I was just checking out Red Merc's review and took a look at some of the screenshots they have. About the most impressive thing about this is its wonderful screen and video capability.
For starters, it has a reflective screen so (unlike my palm) when I take it outside I can actually use it instead of seeing a nice black rectangle.
The review points out how the video play is--quite nice... also the screen refresh rate, etc... because this writes directly to the video memory in order to erase the screen, you will see a MUCH better frame rate than its palm counterpart.
Now if I had only seen this just a tad sooner I wouldnt have to think about taking back a palm..:P
The article points out how freebies are disappearing... and then started to list incredible give-aways that are no more.
Now, I am not trying to seem a little cross here but how long can someone give away real products like keyboards and such as a business model? It was a good thing while the companies didn't have a clue (/me pets my pretty keyboard) but it is obvious that it would fail.
Then again, there are still a few free things on the web: I regularly use Net2Phone... it gives me free long distance from computer to phone.. sure, they cut it down to 5 minutes now but I doubt they could have lasted while giving infnite amount of time (5 mins per call, inf call now).
This is like the dot.com crunch. Those businesses that are giving away huge items for "looking at a few webs" have an unsafe business model anyway -- we should not expect them to continue after they GetAClue(tm). Some businesses stop offering free services -- of course.. all businesses? I don't think we have reached that level yet.
How do you tell someone that they are running a "Honeypot" server unintentionally?
I used to have the habit of talking to people about security issues on networking around my high school. As people are, they scoffed at a kid explaining to them security issues... and when their network was compromised (not by me) my attempt at pointing out their security problems came to their mind... They remembered me speaking to them, of course, and since I knew about their security problems I "had to be" the person who compromised their system...
That was high school -- I learned to keep my mouth shut...
About a month ago, when I first started reading about the honeypot project I noticed that my Universities box was running a version of linux that had a few security issues.. as in the same security issues that allowed others to access and control the Honeypot for a little. (I am not mentioning my U's name!) -- I acted against reason and informed the administrator (who I had as a professor) about the problem... their answer was strange: "I know about the problem but I just don't have enough time to deal with it right now. I think I might take a look at patching it sometime this summer..."
Now I am worried the same thing will happen.. my precious U's network will be compromised and the admin will be thinking "Wait.. I remember someone who knew about this security problem.."
So how exactly do you tell someone that their server/network/etc has security problems without opening yourself up for nasty things?
please post links to the file. I make a habit of downloading things just to have them in "safe keeping" if corporations try to litigate them off the internet...
I would be VERY appreciative if someone could post a link to where I can get a copy of this soon-to-be-gone app.
My university's mathematics department relies heavily on the use of Mathematica (a "god" in the mathematical notation and symbolic problem solving front). I loved it and I bought it -- and found out that there will be a problem if the publisher (Wolfram Research) ever goes out of business...
When you run it for the first time, it notes all your hardware and creates a unique "id" that has to have a matching unique "password" to unlock the software.. sound familiar?
The gist is, when the university decides that their 180 mhz computers just "dont cut it no 'mo" and upgrade, if wolfram isn't there to give out their unique passwords then the university has lost out on QUITE a lot of funding (The student version (full w/o manual) goes for 150 but the retail version (full w/ manual) goes for about 1150).
Now, in these cases would it be "correct" or "right" to reverse engineer the software's security or at least use a keygenerator as found on the little warez kids sites... and what kind of trouble could a university find itself in if they did this?
Schwartz, against Intel's instructions, made a portal that he could connect to from a different computer... grounds for firing, certainly -- this was not grounds for criminal charges!
Schwartz copied files from one intel computer to another one... yes against instructions... and it is grounds for firing but not for criminal charges....
Can someone, who has spent more time on this, please explain to me how this could happen? I have been trying to understand this and I still can't...:(
Because their SQL server is a page in the story of "The Little Server that Died," this info is provided below from Their Contact Page.
Why not give them at the corporate office a call? When you call you might hear a nasal kinda "assistant" -- I figure that if she writes down all the complaints and passes even 1/5 of them on, then notice would filter its way to the top some time.
I have been trying to change my home computer over to linux for a little while now... I still havent found a driver for my Netmate USB -> Ethernet device yet but anyways...
I have tried out maybe 4 distros so far... exactly what is it about Libranets Linux that makes me say "Hey, lemme pay 15 bucks for this distro and actually keep it"?
I dont hold store in the manufacturers hype so maybe someone here who has used it can shed some light, eh?
I had this same problem when dealing with an "application" that insisted on sending information about my computer out.
What I end up doing was having a registry monitoring program called regmon to to monitor all registry access, then I loaded up the program and then stopped monitoring registry... I found that they wanted to send a LOT of VERY personal info out.
No real disassembly is needed... load up regmon or filemon (file access monitoring program) and note what it looks at... betcha you would be surprised...
I have been a/. reader for while now and I have to say -- I have thought about stopping.
Why? Because (almost without fail) whenever I read/., I become depressed for a while. When the DMCA first came out I thought -- "well, this should be interesting.. wonder how long it will take for it to be destroyed" and it is still giving me bad feelings today.
The reason I still read/. is so that one day, when all the crap is taken care of, I can see the joyful post that exclaims to the world that the DMCA is over...
With as much competition as there is between video game systems and companies constantly expanding new tech and new hardware, the gameboy must be the longest lasting console!
The gameboy is over 10 years old, and with only minor updates, it is still going strong. I would LOVE to see one of the newer systems be able to boast of that.
I don't really play that many games, so I won't buy one, but I must admit that the industry and its evolution is very interesting. I just like that a portable mini-system can outlast the heavyweights of the industry. But to be fair, software support always makes or breaks a system too, which is why the handheld brethren of the Game Boy (Lynx, Virtual Boy, GameGear, and TurboExpress) are all in their respective coffins now.
Maybe I'll get one as a gift to my teenage sister so she'll stop wasting her TI-89 with those cruddy little calculator games:)
Sup guys... my ISP, @home, has a proxy installed as my default proxy for web traffic and I am wondering if this could cause a problem--eg: they watching everything I do, etc. Also, would anything "necessarily" bad happen if I choose to disable this?
I would worry that they log all my traffic for use in some huge conspiracy, but its much more likely they use it for advertisements... any aid with problems with the @home proxy and if there is a problem with disabling it?
Mandatory Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, nor do I pretend to be one--anything I tell you should not be construed as advice but the ramblings of a mad man.
Full GPL License
There are a few ways that GPL'ed code can remain open but the greater project can be closed... think about DLL's or helper executables to handle the work that is required here. Helper executables would slow down the processing a bit, but linked DLL's should still work. IF it was "mandatory" to fix this "mistake" it might be plausible to place the GPLed code in a linked DLL and use that to work in the "gpl'ed" code... with the greater Executable being closed source.
Of course there is the option to redo all the work, but I doubt that this is even possible... but if the higher ups do not think a staticly linked DLL containing the open source code is possible (EG they dont want the open source for even that code any longer) -- well... redo all the work, or send a coded message involving the acronym "RTFGPL" (Read the 'friggin' GPL) to your higher ups.
Last year John Carmack opened Quake and the Quake World Client to the open source community under the GPL license. After seemingly no time, there were a plethora of cheat clients going around for it... the way to deal with this by one group was to make a new client that everyone had to use to connect to a new server -- and they didnt release the GPL for that. That was Quakelives -- there was even a/. on it.
Now, though, there is another problem with the GPL. About this same time, another group decided to do something about the cheaters. They created a VERY advanced cheating client using the GPL'ed code, and released the binary... it quickly spread throughout the Quake community... about a month and 1/2 ago, the group came forward: they had implanted a trojan in the cheat file that reported a lot of information (windows cdkey, mac address, real name, organization, icq numbers, email addresses, etc) to servers set up for this purpose. Now, after they came out there was a general uprising of the community about this: everyone was upset, but a few wanted to make sure that was "ALL" the info that was passed.. this should be a fairly easy thing but--they refuse to give out their source code.
My question is -- exactly how could a situation like this be remedied? This is an issue that effects over 4000 unique people, but on the big scale of things -- ID Software is not likely to sue over this b/c they stand the chance of losing the GPL license over a small case. How could this be settled? Also: How can someone release code under the GPL with the knowledge that this won't happen? (taking source, modifying, releasing binary, and saying they will NOT release the source)
Well, no, but I doubt that the US Postal Service would have willingly continued to deliver mail like that had it recieved a request from a customer or a law enforcement agency to discontinue... as a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure that it's against USPS regulations to knowingly deliver illegal material.
I am sure of that too, but how would they know they are delivering illegal content (the USPS that is) -- by going through each letter?
I believe I will let Buffnet speak for itself...
. BuffNET is not charged with any crimes. BuffNET has not broken any laws. None of the individuals who were arrested were BuffNET members or employees. None of the allegedly illegal material was posted from BuffNET accounts. BuffNET receives its newsgroup feeds from Sprint's network, from Prodigy and from several educational institutions. These feeds are unmoderated, the same as radio and TV signals through the air.
The question keeps coming up: how responsible is an ISP for content available through them?
That is indeed an interesting question. One might say that they have a responsibility to AT LEAST get a peer review service into place. What is meant by that is that they have an email address where, upon users finding illegal material on a newsgroup, that the users write this email addy and someone at the company checks it out. Someone might say that this would be a "Good Thing," and I would to, except for a few problems...
For starters: what is the ISP supposed to do if it finds a news group FULL of illegal contact... they monitor it for a while and it never chances.. illegal contact all the time. The easy answer would be to remove it.
For something a little harder: It finds a news group that has been "Taken Over" by an illegal internet ring. Example: Say there is a Disney(c) newsgroup and it was unmoderated. Say that a group of child pornographers who start posting their content on this newsgroup, bothering the 50% of the people who use the newsgroup for its intention. So, 50% of the messages are from an illegal group, the other 50% are from users (legit users) of the group... what then? How would you deal with that? Close down that group too?
Next example: How about we use our previous example.. say there is a Disney(c) newsgroup that has 10-15 messages that contain illegal content out of 500 messages that are "legit newsgroup messages".. how would you deal with that then? Get rid of the group too?
I do believe that the ISP's should not knowingly carry newsgroups whose intention is to disseminate illegal content, but the questions are "What do they do??" and "How much illegal content is too much?" If X messages that are illegal can be enough to shut down a newsgroup we could have people trying to shutdown specific newsgroups by doing this. Of course I am ignoring the term "Illegal Content" -- what is illegal in one country, is legal in another, etc etc but please forgive that...
For those afraid of the infamous Goat, a VERY VERY brief part of it had this to say:
"When someone sends illegal material through the U.S. Mail, they don't arrest the people in the Post Office." said BuffNET V.P. Mike Hassett. "It seems like the Attorney General arrested the people who posted. They didn't have BuffNET accounts." Hassett stated. "Federal law protects ISPs. Isn't it intriguing that he [Vacco] chose only 2 ISP's, both in upstate New York? Is it coincidence that Vacco won his last election relying on upstate New York votes? Why weren't the other 1000 plus ISP's in New York State a target of his investigation? Why weren't BuffNET's peers that provided the newsgroups under investigation?" inquired Hassett. "
From the book: "There are other reasons for releasing `Underground' in this format. The electronic version is being donated to the Visionary Project Gutenburg, a collection of free electronic books run with missionary zeal by Michael Hart."
I am happy that writers are contributing their works to the Gutenburg Project, and I am wondering if there is something that we could do to help it also. Many a night I have stayed up reading the Gutenburg files, and this author is helping out a great deal--what can we do in order to help out also?
Much to the dismay of hardcore Anime fans everywhere, animeigo has announced that they will not be selling their "Tentacle Monster" hard suit in the near future.
When asked about this, they responded "Our legal team has told us that this would not be in our best interest--what if a kid..."
Now, this might strike ONLY me as strange but the service are relying on users to send in their logs?
The reason this upsets me (at least SLIGHTLY) is that logs can ALWAYS be faked. That, and get a few different users around the country to send in "altered" logs and some poor @home guy could be out of his account.
Is there anyway to make sure that this will not happen?
An article HEREInfoworld details a 10-Terabyte Optical Disc. The inventor of the disc says that it may become commercially available in a year (it was stated in oct).
An important part of this disc is that it is very stable -- instability occurs only after 5,000 years.
I am wondering if the logs in question include the "webpage" they loaded. What I mean is www.somepage.com/index.html instead of www.somepage.com. If it does include the page, then this could be a much greater invasion of privacy than many believe.
You could be able to find what students are searching for (because it is included in the URL of search engines), possible find out who the kids are (username for sites that send with URL), and intercept "private" messages that COULD be sent over the URL.
Has anyone heard whether or not the logs include the page they viewed?
In an unusual move, Microsoft has filed suit against the online gaming company Everquest.
A Microsoft Spokesperson explained that the wording of their new License Agreement gave them the right to obtain copyrighted Microsoft Materials from their users. The offending part of the License Agreement appears below:
"...data relating to any program that we, in our reasonable discretion,determine interferes with the proper operation of EverQuest."
Microsoft has admitted that some functions of Windows can inhibit and interfere with the proper operation of Everquest, and that this new License agreement prompted them to take action.
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I was just checking out Red Merc's review and took a look at some of the screenshots they have. About the most impressive thing about this is its wonderful screen and video capability.
:P
For starters, it has a reflective screen so (unlike my palm) when I take it outside I can actually use it instead of seeing a nice black rectangle.
The review points out how the video play is--quite nice... also the screen refresh rate, etc... because this writes directly to the video memory in order to erase the screen, you will see a MUCH better frame rate than its palm counterpart.
Now if I had only seen this just a tad sooner I wouldnt have to think about taking back a palm..
The article points out how freebies are disappearing... and then started to list incredible give-aways that are no more.
Now, I am not trying to seem a little cross here but how long can someone give away real products like keyboards and such as a business model? It was a good thing while the companies didn't have a clue (/me pets my pretty keyboard) but it is obvious that it would fail.
Then again, there are still a few free things on the web: I regularly use Net2Phone... it gives me free long distance from computer to phone.. sure, they cut it down to 5 minutes now but I doubt they could have lasted while giving infnite amount of time (5 mins per call, inf call now).
This is like the dot.com crunch. Those businesses that are giving away huge items for "looking at a few webs" have an unsafe business model anyway -- we should not expect them to continue after they GetAClue(tm). Some businesses stop offering free services -- of course.. all businesses? I don't think we have reached that level yet.
How do you tell someone that they are running a "Honeypot" server unintentionally?
I used to have the habit of talking to people about security issues on networking around my high school. As people are, they scoffed at a kid explaining to them security issues... and when their network was compromised (not by me) my attempt at pointing out their security problems came to their mind... They remembered me speaking to them, of course, and since I knew about their security problems I "had to be" the person who compromised their system...
That was high school -- I learned to keep my mouth shut...
About a month ago, when I first started reading about the honeypot project I noticed that my Universities box was running a version of linux that had a few security issues.. as in the same security issues that allowed others to access and control the Honeypot for a little. (I am not mentioning my U's name!) -- I acted against reason and informed the administrator (who I had as a professor) about the problem... their answer was strange: "I know about the problem but I just don't have enough time to deal with it right now. I think I might take a look at patching it sometime this summer..."
Now I am worried the same thing will happen.. my precious U's network will be compromised and the admin will be thinking "Wait.. I remember someone who knew about this security problem.."
So how exactly do you tell someone that their server/network/etc has security problems without opening yourself up for nasty things?
I will tell you what 1.7 Ghz is like... since this came from Intel it is most likely like a 1.3 Ghz Thunderbird... =)
please post links to the file. I make a habit of downloading things just to have them in "safe keeping" if corporations try to litigate them off the internet...
I would be VERY appreciative if someone could post a link to where I can get a copy of this soon-to-be-gone app.
My university's mathematics department relies heavily on the use of Mathematica (a "god" in the mathematical notation and symbolic problem solving front). I loved it and I bought it -- and found out that there will be a problem if the publisher (Wolfram Research) ever goes out of business...
When you run it for the first time, it notes all your hardware and creates a unique "id" that has to have a matching unique "password" to unlock the software.. sound familiar?
The gist is, when the university decides that their 180 mhz computers just "dont cut it no 'mo" and upgrade, if wolfram isn't there to give out their unique passwords then the university has lost out on QUITE a lot of funding (The student version (full w/o manual) goes for 150 but the retail version (full w/ manual) goes for about 1150).
Now, in these cases would it be "correct" or "right" to reverse engineer the software's security or at least use a keygenerator as found on the little warez kids sites... and what kind of trouble could a university find itself in if they did this?
Schwartz, against Intel's instructions, made a portal that he could connect to from a different computer... grounds for firing, certainly -- this was not grounds for criminal charges!
:(
Schwartz copied files from one intel computer to another one... yes against instructions... and it is grounds for firing but not for criminal charges....
Can someone, who has spent more time on this, please explain to me how this could happen? I have been trying to understand this and I still can't...
decide to take it to the source.
Because their SQL server is a page in the story of "The Little Server that Died," this info is provided below from Their Contact Page.
Why not give them at the corporate office a call? When you call you might hear a nasal kinda "assistant" -- I figure that if she writes down all the complaints and passes even 1/5 of them on, then notice would filter its way to the top some time.
Come on -- takes a moment of your time.
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I just got the webcam to update the picture and it was up to 303,129 -- attached to the top was a little sign saying "Hellooooo Slashdot!"
Geez -- seems pretty happy for a guy who now knows that he wont have internet access until sometime tomorrow.. =)
I have been trying to change my home computer over to linux for a little while now... I still havent found a driver for my Netmate USB -> Ethernet device yet but anyways...
I have tried out maybe 4 distros so far... exactly what is it about Libranets Linux that makes me say "Hey, lemme pay 15 bucks for this distro and actually keep it"?
I dont hold store in the manufacturers hype so maybe someone here who has used it can shed some light, eh?
I had this same problem when dealing with an "application" that insisted on sending information about my computer out.
What I end up doing was having a registry monitoring program called regmon to to monitor all registry access, then I loaded up the program and then stopped monitoring registry... I found that they wanted to send a LOT of VERY personal info out.
No real disassembly is needed... load up regmon or filemon (file access monitoring program) and note what it looks at... betcha you would be surprised...
I have been a /. reader for while now and I have to say -- I have thought about stopping.
/., I become depressed for a while. When the DMCA first came out I thought -- "well, this should be interesting.. wonder how long it will take for it to be destroyed" and it is still giving me bad feelings today.
/. is so that one day, when all the crap is taken care of, I can see the joyful post that exclaims to the world that the DMCA is over...
Why? Because (almost without fail) whenever I read
The reason I still read
With as much competition as there is between video game systems and companies constantly expanding new tech and new hardware, the gameboy must be the longest lasting console!
:)
The gameboy is over 10 years old, and with only minor updates, it is still going strong. I would LOVE to see one of the newer systems be able to boast of that.
I don't really play that many games, so I won't buy one, but I must admit that the industry and its evolution is very interesting. I just like that a portable mini-system can outlast the heavyweights of the industry. But to be fair, software support always makes or breaks a system too, which is why the handheld brethren of the Game Boy (Lynx, Virtual Boy, GameGear, and TurboExpress) are all in their respective coffins now.
Maybe I'll get one as a gift to my teenage sister so she'll stop wasting her TI-89 with those cruddy little calculator games
Sup guys... my ISP, @home, has a proxy installed as my default proxy for web traffic and I am wondering if this could cause a problem--eg: they watching everything I do, etc. Also, would anything "necessarily" bad happen if I choose to disable this? I would worry that they log all my traffic for use in some huge conspiracy, but its much more likely they use it for advertisements... any aid with problems with the @home proxy and if there is a problem with disabling it?
Mandatory Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, nor do I pretend to be one--anything I tell you should not be construed as advice but the ramblings of a mad man.
Full GPL License There are a few ways that GPL'ed code can remain open but the greater project can be closed... think about DLL's or helper executables to handle the work that is required here. Helper executables would slow down the processing a bit, but linked DLL's should still work. IF it was "mandatory" to fix this "mistake" it might be plausible to place the GPLed code in a linked DLL and use that to work in the "gpl'ed" code... with the greater Executable being closed source.
Of course there is the option to redo all the work, but I doubt that this is even possible... but if the higher ups do not think a staticly linked DLL containing the open source code is possible (EG they dont want the open source for even that code any longer) -- well... redo all the work, or send a coded message involving the acronym "RTFGPL" (Read the 'friggin' GPL) to your higher ups.
Last year John Carmack opened Quake and the Quake World Client to the open source community under the GPL license. After seemingly no time, there were a plethora of cheat clients going around for it... the way to deal with this by one group was to make a new client that everyone had to use to connect to a new server -- and they didnt release the GPL for that. That was Quakelives -- there was even a /. on it.
Now, though, there is another problem with the GPL. About this same time, another group decided to do something about the cheaters. They created a VERY advanced cheating client using the GPL'ed code, and released the binary... it quickly spread throughout the Quake community... about a month and 1/2 ago, the group came forward: they had implanted a trojan in the cheat file that reported a lot of information (windows cdkey, mac address, real name, organization, icq numbers, email addresses, etc) to servers set up for this purpose. Now, after they came out there was a general uprising of the community about this: everyone was upset, but a few wanted to make sure that was "ALL" the info that was passed.. this should be a fairly easy thing but--they refuse to give out their source code.
The web page for this is Remote Visual Spy.
My question is -- exactly how could a situation like this be remedied? This is an issue that effects over 4000 unique people, but on the big scale of things -- ID Software is not likely to sue over this b/c they stand the chance of losing the GPL license over a small case. How could this be settled? Also: How can someone release code under the GPL with the knowledge that this won't happen? (taking source, modifying, releasing binary, and saying they will NOT release the source)
I am sure of that too, but how would they know they are delivering illegal content (the USPS that is) -- by going through each letter? I believe I will let Buffnet speak for itself... -- found at http://www.buffnet.net/ag/
The question keeps coming up: how responsible is an ISP for content available through them?
That is indeed an interesting question. One might say that they have a responsibility to AT LEAST get a peer review service into place. What is meant by that is that they have an email address where, upon users finding illegal material on a newsgroup, that the users write this email addy and someone at the company checks it out. Someone might say that this would be a "Good Thing," and I would to, except for a few problems...
For starters: what is the ISP supposed to do if it finds a news group FULL of illegal contact... they monitor it for a while and it never chances.. illegal contact all the time. The easy answer would be to remove it.
For something a little harder: It finds a news group that has been "Taken Over" by an illegal internet ring. Example: Say there is a Disney(c) newsgroup and it was unmoderated. Say that a group of child pornographers who start posting their content on this newsgroup, bothering the 50% of the people who use the newsgroup for its intention. So, 50% of the messages are from an illegal group, the other 50% are from users (legit users) of the group... what then? How would you deal with that? Close down that group too?
Next example: How about we use our previous example.. say there is a Disney(c) newsgroup that has 10-15 messages that contain illegal content out of 500 messages that are "legit newsgroup messages".. how would you deal with that then? Get rid of the group too?
I do believe that the ISP's should not knowingly carry newsgroups whose intention is to disseminate illegal content, but the questions are "What do they do??" and "How much illegal content is too much?" If X messages that are illegal can be enough to shut down a newsgroup we could have people trying to shutdown specific newsgroups by doing this. Of course I am ignoring the term "Illegal Content" -- what is illegal in one country, is legal in another, etc etc but please forgive that...
October 27th, 1998: New York City Police seized computer equipment BuffNET used to provide it's subscribers with access to Internet newsgroups.
There was only one other ISP that was cracked down on.. dreamscape...
Both of these ISP's are in upper state new york.
BuffNet itself has a VERY nice explanation of all that happened at http://www.buffnet.net/ag/.
For those afraid of the infamous Goat, a VERY VERY brief part of it had this to say:
"When someone sends illegal material through the U.S. Mail, they don't arrest the people in the Post Office." said BuffNET V.P. Mike Hassett. "It seems like the Attorney General arrested the people who posted. They didn't have BuffNET accounts." Hassett stated. "Federal law protects ISPs. Isn't it intriguing that he [Vacco] chose only 2 ISP's, both in upstate New York? Is it coincidence that Vacco won his last election relying on upstate New York votes? Why weren't the other 1000 plus ISP's in New York State a target of his investigation? Why weren't BuffNET's peers that provided the newsgroups under investigation?" inquired Hassett. "
From the book: "There are other reasons for releasing `Underground' in this format. The electronic version is being donated to the Visionary Project Gutenburg, a collection of free electronic books run with missionary zeal by Michael Hart."
I am happy that writers are contributing their works to the Gutenburg Project, and I am wondering if there is something that we could do to help it also. Many a night I have stayed up reading the Gutenburg files, and this author is helping out a great deal--what can we do in order to help out also?
Much to the dismay of hardcore Anime fans everywhere, animeigo has announced that they will not be selling their "Tentacle Monster" hard suit in the near future.
When asked about this, they responded "Our legal team has told us that this would not be in our best interest--what if a kid..."
Now, this might strike ONLY me as strange but the service are relying on users to send in their logs?
The reason this upsets me (at least SLIGHTLY) is that logs can ALWAYS be faked. That, and get a few different users around the country to send in "altered" logs and some poor @home guy could be out of his account.
Is there anyway to make sure that this will not happen?
An article HEREInfoworld details a 10-Terabyte Optical Disc. The inventor of the disc says that it may become commercially available in a year (it was stated in oct).
An important part of this disc is that it is very stable -- instability occurs only after 5,000 years.
I am wondering if the logs in question include the "webpage" they loaded. What I mean is www.somepage.com/index.html instead of www.somepage.com. If it does include the page, then this could be a much greater invasion of privacy than many believe.
You could be able to find what students are searching for (because it is included in the URL of search engines), possible find out who the kids are (username for sites that send with URL), and intercept "private" messages that COULD be sent over the URL.
Has anyone heard whether or not the logs include the page they viewed?
In an unusual move, Microsoft has filed suit against the online gaming company Everquest.
A Microsoft Spokesperson explained that the wording of their new License Agreement gave them the right to obtain copyrighted Microsoft Materials from their users. The offending part of the License Agreement appears below:
"...data relating to any program that we, in our reasonable discretion,determine interferes with the proper operation of EverQuest."
Microsoft has admitted that some functions of Windows can inhibit and interfere with the proper operation of Everquest, and that this new License agreement prompted them to take action.