More importantly, does anyone have a copy of the lawsuit or know if IBM is seeking a preliminary injunction? This case, like most lawsuits, will probably take at least three years to run its course, however, a preliminary injunction could show (nearly) immediate results...
...at least on the DNS servers I control. Just redirect lookups on the.verisign.com (and.net and.org) domains to my local DNS servers which strangely enough don't seem to point the inquiries to verisign... Just had to clear it with Management first as a "privacy issue"...
...that arguing with idiots can only (eventually) bring you down to their level. Proof of this hypothesis can be easily found by browsing any Slashdot discussion at -1....
I've actually found a better way to get off of Telemarketer lists - discovered when a particularly abusive mortgage broker (or lead generator for one) in the 818 area code started bugging me at least once a day. They had a pretty nifty scam - a block of 818 numbers, each assigned to a different front company. The only stupid thing they did was use consecutive phone numbers (probably a 50-number DID block), so it was pretty obvious. Anyway, when you asked them to remove your from their lists (theirs and their other customers, etc), you kept getting calls from the other numbers (which they would claim were different organizations).
Finally, one day I just snapped at them and got rude. I mean really rude. I said things that, on a normal day, would make me blush. I believe I called the telemarker something like "a ghonerreah-infested cocksmoking whore," "a fucking worthless piece of shitty sewer garbage," "a fucking tool," and several other things that I leave to your imagination. But, hey, instead of 15-20 calls per week, I haven't had one since. I didn't even ask the stupid bitch to remove me from the list!
So that's my new M.O.: Somebody bothers me with an unwanted telephone pitch, they get cursed out in ways that would shock a sailor (unless I'm in the mood to screw with them in other ways - I particularly like telling "police office charities" that I'm a dangerous criminal who hates cops, or the people who wanted to sponser seat belt awareness (???) that I'm in favor of people dying because they're too stupid to buckle up and I consider that Darwinian selection in action). The number of unwanted (the only kind) telephone solicitations I receive has dropped noticeably... Now if I can just find a way to deal with the recorded messages....
It's not the first case to involve the GPL, but it may be the first GPL-related case to go to trial. If so, it's extremely nice to know that IBM will be in the GPL's corner...
Funny that this story should come up; I was making an exceptionally long commute to a project today (80 miles each way, 40 of which were in heavy traffic) and was thinking about an analysis of traffic patterns - starting with the hypothesis that the density and speed of vehicles in each lane constitutes a form of pressure and the how this is affected by the number of cars entering and exiting at each intersection, and also the addition / subtraction of lanes along the course of the route. I was thinking that this could be accomplished with some custom image recognition software and a medium-resolution video stream from a several cameras a few thousand feet up (I was thinking helicopters, circling aircraft, and even blimps, but all would be much too expensive). I hadn't considered that a balloon might work so well.....
Great idea, however, if you really want to fuck with them (at least in a legal way), use -j DROP rather than -j REJECT. This should make their system wait for a timeout and thus tie up their spamming engine a bit (well, at least one thread of it)... See this article for more information.
I'm in the process of setting up one of my customer's Aunts with DirecWAY (yes, from Evil DirecTV). They also have a competitor in Starband. Both of these companies offer bidirectional satellite-based internet service. There are two downsides to this service that make it less attractive than DSL / Cable / Wi-Fi:
1) High latency - takes 1 - 1.5 seconds to start a transfer, but you receive at a decent rate once the transfer starts.
2) High setup costs - It costs $600 - $900 to set one of these up, however, there are usually plans to spread this out over a year's worth of payments.
But, hey, if you can't get cable or DSL then it beats the hell out of dial-up. As another poster mentioned, you won't be playing Quake over this connection, but for browsing the web, doing e-mail, downloading Linux.iso's, etc., it's not half bad...
I know it's not widespread right now, but those of us that have it aren't likely to be very impressed by NTSC or PAL images (oh yeah, I'd like my Dolby Digital 5.1 sound too).
My understanding is that TiVo will have an HDTV unit around the end of the year, until then I'm hanging onto my wallet (well, not exactly - I'm just buying different toys).
"Looks like the network guys did their homework..."
Did "homework" include a reasonable test implementation? Anything that affects your infrastructure in such a drastic way should probably be banged on for several weeks with at least a dozen guinea pigs (assuming you don't have a test lab in these days of cost cutting).
Thanks! I'm downloading the code from there right now... Even if it's of no legal use, it's still fun to fuck with SCO's bandwidth (I probably need to download about 50 backup copies too, just in case)! How about we all hit their homepage a few times an hour for the next few weeks? If not us, perhaps our perl scripts?
TurboTax isn't the only product that Intuit makes that forces you to put up with this bullshit. QuickBooks is just as bad - your screen is always littered with ads offering everything from overpriced check printing services to overpriced electronic payment systems. Bookkeeping with it is as obnoxious as surfing the web with Internet Explorer.
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Like spending your working hours reading/.? Heh, I'm already feeling sorry for that poor guy's server. His TWIN page had about 800 hits when I went over, and was already over 2,000 when I left 2 minutes later... The joy of instant/. fame...
Hmmm... Why not put up posters of Asia Carrera or Cindy Pucci (both of whom code their own sites, and I happen to know that Ms. Pucci writes her HTML with a text editor and probably has more computers in her house than you do) as "women of computers?" Seriously, though, I'm dating an extremely hot woman who is working on her MCSE (and learning about Linux from me), so they are out there...
And then you have Goatse-Intrusive... (ok, it was sick, but you have to admit inevitable;)
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Yeah, but how many organizations are using WLANS for ssh? Most of them are running Win9x LANs with file and printer sharing (and usually without password protection). These are about as secure as.... ummm... never mind, they aren't secure at all. And yes, it is theoretically possible to sniff data through cables, but it's several orders of magnitude more difficult and expensive and requires physical access to the facility (or at least being near a wall with a cable going through it).
802.11 sniffing and cracking WEP codes (for the less than 5% of sites that even bother turning on WEP) is trivial skr1pt-k1dd13 stuff, can be accomplished for less than $200, and from several miles away.
So, in short, for a savy *nix (or even Windoze) admin / user, wireless can be used in a reasonable secure manner. But you have to keep in mind that this represents less that 0.001% of the wireless users out there. Therefore, wireless security is a massive timebomb of a problem.
Remember: your average small- to medium-sized businesses and home users usually have inexperienced people administering their networks. I hate when people assume that just because experts can get it to work it means that a product or service is "fine.":)
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More importantly, does anyone have a copy of the lawsuit or know if IBM is seeking a preliminary injunction? This case, like most lawsuits, will probably take at least three years to run its course, however, a preliminary injunction could show (nearly) immediate results...
...at least on the DNS servers I control. Just redirect lookups on the .verisign.com (and .net and .org) domains to my local DNS servers which strangely enough don't seem to point the inquiries to verisign... Just had to clear it with Management first as a "privacy issue"...
Amusing, but interesting that you didn't have the guts to post with your name....
...that arguing with idiots can only (eventually) bring you down to their level. Proof of this hypothesis can be easily found by browsing any Slashdot discussion at -1....
Yeah, but this version is so much more poignant (in one frame, no less)...
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For the link-phobic:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-0
Not to mention the fact that we still don't have The Flying Car.
I've actually found a better way to get off of Telemarketer lists - discovered when a particularly abusive mortgage broker (or lead generator for one) in the 818 area code started bugging me at least once a day. They had a pretty nifty scam - a block of 818 numbers, each assigned to a different front company. The only stupid thing they did was use consecutive phone numbers (probably a 50-number DID block), so it was pretty obvious. Anyway, when you asked them to remove your from their lists (theirs and their other customers, etc), you kept getting calls from the other numbers (which they would claim were different organizations).
Finally, one day I just snapped at them and got rude. I mean really rude. I said things that, on a normal day, would make me blush. I believe I called the telemarker something like "a ghonerreah-infested cocksmoking whore," "a fucking worthless piece of shitty sewer garbage," "a fucking tool," and several other things that I leave to your imagination. But, hey, instead of 15-20 calls per week, I haven't had one since. I didn't even ask the stupid bitch to remove me from the list!
So that's my new M.O.: Somebody bothers me with an unwanted telephone pitch, they get cursed out in ways that would shock a sailor (unless I'm in the mood to screw with them in other ways - I particularly like telling "police office charities" that I'm a dangerous criminal who hates cops, or the people who wanted to sponser seat belt awareness (???) that I'm in favor of people dying because they're too stupid to buckle up and I consider that Darwinian selection in action). The number of unwanted (the only kind) telephone solicitations I receive has dropped noticeably... Now if I can just find a way to deal with the recorded messages....
Great, we get a bunch of moralizing from a bunch of jackasses who allow FUI banner ads on their site.
It's not the first case to involve the GPL, but it may be the first GPL-related case to go to trial. If so, it's extremely nice to know that IBM will be in the GPL's corner...
Funny that this story should come up; I was making an exceptionally long commute to a project today (80 miles each way, 40 of which were in heavy traffic) and was thinking about an analysis of traffic patterns - starting with the hypothesis that the density and speed of vehicles in each lane constitutes a form of pressure and the how this is affected by the number of cars entering and exiting at each intersection, and also the addition / subtraction of lanes along the course of the route. I was thinking that this could be accomplished with some custom image recognition software and a medium-resolution video stream from a several cameras a few thousand feet up (I was thinking helicopters, circling aircraft, and even blimps, but all would be much too expensive). I hadn't considered that a balloon might work so well.....
Great idea, however, if you really want to fuck with them (at least in a legal way), use -j DROP rather than -j REJECT. This should make their system wait for a timeout and thus tie up their spamming engine a bit (well, at least one thread of it)... See this article for more information.
But, hey, if you can't get cable or DSL then it beats the hell out of dial-up. As another poster mentioned, you won't be playing Quake over this connection, but for browsing the web, doing e-mail, downloading Linux
I know it's not widespread right now, but those of us that have it aren't likely to be very impressed by NTSC or PAL images (oh yeah, I'd like my Dolby Digital 5.1 sound too).
My understanding is that TiVo will have an HDTV unit around the end of the year, until then I'm hanging onto my wallet (well, not exactly - I'm just buying different toys).
Oh yeah,
The 1984^H^H^H^H2004 Orwellian TIA Act... you know... for kids!
Did "homework" include a reasonable test implementation? Anything that affects your infrastructure in such a drastic way should probably be banged on for several weeks with at least a dozen guinea pigs (assuming you don't have a test lab in these days of cost cutting).
That's assuming SCO's technology is sufficiently advanced to cause it to be restricted. Which it probably isn't.
Finally! A technological advancement in processing animals that doesn't have the PETA people crying fowl... heh... heh...
Thanks! I'm downloading the code from there right now... Even if it's of no legal use, it's still fun to fuck with SCO's bandwidth (I probably need to download about 50 backup copies too, just in case)! How about we all hit their homepage a few times an hour for the next few weeks? If not us, perhaps our perl scripts?
TurboTax isn't the only product that Intuit makes that forces you to put up with this bullshit. QuickBooks is just as bad - your screen is always littered with ads offering everything from overpriced check printing services to overpriced electronic payment systems. Bookkeeping with it is as obnoxious as surfing the web with Internet Explorer.
Like spending your working hours reading /.? Heh, I'm already feeling sorry for that poor guy's server. His TWIN page had about 800 hits when I went over, and was already over 2,000 when I left 2 minutes later... The joy of instant /. fame...
Hmmm... Why not put up posters of Asia Carrera or Cindy Pucci (both of whom code their own sites, and I happen to know that Ms. Pucci writes her HTML with a text editor and probably has more computers in her house than you do) as "women of computers?" Seriously, though, I'm dating an extremely hot woman who is working on her MCSE (and learning about Linux from me), so they are out there...
And then you have Goatse-Intrusive... (ok, it was sick, but you have to admit inevitable ;)
Yeah, but how many organizations are using WLANS for ssh? Most of them are running Win9x LANs with file and printer sharing (and usually without password protection). These are about as secure as.... ummm... never mind, they aren't secure at all. And yes, it is theoretically possible to sniff data through cables, but it's several orders of magnitude more difficult and expensive and requires physical access to the facility (or at least being near a wall with a cable going through it).
:)
802.11 sniffing and cracking WEP codes (for the less than 5% of sites that even bother turning on WEP) is trivial skr1pt-k1dd13 stuff, can be accomplished for less than $200, and from several miles away.
So, in short, for a savy *nix (or even Windoze) admin / user, wireless can be used in a reasonable secure manner. But you have to keep in mind that this represents less that 0.001% of the wireless users out there. Therefore, wireless security is a massive timebomb of a problem.
Remember: your average small- to medium-sized businesses and home users usually have inexperienced people administering their networks. I hate when people assume that just because experts can get it to work it means that a product or service is "fine."
And you're going to get ~30GB of storage how, exactly?