Bill Gates: What happen? Microsoft: Somebody set up us the WinXP. Microsoft: We get signal. Bill Gates: What! Microsoft: Product activation turn on. Bill Gates: It's You!! AOL/TW: How are you gentlemen!! AOL/TW: All your OEM are belong to us. Bill Gates: What you say!! AOL/TW: You have no chance to launch make your time. AOL/TW: Ha Ha Ha Ha.... Bill Gates: Take off every ".NET" Bill Gates: You know what you doing. Bill Gates: Move ".NET" Bill Gates: For great profit.
Sorry, it was just too good an opportunity to pass up...
When I used the term "questionable security," I was including the fact that it would be trivial to gain access to the network and compromise the servers there.
Also, with the questionable security of 802.11, even with WEP enabled, would it really be that good of an idea to have that large of a coverage radius? With technology like this, people wouldn't even have to drive up to the parking lot to gain access to the network, they could do it from their home or someplace far away from their actual target.
It's a security breach waiting to happen.
The problem with open source languages...
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...is that trying to learn them is a moving target. I know that C++ and C don't change that often, even though there are open source compilers for them like GCC. It just bugs the hell out of me when languages keep changing like this. Anyway, I'm probably showing my ignorance by now, so I'm going to hit that little "Submit" button...
What if one manager made the decision to evilly include a GPL'ed program in the product, and when the company found out, they fired the manager and changed the product to be GPL compliant? Then will the Slashdot community remove or apologize for all the flaming that will follow this? I doubt it.
Of course not. Slashdot is a shameless bastion of yellow journalism. I don't trust things like this that I see on Slashdot anymore than I trust the journalistic integrity of the local "if it bleeds, it leads" TV news outlet.
I'm sure someone will mod this as flamebait, too. My oh my, wouldn't that be ironic.
no, jackass, the CORRECT line for this version of "California, Uber Alles" is this:
Come quietly to the camp
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This will be a great achevement for our society!
Not only will we be able to get power so cheap that we can kiss rolling blackouts produced by centralized power generation goodbye, but we can also worry about what happens when someone want's to "reverse engineer" the thing by opening up the box and "checking out" the hardware, in the name of information being free. Man, I sure wouldn't want to be living within 100 miles of someone who thinks it wise to tinker with a small nuclear reactor.
And think about the chain reaction that would be caused by one "going off." If anyone else in the area had one, the resulting EMP would probably fry the control electronics and cause other devices to go "critical," thereby setting them off too. What a blast that would be (no pun intended).
4) Freenet users are automaticly suspected of anonymous communication, therefore, standing warrents are issued against all Freenet users.
Sure, this would be bad on paper, but in reality, determining if someone was even running a freenet node would be fairly difficult and would require actual knowledge of the setup of the machine in question, or the network in question in some cases. This is mainly due to the fact that all (good) encryption more or less looks the same (i.e. like random noise), and the fact that Freenet has no standard port that it runs on, therefore making portscan determinations impossible.
The list probably goes on for longer than that, but that's about all I care to think of right now.
Users can be sought after if, say, someone comes up with a way to determine if certain traffic is coming from a Freenet node. If this occurs, then anyone who uses Freenet or has it installed would be known. Other than that, it would be more or less impossible to tell what goes on on Freenet.
Of course, they can be sought after, but, at least in the United States, any authority would need proof that certain content was actually being distributed by that person or entity.
One of the features of Freenet is the inability to determine exactly where you data is really coming from, and so there would be no way to legally shut someone down, unless the program itself and its use was outlawed.
My cable modem provider, for example, has pretty good access to the data I send around.
Well, one could simply take a look at what freenet is all about, such as ENCRYPTION IS USED EVERYWHERE, and you would discover that, lo and behold, your cable provider would still have access to the data that you send around with freenet, but they wouldn't be able to understand a single thing.
Actually, I have run into the same problem that the poster has in that I, too, have also started a small dedicated server company with several others. Since I know PHP, I'm pretty much going to be coding most of the stuff from scratch, and some of my other projects include a banner affiliate system that will allow you to pay people to host banners on their pages and keep track of things such as clickthroughs, etc.
BTW, while I'm planning on making the affiliate program availible for a small charge (about $30 or $40), I think I'll be using the GPL for the control panel program once I get aroudn to writing it.
Now, a shameless plug: my hosting company is Synergy Global Networks. They specialize in a no-TOS hosting plan, which would take a court order to remove your site.
The same thing has also happened to the site AmeritechCable.com. They, a consumer adcovacy site and a general Ameritech detractor, have been sued by Ameritech and SBC Communications for, among other things, having a site that was "confusingly similar" to Ameritech's, even though it didn't even use the same color scheme and had fake "banners" thoughout the site that very vocally criticized Ameritech.
Since the original site has been taken down due to a court injunction, the only online information that I can find on it is on this site, and it appears that SBC/Ameritech even had Google remove its cache of the site. However, it is strongly evidenced that Ameritech simply did this because they now are actually moving into the cable business, as is evidenced by this quick search on Google.
The local authoritarian left-wing cult, the Spartacist League, hold a protest outside where they chant their usual bullshit. The Sparts are NOT a group that any sensible person supports. Other left groups avoid them like the plague.
LOL, they are still around!?
I may not even be old enough to be in college yet (I'm 16), but I remember my World History teacher (who went to Yale in the late 70's) telling my class a story about how one day, someone from their group came up to his door in an attempt at recruiting him. He described them as basically believing in the "workers" violently overthrowing authority by killing all those who are in charge. Kinda like Communists but more violent. Anyway, his roommate happened to be a Pol Sci major who, after being called to the door by my teacher, met with the woman and tore down, one by one, the woman's political ideals and claims. My teacher acutally thought it was kind of amusing. You're absolutely right, those people are part of the lunatic fringe.
Well, I have to admit, the site's owner (I'm affiliated with his group, but I don't maintain the sites themselves) could've chosen a better domain name (and color scheme) for a consumer advocacy site, but, as you will see, that project is already in the works.
The project on the site named "Project: Register Ameritech" is a project intended to register domain names with the word "Ameritech" in them that leave no doubt in one's mind that they are anti-Ameritech in nature. Of course, I can't post any examples of these names, as someone else might see them and register them, but I have seen the names that the site owner is planning to register, and I can tell you that they are some good ones.
the big guy trying to rob the little guy out of a name, or a domain that they may have had for years... it seems to have turned into a corporate right to harass everyone.
This is also happening to consumer advocacy groups. A specific example (one with which I am affiliated, BTW) is Ameritech Cable. They provide news and information about Ameritech's poor service and anti-consumer practices, as well as a place for people to talk about their experiences with Ameritech. Currently, they, along with Ameritechdsl.com are getting sued by Ameritech for a number of things. Read all about it here
My God, you are a crotchety old bastard. Think about it, this is exactly the kind of exaggeration of the general attitude present on Slashdot that it is actually pretty hilarious.
Ahem... unfounded rumors that bash Microsoft or other enemies of the Open Source state
Are you kidding me? This stuff is hilarious! Its like one big troll after another. Hell, today is the day if you want to get a story through with a goatse.cx link in it, or at least one on something controversial that is sure to rile at least half the Slashdot community.
This essentially means "Take these 11 million random bits, copy them over the network using no encryption, just dump them into the bit bucket on the other end, and tell me how long it took you." I did this to try to minimize the impact of disk usage and CPU crunching, and just try to make the bits fly as fast as possible.
Umm... well, if he used ssh in order to make a connection to his other computer, wouldn't he still be technically using encryption? Or is the algorithm used to encrypt WEP connections really that much more taxing on the CPU?
Plus I got *67 on, they'll need subpoenas to, and a ton of tracing to even get close to me. By then I'll have a new number. Hell, I go through telephone lines about one every 2-3 months.
Uhh... No matter how many times you change your number, there is always a record
A little clarification on this:
Almost all large customers of the phone company (i.e. those who have some kind of leased line or ISDN services) have a service called ANI, which stands for (AFAIK) Automatic Number Identification. The *67 service has no affect on whether this aquires your number or not, so you are pretty much screwed if you call in on your own phone line.
The only way I know of to get past ANI is to trick the operator to diverting your call to the number that you wish to call, thereby having the number of the operator (always xxx-0000) showing up on ANI. But, of course, you can't route data calls this way, so you are pretty much limited to either using someone else's line, or doing what Kevin Mitnick did and aquire a different number through the cellular telephone network, although, with the state of cellular networks today, that is considerably harder to do than it was 5 or 6 years ago.
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Microsoft: Somebody set up us the WinXP.
Microsoft: We get signal.
Bill Gates: What!
Microsoft: Product activation turn on.
Bill Gates: It's You!!
AOL/TW: How are you gentlemen!!
AOL/TW: All your OEM are belong to us.
Bill Gates: What you say!!
AOL/TW: You have no chance to launch make your time.
AOL/TW: Ha Ha Ha Ha....
Bill Gates: Take off every ".NET"
Bill Gates: You know what you doing.
Bill Gates: Move ".NET"
Bill Gates: For great profit.
Sorry, it was just too good an opportunity to pass up...
...will these planes get stuck trying to manuver around doors? What if enemies are hiding behind walls?
Also, with the questionable security of 802.11, even with WEP enabled, would it really be that good of an idea to have that large of a coverage radius? With technology like this, people wouldn't even have to drive up to the parking lot to gain access to the network, they could do it from their home or someplace far away from their actual target.
It's a security breach waiting to happen.
Of course not. Slashdot is a shameless bastion of yellow journalism. I don't trust things like this that I see on Slashdot anymore than I trust the journalistic integrity of the local "if it bleeds, it leads" TV news outlet.
I'm sure someone will mod this as flamebait, too. My oh my, wouldn't that be ironic.
I mean obviously, Slashdot editors KNOW that they are preaching to the choir, so why do they post this? Perhaps they need more banner hits?
I mean, the fact that MS doesn't like the GPL isn't exactly news.
no, jackass, the CORRECT line for this version of "California, Uber Alles" is this:
Come quietly to the camp
Not only will we be able to get power so cheap that we can kiss rolling blackouts produced by centralized power generation goodbye, but we can also worry about what happens when someone want's to "reverse engineer" the thing by opening up the box and "checking out" the hardware, in the name of information being free. Man, I sure wouldn't want to be living within 100 miles of someone who thinks it wise to tinker with a small nuclear reactor.
And think about the chain reaction that would be caused by one "going off." If anyone else in the area had one, the resulting EMP would probably fry the control electronics and cause other devices to go "critical," thereby setting them off too. What a blast that would be (no pun intended).
Sure, this would be bad on paper, but in reality, determining if someone was even running a freenet node would be fairly difficult and would require actual knowledge of the setup of the machine in question, or the network in question in some cases. This is mainly due to the fact that all (good) encryption more or less looks the same (i.e. like random noise), and the fact that Freenet has no standard port that it runs on, therefore making portscan determinations impossible.
The list probably goes on for longer than that, but that's about all I care to think of right now.
Of course, they can be sought after, but, at least in the United States, any authority would need proof that certain content was actually being distributed by that person or entity.
One of the features of Freenet is the inability to determine exactly where you data is really coming from, and so there would be no way to legally shut someone down, unless the program itself and its use was outlawed.
Well, one could simply take a look at what freenet is all about, such as ENCRYPTION IS USED EVERYWHERE, and you would discover that, lo and behold, your cable provider would still have access to the data that you send around with freenet, but they wouldn't be able to understand a single thing.
A brief perusal of the website in question indicates that he is looking for Mac C++ developers, so I would assume that it is written in C++.
BTW, while I'm planning on making the affiliate program availible for a small charge (about $30 or $40), I think I'll be using the GPL for the control panel program once I get aroudn to writing it.
Now, a shameless plug: my hosting company is Synergy Global Networks. They specialize in a no-TOS hosting plan, which would take a court order to remove your site.
There, I'm done whoring myself.
LOL, I just caught the irony in your sig. Do you get flamed a lot for that one by angry morons who don't catch the humor in that?
Since the original site has been taken down due to a court injunction, the only online information that I can find on it is on this site, and it appears that SBC/Ameritech even had Google remove its cache of the site. However, it is strongly evidenced that Ameritech simply did this because they now are actually moving into the cable business, as is evidenced by this quick search on Google.
LOL, they are still around!?
I may not even be old enough to be in college yet (I'm 16), but I remember my World History teacher (who went to Yale in the late 70's) telling my class a story about how one day, someone from their group came up to his door in an attempt at recruiting him. He described them as basically believing in the "workers" violently overthrowing authority by killing all those who are in charge. Kinda like Communists but more violent. Anyway, his roommate happened to be a Pol Sci major who, after being called to the door by my teacher, met with the woman and tore down, one by one, the woman's political ideals and claims. My teacher acutally thought it was kind of amusing. You're absolutely right, those people are part of the lunatic fringe.
Anyway, that's my $0.02.
Perhaps that's why Slashdot seems to have horrendous response times every once in a while.
The project on the site named "Project: Register Ameritech" is a project intended to register domain names with the word "Ameritech" in them that leave no doubt in one's mind that they are anti-Ameritech in nature. Of course, I can't post any examples of these names, as someone else might see them and register them, but I have seen the names that the site owner is planning to register, and I can tell you that they are some good ones.
This is also happening to consumer advocacy groups. A specific example (one with which I am affiliated, BTW) is Ameritech Cable. They provide news and information about Ameritech's poor service and anti-consumer practices, as well as a place for people to talk about their experiences with Ameritech. Currently, they, along with Ameritechdsl.com are getting sued by Ameritech for a number of things. Read all about it here
Ahem... unfounded rumors that bash Microsoft or other enemies of the Open Source state
There, better now?
Are you kidding me? This stuff is hilarious! Its like one big troll after another. Hell, today is the day if you want to get a story through with a goatse.cx link in it, or at least one on something controversial that is sure to rile at least half the Slashdot community.
This essentially means "Take these 11 million random bits, copy them over the network using no encryption, just dump them into the bit bucket on the other end, and tell me how long it took you." I did this to try to minimize the impact of disk usage and CPU crunching, and just try to make the bits fly as fast as possible.
Umm... well, if he used ssh in order to make a connection to his other computer, wouldn't he still be technically using encryption? Or is the algorithm used to encrypt WEP connections really that much more taxing on the CPU?
Uhh... No matter how many times you change your number, there is always a record
A little clarification on this:
Almost all large customers of the phone company (i.e. those who have some kind of leased line or ISDN services) have a service called ANI, which stands for (AFAIK) Automatic Number Identification. The *67 service has no affect on whether this aquires your number or not, so you are pretty much screwed if you call in on your own phone line.
The only way I know of to get past ANI is to trick the operator to diverting your call to the number that you wish to call, thereby having the number of the operator (always xxx-0000) showing up on ANI. But, of course, you can't route data calls this way, so you are pretty much limited to either using someone else's line, or doing what Kevin Mitnick did and aquire a different number through the cellular telephone network, although, with the state of cellular networks today, that is considerably harder to do than it was 5 or 6 years ago.