People, 1. Quit moderating up fucking mirror sites.
2. DON'T DL FROM HERE. DL FROM THE OPENPGP SITE AND USE ANONYMIZER. LOG FILES MOST LIKELY WILL BE SUBPONEAED. IF YOU GET A SUBPONEA AND DESTROY THE LOGS, YOU ARE FUCKED.
Use this link: http://anon.free.anonymizer.com/http://www.openp gp.net/censorship/index2.html
DL it, but don't be caught in a bind with your logs.
"Netpliance does not endorse the modification of the i-opener for other uses," it said. "We will, however, keep you updated on our plans for working with the growing community of Linux developers."
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News tip for Netpliance after the claims of slamming circulate on/. : Kiss community of Linux developers goodbye.
So a couple of days ago, I saw the original/. story about Mattel coming down on these guys for the cphack program.
I thought, hmm, this routine sounds pretty familiar. Better grab it while I can. Sure enough, a few days later, one injunction later, the original site was gone. So setup a mirror for the program and the code. I email the owner of openpgp.net and let him know that I've setup a mirror.
All is well until I read/. this morning. Am I in any kind of legal hot water with this? What if I more or less say "fuck you" when I get the email demanding I remove the program and code?
The way I understand the injunction it only applies to Matthew Skala and Eddy Jansson, as well as those working with them.
I am not working with them. I have had *no* contact with them in the past, nor have I ever contact any third party I knew to be working with them.
The file is on my computer http://zonedefense.dhs.org/
It's a school computer, but I'm under my rights to host a server so long as it's not warez or mp3s.
What does the peanut gallery think?
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Whoa! Could you maybe generalize your argument a little more? I mean, three totally BS blanket statements just isn't enough for me. Try for five.
Here's where you're logic fails: Cost for college: Whadda you go to some totally exclusive school demanding $26k in tuition a year?
I think if you check out www.cheapasslandgrantuniversity.edu, you'll find schools like North Dakota State University or South Dakota State University, or Oklahoma State University are pretty affordable. SDSU for example has a yearly tution of a whopping $5000, and that's for an engineering student who pays more per credit than other majors.
The laptop business: Since when do schools assume students have a computer? If they did would they blow huge bucks on making public computer labs? It would be cheaper to buy a site license for software and give it out to all the students who, because their parents pull in 6 figure salaries, can get that $3500 thinkpad. I mean after all, a $3500 laptop is really just a drop in the bucket when you pay $5000 in tuition right?
At this university, there's a fair amount of kids who come from Pakistan, India, Malaysia, and Bangladesh. Now, they travel half way around the world just to come here. They work their assess off at 40hr a week jobs to pay the bills. The *last* thing they want to find out is that in order to compete at the same level, they need to get a laptop, wireless modem AND dialup internet?
This open laptop tesing has little to do with academics and everything to do with money. If a teacher is writing tests in such a way that all one needs to do is rephrase a quote from the internet, he is cheating the students.
An equitable approach would be to allow the use of printouts from the Internet, taped into the class textbook. In this way it wouldn't be a test of "who can use topclick the fastest and construct the best query" It would be a test of comprehension.
Not that this is what happened, but consider this:
Two employees make a product which receives a huge welcoming from the software community. Their employer, pissed at this "suck it you bastards" attitude, pulls the plug. At first, the authors make it look like the site got taken down due to a sheer number of hits. Let's not forget this is site which hosts another program that has tens of millions of downloads in its history. Probably a hard site to/.
Employer starts reading in the geek press that the program is cool, but no longer available. Employer then leaks to news outlets that program was unauthorized and a rouge effort by two mavericks. Program is canned, end of story. Geek community goes bonkers trying to get and use the program without any support from parent company. No bandwidth, no support, no nothing. People like the author of this post put it on his home computer and in 18 hours, get 2000 downloads.
Employer waits for dust to clear and hype to boil over. Employer then releases v 1.0, sanitized, sterilized, and commercialized. People again flock to DL this new product.
It's the mentality of "well I can't have it so I want it!" that initially drew me to this. I think there's a lot of people who thought the same thing. So maybe this isn't such a paranoid idea after all.
I don't suppose anyone could email me and send a copy of the program. The dude says it's kosher to give it out, you just can't DL it officially. n_hopper@hushmail.com
I'm not a big fan of this banning crap. So if you're in a bind, you can use my SOCKS proxy to bypass the blocks. It's a SOCK5 proxy, so you should be able to use it for most applications.
While the report is concerned with performance, the greatest aspect about squid is it's ability to transform even a crappy computer into on hell of a proxy.
Way too many times the open source software is dismissed as sort of a dull knife -- it gets the job done, but doesn't do it in an elegant or efficient way. Take apache for example, how many people rag on apache because of it's focus on compatibility vs its speed?
For Squid, I can't honestly think of a better overall proxy software. If www.proxymate.com can handle the massive amount of traffic it does running Squid on Linux, all but the most stump headed ignoramuses would realize that business needn't drop a couple thousand $$ on a specialized platform.
Uh, yeah. I have. But here it is from the horses mouth: Robert W. Edwards, president of Risks Ltd., a risk-management consulting firm in Keedysville, Maryland, calls computer hardware theft "endemic." "There's a constant hemorrhaging from big businesses," he notes. "And it's not just PCs that [thieves are] stealing. They'll steal disk drives, even mainframes." That quote is from: This CFOnet.com article
There's a lot to be said for reading at -1. While the number of brainless trolls has gone way up, so has the number of truly original trolls. The really stupid, pedantic trolls usually aren't touched by the moderators. First post and Linux BLOW stuff aren't even touched anymore. The really funny, offensive, cynical ones earn the -1. It's almost like the -1 has in a way, become a sign that something is really worth reading. It almost goes counter to common sense, but the really funny stuff gets the -1. By moderating it down, it's been moderated up. I read at -1 for the comedy.
Even more than that though, a lot of times, people can say more in a -1 post than a +2 post. They don't say it in a straightforward way, but there's this huge spin of sarcasm and irony there. Look at parent post. True, most of the comments are kind of cliched, but he said them in a damn funny way.
Oh, BTW, this doesn't even come close to the "I love monkeys" short story troll. Now *that* was funny. I about messed myself when I read it. Here's a link, not a link to porn, but a link to the story if you're curious about that I love monkey story.
Slashdot Mirror
People, 1. Quit moderating up fucking mirror sites.
p gp.net/censorship/index2.html
2. DON'T DL FROM HERE. DL FROM THE OPENPGP SITE AND USE ANONYMIZER. LOG FILES MOST LIKELY WILL BE SUBPONEAED. IF YOU GET A SUBPONEA AND DESTROY THE LOGS, YOU ARE FUCKED.
Use this link:
http://anon.free.anonymizer.com/http://www.open
DL it, but don't be caught in a bind with your logs.
In a statement to Wired news:
/. : Kiss community of Linux developers goodbye.
"Netpliance does not endorse
the modification of the i-opener for other uses," it said. "We will,
however, keep you updated on our plans for working with the
growing community of Linux developers."
----
News tip for Netpliance after the claims of slamming circulate on
You don't get to be the Philip Morris of the Internet by making shitty products.
Cisco is smart. They have their hands in just about everything related to communications. It's no accident they're so valuable.
So a couple of days ago, I saw the original /. story about Mattel coming down on these guys for the cphack program.
/. this morning. Am I in any kind of legal hot water with this? What if I more or less say "fuck you" when I get the email demanding I remove the program and code?
I thought, hmm, this routine sounds pretty familiar. Better grab it while I can. Sure enough, a few days later, one injunction later, the original site was gone. So setup a mirror for the program and the code. I email the owner of openpgp.net and let him know that I've setup a mirror.
All is well until I read
The way I understand the injunction it only applies to Matthew Skala and Eddy Jansson, as well as those working with them.
I am not working with them. I have had *no* contact with them in the past, nor have I ever contact any third party I knew to be working with them.
The file is on my computer http://zonedefense.dhs.org/
It's a school computer, but I'm under my rights to host a server so long as it's not warez or mp3s.
What does the peanut gallery think?
Whoa! Could you maybe generalize your argument a little more? I mean, three totally BS blanket statements just isn't enough for me. Try for five.
Here's where you're logic fails:
Cost for college: Whadda you go to some totally exclusive school demanding $26k in tuition a year?
I think if you check out www.cheapasslandgrantuniversity.edu, you'll find schools like North Dakota State University or South Dakota State University, or Oklahoma State University are pretty affordable. SDSU for example has a yearly tution of a whopping $5000, and that's for an engineering student who pays more per credit than other majors.
The laptop business:
Since when do schools assume students have a computer? If they did would they blow huge bucks on making public computer labs? It would be cheaper to buy a site license for software and give it out to all the students who, because their parents pull in 6 figure salaries, can get that $3500 thinkpad. I mean after all, a $3500 laptop is really just a drop in the bucket when you pay $5000 in tuition right?
At this university, there's a fair amount of kids who come from Pakistan, India, Malaysia, and Bangladesh. Now, they travel half way around the world just to come here. They work their assess off at 40hr a week jobs to pay the bills. The *last* thing they want to find out is that in order to compete at the same level, they need to get a laptop, wireless modem AND dialup internet?
This open laptop tesing has little to do with academics and everything to do with money.
If a teacher is writing tests in such a way that all one needs to do is rephrase a quote from the internet, he is cheating the students.
An equitable approach would be to allow the use of printouts from the Internet, taped into the class textbook. In this way it wouldn't be a test of "who can use topclick the fastest and construct the best query" It would be a test of comprehension.
Not that this is what happened, but consider this:
/.
Two employees make a product which receives a huge welcoming from the software community. Their employer, pissed at this "suck it you bastards" attitude, pulls the plug. At first, the authors make it look like the site got taken down due to a sheer number of hits. Let's not forget this is site which hosts another program that has tens of millions of downloads in its history. Probably a hard site to
Employer starts reading in the geek press that the program is cool, but no longer available. Employer then leaks to news outlets that program was unauthorized and a rouge effort by two mavericks. Program is canned, end of story.
Geek community goes bonkers trying to get and use the program without any support from parent company. No bandwidth, no support, no nothing. People like the author of this post put it on his home computer and in 18 hours, get 2000 downloads.
Employer waits for dust to clear and hype to boil over. Employer then releases v 1.0, sanitized, sterilized, and commercialized. People again flock to DL this new product.
It's the mentality of "well I can't have it so I want it!" that initially drew me to this. I think there's a lot of people who thought the same thing. So maybe this isn't such a paranoid idea after all.
I've made the program available here: http://zonedefense.dhs.org/gnutuilla_dl. html
http://zonedefense.dhs.org/gnutel048.exe
I don't suppose anyone could email me and send a copy of the program. The dude says it's kosher to give it out, you just can't DL it officially. n_hopper@hushmail.com
http://zonedefense.dhs.org
If copyright and banners were the issue, why hasn't anyone griped about Google's wholesale caching of the entire web practically?
Way too many times the open source software is dismissed as sort of a dull knife -- it gets the job done, but doesn't do it in an elegant or efficient way. Take apache for example, how many people rag on apache because of it's focus on compatibility vs its speed?
For Squid, I can't honestly think of a better overall proxy software. If www.proxymate.com can handle the massive amount of traffic it does running Squid on Linux, all but the most stump headed ignoramuses would realize that business needn't drop a couple thousand $$ on a specialized platform.
Uh, yeah. I have. But here it is from the horses mouth: Robert W. Edwards, president of Risks Ltd., a risk-management consulting firm in Keedysville, Maryland, calls computer hardware theft "endemic." "There's a constant hemorrhaging from big businesses," he notes. "And it's not just PCs that [thieves are] stealing. They'll steal disk drives, even mainframes." That quote is from: This CFOnet.com article
Even more than that though, a lot of times, people can say more in a -1 post than a +2 post. They don't say it in a straightforward way, but there's this huge spin of sarcasm and irony there. Look at parent post. True, most of the comments are kind of cliched, but he said them in a damn funny way.
Oh, BTW, this doesn't even come close to the "I love monkeys" short story troll. Now *that* was funny. I about messed myself when I read it. Here's
a link, not a link to porn, but a link to the story if you're curious about that I love monkey story.