at work here as well. You should see if you can get the proper authorities involved -- they'd at least be able to subpoena the registrar's records to track down the attacker.
Granted, you'll have to get the authorities interested first -- usually they need to see significant monetary damages with criminal intent. But it's another avenue to explore if you're challenged by the legal fees (and who isn't these days?)
There are whole classes of tasks that simply can't be done in parallel.
For example, If you want a baby in three months, you don't impregnate three women and hope for the best. You buy him/her from the Impoverished Nation of the Week.
I'm not harsh on copying and pasting freely available code from "out there" for your own use -- I'm harsh on copying and pasting code from one part of a system to another, just because somebody didn't have the mental capacity to realize they could tweak the existing code ever so slightly to suit both the old problem and the new problem. I've had to clean up after this more times than I'd care to count.
I once saw somebody who'd scoped each of the fifteen or so individual case clauses of a switch in braces, because they didn't want to rename the local variables they'd cut'n'pasted into each of the cases. Each case was about fifty lines, with a max of about five lines difference between them. I'm surprised I didn't have an anyeurism right then and there.
I've had to clean up after one of those guys. He'd crank out the first cut of a codebase, and I'd go through and factor out the instant cruft his stream of consciousness had spewed out. We actually made a pretty good team.
He was (still is) brilliant, but his codebase would quickly degenerate into an inmaintainable plate of spaghetti without someone like me, and he knew it. He told me as much.
Naah. It's just not enough of a felony for the county attorney to go through the hassle. But if they ever turn up here again, we could inform the local police, which would probably make their visit... um, interesting.
My wife's business website was routed to a porn site for three days a couple years ago. They transferred the domain from her account to their own account with another registrar, and pointed it to their own DNS servers.
They accessed her account by, you guessed it, compromising her primary email account using the "secret questions". As it turns out, the perpetrators knew all the right answers, because they were her ex-husband and his apparently-vindictive second wife.
They had unfettered access to her email account for over a year while they plotted this bit of nastiness. Such activity is a felony where we come from, but they moved out of the country before charges could be pressed.
Needless to say, my wife uses a bogus set of "secret" answers that even I don't know. Not that she's not trusting or anything...;-)
Has anyone noticed that the "larding of America" started in the early 1980's? That's right around the time that high-fructose corn syrup was introduced into soft drinks. Since about 1985, nearly all non-diet soft drinks marketed in the US contain HFCS as their sweetener, because of quotas and tariffs on sugar. In addition, it's found in a wide variety of baked goods and other processed foods.
Because of the influence and greed of the industrial farming lobby (ADM and friends), and despite numerous studies that show that HFCS is harmful, Americans continue to be subjected to this stuff in most of what they eat and drink.
The problem with the Scottsdale traffic cameras is that they're trivially simple to circumvent if you're already enough of an asshat to play "Pole Position" in real life. Indeed. According to the Phoenix New Times (free arts weekly), there's an even easier way -- start an LLC and title your car to it. When the letter comes asking you nicely to rat out the driver of your company vehicle, toss it. They won't pursue it if your corporate entity doesn't respond.
No, not heroin, marijuana. You're thinking of the Bali Nine. They're toast.
Schapelle Corby only made the mistake of forgetting to lock her boogie board bag, so that airside baggage handlers in Brisbane could add a 4.1kg "going-away-for-a-long-time present" of weed that their mates in Sydney forgot to collect before her connecting flight. Tragic.
When I went to Nice a couple years ago, I took a Palm, keyboard, modem, and Maglobe account. I then sent daily emails to my girlfriend (now wife), who kept them as a travelogue.
She actually printed out my emails and had a bookbinder friend of hers bind them into a journal. It was a really touching gift when I got back.
Freenet is perfect for this. If an RBL maintainer generates and publishes a SSK (subspace key) to a DBR (date-based redirector) freesite, he can maintain his list on Freenet, where it can NEVER be spoofed or DDOS'd, or deleted, except for lack of interest. Perhaps a tool can be developed that automatically feeds an SMTP server's blacklist with regular updates from Freenet.
Freenet is bloody slow these days, but an app like this could easily improve its performance, since the RBL would be widely propagated among the many interested nodes.
Has anyone thought about maybe diffing the recent Linux sources against legacy UNIX sources (like SCO used to license)? It seems like such a simple and logical thing to do. They found the alleged infrigements, why can't we?
If I had the appropriate UNIX sources, I'd do it myself. Somebody out there must have a copy of the UNIX in question.
Not only do I have a wonderful fiancee, but she prefers the old Irish tradition. She wears a claddagh, a ring with two hands holding a heart and a crown. Most Irish girls get one well before engagement, worn with the heart out and the crown towards their wrist to indicate their availability.
When they get engaged, they flip the ring over, with the crown out and the heart pointed in to indicate they're taken. And the best part is, no diamond ever leaves the ground for the deal!
My honey also insisted that if she was going to wear a ring, so must I. So, I have a silver Celtic* knot band on my left ring finger.
* That's/'kel-tik/ -- I don't care if you *are* from Boston!
I feel your pain -- BUT -- Visual Interdev is NOT VB! VBScript is indeed an abomination against God and Nature, but VB is maligned only because its early versions were implemented well enough to allow idiots to use it and thereby proliferate mounds of horrific spaghetti code (written without a plan, to be sure).
I do often wish the idiots had been left out of the VB game, since I now have to go clean up after them (like on the project I'm working right now -- yeesh!). But to compare VB unfavorably to a language that still requires you to manage memory BY HAND in this day and age does everyone a grave disservice.
At the time, I was working in a video arcade that had a Williams Space Shuttle pinball. I got a call from another store in our chain saying, "I just thought I'd let you know that the Space Shuttle blew up." The store he was working at was rather small, and I asked him, "I didn't even know you guys had any pins in your store!"
He had to explain it to me again. After I hung up, I stood out in the mall, watching the TV across the hall for about an hour. You could've wheeled a couple games and the change machine out that day, I wouldn't've noticed or cared. We left the Space Shuttle pin turned off for about a week, if I remember correctly.
And all because Reagan wanted to squeeze mention of the launch into his State of the Union address that night. Stupid.
This has nothing to do with socalist entitlements.
To state that a corporation can "only" act just like any other individual is fallacious. A corporation is legally considered the same as an individual. However, it has far more resources and far less sense of conscience than an individual.
Thus, we see time and again the government handing out increasingly onerous and opressive laws bought and paid for by unbridled corporate resources.
As an example that is particularly near and dear to us here on/., this process has perverted copyright from being a limited enticement for artists to publish their works with the ultimate aim of increasing the public domain, into a mechanism that encumbers information indefinitely. Remember, essentially nothing has fallen out of copyright since before World War One.
This is the sort of infringement that corporate greed has bought from the government.
The American film industry tends to stagger theatrical release dates around the world, for reasons of economy. This way, a studio can strike one set of theatrical prints for a summer US release, and then ship those same prints to Europe for a Christmas release. They've operated like this for decades.
In the VHS era, the NTSC/PAL/SECAM video format differences were what protected this business model. DVD Region Coding was demanded by the studios to artificially maintain this technological bottleneck with the new, globally unified system.
Now, with region coding broken, a European (or Australian, or especially Kiwi) moviegoer can see the movie on DVD before they can see it in the theater. And get it cheaper to boot. If the consumer ends up on top (and you know we will, ultimately), the studios might have to start doing global releases all at one go! Or the more likely, and less pleasant scenario, is that they hold the DVD release until the world theatrical run is completed.
...and the managers above him sacked his ass inside of two weeks. What we saw as extremely useful to drive the project and get it done properly and in a timely fashion, they saw as a threat to their control.
As far as we could see, though, the company was winding down to die anyway. Sad.
I don't believe he was in Arthur (assuming you're referring to the 1981 Dudley Moore vehicle). The butler (Hobson) was played by Sir John Gielgud, another brilliant actor we tragically lost just this last May at the age of 96.
While the practical aspects of the mission are daunting, and the technical payoff is less than stellar (no pun intended), the PR payoff is absolutely brilliant. The US went to the moon in 1969, and nobody's been there in 25 years. Certainly no private party has dared to go there. "Too expensive!" "No payoff!"
Even if a lunar repeater is impractical for the average ragchew, just to say that "a bunch of old fossils" had the vision and drive to put it there despite the naysayers is reason enough to go for it. And a Ham license becomes far more than access to a "dying medium". It becomes a ticket to the Moon!
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IANAL, but in Arizona, at least, and probably many other states, the act of domain hijacking is a felony (it's considered unauthorized computer access, or some such language). So is ID theft. There may be federal statutes at work here as well. You should see if you can get the proper authorities involved -- they'd at least be able to subpoena the registrar's records to track down the attacker.
Granted, you'll have to get the authorities interested first -- usually they need to see significant monetary damages with criminal intent. But it's another avenue to explore if you're challenged by the legal fees (and who isn't these days?)
There are whole classes of tasks that simply can't be done in parallel.
For example, If you want a baby in three months, you don't impregnate three women and hope for the best. You buy him/her from the Impoverished Nation of the Week.
I'm not harsh on copying and pasting freely available code from "out there" for your own use -- I'm harsh on copying and pasting code from one part of a system to another, just because somebody didn't have the mental capacity to realize they could tweak the existing code ever so slightly to suit both the old problem and the new problem. I've had to clean up after this more times than I'd care to count.
I once saw somebody who'd scoped each of the fifteen or so individual case clauses of a switch in braces, because they didn't want to rename the local variables they'd cut'n'pasted into each of the cases. Each case was about fifty lines, with a max of about five lines difference between them. I'm surprised I didn't have an anyeurism right then and there.
Mmm-hmm.
I've had to clean up after one of those guys. He'd crank out the first cut of a codebase, and I'd go through and factor out the instant cruft his stream of consciousness had spewed out. We actually made a pretty good team.
He was (still is) brilliant, but his codebase would quickly degenerate into an inmaintainable plate of spaghetti without someone like me, and he knew it. He told me as much.
Naah. It's just not enough of a felony for the county attorney to go through the hassle. But if they ever turn up here again, we could inform the local police, which would probably make their visit... um, interesting.
My wife's business website was routed to a porn site for three days a couple years ago. They transferred the domain from her account to their own account with another registrar, and pointed it to their own DNS servers.
They accessed her account by, you guessed it, compromising her primary email account using the "secret questions". As it turns out, the perpetrators knew all the right answers, because they were her ex-husband and his apparently-vindictive second wife.
They had unfettered access to her email account for over a year while they plotted this bit of nastiness. Such activity is a felony where we come from, but they moved out of the country before charges could be pressed.
Needless to say, my wife uses a bogus set of "secret" answers that even I don't know. Not that she's not trusting or anything... ;-)
Has anyone noticed that the "larding of America" started in the early 1980's? That's right around the time that high-fructose corn syrup was introduced into soft drinks. Since about 1985, nearly all non-diet soft drinks marketed in the US contain HFCS as their sweetener, because of quotas and tariffs on sugar. In addition, it's found in a wide variety of baked goods and other processed foods.
Because of the influence and greed of the industrial farming lobby (ADM and friends), and despite numerous studies that show that HFCS is harmful, Americans continue to be subjected to this stuff in most of what they eat and drink.
It makes me sick. Literally.
Actually, it's Fascist America. Or Corporatist America.
This guy's book goes into quite a bit of detail.
What about the Plato system? That was a remarkably complete LMS from the mainframe days. That's gotta knock out at least a few claims.
No, not heroin, marijuana. You're thinking of the Bali Nine. They're toast.
Schapelle Corby only made the mistake of forgetting to lock her boogie board bag, so that airside baggage handlers in Brisbane could add a 4.1kg "going-away-for-a-long-time present" of weed that their mates in Sydney forgot to collect before her connecting flight. Tragic.
When I went to Nice a couple years ago, I took a Palm, keyboard, modem, and Maglobe account. I then sent daily emails to my girlfriend (now wife), who kept them as a travelogue.
She actually printed out my emails and had a bookbinder friend of hers bind them into a journal. It was a really touching gift when I got back.
...central authentication.
Freenet is perfect for this. If an RBL maintainer generates and publishes a SSK (subspace key) to a DBR (date-based redirector) freesite, he can maintain his list on Freenet, where it can NEVER be spoofed or DDOS'd, or deleted, except for lack of interest. Perhaps a tool can be developed that automatically feeds an SMTP server's blacklist with regular updates from Freenet.
Freenet is bloody slow these days, but an app like this could easily improve its performance, since the RBL would be widely propagated among the many interested nodes.
Gator Graphics? Hmm...
Has anyone thought about maybe diffing the recent Linux sources against legacy UNIX sources (like SCO used to license)? It seems like such a simple and logical thing to do. They found the alleged infrigements, why can't we?
If I had the appropriate UNIX sources, I'd do it myself. Somebody out there must have a copy of the UNIX in question.
The FUD will evaporate in the cold light of day.
Not only do I have a wonderful fiancee, but she prefers the old Irish tradition. She wears a claddagh, a ring with two hands holding a heart and a crown. Most Irish girls get one well before engagement, worn with the heart out and the crown towards their wrist to indicate their availability.
/'kel-tik/ -- I don't care if you *are* from Boston!
When they get engaged, they flip the ring over, with the crown out and the heart pointed in to indicate they're taken. And the best part is, no diamond ever leaves the ground for the deal!
My honey also insisted that if she was going to wear a ring, so must I. So, I have a silver Celtic* knot band on my left ring finger.
* That's
I feel your pain -- BUT -- Visual Interdev is NOT VB! VBScript is indeed an abomination against God and Nature, but VB is maligned only because its early versions were implemented well enough to allow idiots to use it and thereby proliferate mounds of horrific spaghetti code (written without a plan, to be sure).
I do often wish the idiots had been left out of the VB game, since I now have to go clean up after them (like on the project I'm working right now -- yeesh!). But to compare VB unfavorably to a language that still requires you to manage memory BY HAND in this day and age does everyone a grave disservice.
At the time, I was working in a video arcade that had a Williams Space Shuttle pinball. I got a call from another store in our chain saying, "I just thought I'd let you know that the Space Shuttle blew up." The store he was working at was rather small, and I asked him, "I didn't even know you guys had any pins in your store!"
He had to explain it to me again. After I hung up, I stood out in the mall, watching the TV across the hall for about an hour. You could've wheeled a couple games and the change machine out that day, I wouldn't've noticed or cared. We left the Space Shuttle pin turned off for about a week, if I remember correctly.
And all because Reagan wanted to squeeze mention of the launch into his State of the Union address that night. Stupid.
Hmm... That adds a whole new meaning to the term "LIMITED Edition!" ;-) What does the LE Dreamcast have that would make it attractive to consumers?
This has nothing to do with socalist entitlements.
/., this process has perverted copyright from being a limited enticement for artists to publish their works with the ultimate aim of increasing the public domain, into a mechanism that encumbers information indefinitely. Remember, essentially nothing has fallen out of copyright since before World War One.
To state that a corporation can "only" act just like any other individual is fallacious. A corporation is legally considered the same as an individual. However, it has far more resources and far less sense of conscience than an individual.
Thus, we see time and again the government handing out increasingly onerous and opressive laws bought and paid for by unbridled corporate resources.
As an example that is particularly near and dear to us here on
This is the sort of infringement that corporate greed has bought from the government.
The American film industry tends to stagger theatrical release dates around the world, for reasons of economy. This way, a studio can strike one set of theatrical prints for a summer US release, and then ship those same prints to Europe for a Christmas release. They've operated like this for decades.
In the VHS era, the NTSC/PAL/SECAM video format differences were what protected this business model. DVD Region Coding was demanded by the studios to artificially maintain this technological bottleneck with the new, globally unified system.
Now, with region coding broken, a European (or Australian, or especially Kiwi) moviegoer can see the movie on DVD before they can see it in the theater. And get it cheaper to boot. If the consumer ends up on top (and you know we will, ultimately), the studios might have to start doing global releases all at one go! Or the more likely, and less pleasant scenario, is that they hold the DVD release until the world theatrical run is completed.
...and the managers above him sacked his ass inside of two weeks. What we saw as extremely useful to drive the project and get it done properly and in a timely fashion, they saw as a threat to their control.
As far as we could see, though, the company was winding down to die anyway. Sad.
Uh...
I don't believe he was in Arthur (assuming you're referring to the 1981 Dudley Moore vehicle). The butler (Hobson) was played by Sir John Gielgud, another brilliant actor we tragically lost just this last May at the age of 96.
Hmm...
You mention the huge formal spec of the Mondex smartcard system. I didn't know they put that much thought into it.
Hasn't Mondex been broken?
EWL
Phil,
I think you miss the whole point of the article.
While the practical aspects of the mission are daunting, and the technical payoff is less than stellar (no pun intended), the PR payoff is absolutely brilliant. The US went to the moon in 1969, and nobody's been there in 25 years. Certainly no private party has dared to go there. "Too expensive!" "No payoff!"
Even if a lunar repeater is impractical for the average ragchew, just to say that "a bunch of old fossils" had the vision and drive to put it there despite the naysayers is reason enough to go for it. And a Ham license becomes far more than access to a "dying medium". It becomes a ticket to the Moon!
Think about it.
Eric Lloyd, KC7ZDS