I agree with him... Programmers make tools and as all tools go they can be used for good or evil no matter what the tool was made for.
A screw driver makes an exelent murder wepon thow a commen house house kitchen knife is prefered.
We have yet to ban a screw driver or a knife. We have yet to have any sort of public outcry over how anyone can have a crow bar or a sledge hammer. No one dares question the vality of thies tools.
While encryption and file sharing is considered vital to the Internet they are also looked on as tools of theft or threats to national security.
Any given programmer must consider the posable illegal use of his tools lest he be accused of premoting illegal acts.
I seresouly doupt the guy who invented lockpicks had any such limitations...
Hehehe... I think New Line knows the chances are good they'll never produce a movie... I believe it's "The greater fool" therie... You buy knowing your a fool and you look for a greater fool than yourself to unload.
Eventually NL will find that fool... If they havn't allready...
I like Katz but he has been caving to knee jerk writings. This is a bad thing for an opinionist or ranter like Katz...
I'll defend Napster as a tool. Even if the tool was made for criminal efforts it should never become a crime to make a tool. This puts inventers in the position of defending against allgations of criminal intent when there is no intent (criminal or otherwise) as many inventions are pure whim at first.
But Matalica had every right to hunt down music pirates with all the legal zeal they can muster... It matters not one iota what the tool was made for or how it is used. It matters that Timmy is a theaf. Not that Timmy used Napster. He could have used IRC and gotten identical results.
You have parents who do not wish to put any effort into rasing children. Instead they want to make an issue out of matereal on the TV, Radio, Internet and in movies. They have even attempted to censore libarys...
On the other end you have TV, Radio and the Internet that wishes to put out matereal with no moral values what so ever.
TV, Radio and movies must conform to the market and this reality alone keeps quality up.
The Internet being raw data will contain all the knowladge of mankind, all the myths rummors and out right lies. It basicly contains all information and disinformation around the world.
The users of the Internet expect it to be there. The idea that information may be removed or blocked to enable a parent to be lazy is really repugnent.
Yes it's selfish.. call it selfish to want the Internet to function as designed. Call it selfish to demand other people act responsably.
Napster... Call it selfish to demand that music groups like Matalica go after the acuall criminals rather than Napster.
Let's sue Napster becouse music pirates use Napster. Let's sue a knife maker becouse a kid commited suiside with it. Let's sue Elmers glue...
Yes there is a bit of "Selfishness" in technology.. We expect information at our fingertips. Why isn't Windows source at my fingertips? Becouse Microsoft (who owns it) never relased the code. Why isn't BlahBlahBlah Encylopedia at my fingertips? Becouse they want to sell it on CD. Why isn't nude pictures of my next door nabor at my fingertips? Becouse my next door nabor dosn't want them available. Why arn't Matalica songs at my finger tips? Becouse thats Matalics property...
Why is "MY" souce code not at everyones fingertips. Becouse my code makes someones life a little harder.
Information dose not want for anything.. let alone to be free. It dose not matter one bit if it's inslaved by it's author. But once free... it should remain free... unless the author chouses otherwise...
> 4.Fact #4: If you can identify unneccesary data, you can remove it.
Any decent compression will remove the watermark automaticly... I'm guessing the idea here is to imbed the watermark on CDs etc... When someone rips a CD to an MP3 the compression will automaticly remove the watermark. It probably appears as unheard (or byond our hearing) noise. Example Sound is "Really loud" watermark is "extreamly quite poping" you never hear it but it's there. Here comes compression. Unheard sound? Yank.. Not in this MP3.
Even simple filtering would yank that example...
If it's not accually in the audio stream but in the data then it'll never survive being converted to an MP3.
Say your protecting an audio stream. I tap in and record whats comming off my chip (kmix RecSource master volume). I MP3 it... All I need is your trusted client.. a program to control the audio on my sound card (kmix or the mixer built in Windows will do) and any audio recoding tool. Convert to an MP3 using reasonable compression. The watermark is history...
If the watermark is fluxuations in the sound that are to minnor to notice. Again removed.
Ideally lossy compression removes everything you don't hear. In the real world it ends up having an audioable effect and removes a few things you DO hear.
But compression is vital if you are gona trade MP3s over Napster. And thats what they are trying to prevent right?
Preveously on Geeks In Space: "We learned that it's Augest" "Apparently people take vactions"
For the next month the news will be giving us this sort of stuff. Once summer is over the psycopathis will go back to being psycopathics. In the mean time we are going to hear about neat products as PR firms know to submit content when the news is slow.
Politicians too.. and this is a political year so get your BS shealds up...
Clearly the new mice are not the same technology as the old optic mice of the late 1980s. But byond two diffrences (old mice needed specal mouse pads but the mouse + pad = less than normal mouse, new mouse needs no pad = more than normal mouse + recomended pad) the new mice don't seem very diffrent to me.
Optic mice died in the early 1990s. If Microsoft didn't release the new optic mouse and left it to say Kraft or Apple it may not have gone over so well. (People seem to accept anything Microsoft as new and unique) BTW 10 years is a long time to rember something. I doupt very many people at Microsoft rembered the optic mice 10 years preveous..
For those who use this new technology and see how cool it is. This "new inovation" was obsolete 10 years ago.
So rember kids.. just becouse some random expert calls it obsolete dosn't mean he knows what he is talking about... Now I'm gona go look for some old 1980s style optic mice... Naa screw that I want a touch pad... [Bonus points for anyone who sees the irony in the last line]
>You open source zealots bash Microsoft hourly for such actions as those.
And sence Microsoft rarely releases an update more than once every 2 years it's bashing the same product hourly...
Of course it's really bashing the bug fix released last hour to fix the preveous bug patch to fix the preveous etc etc and the original bug is alive and well.
Linux for the techs MacOs for the rest Windows for the tinyboppers...
But Mozilla is showing out in the open is what is happening to Netscape, IE and pritty much any web browser who dares compeate.
Feature creep.. that standard is being set by the web standards themselfs. Changing rapidly. Java is even worse for being hiddiously complex.
Mozilla is bleeding badly... this is the state of the web today.
What most projects (commertal, open source etc) do is at some point enter a state of feature freeze. They deside what will go in for an offical releace. If only neat stuff is dreammed up shelf it for later.
You really can not do that on a web browser. The target must be the standards. That is a moving target.
Personally I'm still working with HTML4. No Java or Java script or anything.
Most of the time my HTML dosn't go past HTML2.
Standards are being dumpped on the web now that it's populare and well intrenched. This is making it difficult to produce anything that works halfway decent.
Part of Mozillas problem is they are trying to produce a browser with all the features. That won't happen...
and how can you get your develupers to stop adding "cool shit" when you need them to keep adding "cool shit" standards....
Eventually someone will replace the web with something new. If that new item learns from the mistakes being made today they'll maintain a standard client and make new standards easy to implement.
>If you're doing something clandestine, you're pretty much assured that someone is looking in. Encryption and that steg-o-something or other merely wave a big flag that says "hey! we're doing something clandestine, look into us more closely!"
The idea is to encrypt everything and not worry about what is or isn't clandestine. In fact just don't do anything clandestine on the Internet (per your suggestion) and encrypt anyway.
It's the same idea as the idea of throwing out random words to be scooped up by Eschelon. Just throw out garbage "Explodes, Terrorist activitys, bombs, Sex Driven Nude bombs" and keep em from targeting anyone for anything. "Ohh he encrypts let's go bother him" "Ohh he visits socally unacceptable websites let's go after him" "Ohh he holds opinions we disagree with. Let's pay him a 'specal visit'". "Oh shit... over 30,000 people using encrypted e-mail and most of it is spam... shit.. shit.. shit" Yeah.. I say encrypt spam too... encrypt EVERYTHING!!! Even the message on your t-shirt...
>I'm surprised that businesses don't require employees to encrypt any mail that leaves the intranet.
I'm not.... The people who would have to make that move think Micrsoft Word is an e-mail format.
They are more conserned that employees might be terrorists sending encrypted e-mail to bombs around the world than they are with realistic dangers such as blackmail and invasion of privacy.
But then maybe we shouldn't be TO quick to condem busness managers. You need only make it unreadable by an automated e-mail scanner and MsWord dose a pritty good job of that.
Who knows.. maybe Microsoft is secretly planning to make all those e-mail scanners crash and burn... secretly of course... I say if Microsoft says the scanners work fine we believe them... especally if the FBI wants to switch to Linux...
Cmdr Taco: Is fan of actresses on TV show Friends, Visits porn sites featuring edited version of same. Runs Slashdot news. Recomended action: Use for blackmail if nessisary. RMS: Posably a Communist, Recomendation: Distory Current status: Unknown.. running for life... Felinoid: Sadistic evil. E-mail unknown due to spam rummored non-existent. NonThreat. Recomended action: Continue gathering data and attempt to discover consealed pattern. Presedent Jimmy Sperston: Affade of computers, easy to manupulate Recomended action: Use paranoia to get more Internet observation laws and outposts. Troll Massia: Internet cult leader, identity unknown. Preveously considered a threat by users but after the Internet hunt law of 2011 people starting to turn to him for guidence. He has sence moved base of operatins from Slashdot (where he is still unwelcomed) to www.TrollMassia.org. The domain holder is not the cult leader himself but mearly a folower. Suspect the cult leader is infact many organised people. Recomended action: Track down and kill. Status: We successfully elliminate A Troll Massia only to discover the cult leaders pressence on the Internet is alive and well. This may take a while...
Notes: Recent rummors that encryption experts are commiting suiside over the idea that the hardwork they produced is being used to thrwart our need for the instient and unrestricted search of the Internet has backlashed. In future don't allow famaly to examine body after an assasination.
Notes Dated 2020 released on the full discolsure act of 2008. Time machine by [name withheld as device not invented yet] called the past post system.
Note to CmdrTaco: I'm aware this violates your no timetravle post rule however the data was nessisary to be delivered on topic before you receaved your first blackmail attempt... Thanks for being so strong in thies trying times and getting the news out. Without your strighth I douput the other news agentcys would have held up so well.
PS. No time machine.. the true date of this post is July 30 2000. I'm just using creative liccens to paint an image of the slippery slope that could result from this...
I think the iMac look is somewhat noval and neet but a bit byond patentable. Transparnet hardware is hardly new.. transparent telephones, hard disks and one company dared make transparent VCRs.. this in the mid 1980s. Computers were ugly and as much as people comented about it, pritty wasn't a selling point. People wanted cheap ugly boxes that contained computers. They wanted to pay for technology not pritty.
And the shape... an iMac looks like a pritty DEC VT100 terminal. Yes the terminal even has vents in the same location. The diffrence is the terminal has an ugly bage plastic case.
Ok so the idea of using a terminal case for a computer? No again done before.. This time Radio Shacks Modle 3 and 4 computers uses classic 1970s video terminal cases (normal case for many terminals produced at the same time). The only diffrence between my Helthkit terminal and the RS M3 case is the build in disk drives off to the side where a blank space exists on the terminal (posably to make design easyer).
Anyway... the iMac is neat but taken from a colection of existing technologys and novle but not novle enough...
There is the BlockStackers Intergalatic patent on blocks of course (as Hemos mentioned). Now MeowPawjects happends to hold the patent on cats. But find that it's not being infringed. The current use of cats as pets is well within the global liccens agreement.. However cats as food or slaves is outside the liccensed agreement...
Rinkworks has a patent on Technology Stupidity. (They should sue Microsoft any day now).
But the biggest patent infrengment of all time... BSI again... they own the rights to "Everything".
Hay BSI can e-mail me we at MP would like to talk about a massive liccensing agreement... Thanks:)
Security by obscurity vs Security by disclosure...
With Security by obscurity usually a cracker discovers the defect and releases an explote. We discover the defect after the crackers efforts has resulted in mant victoms.
With security by exposure the defect is descovered and made public. Now it becomes a race. Who will win. The patch or the cracker? In the case of Linux the patch. The cracker won't bother. His efforts are for the long term not for a short term. A SysAdm will patch his system and relase the patch in a short time. The SysAdm is motivated not only to fix the defect but to make sure it stays fixed (so he dosn't need to fix it on a future update). In the case of Microsoft it WAS the cracker as Microsoft didn't take it sereously but now they do so it's an even race.
Any time a company dosen't take the issue sereously the cracker will win. The public also wins as this provides a hot poker to anyone who would not take security sereously. If the company prepetually fails to patch defects the company becomes known for defects and profesionals are discuraged from using the defective products.
It also helps in monopoly cases... to prove a lack of consern for the costummer.
Security by disclosure wins out...
After all.. the consummer can't know if a defect is being ignored if the defect isn't disclosed publicly. If a hacker dosn't expose it sooner or later a cracker will explote it... the exposure just gives the good guys a better chance and the costummer a heads up..
We often look at a persons body and think we see the person. This being nothing more than the tool they use to move and exist. Who they are exists inside the brain. That is only seen when we sitdown and talk with people. Get to know them. It is easy to see past the body when we see no body at all. On the Internet all you have are the persons thoughts. Not skin tone. Not gender. Just his thoughts. After all.. it's the thought that counts... right?
Unless you are refering to the one time event known as the DDOS attack on Slashdot... I suggest you check out your traffic...
You may be the victom of a flaky server. Not Slashdots server... (Why dose it automaticly have to be Slashdot?) Do a traceroute and see where the traffic stops. You may find a router who isn't responding...
I had that a lot on my former ISP. Not anymore.
Slashdot is remarkably stable considering it's daily load.
Slashdot Mirror
You know that statment makes more sence with an understanding of history... :)
"I was just folowing orders...."
Also America started as a Republic...
The vote was not a right originally...
I agree with him...
Programmers make tools and as all tools go they can be used for good or evil no matter what the tool was made for.
A screw driver makes an exelent murder wepon thow a commen house house kitchen knife is prefered.
We have yet to ban a screw driver or a knife. We have yet to have any sort of public outcry over how anyone can have a crow bar or a sledge hammer.
No one dares question the vality of thies tools.
While encryption and file sharing is considered vital to the Internet they are also looked on as tools of theft or threats to national security.
Any given programmer must consider the posable illegal use of his tools lest he be accused of premoting illegal acts.
I seresouly doupt the guy who invented lockpicks had any such limitations...
Hehehe...
I think New Line knows the chances are good they'll never produce a movie...
I believe it's "The greater fool" therie... You buy knowing your a fool and you look for a greater fool than yourself to unload.
Eventually NL will find that fool...
If they havn't allready...
>Playing both sides, Jon?
I like Katz but he has been caving to knee jerk writings.
This is a bad thing for an opinionist or ranter like Katz...
I'll defend Napster as a tool. Even if the tool was made for criminal efforts it should never become a crime to make a tool.
This puts inventers in the position of defending against allgations of criminal intent when there is no intent (criminal or otherwise) as many inventions are pure whim at first.
But Matalica had every right to hunt down music pirates with all the legal zeal they can muster...
It matters not one iota what the tool was made for or how it is used.
It matters that Timmy is a theaf. Not that Timmy used Napster. He could have used IRC and gotten identical results.
You have parents who do not wish to put any effort into rasing children. Instead they want to make an issue out of matereal on the TV, Radio, Internet and in movies.
They have even attempted to censore libarys...
On the other end you have TV, Radio and the Internet that wishes to put out matereal with no moral values what so ever.
TV, Radio and movies must conform to the market and this reality alone keeps quality up.
The Internet being raw data will contain all the knowladge of mankind, all the myths rummors and out right lies. It basicly contains all information and disinformation around the world.
The users of the Internet expect it to be there. The idea that information may be removed or blocked to enable a parent to be lazy is really repugnent.
Yes it's selfish.. call it selfish to want the Internet to function as designed. Call it selfish to demand other people act responsably.
Napster... Call it selfish to demand that music groups like Matalica go after the acuall criminals rather than Napster.
Let's sue Napster becouse music pirates use Napster. Let's sue a knife maker becouse a kid commited suiside with it. Let's sue Elmers glue...
Yes there is a bit of "Selfishness" in technology.. We expect information at our fingertips.
Why isn't Windows source at my fingertips? Becouse Microsoft (who owns it) never relased the code.
Why isn't BlahBlahBlah Encylopedia at my fingertips? Becouse they want to sell it on CD.
Why isn't nude pictures of my next door nabor at my fingertips? Becouse my next door nabor dosn't want them available.
Why arn't Matalica songs at my finger tips? Becouse thats Matalics property...
Why is "MY" souce code not at everyones fingertips.
Becouse my code makes someones life a little harder.
Information dose not want for anything.. let alone to be free. It dose not matter one bit if it's inslaved by it's author.
But once free... it should remain free... unless the author chouses otherwise...
The compleate Geeks in space MP3s :)
:)
if I ever get to a point where my MP3s are mesured in gigs I can type rm -rf *.mp3
The MP3s I pull off Napster are ones like "The Spy who Shagged Spock"...
I have an ego.. but it lays in my code.... This is what "I" wrote... anyone can download... Impress me with code
> 4.Fact #4: If you can identify unneccesary data, you can remove it.
Any decent compression will remove the watermark automaticly...
I'm guessing the idea here is to imbed the watermark on CDs etc...
When someone rips a CD to an MP3 the compression will automaticly remove the watermark. It probably appears as unheard (or byond our hearing) noise.
Example Sound is "Really loud" watermark is "extreamly quite poping" you never hear it but it's there.
Here comes compression. Unheard sound? Yank.. Not in this MP3.
Even simple filtering would yank that example...
If it's not accually in the audio stream but in the data then it'll never survive being converted to an MP3.
Say your protecting an audio stream. I tap in and record whats comming off my chip (kmix RecSource master volume). I MP3 it...
All I need is your trusted client.. a program to control the audio on my sound card (kmix or the mixer built in Windows will do) and any audio recoding tool.
Convert to an MP3 using reasonable compression.
The watermark is history...
If the watermark is fluxuations in the sound that are to minnor to notice. Again removed.
Ideally lossy compression removes everything you don't hear. In the real world it ends up having an audioable effect and removes a few things you DO hear.
But compression is vital if you are gona trade MP3s over Napster. And thats what they are trying to prevent right?
Preveously on Geeks In Space:
"We learned that it's Augest"
"Apparently people take vactions"
For the next month the news will be giving us this sort of stuff. Once summer is over the psycopathis will go back to being psycopathics.
In the mean time we are going to hear about neat products as PR firms know to submit content when the news is slow.
Politicians too.. and this is a political year so get your BS shealds up...
Clearly the new mice are not the same technology as the old optic mice of the late 1980s.
But byond two diffrences (old mice needed specal mouse pads but the mouse + pad = less than normal mouse, new mouse needs no pad = more than normal mouse + recomended pad) the new mice don't seem very diffrent to me.
Optic mice died in the early 1990s. If Microsoft didn't release the new optic mouse and left it to say Kraft or Apple it may not have gone over so well.
(People seem to accept anything Microsoft as new and unique)
BTW 10 years is a long time to rember something. I doupt very many people at Microsoft rembered the optic mice 10 years preveous..
For those who use this new technology and see how cool it is. This "new inovation" was obsolete 10 years ago.
So rember kids.. just becouse some random expert calls it obsolete dosn't mean he knows what he is talking about...
Now I'm gona go look for some old 1980s style optic mice... Naa screw that I want a touch pad...
[Bonus points for anyone who sees the irony in the last line]
Standards = feature overkill....
I do not believe it is posable to develup a standards complient browser with the standards changing so often
>You open source zealots bash Microsoft hourly for such actions as those.
And sence Microsoft rarely releases an update more than once every 2 years it's bashing the same product hourly...
Of course it's really bashing the bug fix released last hour to fix the preveous bug patch to fix the preveous etc etc and the original bug is alive and well.
Linux for the techs
MacOs for the rest
Windows for the tinyboppers...
Mozilla is a pritty bad develupment setup.
But Mozilla is showing out in the open is what is happening to Netscape, IE and pritty much any web browser who dares compeate.
Feature creep.. that standard is being set by the web standards themselfs. Changing rapidly. Java is even worse for being hiddiously complex.
Mozilla is bleeding badly... this is the state of the web today.
What most projects (commertal, open source etc) do is at some point enter a state of feature freeze. They deside what will go in for an offical releace. If only neat stuff is dreammed up shelf it for later.
You really can not do that on a web browser. The target must be the standards. That is a moving target.
Personally I'm still working with HTML4. No Java or Java script or anything.
Most of the time my HTML dosn't go past HTML2.
Standards are being dumpped on the web now that it's populare and well intrenched. This is making it difficult to produce anything that works halfway decent.
Part of Mozillas problem is they are trying to produce a browser with all the features.
That won't happen...
and how can you get your develupers to stop adding "cool shit" when you need them to keep adding "cool shit" standards....
Feature freeze Mozilla.. including standards... now... fix bugs.. add standards changes later.
Eventually someone will replace the web with something new. If that new item learns from the mistakes being made today they'll maintain a standard client and make new standards easy to implement.
>If you're doing something clandestine, you're pretty much assured that someone is looking in. Encryption and that steg-o-something or other merely wave a big flag that says "hey! we're doing something clandestine, look into us more closely!"
The idea is to encrypt everything and not worry about what is or isn't clandestine.
In fact just don't do anything clandestine on the Internet (per your suggestion) and encrypt anyway.
It's the same idea as the idea of throwing out random words to be scooped up by Eschelon. Just throw out garbage "Explodes, Terrorist activitys, bombs, Sex Driven Nude bombs" and keep em from targeting anyone for anything.
"Ohh he encrypts let's go bother him"
"Ohh he visits socally unacceptable websites let's go after him"
"Ohh he holds opinions we disagree with. Let's pay him a 'specal visit'".
"Oh shit... over 30,000 people using encrypted e-mail and most of it is spam... shit.. shit.. shit" Yeah.. I say encrypt spam too... encrypt EVERYTHING!!!
Even the message on your t-shirt...
>I'm surprised that businesses don't require employees to encrypt any mail that leaves the intranet.
I'm not....
The people who would have to make that move think Micrsoft Word is an e-mail format.
They are more conserned that employees might be terrorists sending encrypted e-mail to bombs around the world than they are with realistic dangers such as blackmail and invasion of privacy.
But then maybe we shouldn't be TO quick to condem busness managers. You need only make it unreadable by an automated e-mail scanner and MsWord dose a pritty good job of that.
Who knows.. maybe Microsoft is secretly planning to make all those e-mail scanners crash and burn... secretly of course...
I say if Microsoft says the scanners work fine we believe them... especally if the FBI wants to switch to Linux...
>Since when has this been about terrorism, or catching criminals? Its about Power.
Terrorism is the excuse... power is the goal.. I think you both are on the same page here
Cmdr Taco: Is fan of actresses on TV show Friends, Visits porn sites featuring edited version of same. Runs Slashdot news. Recomended action: Use for blackmail if nessisary.
RMS: Posably a Communist, Recomendation: Distory Current status: Unknown.. running for life...
Felinoid: Sadistic evil. E-mail unknown due to spam rummored non-existent. NonThreat. Recomended action: Continue gathering data and attempt to discover consealed pattern.
Presedent Jimmy Sperston: Affade of computers, easy to manupulate Recomended action: Use paranoia to get more Internet observation laws and outposts.
Troll Massia: Internet cult leader, identity unknown. Preveously considered a threat by users but after the Internet hunt law of 2011 people starting to turn to him for guidence. He has sence moved base of operatins from Slashdot (where he is still unwelcomed) to www.TrollMassia.org. The domain holder is not the cult leader himself but mearly a folower. Suspect the cult leader is infact many organised people. Recomended action: Track down and kill. Status: We successfully elliminate A Troll Massia only to discover the cult leaders pressence on the Internet is alive and well. This may take a while...
Notes: Recent rummors that encryption experts are commiting suiside over the idea that the hardwork they produced is being used to thrwart our need for the instient and unrestricted search of the Internet has backlashed. In future don't allow famaly to examine body after an assasination.
Notes Dated 2020 released on the full discolsure act of 2008.
Time machine by [name withheld as device not invented yet] called the past post system.
Note to CmdrTaco: I'm aware this violates your no timetravle post rule however the data was nessisary to be delivered on topic before you receaved your first blackmail attempt...
Thanks for being so strong in thies trying times and getting the news out. Without your strighth I douput the other news agentcys would have held up so well.
PS. No time machine.. the true date of this post is July 30 2000. I'm just using creative liccens to paint an image of the slippery slope that could result from this...
I think the iMac look is somewhat noval and neet but a bit byond patentable.
Transparnet hardware is hardly new.. transparent telephones, hard disks and one company dared make transparent VCRs.. this in the mid 1980s.
Computers were ugly and as much as people comented about it, pritty wasn't a selling point. People wanted cheap ugly boxes that contained computers. They wanted to pay for technology not pritty.
And the shape... an iMac looks like a pritty DEC VT100 terminal. Yes the terminal even has vents in the same location. The diffrence is the terminal has an ugly bage plastic case.
Ok so the idea of using a terminal case for a computer? No again done before.. This time Radio Shacks Modle 3 and 4 computers uses classic 1970s video terminal cases (normal case for many terminals produced at the same time).
The only diffrence between my Helthkit terminal and the RS M3 case is the build in disk drives off to the side where a blank space exists on the terminal (posably to make design easyer).
Anyway... the iMac is neat but taken from a colection of existing technologys and novle but not novle enough...
There is the BlockStackers Intergalatic patent on blocks of course (as Hemos mentioned).
:)
Now MeowPawjects happends to hold the patent on cats. But find that it's not being infringed. The current use of cats as pets is well within the global liccens agreement.. However cats as food or slaves is outside the liccensed agreement...
Rinkworks has a patent on Technology Stupidity. (They should sue Microsoft any day now).
But the biggest patent infrengment of all time...
BSI again... they own the rights to "Everything".
Hay BSI can e-mail me we at MP would like to talk about a massive liccensing agreement...
Thanks
Mods like this is what M2 is for...
:)
It's likely someone eather dosn't like ReBoot or objects to the whole Anima theme.
This one is inline for the famous Slashot:BitchSlap.
Insert evil laugh
Grab bad moderator throw him into convenently placed pile of boxes as moderator smuches one... [Reboot Season 1 refrence]
Personally I liked the viruses
Nope...
Need to test the fix or you might as well not bother.
In the mean time.. an explote is being writen
Security by obscurity vs Security by disclosure...
With Security by obscurity usually a cracker discovers the defect and releases an explote.
We discover the defect after the crackers efforts has resulted in mant victoms.
With security by exposure the defect is descovered and made public. Now it becomes a race. Who will win. The patch or the cracker?
In the case of Linux the patch. The cracker won't bother. His efforts are for the long term not for a short term. A SysAdm will patch his system and relase the patch in a short time. The SysAdm is motivated not only to fix the defect but to make sure it stays fixed (so he dosn't need to fix it on a future update).
In the case of Microsoft it WAS the cracker as Microsoft didn't take it sereously but now they do so it's an even race.
Any time a company dosen't take the issue sereously the cracker will win. The public also wins as this provides a hot poker to anyone who would not take security sereously.
If the company prepetually fails to patch defects the company becomes known for defects and profesionals are discuraged from using the defective products.
It also helps in monopoly cases... to prove a lack of consern for the costummer.
Security by disclosure wins out...
After all.. the consummer can't know if a defect is being ignored if the defect isn't disclosed publicly. If a hacker dosn't expose it sooner or later a cracker will explote it... the exposure just gives the good guys a better chance and the costummer a heads up..
We often look at a persons body and think we see the person. This being nothing more than the tool they use to move and exist.
Who they are exists inside the brain. That is only seen when we sitdown and talk with people. Get to know them.
It is easy to see past the body when we see no body at all. On the Internet all you have are the persons thoughts. Not skin tone. Not gender. Just his thoughts.
After all.. it's the thought that counts... right?
> About 20 minutes ago I couldn't hit this story for about 10 minutes.
Check your equipment and do a traceroute...
This sounds like your reaching Slashdot vea a defective router.
Unless you are refering to the one time event known as the DDOS attack on Slashdot...
I suggest you check out your traffic...
You may be the victom of a flaky server. Not Slashdots server... (Why dose it automaticly have to be Slashdot?)
Do a traceroute and see where the traffic stops.
You may find a router who isn't responding...
I had that a lot on my former ISP. Not anymore.
Slashdot is remarkably stable considering it's daily load.