That's the title of the washington post article. Does ANY actual person like the DMCA? I can't ever think of anyone not spouting corporate drivel actually claiming to like the law.
You're even more right than you know, BFD. Public libraries already provide free access to free email. What they're actually doing is planning to provide word processor and spreadsheet access in addition.
I don't see how you can expect the average user to be able to implement the infrastructure necessary to support 802.11b. It's just a spec for ethernet, using air instead of wire. Just because you don't need a hub or cat5 cable doesn't mean you don't need planning (subnetting, IP assignment, etc). I don't expect the average user to be able to set it up, and I can see a lot of problems that would come from DHCP.
The author of the article goes blah blah about how wireless will send his world to a new level of convenience, but will he even be able to set it up? I think this underscores the difference between the technologies, and why (with the exception that similar frequency interference problem), they will ideally work together, like firewire and USB.
I wrote representative Bentsen (D) and senators Gramm (R) and Hutchison (R). Who did YOU write to? (all of you, not just the parent author)
More practically, I got a reply from Bentsen yesterday. While his wording was the "politically correct" middle of the road drivel the average politician spouts, it seemed a little on the intelligent side. I am slightly encouraged by this letter, though it is fairly certainly a stock letter, and I know he's aware of one constituent's view of the issue.
I'm still waiting to hear from my senators, but mainly just for confirmation. As they're republican, I expect less acceptable view on the issue (with them leaning toward big money interests), but at least they'll know MY opinion, and I'm responsible, in part, for their job security. You people (well, the americans in the audience) should try writing the people whose salaries you pay. It gives you a short-lived feeling of power at the very least, you may even get warm-fuzzies.
I got a response from them. They told me to go to this URI to disable the ads. I told them they didn't answer my questions (something along the lines of what they're going to tell their "partners" when I don't visit their sites any more). Another person emailed me and told me to go to this URI to disable the ads. I added their IPs to my firewall at that point.
Wanna hear something even worse? At a small ISP I used to work at, they had some ass of a lady doing server configs who left backdoors all over the place. One guy hosting in Virginia got spammed from out of my ISP's users. He telnetted to our mail server to see if it was a system he knew, if you could get anon access to it, etc. Anon login didn't work, so he was going to exit. He fat-fingered the telnet control command, and was still on the host when he typed "exit". The prompt then read "password>" and by reflex he typed "exit" again. It then gave him a root prompt. He called up and got me, told me what he did, and said I should fix it. You should have seen the owner's face when he heard about it. Oddly, though, his reaction was to beat the crap out of our server operator, not sue the guy that told us about the hole.
according to my sources, this little system is only 46 lightyears away. It looks like it's going to be a while before anything can get there. Darn, and I was really hoping to hear some more info before my children were dead.
Seriously, this doesn't really seem to be too far away. Probably related to the fact that it's easier to see something closer. If I weren't so tired, I would probably be excited!
That was easy to do in a university I went to. Unsecured ethernet lines, all I . . . *ahem* THE INTRUDER had to do was camp overnight in a broom closet with a single ethernet cable running above the ceiling. The intruder spliced the line, inserted a hub, and put in a throwaway laptop (an old Dell 486/50). That puppy in promiscuous mode was all that was needed to get every single password sent to the old VAX that ran the grade/enrollment system. As far as I know, the system is still there.
Oh, and the BIOS being locked out? You can easily reset the CMOS with a minor amount of tweaking. If you want to go sneakers, it can usually be done without even opening the case. I'm not impressed.
It's at http://www.msnbc.com/news/608152.asp?0dm=C12MT. This appears to be just an extension of the secondary purpose of the internet - distributed research. But instead of being able to connect to a supercomputer across the country, it allows a researcher to connect to ALL the supercomputers across the country . ..
Even tastier, though, how many PCs in university labs are wasting cycles (or using them on SETI@home or dnet)? Wonder how likely it would be to get a client on those and use it like another big computer?
Well the problem is that it effectively ammends the constitution (negating our right to free speech) without having gone through the required process of an amendment.
Yeah, but new.net is killing themselves. A program I installed (bearshare, a gnutella interface) shoved it around the back, I didn't notice. My DNS queries were ALL screwed up, servers wouldn't resolve at random, it kept giving me DNS errors. Then I tried to uninstall it. Big mistake. TCP became nonfunctional.
I used to work in a first aid products manufacturing plant. Our machines were controlled exclusively by Apple II systems. Our programmer was an odd bat, but he knew the apple II inside and out.
Possibly redundant:
Has anyone ever tested the legality of an EULA? Like go into your local Best Buy or CompUSA, bought an OS, come home, run the install to the point of agreeing with an EULA (basically anything to break the shrink-wrap, so the company won't take it back) and tried to return it because they won't agree with the license? Does that leave the seller open to liability if they won't take the opened but unused product in return (even if accompanied by an affadavit stating that it was never installed)?
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You're even more right than you know, BFD. Public libraries already provide free access to free email. What they're actually doing is planning to provide word processor and spreadsheet access in addition.
The author of the article goes blah blah about how wireless will send his world to a new level of convenience, but will he even be able to set it up? I think this underscores the difference between the technologies, and why (with the exception that similar frequency interference problem), they will ideally work together, like firewire and USB.
the article is actually at http://archives.nytimes.com/2001/08/20/technology/ ebusiness/20BLUE.html
I wrote representative Bentsen (D) and senators Gramm (R) and Hutchison (R). Who did YOU write to? (all of you, not just the parent author)
More practically, I got a reply from Bentsen yesterday. While his wording was the "politically correct" middle of the road drivel the average politician spouts, it seemed a little on the intelligent side. I am slightly encouraged by this letter, though it is fairly certainly a stock letter, and I know he's aware of one constituent's view of the issue.
I'm still waiting to hear from my senators, but mainly just for confirmation. As they're republican, I expect less acceptable view on the issue (with them leaning toward big money interests), but at least they'll know MY opinion, and I'm responsible, in part, for their job security. You people (well, the americans in the audience) should try writing the people whose salaries you pay. It gives you a short-lived feeling of power at the very least, you may even get warm-fuzzies.
I got a response from them. They told me to go to this URI to disable the ads. I told them they didn't answer my questions (something along the lines of what they're going to tell their "partners" when I don't visit their sites any more). Another person emailed me and told me to go to this URI to disable the ads. I added their IPs to my firewall at that point.
Wanna hear something even worse? At a small ISP I used to work at, they had some ass of a lady doing server configs who left backdoors all over the place. One guy hosting in Virginia got spammed from out of my ISP's users. He telnetted to our mail server to see if it was a system he knew, if you could get anon access to it, etc. Anon login didn't work, so he was going to exit. He fat-fingered the telnet control command, and was still on the host when he typed "exit". The prompt then read "password>" and by reflex he typed "exit" again. It then gave him a root prompt. He called up and got me, told me what he did, and said I should fix it. You should have seen the owner's face when he heard about it. Oddly, though, his reaction was to beat the crap out of our server operator, not sue the guy that told us about the hole.
Yes, unfortunately it will make for slightly more errors when determining what's redundant and what is original.
Too bad you had to pick the WORST station here in Houston to pick up. "News2" is basically a TV tabloid.
Oh, well I missed it too. I had to break out google to get the answer.
Seriously, this doesn't really seem to be too far away. Probably related to the fact that it's easier to see something closer. If I weren't so tired, I would probably be excited!
That was easy to do in a university I went to. Unsecured ethernet lines, all I . . . *ahem* THE INTRUDER had to do was camp overnight in a broom closet with a single ethernet cable running above the ceiling. The intruder spliced the line, inserted a hub, and put in a throwaway laptop (an old Dell 486/50). That puppy in promiscuous mode was all that was needed to get every single password sent to the old VAX that ran the grade/enrollment system. As far as I know, the system is still there. Oh, and the BIOS being locked out? You can easily reset the CMOS with a minor amount of tweaking. If you want to go sneakers, it can usually be done without even opening the case. I'm not impressed.
The article doesn't mention that Texas is moving to them either, but that doesn't change the fact that they are.
I wouldn't really consider the average woman from oklahoma as a member of humanity, per se.
Bah, forget that. Just go up and steal them. Take a big white van and wear a hardhat and the cops won't bother you either. :)
Even tastier, though, how many PCs in university labs are wasting cycles (or using them on SETI@home or dnet)? Wonder how likely it would be to get a client on those and use it like another big computer?
That link is broken now. Perhaps this one will help?
Okay, so the apes and humans came from the crashed mothership/station. Where the hell did the horses come from?
What the don't realize is that by levelling rural PA (and the surrounding countryside) they're actually doing the rest of the country a favor.
Well the problem is that it effectively ammends the constitution (negating our right to free speech) without having gone through the required process of an amendment.
This week I wrote a letter to Sens. Gramm and Hutchison and Rep. Bentsen. Who did you write to?
I've never even seen the game, and I loved the movie.
Yeah, but new.net is killing themselves. A program I installed (bearshare, a gnutella interface) shoved it around the back, I didn't notice. My DNS queries were ALL screwed up, servers wouldn't resolve at random, it kept giving me DNS errors. Then I tried to uninstall it. Big mistake. TCP became nonfunctional.
I used to work in a first aid products manufacturing plant. Our machines were controlled exclusively by Apple II systems. Our programmer was an odd bat, but he knew the apple II inside and out.
Possibly redundant: Has anyone ever tested the legality of an EULA? Like go into your local Best Buy or CompUSA, bought an OS, come home, run the install to the point of agreeing with an EULA (basically anything to break the shrink-wrap, so the company won't take it back) and tried to return it because they won't agree with the license? Does that leave the seller open to liability if they won't take the opened but unused product in return (even if accompanied by an affadavit stating that it was never installed)?