Isnt this what we call a choice ? A choice to muck around with what we are given. Isnt that right of a hacker to mess around even when he is warned with dire consequences ? The reason Windows is so popular (reason why we hate them so much) is because Bill Gates makes those choices for you. Should we do the same too ??
But as long as you're looking for whom piracy really hurts, ask the guitarist
in the coffee shop, or the group scratching out a living touring in a beat-up van.
I didnt know she had that much compassion towards us poor touring artists. Now I know where I am gonna take my deadbeat van and my pothead groupies next . Right to her doorstep! Maybe she would tip us better..
Finally, Bunner submitted his own declaration. He admitted that he had become
aware of DeCSS by "reading and participating in discussions held on a news web site
entitled 'slashdot.org.'
Cudos to Slashdot for that..and to all of us who doesnt take it lying down.
And one more thing.. I am proud to be a colleague of Andrew bunner. Guy sure rocks when he is churning out code when he is not kicking snobbish DCCA lawyers in their arse.
The fact that a medium of expression has a functional capacity should not preclude constitutional protection.... Computer source code, thought unintelligible to many is the preferred method of communication among
computer programmers. Because computer source code is an expressive means for the exchange of information and ideas about computer programming, we hold that it is protected by the First Amendment"
This confirms my theory that there are more sensible people in the world than I previously expected. I just loved the part where they upheld the belief that "computer source code" being an expressive means for the exchange of information among geeks. I mean, that just rocks..
Seven Sisters Constellation at its highest point..
on
All Hallow's Eve
·
· Score: 3, Funny
Shamelessly stolen from yahoo..
To make the superstitious even more jittery, a constellation associated with the some end-of-the-world beliefs will also be at the top of Wednesday night's sky.
The Seven Sisters constellation, which looks like a small cluster of grapes, has long been a signal for the time of year to honor the dead - such as All Saints Day, Nov. 1.
According to myth, the Seven Sisters constellation is at its highest point in the sky during a great calamity, possibly the biblical flood or the sinking of Atlantis. The Aztecs and Mayans believed it would be overhead at midnight on the night the world comes to an end, Horkheimer said.
The Seven Sisters and the full moon will both be directly overhead at midnight, he said.
.....
I guess its time to tick off items from my Disaster Check list...
Another distinction might the the "feature" of Windows pipes where there is no fixed buffer size. For the first test we stopped at a 4K buffer size in deference to the Linux buffer. Windows advocates might suggest that the arbitrary buffer sizes associated with Windows named pipes are a benefit. To demonstrate the arbitrary size of the Windows named pipe buffers, we can simply run the single threaded program with arbitrarily large block sizes. I did a run with pipespeed2.cpp on Windows and specified a 256 MB buffer size. Windows obliged by swelling the buffer size to hold 256 MB of data before the ReadFile() was issued. The system slowed to a crawl and I didn't wait until the operation completed. Whether this "feature" of Windows is useful or not is up to the public.
We have development workstations for geeks developing on python running Debian. And we have the other half running Windows 2000 who are primarily developing on Java.
Unfortunately, I have seen some developers switching over from Debian to Windows2000, since they had some real bad experiences with Borland JBuilder4. JBuilder tends to be really slow and non-user friendly under Linux environment.
However, there is still room to cheer. Most of our staging servers run Linux and Ops wouldnt touch a windows box with a yardpole.
I guess until or unless the development/productivity tools show more than a mere interest in porting their apps to Linux, we would be stuck with Linux based server systems.
Gosh! It would be interesting to see if any more servers turns up affected after so much of patching and screaming and thrashing. I would normally expect everyone of those Admins to patch their boxes by now, but at the same time, there would be some more, either ignorant or out on vacation, who is bound to get hit.
And when shit hits the fan, the management is sure to turn around and bite yelling "But we all knew about it..Why didnt you do it ?".. Err..well..
Patch those boxes up..and do so in a routine manner. Sure its pathetic and time consuming. but its your data and your hardware..
The Exodus data centre in California, one of 43 worldwide, sits utterly undistinguished amid the sprawl fanning out from Los Angeles International Airport. The company's name doesn't even appear on the building, but the unassuming facade, which is wrapped in bulletproof Kevlar, belies its extremely high security, almost to the point of paranoia.
Inside, a biometric hand scanner, another layer of bulletproof glass, two Pinkerton security guards, and a 500-pound door block access to 66,000 climate-controlled square feet of Internet servers, the online backbones of Exodus clients like Best Buy, eBay, KPMG Consulting, British Airways, Virgin, Merrill Lynch, Yahoo, and some 4,500 other customers. It's estimated that as many as one-third of all Internet clicks pass through Exodus servers. In a real sense what's behind that 500-pound door is, well, the Internet.
Just one big corporation competing with another VERY big one.
No matter what they tend to make us believe, I am not inclined to agree that this would make net a safer place.
And with MS allowing third parties to provide similar passport services to hook up with theirs, this could only be construed as another effort from Sun to hide the fact that they were late in realising the advantages of passport and webservices, and also to put a veil over the open source community making them blindly believe that we should support these guys instead of M$ because this is more "OPEN".
Maybe NSA has an encryption breaking scheme hardwired in to a chip, and all that takes is a blind guy with a young hacker to flip switches to decode all encrypted streams of data.
But seriously, thats probably what NSA/CIA/FBI has told the Congress and Senate before they got their approval.
What they probably might succeed at is that they would listen to traffic inbound from suspected terrorists / rogue states(god knows how they plan to figure that out) and try to descramble every piece of information. More of a scenario like, with ten thousand monkeys clammering on their keyboards, atleast one has the probability of writing a Shakespeare sonnet. So what do we have, some vague FBI spook listens in on data suspected to be a list of political leaders to be assasinated, and instead accidentally snoops on a recipe for Apple pie.
It really hurts the whole community as such to see some crap being reported with an ounce of truth, and then having to revert it.
We are not a bunch of fanatics.
Lets not post stories without checking first. The whole slashdot community would look in front of the whole world to be a bunch of open source fanatic geeks who goes ballistic after a mis-reported piece of rumour.
Lets check the stories for consistency and truth before posting them, or else, we pose the risk of going down in history as a bunch of idiots who clamour for war at anything with the tag "Microsoft" on it.
Civil liberties are most affected at times like this - when the majority are affected by some sort of crisis or bloodshed. This move would work for a month or an year, till FBI or the Govt is successful in rooting out this evil. At the end of it they would claim Carnivore helped them bring these criminals to justice, the same way Patriot missiles were at first claimed to have a 90% success rate, where as later it was found that the success hits were much much below the previously claimed numbers.
Similarly FBI and the Govt would use Carnivore in a similar way, touting its use among the people without deriving anything valuable out of it. And when the war against Bin Laden is over, they would turn it on us, the people. By then, it would be too late. Any efforts to revoke Carnivore would never win, as the Govt would be quick in pointing out that its needed to prevent further bloodshed, and the Congress would happily send Carnivore on its way.
Civil Liberties have been trampled on the ground once again and theres nothing we can do about it right now. Lets stand on the sidelines and watch, for now.
Maybe when the much-anticipated Gamecube ships, I can pick up a discounted PS2 and GT3:)
Hey timothy, heard of something called Xbox which is the most-anticipated (not just "much") piece of hardware ? I dont think, if you admit that you have plans to buy an Xbox, that you would appear a lesser mortal in front of fellow slashdotters.
Sorry if this appears like a flame. But I just had to give it to this bigot.
Slashdot Mirror
Gets to be the luckiest guy on a Valentine's Day.
Gets to watch M$ getting its Product-Activation A#$ getting kicked around.
I am sure Gates is gonna try and get Taco divorced now..
Yes it was a mistake..But I ordered it anyway..
:)
Am I gonna get it ? With respect to the current financial condition of BestBuy, NOT!..
But the 60 seconds it took me to key in my Credit Card info to order the card (with a palpable sense of inevitable doom), was worth it..
And no..i am not gonna post the link. If you want to find out, go check out Anandtech community.
Like their next quarter earnings which Google wont find ;)
I am sure Yahoo would love to give it to you for a price.
A Resounding YES to that..
Isnt this what we call a choice ? A choice to muck around with what we are given. Isnt that right of a hacker to mess around even when he is warned with dire consequences ? The reason Windows is so popular (reason why we hate them so much) is because Bill Gates makes those choices for you. Should we do the same too ??
I can see those poor bastards cringing to publish the story and holding on to their dear website, before the gates of slashdot were unleashed upon it.
Kollam..Oru fellow malayali..athum /. vayikkunna viruthan..enikku eshtamayi mone..
i would like to find out how many mallus read slashdot, and if possible bring them all together for another forum.
mail me back at kodguru@hotmail.com if you are interested.
www.hackorama.com
Kollam..Oru fellow malayali..athum /. vayikkunna viruthan..enikku eshtamayi mone..
i would like to find out how many mallus read slashdot, and if possible bring them all together for another forum.
mail me back at kodguru@hotmail.com if you are interested.
www.hackorama.com
Kollam..Oru fellow malayali..athum /. vayikkunna viruthan..enikku eshtamayi mone..
i would like to find out how many mallus read slashdot, and if possible bring them all together for another forum.
mail me back at kodguru@hotmail.com if you are interested.
www.hackorama.com
From the Article :
But as long as you're looking for whom piracy really hurts, ask the guitarist
in the coffee shop, or the group scratching out a living touring in a beat-up van.
I didnt know she had that much compassion towards us poor touring artists. Now I know where I am gonna take my deadbeat van and my pothead groupies next . Right to her doorstep! Maybe she would tip us better..
From the pdf..
Finally, Bunner submitted his own declaration. He admitted that he had become
aware of DeCSS by "reading and participating in discussions held on a news web site
entitled 'slashdot.org.'
Cudos to Slashdot for that..and to all of us who doesnt take it lying down.
And one more thing.. I am proud to be a colleague of Andrew bunner. Guy sure rocks when he is churning out code when he is not kicking snobbish DCCA lawyers in their arse.
Way to go Andrew..
The fact that a medium of expression has a functional capacity should not preclude constitutional protection.... Computer source code, thought unintelligible to many is the preferred method of communication among
computer programmers. Because computer source code is an expressive means for the exchange of information and ideas about computer programming, we hold that it is protected by the First Amendment"
This confirms my theory that there are more sensible people in the world than I previously expected. I just loved the part where they upheld the belief that "computer source code" being an expressive means for the exchange of information among geeks. I mean, that just rocks..
Shamelessly stolen from yahoo..
To make the superstitious even more jittery, a constellation associated with the some end-of-the-world beliefs will also be at the top of Wednesday night's sky.
The Seven Sisters constellation, which looks like a small cluster of grapes, has long been a signal for the time of year to honor the dead - such as All Saints Day, Nov. 1.
According to myth, the Seven Sisters constellation is at its highest point in the sky during a great calamity, possibly the biblical flood or the sinking of Atlantis. The Aztecs and Mayans believed it would be overhead at midnight on the night the world comes to an end, Horkheimer said.
The Seven Sisters and the full moon will both be directly overhead at midnight, he said.
.....
I guess its time to tick off items from my Disaster Check list...
Now I can Flame those Terrorists...
Nyah..naaa...naa...
From the article..
Another distinction might the the "feature" of Windows pipes where there is no fixed buffer size. For the first test we stopped at a 4K buffer size in deference to the Linux buffer. Windows advocates might suggest that the arbitrary buffer sizes associated with Windows named pipes are a benefit. To demonstrate the arbitrary size of the Windows named pipe buffers, we can simply run the single threaded program with arbitrarily large block sizes. I did a run with pipespeed2.cpp on Windows and specified a 256 MB buffer size. Windows obliged by swelling the buffer size to hold 256 MB of data before the ReadFile() was issued. The system slowed to a crawl and I didn't wait until the operation completed. Whether this "feature" of Windows is useful or not is up to the public.
Well, i am sure it started out as a feature..
We have development workstations for geeks developing on python running Debian. And we have the other half running Windows 2000 who are primarily developing on Java.
Unfortunately, I have seen some developers switching over from Debian to Windows2000, since they had some real bad experiences with Borland JBuilder4. JBuilder tends to be really slow and non-user friendly under Linux environment.
However, there is still room to cheer. Most of our staging servers run Linux and Ops wouldnt touch a windows box with a yardpole.
I guess until or unless the development/productivity tools show more than a mere interest in porting their apps to Linux, we would be stuck with Linux based server systems.
Gosh! It would be interesting to see if any more servers turns up affected after so much of patching and screaming and thrashing. I would normally expect everyone of those Admins to patch their boxes by now, but at the same time, there would be some more, either ignorant or out on vacation, who is bound to get hit.
.. Err..well..
And when shit hits the fan, the management is sure to turn around and bite yelling "But we all knew about it..Why didnt you do it ?"
Patch those boxes up..and do so in a routine manner. Sure its pathetic and time consuming. but its your data and your hardware..
Picked up from an article on zdnet.
...
The Exodus data centre in California, one of 43 worldwide, sits utterly undistinguished amid the sprawl fanning out from Los Angeles International Airport. The company's name doesn't even appear on the building, but the unassuming facade, which is wrapped in bulletproof Kevlar, belies its extremely high security, almost to the point of paranoia.
Inside, a biometric hand scanner, another layer of bulletproof glass, two Pinkerton security guards, and a 500-pound door block access to 66,000 climate-controlled square feet of Internet servers, the online backbones of Exodus clients like Best Buy, eBay, KPMG Consulting, British Airways, Virgin, Merrill Lynch, Yahoo, and some 4,500 other customers. It's estimated that as many as one-third of all Internet clicks pass through Exodus servers. In a real sense what's behind that 500-pound door is, well, the Internet.
....
One third of all clicks.. whew..!
Just one big corporation competing with another VERY big one.
No matter what they tend to make us believe, I am not inclined to agree that this would make net a safer place.
And with MS allowing third parties to provide similar passport services to hook up with theirs, this could only be construed as another effort from Sun to hide the fact that they were late in realising the advantages of passport and webservices, and also to put a veil over the open source community making them blindly believe that we should support these guys instead of M$ because this is more "OPEN".
I am not flaming.. I just dont see the point.
Maybe NSA has an encryption breaking scheme hardwired in to a chip, and all that takes is a blind guy with a young hacker to flip switches to decode all encrypted streams of data.
But seriously, thats probably what NSA/CIA/FBI has told the Congress and Senate before they got their approval.
What they probably might succeed at is that they would listen to traffic inbound from suspected terrorists / rogue states(god knows how they plan to figure that out) and try to descramble every piece of information. More of a scenario like, with ten thousand monkeys clammering on their keyboards, atleast one has the probability of writing a Shakespeare sonnet. So what do we have, some vague FBI spook listens in on data suspected to be a list of political leaders to be assasinated, and instead accidentally snoops on a recipe for Apple pie.
God Bless America.
It really hurts the whole community as such to see some crap being reported with an ounce of truth, and then having to revert it.
We are not a bunch of fanatics.
Lets not post stories without checking first. The whole slashdot community would look in front of the whole world to be a bunch of open source fanatic geeks who goes ballistic after a mis-reported piece of rumour.
Lets check the stories for consistency and truth before posting them, or else, we pose the risk of going down in history as a bunch of idiots who clamour for war at anything with the tag "Microsoft" on it.
Civil liberties are most affected at times like this - when the majority are affected by some sort of crisis or bloodshed. This move would work for a month or an year, till FBI or the Govt is successful in rooting out this evil. At the end of it they would claim Carnivore helped them bring these criminals to justice, the same way Patriot missiles were at first claimed to have a 90% success rate, where as later it was found that the success hits were much much below the previously claimed numbers.
Similarly FBI and the Govt would use Carnivore in a similar way, touting its use among the people without deriving anything valuable out of it. And when the war against Bin Laden is over, they would turn it on us, the people. By then, it would be too late. Any efforts to revoke Carnivore would never win, as the Govt would be quick in pointing out that its needed to prevent further bloodshed, and the Congress would happily send Carnivore on its way.
Civil Liberties have been trampled on the ground once again and theres nothing we can do about it right now. Lets stand on the sidelines and watch, for now.
Maybe when the much-anticipated Gamecube ships, I can pick up a discounted PS2 and GT3 :)
Hey timothy, heard of something called Xbox which is the most-anticipated (not just "much") piece of hardware ? I dont think, if you admit that you have plans to buy an Xbox, that you would appear a lesser mortal in front of fellow slashdotters.
Sorry if this appears like a flame. But I just had to give it to this bigot.
Microsoft posted a previously unreleased audio clip of Linus exclaiming "I love Windows. Its so stable".
Noone who attended the convention really thought anything good was going to come out of it.
Mundie had to pitifully tread through the comments of his superiors and make peace with the crowd who was screaming for his blood.
Also Tiemann was never there to make a point for the Open Source, he was just there to take a good jab at MS and he succeeded in doing just that.
I thought the "incredibly smart people" reference to each community was just a thinly veiled attempt at making peace.
Click on the link and you would see a bridge (looks like one) with the name "Lunatic" on it..
:)
Kinda ironic..dont you think