I haven't read a single comment that is at the heart of this issue. The reason the Sheriffs department considers it extortion, is because they claim they own the content.
Demanding money to give a person something that he/she owns IS extortion. But does the Sheriffs department own the content, or does the hoster (since he was hosting it for free).
It should probably have been a civil case first to resolve the IP. The owner of the IP would then have had firm legal ground for whatever action they wanted.
But I don't agree with slapping him with a criminal suit right off the bat.
Did you even read the article? Mr Phipps response does start with an inflamatory attack, but he follows it up with some good supporting evidence:
"In fact, Sun has contributed more to Open Source than anybody else bar Berkeley [University of California]. We understand Open Source better than anyone else. IBM is just wrapping itself in the flag, but it still behaves like an old-fashioned systems company. Sun is actually taking the risks. [Raymond] isn't well informed and is ignoring most of the stuff that Sun is doing. He completely ignores things like the Java Desktop, the Java Enterprise System running on Linux in its new servers. He's very selective about what he wants to write about"
He doesn't refute the "high-level" arguments that ESR makes, because he is attacking the "low-level" premises that ESR's arguments are based on.
More often that once a month? Are you crazy? Most people can't even manage it twice a year!
I know people say it's dangerous to run a computer without all the latest patches, but that doesn't really solve everything. Most virii are mostly based on social engineering (love bug, etc). The most recent large virus based only on a bug was Code Red, but it's patches had been available for months!
As long as they include all that month's fixes, once a month is enough!
Persistency is not as important on an earth-bound LAN. Most of the time, bringing it back up is not an issue of "try, try again", but of just doing it right in the first place.
I don't believe the poster is just talking about code-bases, but culture in general. How often do you hear MS bashing, just because it's the "geek" thing to do. There are many advantages that linux has over MS, but there are also advantages MS has over linux.
Monoculture is the inbreeding of the intellectual world. It prevents new and better ideas from being proposed and excepted. Remember how long it took for the west to accept the Sun as the center of the solar system?
It's way harder to steal somebodies CC number. You have to own (or have good access to) the magnetic card reader.
With RFID, this poster is speculating that the RFID reader not be visible, or even super-close to the RFID chip. With a credit card, you know every time the number is pulled from the card, because you swipe it.
With RFID, you might not even know your number was swiped, because of the radio nature of these devices.
While I'm not saying it would be easy, I think it would be significantly easier to steal an RFID code than to steal a CC number (the traditional way)
"Folks, if it's a SCO story, check with Groklaw before passing judgment. For every bit of FUD coming out of Linden, a blast of anti-FUD is lobbied back."
Not everything coming out of SCO can be garbage, it's just not possible! Everything must at least have a shred of truth somewhere..
It just seems like the/. community has polarized once again. If X is anti-linux, we must be anti-X. It just makes me sick to see how many people read something somewhere, and assume 100% that it's true, just because it's against SCO.
I could say "I heard that Darl McBride eats worms.." and many people would believe it, just because he's the leader of SCO. Think for yourselves, people! Any media source (Even this one) is biased!
(Disclaimer, Not saying Groklaw is wrong in this case, just asking people to think for themselves before passing judgement on any new story of the day)
That's not exactly true. They may all have very strong incentives to vote the party line, but that doesn't mean they always do. And, every single one of them helps to set the party line.
The media will have you believe that the world is black and white, and it's reflected in the viewpoints that get the most air-time. Many people seem to have an extremely cynical view of the government. Some people (mostly politicians) have a very positive view of government. But I think the reality is somewhere inbetween the extremes. The government is not all good, and not all bad. Republicans do not try to thwart dems at every turn, and neither do the dems thwart the GOP whenever they can.
I would be a naive fool if to say that the government is completely free from corruption. Power does corrupt. But you would be a cynical fool to believe the government does a poor job of balancing people's interests.
"We're whalers on the moon, we carry a harpoon, but there aint no whales so we tell tall tales and sing a whaling tune" .. Brought to you by the monsanto corporation..
Same thing happened to me. I control a complete box at Rackshack (now ev1?), and for about 2 months was unable to send email to anybody at an AOL address. I would call (or use their automated system) and they would tell me my IP wasn't in their list of banned IP's, yet I couldn't send email..
Eventually, we figured out that my server was in the Rackshack block of IP addresses, and their software was smart enough to block it, but not smart enough to see that my IP was in the range..
Basically, it really sucked to get a whitelisting for my IP.
Posting this on slashdot doesn't help.. The people who read this already know about (and do) turn bluetooth off on their devices. Any I'm sure that spammers read this as well...
Posting this here is silly for the same reason that posting detailed instructions of an how to exploit the latest buffer overrun is silly...
"the Texas team just might win the race to 100km altitude. At least if some of the other teams don't get there first.".. Isn't that what a competition is? If I don't win, somebody else will?
Not quite. Saying "To be able to drink water you must first understand the various ways in which hydrogen and oxygen can combine" is like saying "To browse the internet you need a complete understanding of HTTP".
A closer analogy would be "To be able to mix Kool-ade, you must first understand the various ways in which hydrogen and oxygen can combine"
This is bad, yes, but MS was the first to pioneer this tactic.. And despite protests from the./ crowd, nothing happened.
For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, when you type a URL into your browser that doesn't exist, MSIE re-routes your browser to their search engine.
While its not as far reaching as this latest verisign crap, it was still a precident.
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All I know is that she is a harsh mistress!
What we say: "We want to help you."
What they hear: "All your base are belong to us!".
I haven't read a single comment that is at the heart of this issue. The reason the Sheriffs department considers it extortion, is because they claim they own the content.
Demanding money to give a person something that he/she owns IS extortion. But does the Sheriffs department own the content, or does the hoster (since he was hosting it for free).
It should probably have been a civil case first to resolve the IP. The owner of the IP would then have had firm legal ground for whatever action they wanted.
But I don't agree with slapping him with a criminal suit right off the bat.
Did you even read the article? Mr Phipps response does start with an inflamatory attack, but he follows it up with some good supporting evidence:
"In fact, Sun has contributed more to Open Source than anybody else bar Berkeley [University of California]. We understand Open Source better than anyone else. IBM is just wrapping itself in the flag, but it still behaves like an old-fashioned systems company. Sun is actually taking the risks. [Raymond] isn't well informed and is ignoring most of the stuff that Sun is doing. He completely ignores things like the Java Desktop, the Java Enterprise System running on Linux in its new servers. He's very selective about what he wants to write about"
He doesn't refute the "high-level" arguments that ESR makes, because he is attacking the "low-level" premises that ESR's arguments are based on.
More often that once a month? Are you crazy? Most people can't even manage it twice a year!
I know people say it's dangerous to run a computer without all the latest patches, but that doesn't really solve everything. Most virii are mostly based on social engineering (love bug, etc). The most recent large virus based only on a bug was Code Red, but it's patches had been available for months!
As long as they include all that month's fixes, once a month is enough!
Persistency is not as important on an earth-bound LAN. Most of the time, bringing it back up is not an issue of "try, try again", but of just doing it right in the first place.
I think testing the anal probes would be a worse job. But that's just me...
I don't believe the poster is just talking about code-bases, but culture in general. How often do you hear MS bashing, just because it's the "geek" thing to do. There are many advantages that linux has over MS, but there are also advantages MS has over linux.
Monoculture is the inbreeding of the intellectual world. It prevents new and better ideas from being proposed and excepted. Remember how long it took for the west to accept the Sun as the center of the solar system?
Want to prove my point, just flame me..
This plan is extremely similar to the one used in the book Red Mars. I think the plan proposed in the article is good, but it is not original.
It's way harder to steal somebodies CC number. You have to own (or have good access to) the magnetic card reader.
With RFID, this poster is speculating that the RFID reader not be visible, or even super-close to the RFID chip. With a credit card, you know every time the number is pulled from the card, because you swipe it.
With RFID, you might not even know your number was swiped, because of the radio nature of these devices.
While I'm not saying it would be easy, I think it would be significantly easier to steal an RFID code than to steal a CC number (the traditional way)
"Folks, if it's a SCO story, check with Groklaw before passing judgment. For every bit of FUD coming out of Linden, a blast of anti-FUD is lobbied back."
/. community has polarized once again. If X is anti-linux, we must be anti-X. It just makes me sick to see how many people read something somewhere, and assume 100% that it's true, just because it's against SCO.
Not everything coming out of SCO can be garbage, it's just not possible! Everything must at least have a shred of truth somewhere..
It just seems like the
I could say "I heard that Darl McBride eats worms.." and many people would believe it, just because he's the leader of SCO. Think for yourselves, people! Any media source (Even this one) is biased!
(Disclaimer, Not saying Groklaw is wrong in this case, just asking people to think for themselves before passing judgement on any new story of the day)
Or +5 informative..
(Not a flame, just a joke)
That's not exactly true. They may all have very strong incentives to vote the party line, but that doesn't mean they always do. And, every single one of them helps to set the party line.
The media will have you believe that the world is black and white, and it's reflected in the viewpoints that get the most air-time. Many people seem to have an extremely cynical view of the government. Some people (mostly politicians) have a very positive view of government. But I think the reality is somewhere inbetween the extremes. The government is not all good, and not all bad. Republicans do not try to thwart dems at every turn, and neither do the dems thwart the GOP whenever they can.
I would be a naive fool if to say that the government is completely free from corruption. Power does corrupt. But you would be a cynical fool to believe the government does a poor job of balancing people's interests.
Orson wells, eat your heart out!
"We're whalers on the moon, we carry a harpoon, but there aint no whales so we tell tall tales and sing a whaling tune"
.. Brought to you by the monsanto corporation ..
Same thing happened to me. I control a complete box at Rackshack (now ev1?), and for about 2 months was unable to send email to anybody at an AOL address. I would call (or use their automated system) and they would tell me my IP wasn't in their list of banned IP's, yet I couldn't send email..
Eventually, we figured out that my server was in the Rackshack block of IP addresses, and their software was smart enough to block it, but not smart enough to see that my IP was in the range..
Basically, it really sucked to get a whitelisting for my IP.
Posting this on slashdot doesn't help.. The people who read this already know about (and do) turn bluetooth off on their devices. Any I'm sure that spammers read this as well...
Posting this here is silly for the same reason that posting detailed instructions of an how to exploit the latest buffer overrun is silly...
So long, bluetooth!
Official report:
On xx/xx/xxxx at approximately xxxx hours, a xxxxx was sighted near xxxx xxxxxx. Our analisys is as follows...
Conclusion:
xxxxx xxx xxxxxxxx xxxxx xx xxxxx at this time. Although, please be advised that xxxx xxxxxx xx xxxxx.
Boy, I'd love to be the person who gets to filter out all the classified stuff!
"the Texas team just might win the race to 100km altitude. At least if some of the other teams don't get there first." .. Isn't that what a competition is? If I don't win, somebody else will?
I tried again, and it started downloading at 180k, uploading at 100k. Obviously, my understanding of bit torrent leaves something to be desired.
"HUGE BANDWIDTHM"
Yeah right.. Downloading at 1KiB/s. Uploading at 10KiB/s.
At least with bit torrent, I'm not just downloading from a single person...
Thats what you get when your Apache MaxClients setting is higher than your PHP MaxClients setting.
Not quite. Saying "To be able to drink water you must first understand the various ways in which hydrogen and oxygen can combine" is like saying "To browse the internet you need a complete understanding of HTTP".
A closer analogy would be "To be able to mix Kool-ade, you must first understand the various ways in which hydrogen and oxygen can combine"
This is bad, yes, but MS was the first to pioneer this tactic.. And despite protests from the ./ crowd, nothing happened.
For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, when you type a URL into your browser that doesn't exist, MSIE re-routes your browser to their search engine.
While its not as far reaching as this latest verisign crap, it was still a precident.
What can be done, short of the Internet2?