Not to say that the MPAA is in on the hoax, who is to say that they are actually telling the truth. Maybe the fact that LokiTorrent now has that MPAA banner on it, the MPAA decided to concoct a story about LokiTorrent to scare people. If you look how the MPAA worded their release, they do not say that LokiTorrent was taken down b/c of a lawsuit. They just say it "will no longer exist". They just imply that they are the reason it shut down.
The big thing I wonder is why LokiTorrent is hosted on the same box as MuffTorrent.com. MuffTorrent is now shut down, but the page is still up, no MPAA shame on you page. If the MPAA took it over, don't you think they would host it, and take the domain away from Webber.
Now, I am not saying that the shut down wasnot b/c of the MPAA, but you have to look at all the facts before coming to a conclusion. The fact that nobody can seem to find an actual court filing in this case is a big reason to think that the article may be true.
I have to agree that the size issue is not going to kill this. It may fail, but who is to say they will. Man I hate people who post negatively as ACs, they can't get bad Karma.
Yeah, I am so sure that all 250 million CDRs will be used to pirate/copy music illegally. I know I never use CDRs to burn programs, or data off my computer.
Man I sure hope those guys can find their heads as they are so far up their collective arses that they can see their own spleen.
As a recent CS grad I had to help some of my friends in the Meteorology department with their programming course(of course not taught by a CS prof). To my surprise it was FOTRAN. It seems a lot of the stuff NOAA and other government agenicies program is in FORTRAN so it is compatible with the stuff they stil use from the 70's and 80's.
As an intern over the summer, Macromedia came to push it's new ideals on us. We were using Cold Fusion and wanted to see where they were going to take it, but the majority of the presentation(read sales pitch/propaganda) was to convert everything to Flash. Also they were trying really hard to push Dreamweaver Ultradev since it "alows you to use all of Macromedias products" in one user friendly environment.
This anthrax scare may kill snail mail letters with the newer tech savy generations, but we will still have those who are computer illiterate still using snail mail. Plus you can't ship T-Shirts, computers, electronic equipment, etc by email. It may hamper the postal system but it won't kill it.
Bush just copped out on this issue. He couldn't decide which way to go, so he decided to find a way out so he wouldn't piss off more people than necessary.
On a side not, W really needs to learn how to read from a teleprompter without it looking like he is. He looked like Gore did when Gore gave speeches. His eyes never once looked into the camera they were always off to one side(I can't remeber which right or left) reading what his script writers wrote for him. If he did look at the camera he would come off as more convincing.
Okay, so the Code Red worm reappeared, but now enough sysadims had enough reason to put the patches in and it hasn't had an infection rate as high as the last time. Okay Code Red is a nasty virus and such, but it doesn't deserve the media coverage it is getting. Even the media coverage is half truths. Seriously I have Win2k, but wasn't affected because I didn't have IIs running. I was pissed off to hear all of the reports of Win NT and Win2k computers are vulnerable to this when really the virusonly propagates on those OS's but to get in you need IIs running. The media cries wolf so much nobody knows when to believe then and this is one of those cases. I would rather have had the attention on SIRCAM than this as it does leak documents, potentially classified/confidential ones. The media needs to grow up and learn what to report and what not too. This is a case of them not reporting what they should have been.
I agree with you wholey on this. If some threatens the US way the govt should be able to say fix it or you won't be able to use it. However I have to say this about the worm: If MS knew what they were doing in the first place these security holes would not exist. This is like what the third or fourth IIs buffer overrun hole. You would have thought after the first one was found MS would have seen if others existed. I am just wondering, might these "holes" be intentionally left there as back doors to systems so that MS can get into them. Just some food for thought.
I hear yah, verizon controls part of my schools T1 connection. We have 4 T1s, and one is from verizon, that verizon controlled one is down 5 out of 7 days a week. The tech guys for our networking staff get responses from verizon like "really, its down, we didn't know" or the ever popular "Okay, we took that connection down to do routine mantinence on one of our servers". I just hope verizon gets whats coming to them.
I live in PA and get to hear all about Verizon almost everyday on the news. However I have also had to deal with them. Trying to get DSL through them is bad and very time consuming. However, since most of the DSL providers around me go through Verizon there was a bigger issue. Verizon would take the work orders from the DSL providers other than themselves and put them at the bottom of work piles in an attempt to stifle competition. Also their DSL services suck, but when you could be waiting upwards of a month for an XO DSL connection(Verizon sitting oon the work order) people would switch to Verizon. Verizon finally got theirs when the PUC(Public Utility Commission) told them they have to treat al work orders witht he same precentdent or face being broken up.
Verizon is trying to become what AT&T once was, a monopoly in the telecommunications market, however many people don't see this. I seriously think with the way Verizon treats other companys anticompettively(like above) they deserve a little retribution. Kudos to Covad, at least somebody had the balls to blame Verizon for bugs, even though it may just have been to piss off Verizon.
I agree that this is a total set up, but I think you have who was set up wrong. I believe that Felten is doing this to try and get the DMCA declared unconstitutional. Seriously, why would you name Ashcroft as a defendant if you didn't have plans to take this all the way to the Supreme Court. However, this is going to take too long to save the whole/. communtity from reading about DMCA lawsuits from now until the cows come home. I believe that the DMCA is unconstitutional, but going through with all of these lawsuits is going to take years and if it eventually reaches the Supreme Court who is to say that the court will rule unconstitutional. From my limited knowledge of the court(IANAL) once you get sworn in you are there for life, so the court is full of old guys/ladies that have no clue about today's technology. Seriously if the DMCA has an chance of being repealed a lower court has to do it, because I highly doubt a technologically challenged court would declare it such.
And it saves money. Think about it, I can go out to Bestbuy and get a 30gig ide harddrive for $130. Why spend $200 on a 20 gig drive when in a removable bay I can put 40 gig drive for less than the 20 gig. I know when I take my ide drive somewhere the computer I want to use it on has to have a removable drive bay, but even if it doesn't have one, but has an IDE controller it only takes maybe 5 minutes to slap the bad boy in and off we go. This drive pricing scheme just doesn't make sense to me.
You every dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?
Dreamcast is not dead. I am an owner of a Dreamcast and I think its a reat system. Sure PS2 will probably blow it away, but I'm in college and won't be able to afford a PS2 when it comes out. All the games I need will be supported by Dreamcast. And with bleemcast coming out I will be able to throw away my original playstation, since I'll be able to play most of its games on my dreamcast. Get real, Dreamcast is long from dead.
If you were Sony, why would you release this. The PS2 comes out in October and anybody that is considering buying anytype of PS would just wait until then. I know it would be cheaper, but why buy it to only have the last set of new games for come out this X-mas.
Okay, I can see breaking M$ into Windows, and Applications, but IE is going to far. If you want to break off IE put it in a company with MSN and their online garbage. IE would die if it was its own company.
Another wonderful MS fix, just don't let Outlook run potentially "evil" files. If they want to make it "truely" safe, why didn't they just remove the attachment feature all together. Seriously, there are at least a dozen more file extensions that could carry malicious code, the only way they will make it completely safe is if they get rid of attachments all together.
It took the power of 3 C64s to get man to the moon, and yet Windows95 requires a 486. Anybody see irony in this?
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Not to say that the MPAA is in on the hoax, who is to say that they are actually telling the truth. Maybe the fact that LokiTorrent now has that MPAA banner on it, the MPAA decided to concoct a story about LokiTorrent to scare people. If you look how the MPAA worded their release, they do not say that LokiTorrent was taken down b/c of a lawsuit. They just say it "will no longer exist". They just imply that they are the reason it shut down.
The big thing I wonder is why LokiTorrent is hosted on the same box as MuffTorrent.com. MuffTorrent is now shut down, but the page is still up, no MPAA shame on you page. If the MPAA took it over, don't you think they would host it, and take the domain away from Webber.
Now, I am not saying that the shut down wasnot b/c of the MPAA, but you have to look at all the facts before coming to a conclusion. The fact that nobody can seem to find an actual court filing in this case is a big reason to think that the article may be true.
Who knows what truly happened? Only Mr. Webber.
RFC 1034 - November 1987
DOMAIN NAMES - CONCEPTS AND FACILITIES
RFC 1035 - November 1987
DOMAIN NAMES - IMPLEMENTATION AND SPECIFICATION
Who can find prior art for this?
Gee especially since it was filed in 1999.
The USPTO needs to get their heads out of the sand.
There are only two Godfater movies.
I think a big steaming pile of crap would be a suitable category image for SCO related news.
I have to agree that the size issue is not going to kill this. It may fail, but who is to say they will. Man I hate people who post negatively as ACs, they can't get bad Karma.
Yeah, I am so sure that all 250 million CDRs will be used to pirate/copy music illegally. I know I never use CDRs to burn programs, or data off my computer.
Man I sure hope those guys can find their heads as they are so far up their collective arses that they can see their own spleen.
Copy Protection bites!
As a recent CS grad I had to help some of my friends in the Meteorology department with their programming course(of course not taught by a CS prof). To my surprise it was FOTRAN. It seems a lot of the stuff NOAA and other government agenicies program is in FORTRAN so it is compatible with the stuff they stil use from the 70's and 80's.
As an intern over the summer, Macromedia came to push it's new ideals on us. We were using Cold Fusion and wanted to see where they were going to take it, but the majority of the presentation(read sales pitch/propaganda) was to convert everything to Flash. Also they were trying really hard to push Dreamweaver Ultradev since it "alows you to use all of Macromedias products" in one user friendly environment.
This anthrax scare may kill snail mail letters with the newer tech savy generations, but we will still have those who are computer illiterate still using snail mail. Plus you can't ship T-Shirts, computers, electronic equipment, etc by email. It may hamper the postal system but it won't kill it.
Bush just copped out on this issue. He couldn't decide which way to go, so he decided to find a way out so he wouldn't piss off more people than necessary. On a side not, W really needs to learn how to read from a teleprompter without it looking like he is. He looked like Gore did when Gore gave speeches. His eyes never once looked into the camera they were always off to one side(I can't remeber which right or left) reading what his script writers wrote for him. If he did look at the camera he would come off as more convincing.
Okay, so the Code Red worm reappeared, but now enough sysadims had enough reason to put the patches in and it hasn't had an infection rate as high as the last time. Okay Code Red is a nasty virus and such, but it doesn't deserve the media coverage it is getting. Even the media coverage is half truths. Seriously I have Win2k, but wasn't affected because I didn't have IIs running. I was pissed off to hear all of the reports of Win NT and Win2k computers are vulnerable to this when really the virusonly propagates on those OS's but to get in you need IIs running. The media cries wolf so much nobody knows when to believe then and this is one of those cases. I would rather have had the attention on SIRCAM than this as it does leak documents, potentially classified/confidential ones. The media needs to grow up and learn what to report and what not too. This is a case of them not reporting what they should have been.
I agree with you wholey on this. If some threatens the US way the govt should be able to say fix it or you won't be able to use it. However I have to say this about the worm: If MS knew what they were doing in the first place these security holes would not exist. This is like what the third or fourth IIs buffer overrun hole. You would have thought after the first one was found MS would have seen if others existed. I am just wondering, might these "holes" be intentionally left there as back doors to systems so that MS can get into them. Just some food for thought.
I hear yah, verizon controls part of my schools T1 connection. We have 4 T1s, and one is from verizon, that verizon controlled one is down 5 out of 7 days a week. The tech guys for our networking staff get responses from verizon like "really, its down, we didn't know" or the ever popular "Okay, we took that connection down to do routine mantinence on one of our servers". I just hope verizon gets whats coming to them.
Verizon is trying to become what AT&T once was, a monopoly in the telecommunications market, however many people don't see this. I seriously think with the way Verizon treats other companys anticompettively(like above) they deserve a little retribution. Kudos to Covad, at least somebody had the balls to blame Verizon for bugs, even though it may just have been to piss off Verizon.
You every dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?
Dreamcast is not dead. I am an owner of a Dreamcast and I think its a reat system. Sure PS2 will probably blow it away, but I'm in college and won't be able to afford a PS2 when it comes out. All the games I need will be supported by Dreamcast. And with bleemcast coming out I will be able to throw away my original playstation, since I'll be able to play most of its games on my dreamcast. Get real, Dreamcast is long from dead.
If you were Sony, why would you release this. The PS2 comes out in October and anybody that is considering buying anytype of PS would just wait until then. I know it would be cheaper, but why buy it to only have the last set of new games for come out this X-mas.
Okay, I can see breaking M$ into Windows, and Applications, but IE is going to far. If you want to break off IE put it in a company with MSN and their online garbage. IE would die if it was its own company.
Another wonderful MS fix, just don't let Outlook run potentially "evil" files. If they want to make it "truely" safe, why didn't they just remove the attachment feature all together. Seriously, there are at least a dozen more file extensions that could carry malicious code, the only way they will make it completely safe is if they get rid of attachments all together.
It took the power of 3 C64s to get man to the moon, and yet Windows95 requires a 486. Anybody see irony in this?