Y'all will need to import millions of handguns before the Aussie states are Free enough to actually sign up for the Union.
Thanks for bringing that up... y'see, that's another part I've always been worried about. I understand the right to bear arms and all, but what happens to the rest of the bear? It seems like a bit of a waste to me!
I live in Australia so I can't get them through watching CNN and so forth.
I live in Australia too, and I gotta tell ya, it is infinitely frustrating. This election directly affects all of us here, and everyone in the other fifty (or however many it is) states has the constitutional right to vote, why not us? I suppose Hawaii went through the same thing at one stage, being separated from the mainland just like us.
OK, this is the obligatory out-the-lawyer post: The gutter crawling ambulance chaser in this case is one Melissa Morgan Nelson, an associate (is that like office junior?) at Perkins Cole's Seattle office. Her telephone number is +1 (206) 359-3792, and her fax number is +1 (206) 359-9000. If you prefer email, we have that right here: MNelson@perkinscoie.com, and if you have an appointment to see her then you should turn up at 1201 Third Avenue, Suite 4800, Seattle, WA 98101-3099.
Of course, one look at her picture will unearth the real reason for her going after SuicideGirls. She's Unattractive, dowdy, downright ugly even! ie: She's jealous. Ugly girls always hate the pretty ones.
... and the day after that, you put your passport, drivers licence, id card, packet of gilette razor blades and all in a microwave oven for thirty seconds on high.. and the problem goes away.
As my little bit of a contribution to the growing problem of invasive advertisements, spyware, worms, etc, etc I've been writing a series of articles on the problems, and how to deal with them (basically pushing Firefox, Thunderbird, Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D).
I have a great (and true) anecdote about a Professor who inadvertantly splashed pr0n up on a 4m x 4m screen before an audience of MBA students, managers and Execs, but I don't have good anecdotes for the spyware and phisching parts of the series.
Have you (or do you know anyone) who has been caught out by (i) a keylogger or similar spyware or (ii) a phisching attack, either of which caused some quantifiable loss (ie: $$$ got pinched from their online back account, identity re-used somewhere else, etc, etc)
All I need is a short email description so that I'm quoting a valid/verifiable source instead of making things up.
I'd appreciate an email from an actual victim please, I'm happy to cite your name or be anonymous as required. Thanks.
about:me I'm a geek who works at university, becoming increasingly frustrated at the last year or so's worth of worms, phishing and general microsoft-induced hell and I'd had some degree of success at getting myself published on a range of geek topics. By no means a journalist or anything like that though!
As my little bit of a contribution to the growing problem of invasive advertisements, spyware, worms, etc, etc I've been writing a series of articles on the problems, and how to deal with them (basically pushing Firefox, Thunderbird, Ad-Aware, Spybot S&D).
I have a great (and true) anecdote about a Professor who inadvertantly splashed pr0n up on a 4m x 4m screen before an audience of MBA students, managers and Execs, but I don't have a good anecdote for the spyware and phisching parts of the series.
Have you (or do you know anyone) who has been caught out by (i) a keylogger or similar spyware or (ii) a phisching attack, either of which caused some quantifiable loss (ie: $$$ got pinched from their online back account, identity re-used somewhere else, etc, etc)
All I need is a short email description so that I'm quoting a valid/verifiable source instead of making things up.
I'd appreciate an email from an actual victim please, I'm happy to cite your name or be anonymous as required. Thanks.
about:me I'm a geek who works at university, becoming increasingly frustrated at the last year or so's worth of worms, phishing and general microsoft-induced hell and I'd had some degree of success at getting myself published on a range of geek topics. By no means a journalist or anything like that though!
All but the least-decent GPS receivers speak RS232 and at least the NMEA protocol out of the box. I use the Garmin eTrex standard, bottom of the line GPS with FreeBSD all the time, but I'm not doing anything clever that won't work with Linux or any other *nix.
I hand-built serial cables using plugs I got from this guy (Elsewhere on that site there's links to folks all over the world selling the same plugs for a range of different GPS receivers). Apparently even the tiny little Garmin Geko 201 and Geko 301 (but not the 101 model) also speak serial - and they're tiny cute little things they are!!!
My little eTrex has a menu with a whole bunch of different 'languages' that it will speak (and/or receive) via the serial port. According to the manual (warning: pdf) (page 45) it speaks NMEA 0183, a bunch of proprietary Garmin stuff and a couple of flavours suitable for differential work. I know from fiddling with mine that it also speaks a 'plain text' (they're all plain text, but this one is more so) format that is quite human readable and probably quite easily parseable with some perl.
Another imporant point about GPS and Linux (*nix in general is time). GPS requires incredibly accurate time to operate, so by implication GPS receivers make excellent clocks. Last time I checked xntp had support for NMEA (GPS) as a time source.
A quick freshmeat (if 'google' is a verb, then surely 'freshmeat' can be one too!) will tell you that GPS on *nix is nothing new!!! (Not all of those returns are gps nav related, but there's a lot of stuff to parse gps sentences, moving maps, program receivers, all kinds of goodies!
OK, I know, I should RTFRFC, but in a nutshell maybe? I tinkered with jabber for a bit, couldn't get my head around how it worked in a big-picture sense (servers, networks thereof, how to find a server with lots of like-minded folks on it, etc, etc). I'm ashamed to say that I've always ended up traipsing back to IRC/ICQ/Yahoo despite that my client and my other client both speak jabber fluently...
Does someone wanna give a quick HOWTO and/or a pointer to a suitably high-level explanation? Thanks.
Just give them a EULA to sign saying you aren't responsible for anything that you do to them, works great for Microsoft.
Doesn't work for anyone else though. Microsoft are a law unto themselves because they can afford to defend anything until the other party dies of old age, so they pretty much get to make the rules, regardless of whether or not their 'laws' are legal.
For the rest of us, we're stuck with the legal principle that someone cannot sign away rights that are granted by law. Take for example, the fact that is illegal for me to kill you. You can sign a piece of paper to say that it's quite OK with you if I kill you, but the piece of paper is worthless and meaningless. I can't use it as a "get out of jail free card" because you can't sign your right not to be killed - it's not quite literally like that, but you get the idea...
The same ~kinda~ thing applies with people signing to say that if you hurt them it's their fault. It's not ~quite~ the same principle, but similar.
Look at it then from a contract point of view and it's a bit different. Like all the sporting and motorsport venues, you can sign to say that you accept specific obvious risks and that you will not, in consideration of being allowed to enter the venue, not sue the owner, operator, competitors, etc, etc, etc.
In a place like Australia, you'd probably get away with a nice strong disclaimer and acceptance of risk by the individual punters. In a place like the US, as vexatiously litigous as you folks are, I'd probably not bother running the event at all, but certainly not without insurance at least!
Couple of other thoughts: Perhaps the insurance company will give you a discount if you make the punters sign a EULA written by the insurance company, second, here in Australia we have a concept of a registered/incorporated not-for-profit organisation that, although a bit fiddly to set up, has the nice benefit that they're not legally liable for a lot of the kinda of stuff you're worried about. Might be worth checking if a similar concept exists in your jurisdiction
#include disclaimer.h: IANAL. I didn't make it past second year undergrad law, and I have only the vaguest memory of torts and contract law - as reading the above ramblings demonstrates. You'd be a fool to take my advice!
Hey, way cool blog, what a great idea, I guess the person who owns the CF card can suffer in their joCks, nothing they can do about...OMFG! THAT'S MY SISTER! AND HER BOYFRIEND AND OMFGOMFGOMFG THAT'S ME! I'LL SUE! THOSE BASTARD, WHY I OUGHTA....
Hey, way cool blog, what a great idea, I guess the person who owns the CF card can suffer in their joCks, nothing they can do about...OMFG! THAT'S MY SISTER! AND HER BOYFRIEND AND OMFGOMFGOMFG THAT'S ME! I'LL SUE! THOSE BASTARD, WHY I OUGHTA....
... Homer dies? I haven't seen it, but someone mentioned it in a class I was in last week, apparently he goes thought all the stages og grieving in a few short seconds. I'd really like to get a copy of that (just an academically appropriate/legal snippet - not the whole episode) so we can use it in the next class. (I dunno about copyright law in the US, but here in Oz, this sort of thing, for academic use, is legal. Email me pls. TIA.
Good idea... Except the Titanic was owned by the White Star Line, not Cunard.
Cunard bought White Star line some 18-odd years later when, funnily enough, White Star Line got in a spot of financial bother.
What's really interesting is how White Star Line got into their financial trouble. Amongst other things, the US government dramatically reduced the number of immigrants they would allow into the country (read: the number of Green Cards they were handing out!), and since transporting immigrants to the USA was a substantial source of income for the company, they felt financial pain from the drop in custom.
Can it therefore be derived that combining Green Card and spam is a bad thing with no positive future? Someone wanna call Messrs Canter and Siegel and ask them?:-)
Remember always:
Green eggs + spam == good
Green Cards + spam == bad
Regardless, it'd be nice to be rid of them.
It's just me, but I'd rather keep them. Pull out a fingernail per day, then a toenail, then chop off, no, wait, smash, a finger, then another one, then another one... Remember to gaffer-tape the mouth closed though, the screaming gets a bit monotonous after about the third day...
a moment to consider how to best 'repay' the spammers who followed
OK, so admittedly Cunard didn't buy into White Star Line until some 18 years after that little mishap with the Titanic, but didn't we show 'em, what hey old chap, shiver me timbers and all that!
$diety{'God'} is apparently omnipotent and all knowing and all that, so what's to say that he didn't plant the iceberg in anticipation of the fact that those people would become spammers in the not-to-distant (for 'him') future! Dumb bastards didn't learn, spammed anyway.
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Thanks for bringing that up... y'see, that's another part I've always been worried about. I understand the right to bear arms and all, but what happens to the rest of the bear? It seems like a bit of a waste to me!
I live in Australia too, and I gotta tell ya, it is infinitely frustrating. This election directly affects all of us here, and everyone in the other fifty (or however many it is) states has the constitutional right to vote, why not us? I suppose Hawaii went through the same thing at one stage, being separated from the mainland just like us.
... implement the RAID-5 part of the step-by-step howto in this article. It worked great for me.
Of course, one look at her picture will unearth the real reason for her going after SuicideGirls. She's Unattractive, dowdy, downright ugly even! ie: She's jealous. Ugly girls always hate the pretty ones.
That's kinda like all the power of the slashdot effect, only harnessed for good[1], not evil.
(Anything that gets more brazilians off this planet must be a good thing, right?)
... and the day after that, you put your passport, drivers licence, id card, packet of gilette razor blades and all in a microwave oven for thirty seconds on high.. and the problem goes away.
BSD Is Dying
You insensitive clod!
Metaphorically, actually.
Uhm, TightVNC supports it. Just cut, or paste at whichever end you need. Works fine for me. (I use TightVNC exclusively).
I have a great (and true) anecdote about a Professor who inadvertantly splashed pr0n up on a 4m x 4m screen before an audience of MBA students, managers and Execs, but I don't have good anecdotes for the spyware and phisching parts of the series.
Have you (or do you know anyone) who has been caught out by (i) a keylogger or similar spyware or (ii) a phisching attack, either of which caused some quantifiable loss (ie: $$$ got pinched from their online back account, identity re-used somewhere else, etc, etc)
All I need is a short email description so that I'm quoting a valid/verifiable source instead of making things up.
I'd appreciate an email from an actual victim please, I'm happy to cite your name or be anonymous as required. Thanks.
about:me I'm a geek who works at university, becoming increasingly frustrated at the last year or so's worth of worms, phishing and general microsoft-induced hell and I'd had some degree of success at getting myself published on a range of geek topics. By no means a journalist or anything like that though!
... welcome our new videotaped robotic overlords.
I have a great (and true) anecdote about a Professor who inadvertantly splashed pr0n up on a 4m x 4m screen before an audience of MBA students, managers and Execs, but I don't have a good anecdote for the spyware and phisching parts of the series.
Have you (or do you know anyone) who has been caught out by (i) a keylogger or similar spyware or (ii) a phisching attack, either of which caused some quantifiable loss (ie: $$$ got pinched from their online back account, identity re-used somewhere else, etc, etc)
All I need is a short email description so that I'm quoting a valid/verifiable source instead of making things up.
I'd appreciate an email from an actual victim please, I'm happy to cite your name or be anonymous as required. Thanks.
about:me I'm a geek who works at university, becoming increasingly frustrated at the last year or so's worth of worms, phishing and general microsoft-induced hell and I'd had some degree of success at getting myself published on a range of geek topics. By no means a journalist or anything like that though!
Second prize: Two 1988 Citroen AX 1.4 Diesels...
I hand-built serial cables using plugs I got from this guy (Elsewhere on that site there's links to folks all over the world selling the same plugs for a range of different GPS receivers). Apparently even the tiny little Garmin Geko 201 and Geko 301 (but not the 101 model) also speak serial - and they're tiny cute little things they are!!!
My little eTrex has a menu with a whole bunch of different 'languages' that it will speak (and/or receive) via the serial port. According to the manual (warning: pdf) (page 45) it speaks NMEA 0183, a bunch of proprietary Garmin stuff and a couple of flavours suitable for differential work. I know from fiddling with mine that it also speaks a 'plain text' (they're all plain text, but this one is more so) format that is quite human readable and probably quite easily parseable with some perl.
Another imporant point about GPS and Linux (*nix in general is time). GPS requires incredibly accurate time to operate, so by implication GPS receivers make excellent clocks. Last time I checked xntp had support for NMEA (GPS) as a time source.
A quick freshmeat (if 'google' is a verb, then surely 'freshmeat' can be one too!) will tell you that GPS on *nix is nothing new!!! (Not all of those returns are gps nav related, but there's a lot of stuff to parse gps sentences, moving maps, program receivers, all kinds of goodies!
is someone just wandering around randomly moderating things troll?
I wouldn't worry too much about it... he's only got three mod points left... :-)
Does someone wanna give a quick HOWTO and/or a pointer to a suitably high-level explanation? Thanks.
That's the beautiful thing about slashdot - you don't need to be accurate to be modded up as insightful or informative!
This is completely incorrect.
I never said they didn't/couldn't.
I am a lawyer
It shows.
and my opinion...
Try not to take life so literally, you'll get an ulcer.
Doesn't work for anyone else though. Microsoft are a law unto themselves because they can afford to defend anything until the other party dies of old age, so they pretty much get to make the rules, regardless of whether or not their 'laws' are legal.
For the rest of us, we're stuck with the legal principle that someone cannot sign away rights that are granted by law. Take for example, the fact that is illegal for me to kill you. You can sign a piece of paper to say that it's quite OK with you if I kill you, but the piece of paper is worthless and meaningless. I can't use it as a "get out of jail free card" because you can't sign your right not to be killed - it's not quite literally like that, but you get the idea...
The same ~kinda~ thing applies with people signing to say that if you hurt them it's their fault. It's not ~quite~ the same principle, but similar.
Look at it then from a contract point of view and it's a bit different. Like all the sporting and motorsport venues, you can sign to say that you accept specific obvious risks and that you will not, in consideration of being allowed to enter the venue, not sue the owner, operator, competitors, etc, etc, etc.
In a place like Australia, you'd probably get away with a nice strong disclaimer and acceptance of risk by the individual punters. In a place like the US, as vexatiously litigous as you folks are, I'd probably not bother running the event at all, but certainly not without insurance at least!
Couple of other thoughts: Perhaps the insurance company will give you a discount if you make the punters sign a EULA written by the insurance company, second, here in Australia we have a concept of a registered/incorporated not-for-profit organisation that, although a bit fiddly to set up, has the nice benefit that they're not legally liable for a lot of the kinda of stuff you're worried about. Might be worth checking if a similar concept exists in your jurisdiction
#include disclaimer.h: IANAL. I didn't make it past second year undergrad law, and I have only the vaguest memory of torts and contract law - as reading the above ramblings demonstrates. You'd be a fool to take my advice!
Hey, way cool blog, what a great idea, I guess the person who owns the CF card can suffer in their joCks, nothing they can do about...OMFG! THAT'S MY SISTER! AND HER BOYFRIEND AND OMFGOMFGOMFG THAT'S ME! I'LL SUE! THOSE BASTARD, WHY I OUGHTA....
Hey, way cool blog, what a great idea, I guess the person who owns the CF card can suffer in their joCks, nothing they can do about...OMFG! THAT'S MY SISTER! AND HER BOYFRIEND AND OMFGOMFGOMFG THAT'S ME! I'LL SUE! THOSE BASTARD, WHY I OUGHTA....
Sorry pal, I don't need no stinkin' DRM infested bloatware on any account, much less to read about Gates grandstanding again.
That's all I have to say, thanks for coming!
... Homer dies? I haven't seen it, but someone mentioned it in a class I was in last week, apparently he goes thought all the stages og grieving in a few short seconds. I'd really like to get a copy of that (just an academically appropriate/legal snippet - not the whole episode) so we can use it in the next class. (I dunno about copyright law in the US, but here in Oz, this sort of thing, for academic use, is legal. Email me pls. TIA.
Cunard bought White Star line some 18-odd years later when, funnily enough, White Star Line got in a spot of financial bother.
What's really interesting is how White Star Line got into their financial trouble. Amongst other things, the US government dramatically reduced the number of immigrants they would allow into the country (read: the number of Green Cards they were handing out!), and since transporting immigrants to the USA was a substantial source of income for the company, they felt financial pain from the drop in custom.
Can it therefore be derived that combining Green Card and spam is a bad thing with no positive future? Someone wanna call Messrs Canter and Siegel and ask them? :-)
Remember always:
Green eggs + spam == good
Green Cards + spam == bad
Regardless, it'd be nice to be rid of them.
It's just me, but I'd rather keep them. Pull out a fingernail per day, then a toenail, then chop off, no, wait, smash, a finger, then another one, then another one... Remember to gaffer-tape the mouth closed though, the screaming gets a bit monotonous after about the third day...
OK, so admittedly Cunard didn't buy into White Star Line until some 18 years after that little mishap with the Titanic, but didn't we show 'em, what hey old chap, shiver me timbers and all that!
$diety{'God'} is apparently omnipotent and all knowing and all that, so what's to say that he didn't plant the iceberg in anticipation of the fact that those people would become spammers in the not-to-distant (for 'him') future! Dumb bastards didn't learn, spammed anyway.
Well, it's a great fantasy, anyway.