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Goodbye, Dolly
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> as nature had intended
Just had to comment.
If nature didnt intend for something to happen, it would not be possible.
Things like the laws of physics are 'as nature intended' since they can not be broken.
I would argue the speed of light is another, but as even that is questionable lets leave it be for now.
Nature by definition is "The material world and its phenomena." http://dictionary.reference.com/searc h?q=nature
This means, if something is able to happen, it instantly is catagorized as natural.
Cloning is natural. It happens, it (mostly) works. It doesnt fully work as we want it to, but either a) give us time, or b) it is indeed unnatural and you dont have to be the one to worry about it being impossible or not.
I cant communicate enough my anger at people who claim this and that is unnatural.
If its unnatural really, it isnt gunna happen in any way, and there is nothing to worry about.
If it is happening right now, _in nature_, it is clearly _natural_.
Please do not confuse "The material world and its phenomena" with "The material world and its phenomena as long as a human had nothing to do with it"
Humans are part of nature, and thus by extention anything we do is of natures doing.
Lets try to be a little more careful about our choices of words, mmmkay?
(Sorry for the rant, and I dont intend for this to sound like a personal attack. You just happened to be the straw on this camels back for the day):)
I just wanted to point out that not a single point in your post is possible or true.
I think it all goes around the fact that you are under the (incorrect) assumption this links phone numbers to email addresses.
It doesnt (Thank you for reading the article)
If you have a block of real IPs, you get an in-addr.arpa block to setup reverse dns.
Lets say i have www.mydomain.com point to my IP address.
Is it more insecure or bad for any of the reasons you pointed out that i ALSO have my ip address resolve back to the same host? No.
And that is all ENUM is, for phone numbers.
If you want phone.mydomain.com to resolve to your phone number, people dont have to remember your number. that is good!
ENUM allows the phone number to reverse resolve back to phone.mydomain.com (Or whatever host/domain setup you want)
Technically you can give out your phone number, just like you can give out your IP address.
But remembering numbers sucks.
DNS lets us not remember IPs already, and now it will let us not have to remember phone numbers.
Did anyone hold a gun to your head to make you register a domain and use DNS for your site? No. And noone will do the same with your phone number.
I personally would love phone.mydomain.com to always resolve to my phone number, even if my phone number changes alot. Thanks to ENUM i can have that.
If you want to dial numbers and only put IPs in your webbroser or send email to person@ip.ad.re.ss then more power to you. But ill use DNS thank you.
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U.S. Endorses ENUM
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> Doesn't this make it all that much easier to track > people down?
Not at all.
Does the DNS system we've had all this time make it easier to track you down if someone had your IP address? Not at all.
Besides, if i wanted to wardial now, there is nothing to stop me.
Do you think its OK i dial all phone numbers on a telephone and write down who answers, but not to use a DNS database to see who has a domain linked to their phone number?
The latter would be less annoying atleast, i dont have to have you answer the phone disturbing you to know the number is active.
Right now IP addresses resolve back to hosts. This isnt www.domain.com -> 192.168.0.1. This is the other direction.
192.168.0.1 resolves to www.mydomain.com This allows 555-1212 to resolve to phone.mydomain.com
That is all.
If you have 192.168.0.1, then you also get 1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa to use to point to a host/domain. (For real IPs that is)
This allows your phone number to point back to a host/domain (IE phone.mydomain.com) as well.
You still have to know one of the two before hand. The only possible info you can gain is that a phone number DOES or DOES NOT resolve at all. If it does, you can assume that number is valid/active.
Right now the only method to do that is... lets see.. I can call it and see if someone answers. I can look it up in a digital phonebook (Technically the real phone book too, but it is not sorted in an easy way to do that kinda search) or just call up and ask the phone company if that number is available, you want it on your line.
And since this is reverse dns, it has to be setup. A phone number could very well be active and if you dont wanna give it a domain, dont! I dont have to have my IP resolve back to www.mydomain.com if i dont want it to. (Ok there are some technical reasons like SSL and SSH need this, as well as IRC etc, but those are rare.) Just like you dont have to put it in the phone book (Well, ideally heh)
You can have an IP address and hand that out all over the place, just like you can only hand out your phone number.
DNS was made to make remembering IPs not needed. Now they want to do the same thing with phone numbers, and all people do is bitch.
Um.. but what you want is exactly what this does! Didnt you even bother reading what enum does???
(Sorry if this sounds like a personal attack, it is indeed not. Its just this is the 5th reply ive made correcting people that dont know what ENUM is yet think they have the right to bitch about it and claim it shouldnt exist)
ENUM is reverse DNS for phone numbers.
The point of ENUM is that YES it is better to use domains/hosts and not numbers!
ENUM exists to do the same thing DNS does for IPs right now.
Do you go around and type 1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa to get to 192.168.0.1? Or do you type in mypc.mydomain.com ?
Well, now myphone.mydomain.com will resolve to my phone number using an ENUM record. Then my phone number will (Using the e164 standard here) reverse resolve back to myphone.mydomain.com
Its the same method www.mydomain.com resolves to an IP. This does that for phone numbers.
IPs and Phone numbers have nothing to do with eachother, and this will not let people magically obtain one from the other and steal your soul.
Technically i can make www.mydomain.com have an A record for an ipv4 address, an AAAA for ipv6, and also an ENUM for a phone number. They have nothing to do with eachother other!!
ENUM will allow you to call me (using the existing phone system as it is right now) by calling phone.mydomain.com which will resolve to my phone number.
> First of all, is this going to allow me to type > "T.T.A.L.L.A.C.0.0.8.1.e164.arpa" when I want to > go to the "1-800-CALL-ATT"
Um.
About as much as it allows you to type 1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa to get the host that points to this IP, then resolve the host to get the exact IP you started with and clearly knew to do this.
If you have the T.T.A.L.L.A.C.0.0.8.1.e164.arpa, you KNOW the number!!!
This is reverse DNS for phone numbers (instead of IPs)
When i make phone.mydomain.com resolve to my phone number, it would be nice for my phone number to reverse resolve back to phone.mydomain.com, and that 2nd part of the process is where e164 comes in.
Most porn sites on the net actually are honest busineses.
Most encourage software like netnanny and the like, and would willingly move to a.sex TDL. This blocks people that a) dont want to see it, and b) are kids, both of which are not paying customers.
Also why piss off parents of kids by not making it easy to block sites, when in fact those parents are potential customers.
Granted there are lots of businesses run by idiots that dont have a clue how to run a business, and some of those people will be in the porn industry as well i have no doubt, but id like to atleast try and be hopeful that most people are not like that:)
The transistion will be hardest.
The best route for state two (Havent thought much about stage one yet) is for you to get a.sex domain matching your.com, then have.com redirect (activly) to the.sex domain.
This way people with existing bookmarks or whatever that type the.com get forwarded to the.sex. At this point, if a filter program is running, it will not allow the 2nd url to load (blocking *.sex) and stop there. No actual content on the.com.
If ICANN did this so that credits on existing.com domains would be applied/transfered to the.sex and you only keep.com for one year from that point, I think most porn sites would do so.
The only problem (otherwise known as state 1) is how to fairly do the transistion. *.com.sex.net.sex etc is in a way aginst the point, but it would indeed work.
I know they would say.com should get the.sex and.net/.org go in.net.sex and.org.sex and so on. Most people here would say first come first serve.
I think.com.sex and so on should be only for the existing.com domain (same with net and org) and top level.sex domains are on first come first serve basis.
But of course there are plenty of problems in all of those cases.
Even so it would make it even more obvious which companys are doing ethical business and which arnt. If two years after this is setup and done has passed and you get a porn spam from a.com domain, suing them would be much easier cuz you automatically can prove they are trying to trick people into not thinking they are a.sex site. A little intention goes a long way. (Or it used to atleast.. but thats another rant all together)
Thats odd, windows/dos's included scandisk doesnt actually scan disks.. it scans filesystems on a partition of a disk.
If you scandisk a linux or bsd partition for example, it will fail saying the sectors or even the whole disk is unreadable, which is true in the extent that scandisk scans FAT filesystems and is not finding what it expects.
Patents are for inventions. No court can really argue this.
So say I discover a gene, and later find a way to cure something by using that gene.
I can simply go ahead and do so, as long as no other companys cure the same problem with the same gene. If all they have done is patent the gene, I am free to ignore that.
So say they did patent the gene I use, and attempt to sue me. I can be nice and explain to them the error of their way, but legally im not required to even respond directly to them.
So they try to sue me.
All I would need to do in a court of law is have them show their invention using the gene to the court. This is how two partys would prove that my invention is not the same (or if it is.)
They will have no such invention. (Like i said, if they do, they have a valid process to patent, and life goes on.)
So at this point its safe to conclude that my invention (curing something by using this gene) does not at all match anything they are doing.
No patent infringement issue at all.
A judge could not claim a gene itself is patentable. At that point any living person is prior art which will invalidate the patent fully.
> Chances are if you're wasting money on drugs, you > probably don't care too much about some poor kid > in Columbia or whereever your stuff came from.
The funny part about it all is, atleast for smoking, way back in my past the friends I hung around with that did it were their own circle. One or two of them grew it themselfs (Its a weed for christ sakes, any gardener knows weeds are the hardest things to kill) and sold only to their close circle of friends (I imagined to avoid being arrested as a dealer)
Money spent on their venture is no different from money any other gardener would spend at the same store for the same basic supplys for growing roses or tulips or what have you.
At the time they implied everyone they knew did a similar thing (IE grew themselfs for personal use or grew for their circle) Granted this was a number of years ago, but it still sounds like the SMART thing to do.
Now, say i wanted some drugs right now. Why on earth would I purchase them from iraq or whatever when i can do it for next to nothing myself!
Basic common and business sense here. Which of course explains the ads, being from the government and all.
I know many more than one person that got pregnant as a result of impaired judgement after getting drunk via alcohol.
Oh my god alcohol is a date rape tool now! quick ban it!
Then again i also know a number of people that became pregnant as a result of impaired judgement because those people were simply that way, they wernt on anything of any sorts to do it.
Oh my god carelessness is a date rape tool now! Qucik ban it!
> I'm trying to get my head around the > 'self-luminous' bit.
Your current VGA monitor is self-luminous. You see the image because it is producing its own light.
LCDs are not, they *block* light from going through the display, and you see the light it does not block. The light itself comes from a backlight, usually neon tubes that reflect off a reflective surface under the LCD panel itself.
Some LCDs simply have a mirror behind them and NO backlight (Think classic gameboy) These work by having a mirror that external light goes in, bounces off, and hits your eye.. Only where the LCD isnt blocking light.
So these self-luminous displays will be monitor crisp/bright, better resolution, and flat.
Also, please dont confuse organic with alive. The gas in your car is concidered organic, yet you dont need to feed it for power.
You dont even need to go though all the work of setting up packet mangling and mac address lookup and all of that other time consuming stuff.
Its as simple as:
I am ISP. For data coming INTO my router from the Internet, is the _source_ ip from my block of IPs? If yes, drop it silently and forget it ever existed.
For data going OUT of my router to the Internet, is the _source_ ip from my block of IPs? If NO, drop it silently and forget it ever existed.
There, that fixes 100% of all spoof attacks from you or your users/customers, and fixes 100% of the spoof attacks of outsiders attempting to pretend to be one of your own machines. In two filtering rules no less!
Ideally you would do filtering on both source and destination IPs, as well as filter out private IP space.
If a device is not capable of doing this, it is not a router, but a bridge or switch/hub, and should not be used for your internet connectivity.
> And the money still doesn't go to the artists....
Sure it does.
That money is going directly to the people the artists are allowing to represent them.
Its the artists fault for choosing thieving scum to represent them in the first place. If the artists would stop doing this, the whole situation would get better.
> What, are Corporations not allowed any rights, > because public opinion says they're evil?
No, that isnt at all why they need to lose rights.
They need to lose some rights because they are not people. I know the law says they are people, but the law is out right wrong.
Do you honestly think corporations should have all the rights they have right now? How can you possibly argue that is even a close to fair aggreement compared with real people?
If you want to argue that logic, Disney should not at all exist right now. While some people do grow to be over 100 years old, very very few do. Most die long before that.
So to aggree with your statement, if corporations want the same rights real people have, they need to be just like real people.
Disney should not exist. They are old enough to be concidered dead. A real person may live to be 100, but not many live to be much older. We should not allow any corporation to live forever either.
If they want equal rights, give it to them, then force them to disapear after they hit 80 years old or so.
That way once the company hits a certain age, it shuts down and goes out of business, and then all their work becomes public domain.. Which is actually how and why copyright exists in this nation in the first place.
The problem with corpations having the rights they do right now, is because when this country was started, it was to ESCAPE a government that runs a country the way we are being run RIGHT NOW.
America is a hypoctrical country. We only started it because we didnt like how other governments controlled their people, and now that we are a seperate country we have become much much worse than anything we could have escaped from at the time.
Copyright isnt why people create. Its why _greedy people_ create. Everyone else creates because they want to or love to create.
> Things to keep in mind: > 1) If you participate in illegal file-sharing > networks, your computer now belongs to the RIAA.
Im sure glad there are no illegal file-sharing networks yet!
> 2) Your BlackIce Defender(tm) firewall will not > help you. > 3) Snort, RealSecure, Dragon, NFR, and all that > other crap cannot detect this attack, or this > type of attack.
Admitting its an attack, and admitting you are purposly designing it to avoid current defences, that will look good to a judge.
> 4) Don't fuck with the RIAA again, scriptkids.
Oh, your 13 years old?
> 5) We have our own private version of this hydra > actively infecting p2p users, and building one > giant ddosnet.
So any future DDoS we now can blame on these people who openly admitted to it.
GO get em yahoo and ebay!
> Due to our NDA with the RIAA, we are unable to > give out any other details concerning the > technology that we developed for them, or the > details on any of the bugs that are exploited in > our hydra.
An NDA is a legal document which cannot in any way override existing laws. They admit to breaking numerous laws, and yet think a legal document will protect them? I guess they really must all be under 13.
As a matter of fact, if my PC acts strange in any way shape or form, they now have opened themselfs up to a lawsuit.
They also claim the RIAA now has an illegally gained list of the perfectly legal files on my harddrive. This would be the perfect time for a large company to sue and request discovery, which would allow someone (generally feds, but still) to collect evedence (IE take any/all of their servers on the public network which ever have/had connections to a p2p network) which will cost them time and resources and frustrations. Then hopefully some evedence will be found as well.
My only wish is that alot of companys able to afford the legal fees open petty lawsuits aginst them for admitting all the crimes they have commited, if for nothing else than to cause them grief. Can also be used to harass the RIAA a little (Would be much better if the RIAA admitted this was true, but that will never happen.) Turn the stupidity of the system aginst the enemy for a change.
I do aggree fully with that fact. The person that broke in should be punished.
I just think making the punishment more excessive when the sysadmin is incompetent and cannot do his job correctly is wrong.
To continue my comparison to a car, if I was to kick your cars bumper and dent it, it would be my fault there is a dent and thus I should be punished accordingly. However when your unmaintained car then falls off of its tires due to that kick, that should NOT be pinned on me.
Back on main point, banks use armored cars to protect their money. An armored car is not 100% fool proof (But is damned close)
If someone robbed one, it is obvious they are going to great extreams.
Now, say a smaller bank who doesnt want to spend money on people to get good security, their policy is to carry the money around in envelopes and use their own teller staff to do it (ie not trained) If a teller got mugged (Very easy compared to the armored car) should the robber be pushed _more so_ due to the incompetence of the bank taking every measure they could? Should the robber be held responsible for the damanges that both he did as well as the bank did to itself?
Why should this be any different with any other case. If a web server makes you money, and you at all care about that money, you need to protect it just like you would have to do if you held the cash in your hand.
Im not at all trying to say the people that break into these systems and cause damage should be let off the hook with nothing done to them. They have caused damage and loss of money, but they should only be forced to pay back the damage they did.
I realize your a troll posting as an AC and all, but ill bite anyway...
If I had a thing of any sort that made me "tens of thousands of dollars" over just "a period of several hours", I (Obviously unlike you) would do a little bit to protect that thing whatever it may be.
It wouldnt matter if I researched how to keep it protected myself, or paid a professional to do it for me (IE if i wasnt knowledgable in the IT field)
My car has value to me. I do not know much about protecting my car from being lost personally, but I pay a mechanic to do work and upkeep, and I have had a security system installed, as well as park in my driveway where my house lights help keep it out of total darkness at night. I know my locks work, and my doors latch.
I have taken every reasonable percaution and granted while my car could still be stolen or break, or otherwise deprive me of its use and value, its a MAJOR different situation than someone who does none of these things and blames the first excuse that comes by for its failure.
If someone did not do maintaince on their car and it breaks when due to traffic they need to go over 55mph, I have no more sympathy than a person that doesnt do maintaince to their webserver and applys updates to software as their vender recomends.
I also have no sympathy for those that leave their car unlocked, anymore than those who do not properly secure their webservers (good passwords, not telneting over public/untrusted networks, etc)
If your site was taken down and you lost "tens of thousands of dollars" over "a period of several hours" the first thing I would look at is what the breakin actually changed, and then second look at your own security and see if you took reasonable action to prevent it or not.
If there is a new hole just discovered in the past day or two, you have a good case. If this is a hole over 6 months old, you have NO case what so ever.
Yes you can claim you shouldnt have to learn how to keep everything updated yourself because its too much work. And thats true, thats why there are professionals which in that case you NEED to hire one of to do this for you.
Running a car for 2 years with zero maintaince and having it die on you is just as much your fault as not doing or having someone else do maintaince and security for your servers and network.
Even not looking at the speed of things, firewire is a much better protocol than USB.
Firewire is pretty close to SCSI when it comes to its protocols, where as USB is best compared to RS-422.
With USB there is a host (computer) and devices (everything else)
With firewire, everything is a device, and they can all talk to eachother.
If USB HD 1 wants to send data to USB HD 2, the host computer must read one drive and write to the other. There is no other way.
With firewire, *A* computer (Yes there can be more than one on the bus) can instruct HD 1 to send data to HD 2 in large chunks, so there is very little overhead going through the computer.
Two firewire drives will be able to have the full 400mbit between them, where as two USB2 drives will only beable to send at a theoretical speed of 240mbit/sec because half of its 480mbit bandwidth is from one drive to the PC, then the other half is from the pc to the other drive.
Also having say 5 PCs and a number of firewire devices (generally not harddrives as they are a special case) each PC will see the same hardware and they can all use it in a shared fasion. The PCs also can run IP over firewire and use it for networking as well. harddrives will be seen by all the machines as well, its just typical computers assume a disk will be seen by itself only, so do not plan ahead for what to do when that data is changed unexpectantly.
None of that is possible with USB, and without special hardware you cant attach two or more PCs with USB (no a hub is not special) as each computer needs an adaptor to make it a 'device' instead of a 'host', and then the device computers cant see the rest of the USB chain.
USB was designed and made to replace serial. Firewire was designed and made to be generic and have anything/everything run over it, including IP, video signal, serial, disk protocols, etc.
If you only need basic serial operation and very little over head, yes USB may be concidered better. But thats the only case it would be true.
> (I'm referring to Tivo's policy of taking money to > record programs and push them on the customer, with > the customer being unable to delete them for 7 > days.)
Heh, you mean that star menu option at the very very bottom of the menu? The one with the big star next to it so you can see if its there and not even glance in its area to read it if so?
Yes, those shows that only take up space on the root disk where it doesnt use a single bit from the volume the video is recorded to are so bad for me.
Ive seen many homes with no landline. Broadband != phone line required. DSL = phone line required.
You can get broadband over cable, and to an extent over satellite or wireless.
Additionally, I have a T1 for my data connectivity at home. I am planning to move into a house in the next few months and plan to have NO landline there as well. I will use a T1 for data connectivity and use a VoIP phone for landline services.
Currently my only phone service is provided by my celphone.
For PS1 I had a box that connected to the parallel port on the back, and to a PCs parallel port. You could then interupt and upload code to the PS1's main memory and tell it to start it.
Actually now that I think of it, for booting, there WAS protection for the CDs. There was a special pattern of bad blocks somewhere on the disc, that a cd burner would auto-correct for somehow, but the PS1 could tell wasnt the same pattern.
Eventually they found a way around this but I dont recal how. The point is it was there. (Its been awhile)
Off the origonal topic here, but just wanted to give you some more information about the consoles.
The NES had no protection. I used to write code for it (amature) and if you feed it asm it will run it.
The only 'special' chips used are the (many many) different memory bank controllers.
But there is nothing from stopping one from making their own (As each game company seemed to have done) or even not using one if your ROM needs are small.
Im also pretty sure the SNES had no protection either, but wont swear to this.
The first sega console (The Master System) had no protection either.
The first system from Nintendo I saw with protection was the gameboy. Its protection was the nintendo logo bitmap was not only in your code, but in the firmware of the gameboy itself. It would display the logo in your rom image, and then the firmware would compare that bitmap with its copy. It would only continue to run if they matched.
What this means is to make playable gameboy software, you had to put nintendo's logo in it. The logic is doing so is a copyright violation or something.
Even systems as recent as the dreamcast and PS1 only used this form of protection, which is a Good thing (tm) because once the systems are discontinued and not cared for, hobbiest can write code, infringe on the copyright, and Nintendo not really care.
Only with Really recent systems such as the PS2, xbox, etc are there actual real technical measures and special data needed to even get code to run.
Well, for a fact the parts of the brain that are used for vision are purposly 'shut off' by the brain for two weeks after birth. The brain isnt even capable of controlling your eyes in any meaningful way, including focusing on an object.
Seeing light yes, bright/dim yes, Maybe even color to an extent. But shapes, things, people, faces? By the fact your not in a lab somewhere for life, your no different than any other human being, and for a human body that just isnt possible.
As for sound, do you know how well sound travels through water?
Hearing your mothers voice is only possible due to the vibrations passing through her own body. If your sister was say holding/hugging/cuddling with her and talking, *maybe* then you could be aware of the voice. But the voice of the Dr before being born? again not possible for sound waves.
By the fact you are alive, that proves that the brain stem was active and doing its job to keep your body alive just after your birth. If this didnt happen you would have died then. If it did happen, it would force your body to scream and cry to expel the liquid from your mouth and throat so you could breath.
There is no way you could 'hear' much over this crying as to your own ears it would be quite loud and drown out any but the loudest sounds.
Im not telling you that your memory isnt a real memory you have. As a matter of fact that is the one thing i _DO_ believe.
Im just saying that the memory you have did not come from your bodys senses, and thus there is no proof that this memory you have was created at your birth (Or any other time for that matter)
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> as nature had intended
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Just had to comment.
If nature didnt intend for something to happen, it would not be possible.
Things like the laws of physics are 'as nature intended' since they can not be broken.
I would argue the speed of light is another, but as even that is questionable lets leave it be for now.
Nature by definition is "The material world and its phenomena."
http://dictionary.reference.com/sear
This means, if something is able to happen, it instantly is catagorized as natural.
Cloning is natural. It happens, it (mostly) works. It doesnt fully work as we want it to, but either a) give us time, or b) it is indeed unnatural and you dont have to be the one to worry about it being impossible or not.
I cant communicate enough my anger at people who claim this and that is unnatural.
If its unnatural really, it isnt gunna happen in any way, and there is nothing to worry about.
If it is happening right now, _in nature_, it is clearly _natural_.
Please do not confuse "The material world and its phenomena" with "The material world and its phenomena as long as a human had nothing to do with it"
Humans are part of nature, and thus by extention anything we do is of natures doing.
Lets try to be a little more careful about our choices of words, mmmkay?
(Sorry for the rant, and I dont intend for this to sound like a personal attack. You just happened to be the straw on this camels back for the day)
I just wanted to point out that not a single point in your post is possible or true.
I think it all goes around the fact that you are under the (incorrect) assumption this links phone numbers to email addresses.
It doesnt (Thank you for reading the article)
If you have a block of real IPs, you get an in-addr.arpa block to setup reverse dns.
Lets say i have www.mydomain.com point to my IP address.
Is it more insecure or bad for any of the reasons you pointed out that i ALSO have my ip address resolve back to the same host?
No.
And that is all ENUM is, for phone numbers.
If you want phone.mydomain.com to resolve to your phone number, people dont have to remember your number. that is good!
ENUM allows the phone number to reverse resolve back to phone.mydomain.com (Or whatever host/domain setup you want)
Technically you can give out your phone number, just like you can give out your IP address.
But remembering numbers sucks.
DNS lets us not remember IPs already, and now it will let us not have to remember phone numbers.
Did anyone hold a gun to your head to make you register a domain and use DNS for your site?
No.
And noone will do the same with your phone number.
I personally would love phone.mydomain.com to always resolve to my phone number, even if my phone number changes alot.
Thanks to ENUM i can have that.
If you want to dial numbers and only put IPs in your webbroser or send email to person@ip.ad.re.ss then more power to you.
But ill use DNS thank you.
> Doesn't this make it all that much easier to track
> people down?
Not at all.
Does the DNS system we've had all this time make it easier to track you down if someone had your IP address? Not at all.
Besides, if i wanted to wardial now, there is nothing to stop me.
Do you think its OK i dial all phone numbers on a telephone and write down who answers, but not to use a DNS database to see who has a domain linked to their phone number?
The latter would be less annoying atleast, i dont have to have you answer the phone disturbing you to know the number is active.
Right now IP addresses resolve back to hosts.
This isnt www.domain.com -> 192.168.0.1.
This is the other direction.
192.168.0.1 resolves to www.mydomain.com
This allows 555-1212 to resolve to phone.mydomain.com
That is all.
If you have 192.168.0.1, then you also get
1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa to use to point to a host/domain. (For real IPs that is)
This allows your phone number to point back to a host/domain (IE phone.mydomain.com) as well.
You still have to know one of the two before hand.
The only possible info you can gain is that a phone number DOES or DOES NOT resolve at all.
If it does, you can assume that number is valid/active.
Right now the only method to do that is... lets see.. I can call it and see if someone answers. I can look it up in a digital phonebook (Technically the real phone book too, but it is not sorted in an easy way to do that kinda search) or just call up and ask the phone company if that number is available, you want it on your line.
And since this is reverse dns, it has to be setup.
A phone number could very well be active and if you dont wanna give it a domain, dont!
I dont have to have my IP resolve back to www.mydomain.com if i dont want it to. (Ok there are some technical reasons like SSL and SSH need this, as well as IRC etc, but those are rare.)
Just like you dont have to put it in the phone book (Well, ideally heh)
You can have an IP address and hand that out all over the place, just like you can only hand out your phone number.
DNS was made to make remembering IPs not needed.
Now they want to do the same thing with phone numbers, and all people do is bitch.
Hope this clears up some stuff.
Um.. but what you want is exactly what this does!
Didnt you even bother reading what enum does???
(Sorry if this sounds like a personal attack, it is indeed not. Its just this is the 5th reply ive made correcting people that dont know what ENUM is yet think they have the right to bitch about it and claim it shouldnt exist)
ENUM is reverse DNS for phone numbers.
The point of ENUM is that YES it is better to use domains/hosts and not numbers!
ENUM exists to do the same thing DNS does for IPs right now.
Do you go around and type 1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa to get to 192.168.0.1? Or do you type in mypc.mydomain.com ?
Well, now myphone.mydomain.com will resolve to my phone number using an ENUM record.
Then my phone number will (Using the e164 standard here) reverse resolve back to myphone.mydomain.com
Its the same method www.mydomain.com resolves to an IP. This does that for phone numbers.
IPs and Phone numbers have nothing to do with eachother, and this will not let people magically obtain one from the other and steal your soul.
Technically i can make www.mydomain.com have an A record for an ipv4 address, an AAAA for ipv6, and also an ENUM for a phone number.
They have nothing to do with eachother other!!
ENUM will allow you to call me (using the existing phone system as it is right now) by calling phone.mydomain.com which will resolve to my phone number.
Hope this clears up some stuff.
> First of all, is this going to allow me to type
> "T.T.A.L.L.A.C.0.0.8.1.e164.arpa" when I want to
> go to the "1-800-CALL-ATT"
Um.
About as much as it allows you to type 1.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa to get the host that points to this IP, then resolve the host to get the exact IP you started with and clearly knew to do this.
If you have the T.T.A.L.L.A.C.0.0.8.1.e164.arpa, you KNOW the number!!!
This is reverse DNS for phone numbers (instead of IPs)
When i make phone.mydomain.com resolve to my phone number, it would be nice for my phone number to reverse resolve back to phone.mydomain.com, and that 2nd part of the process is where e164 comes in.
Most porn sites on the net actually are honest busineses.
.sex TDL.
:)
.sex domain matching your .com, then have .com redirect (activly) to the .sex domain.
.com get forwarded to the .sex. .com.
.com domains would be applied/transfered to the .sex and you only keep .com for one year from that point, I think most porn sites would do so.
.net.sex etc is in a way aginst the point, but it would indeed work.
.com should get the .sex and .net/.org go in .net.sex and .org.sex and so on.
.com.sex and so on should be only for the existing .com domain (same with net and org) and top level .sex domains are on first come first serve basis.
.com domain, suing them would be much easier cuz you automatically can prove they are trying to trick people into not thinking they are a .sex site.
Most encourage software like netnanny and the like, and would willingly move to a
This blocks people that a) dont want to see it, and b) are kids, both of which are not paying customers.
Also why piss off parents of kids by not making it easy to block sites, when in fact those parents are potential customers.
Granted there are lots of businesses run by idiots that dont have a clue how to run a business, and some of those people will be in the porn industry as well i have no doubt, but id like to atleast try and be hopeful that most people are not like that
The transistion will be hardest.
The best route for state two (Havent thought much about stage one yet) is for you to get a
This way people with existing bookmarks or whatever that type the
At this point, if a filter program is running, it will not allow the 2nd url to load (blocking *.sex) and stop there. No actual content on the
If ICANN did this so that credits on existing
The only problem (otherwise known as state 1) is how to fairly do the transistion.
*.com.sex
I know they would say
Most people here would say first come first serve.
I think
But of course there are plenty of problems in all of those cases.
Even so it would make it even more obvious which companys are doing ethical business and which arnt.
If two years after this is setup and done has passed and you get a porn spam from a
A little intention goes a long way. (Or it used to atleast.. but thats another rant all together)
Thats odd, windows/dos's included scandisk doesnt actually scan disks.. it scans filesystems on a partition of a disk.
If you scandisk a linux or bsd partition for example, it will fail saying the sectors or even the whole disk is unreadable, which is true in the extent that scandisk scans FAT filesystems and is not finding what it expects.
One loophole is really simple.
Patents are for inventions. No court can really argue this.
So say I discover a gene, and later find a way to cure something by using that gene.
I can simply go ahead and do so, as long as no other companys cure the same problem with the same gene.
If all they have done is patent the gene, I am free to ignore that.
So say they did patent the gene I use, and attempt to sue me.
I can be nice and explain to them the error of their way, but legally im not required to even respond directly to them.
So they try to sue me.
All I would need to do in a court of law is have them show their invention using the gene to the court. This is how two partys would prove that my invention is not the same (or if it is.)
They will have no such invention.
(Like i said, if they do, they have a valid process to patent, and life goes on.)
So at this point its safe to conclude that my invention (curing something by using this gene) does not at all match anything they are doing.
No patent infringement issue at all.
A judge could not claim a gene itself is patentable. At that point any living person is prior art which will invalidate the patent fully.
> Chances are if you're wasting money on drugs, you
> probably don't care too much about some poor kid
> in Columbia or whereever your stuff came from.
The funny part about it all is, atleast for smoking, way back in my past the friends I hung around with that did it were their own circle. One or two of them grew it themselfs (Its a weed for christ sakes, any gardener knows weeds are the hardest things to kill) and sold only to their close circle of friends (I imagined to avoid being arrested as a dealer)
Money spent on their venture is no different from money any other gardener would spend at the same store for the same basic supplys for growing roses or tulips or what have you.
At the time they implied everyone they knew did a similar thing (IE grew themselfs for personal use or grew for their circle)
Granted this was a number of years ago, but it still sounds like the SMART thing to do.
Now, say i wanted some drugs right now.
Why on earth would I purchase them from iraq or whatever when i can do it for next to nothing myself!
Basic common and business sense here.
Which of course explains the ads, being from the government and all.
I know many more than one person that got pregnant as a result of impaired judgement after getting drunk via alcohol.
Oh my god alcohol is a date rape tool now! quick ban it!
Then again i also know a number of people that became pregnant as a result of impaired judgement because those people were simply that way, they wernt on anything of any sorts to do it.
Oh my god carelessness is a date rape tool now! Qucik ban it!
> I'm trying to get my head around the
> 'self-luminous' bit.
Your current VGA monitor is self-luminous.
You see the image because it is producing its own light.
LCDs are not, they *block* light from going through the display, and you see the light it does not block.
The light itself comes from a backlight, usually neon tubes that reflect off a reflective surface under the LCD panel itself.
Some LCDs simply have a mirror behind them and NO backlight (Think classic gameboy)
These work by having a mirror that external light goes in, bounces off, and hits your eye.. Only where the LCD isnt blocking light.
So these self-luminous displays will be monitor crisp/bright, better resolution, and flat.
Also, please dont confuse organic with alive.
The gas in your car is concidered organic, yet you dont need to feed it for power.
You dont even need to go though all the work of setting up packet mangling and mac address lookup and all of that other time consuming stuff.
Its as simple as:
I am ISP.
For data coming INTO my router from the Internet, is the _source_ ip from my block of IPs?
If yes, drop it silently and forget it ever existed.
For data going OUT of my router to the Internet, is the _source_ ip from my block of IPs?
If NO, drop it silently and forget it ever existed.
There, that fixes 100% of all spoof attacks from you or your users/customers, and fixes 100% of the spoof attacks of outsiders attempting to pretend to be one of your own machines.
In two filtering rules no less!
Ideally you would do filtering on both source and destination IPs, as well as filter out private IP space.
If a device is not capable of doing this, it is not a router, but a bridge or switch/hub, and should not be used for your internet connectivity.
> And the money still doesn't go to the artists....
Sure it does.
That money is going directly to the people the artists are allowing to represent them.
Its the artists fault for choosing thieving scum to represent them in the first place. If the artists would stop doing this, the whole situation would get better.
> What, are Corporations not allowed any rights,
> because public opinion says they're evil?
No, that isnt at all why they need to lose rights.
They need to lose some rights because they are not people. I know the law says they are people, but the law is out right wrong.
Do you honestly think corporations should have all the rights they have right now?
How can you possibly argue that is even a close to fair aggreement compared with real people?
If you want to argue that logic, Disney should not at all exist right now. While some people do grow to be over 100 years old, very very few do. Most die long before that.
So to aggree with your statement, if corporations want the same rights real people have, they need to be just like real people.
Disney should not exist. They are old enough to be concidered dead. A real person may live to be 100, but not many live to be much older.
We should not allow any corporation to live forever either.
If they want equal rights, give it to them, then force them to disapear after they hit 80 years old or so.
That way once the company hits a certain age, it shuts down and goes out of business, and then all their work becomes public domain..
Which is actually how and why copyright exists in this nation in the first place.
The problem with corpations having the rights they do right now, is because when this country was started, it was to ESCAPE a government that runs a country the way we are being run RIGHT NOW.
America is a hypoctrical country.
We only started it because we didnt like how other governments controlled their people, and now that we are a seperate country we have become much much worse than anything we could have escaped from at the time.
Copyright isnt why people create.
Its why _greedy people_ create.
Everyone else creates because they want to or love to create.
Down with copyright...
This is so obviously a joke its not even funny.
> Things to keep in mind:
> 1) If you participate in illegal file-sharing
> networks, your computer now belongs to the RIAA.
Im sure glad there are no illegal file-sharing networks yet!
> 2) Your BlackIce Defender(tm) firewall will not
> help you.
> 3) Snort, RealSecure, Dragon, NFR, and all that
> other crap cannot detect this attack, or this
> type of attack.
Admitting its an attack, and admitting you are purposly designing it to avoid current defences, that will look good to a judge.
> 4) Don't fuck with the RIAA again, scriptkids.
Oh, your 13 years old?
> 5) We have our own private version of this hydra
> actively infecting p2p users, and building one
> giant ddosnet.
So any future DDoS we now can blame on these people who openly admitted to it.
GO get em yahoo and ebay!
> Due to our NDA with the RIAA, we are unable to
> give out any other details concerning the
> technology that we developed for them, or the
> details on any of the bugs that are exploited in
> our hydra.
An NDA is a legal document which cannot in any way override existing laws.
They admit to breaking numerous laws, and yet think a legal document will protect them?
I guess they really must all be under 13.
As a matter of fact, if my PC acts strange in any way shape or form, they now have opened themselfs up to a lawsuit.
They also claim the RIAA now has an illegally gained list of the perfectly legal files on my harddrive. This would be the perfect time for a large company to sue and request discovery, which would allow someone (generally feds, but still) to collect evedence (IE take any/all of their servers on the public network which ever have/had connections to a p2p network) which will cost them time and resources and frustrations. Then hopefully some evedence will be found as well.
My only wish is that alot of companys able to afford the legal fees open petty lawsuits aginst them for admitting all the crimes they have commited, if for nothing else than to cause them grief. Can also be used to harass the RIAA a little (Would be much better if the RIAA admitted this was true, but that will never happen.)
Turn the stupidity of the system aginst the enemy for a change.
I do aggree fully with that fact.
The person that broke in should be punished.
I just think making the punishment more excessive when the sysadmin is incompetent and cannot do his job correctly is wrong.
To continue my comparison to a car, if I was to kick your cars bumper and dent it, it would be my fault there is a dent and thus I should be punished accordingly.
However when your unmaintained car then falls off of its tires due to that kick, that should NOT be pinned on me.
Back on main point, banks use armored cars to protect their money.
An armored car is not 100% fool proof (But is damned close)
If someone robbed one, it is obvious they are going to great extreams.
Now, say a smaller bank who doesnt want to spend money on people to get good security, their policy is to carry the money around in envelopes and use their own teller staff to do it (ie not trained)
If a teller got mugged (Very easy compared to the armored car) should the robber be pushed _more so_ due to the incompetence of the bank taking every measure they could?
Should the robber be held responsible for the damanges that both he did as well as the bank did to itself?
Why should this be any different with any other case.
If a web server makes you money, and you at all care about that money, you need to protect it just like you would have to do if you held the cash in your hand.
Im not at all trying to say the people that break into these systems and cause damage should be let off the hook with nothing done to them.
They have caused damage and loss of money, but they should only be forced to pay back the damage they did.
I realize your a troll posting as an AC and all, but ill bite anyway...
If I had a thing of any sort that made me "tens of thousands of dollars" over just "a period of several hours", I (Obviously unlike you) would do a little bit to protect that thing whatever it may be.
It wouldnt matter if I researched how to keep it protected myself, or paid a professional to do it for me (IE if i wasnt knowledgable in the IT field)
My car has value to me. I do not know much about protecting my car from being lost personally, but I pay a mechanic to do work and upkeep, and I have had a security system installed, as well as park in my driveway where my house lights help keep it out of total darkness at night.
I know my locks work, and my doors latch.
I have taken every reasonable percaution and granted while my car could still be stolen or break, or otherwise deprive me of its use and value, its a MAJOR different situation than someone who does none of these things and blames the first excuse that comes by for its failure.
If someone did not do maintaince on their car and it breaks when due to traffic they need to go over 55mph, I have no more sympathy than a person that doesnt do maintaince to their webserver and applys updates to software as their vender recomends.
I also have no sympathy for those that leave their car unlocked, anymore than those who do not properly secure their webservers (good passwords, not telneting over public/untrusted networks, etc)
If your site was taken down and you lost "tens of thousands of dollars" over "a period of several hours" the first thing I would look at is what the breakin actually changed, and then second look at your own security and see if you took reasonable action to prevent it or not.
If there is a new hole just discovered in the past day or two, you have a good case.
If this is a hole over 6 months old, you have NO case what so ever.
Yes you can claim you shouldnt have to learn how to keep everything updated yourself because its too much work. And thats true, thats why there are professionals which in that case you NEED to hire one of to do this for you.
Running a car for 2 years with zero maintaince and having it die on you is just as much your fault as not doing or having someone else do maintaince and security for your servers and network.
Even not looking at the speed of things, firewire is a much better protocol than USB.
Firewire is pretty close to SCSI when it comes to its protocols, where as USB is best compared to RS-422.
With USB there is a host (computer) and devices (everything else)
With firewire, everything is a device, and they can all talk to eachother.
If USB HD 1 wants to send data to USB HD 2, the host computer must read one drive and write to the other. There is no other way.
With firewire, *A* computer (Yes there can be more than one on the bus) can instruct HD 1 to send data to HD 2 in large chunks, so there is very little overhead going through the computer.
Two firewire drives will be able to have the full 400mbit between them, where as two USB2 drives will only beable to send at a theoretical speed of 240mbit/sec because half of its 480mbit bandwidth is from one drive to the PC, then the other half is from the pc to the other drive.
Also having say 5 PCs and a number of firewire devices (generally not harddrives as they are a special case) each PC will see the same hardware and they can all use it in a shared fasion.
The PCs also can run IP over firewire and use it for networking as well.
harddrives will be seen by all the machines as well, its just typical computers assume a disk will be seen by itself only, so do not plan ahead for what to do when that data is changed unexpectantly.
None of that is possible with USB, and without special hardware you cant attach two or more PCs with USB (no a hub is not special) as each computer needs an adaptor to make it a 'device' instead of a 'host', and then the device computers cant see the rest of the USB chain.
USB was designed and made to replace serial.
Firewire was designed and made to be generic and have anything/everything run over it, including IP, video signal, serial, disk protocols, etc.
If you only need basic serial operation and very little over head, yes USB may be concidered better. But thats the only case it would be true.
> > those shows that only take up space on the root
:P
> > disk where it doesnt use a single bit from the
> > volume the video is recorded to
> I have a refrigerator I'd like to sell you. It
> has a vertical divider in it, the left half is
> for your food and the right half is for my food.
> It's ok though. My food doesn't take up any of
> the space for your food so you you aren't losing
> anything.
Sounds like a similar deal my roommate wanted to make, except he wasnt going to charge me to use it at all.
Works out great.
You dont live there so im not interested in buying yours... good luck on selling it!
(Isn't self choice yummy)
(As is tivo)
> (I'm referring to Tivo's policy of taking money to
> record programs and push them on the customer, with
> the customer being unable to delete them for 7
> days.)
Heh, you mean that star menu option at the very very bottom of the menu? The one with the big star next to it so you can see if its there and not even glance in its area to read it if so?
Yes, those shows that only take up space on the root disk where it doesnt use a single bit from the volume the video is recorded to are so bad for me.
I know, lets boycott!
Ive seen many homes with no landline.
Broadband != phone line required.
DSL = phone line required.
You can get broadband over cable, and to an extent over satellite or wireless.
Additionally, I have a T1 for my data connectivity at home.
I am planning to move into a house in the next few months and plan to have NO landline there as well.
I will use a T1 for data connectivity and use a VoIP phone for landline services.
Currently my only phone service is provided by my celphone.
That is truely strange, as I have burnt software to eeprom and have it run just fine on an NES with no special hardware other than a memory mapper.
For PS1 I had a box that connected to the parallel port on the back, and to a PCs parallel port.
:)
You could then interupt and upload code to the PS1's main memory and tell it to start it.
Actually now that I think of it, for booting, there WAS protection for the CDs.
There was a special pattern of bad blocks somewhere on the disc, that a cd burner would auto-correct for somehow, but the PS1 could tell wasnt the same pattern.
Eventually they found a way around this but I dont recal how. The point is it was there.
(Its been awhile)
I stand corrected
Off the origonal topic here, but just wanted to give you some more information about the consoles.
The NES had no protection. I used to write code for it (amature) and if you feed it asm it will run it.
The only 'special' chips used are the (many many) different memory bank controllers.
But there is nothing from stopping one from making their own (As each game company seemed to have done) or even not using one if your ROM needs are small.
Im also pretty sure the SNES had no protection either, but wont swear to this.
The first sega console (The Master System) had no protection either.
The first system from Nintendo I saw with protection was the gameboy.
Its protection was the nintendo logo bitmap was not only in your code, but in the firmware of the gameboy itself.
It would display the logo in your rom image, and then the firmware would compare that bitmap with its copy. It would only continue to run if they matched.
What this means is to make playable gameboy software, you had to put nintendo's logo in it. The logic is doing so is a copyright violation or something.
Even systems as recent as the dreamcast and PS1 only used this form of protection, which is a Good thing (tm) because once the systems are discontinued and not cared for, hobbiest can write code, infringe on the copyright, and Nintendo not really care.
Only with Really recent systems such as the PS2, xbox, etc are there actual real technical measures and special data needed to even get code to run.
Well, for a fact the parts of the brain that are used for vision are purposly 'shut off' by the brain for two weeks after birth. The brain isnt even capable of controlling your eyes in any meaningful way, including focusing on an object.
Seeing light yes, bright/dim yes, Maybe even color to an extent. But shapes, things, people, faces? By the fact your not in a lab somewhere for life, your no different than any other human being, and for a human body that just isnt possible.
As for sound, do you know how well sound travels through water?
Hearing your mothers voice is only possible due to the vibrations passing through her own body.
If your sister was say holding/hugging/cuddling with her and talking, *maybe* then you could be aware of the voice.
But the voice of the Dr before being born? again not possible for sound waves.
By the fact you are alive, that proves that the brain stem was active and doing its job to keep your body alive just after your birth.
If this didnt happen you would have died then.
If it did happen, it would force your body to scream and cry to expel the liquid from your mouth and throat so you could breath.
There is no way you could 'hear' much over this crying as to your own ears it would be quite loud and drown out any but the loudest sounds.
Im not telling you that your memory isnt a real memory you have. As a matter of fact that is the one thing i _DO_ believe.
Im just saying that the memory you have did not come from your bodys senses, and thus there is no proof that this memory you have was created at your birth (Or any other time for that matter)