The funny part is, is that the fed is continually trying to enforce and tweak laws to meet technology problems. Unfortunately the laws were written 100 years or more ago and simply do not port well to technology. The representatives and members simply do not understand. Get involved with your senator or congressman and talk to them. It's actually quite easy. I've never heard of one not being willing to meet with a consituant.
Depends on how your VPN is set up. The article didn't just apply to home users surfing the net. I was refereing to corporate VPN where the firewall using IPSec or FB2 and the like are used and scanned regularly. I should have been more specific. My apologies.
The point was that even with IPSec, 128 encryption, VPN Tunneling etc, you're still fair game. The only real recouse is to lock down as tight as you can and change protocols, and IP's regularly. Wheather it's to keep the feds or the black hats from looking at your data.
I think that interception of information, in the form of telephone wiretaps, digital gathering of private email, etc... should be treated exactly like property
seizure, no matter what the medium.
Struck me as ironic. I'll bet half the slashdot crowd is cheering along shouting "Hell Yeah!", and if you look at the whole Napster mess, there is a strange similarity. Can't have it both ways.
They sell your demographic and pattern information but nothing else. Assuming they scan and sell propriatary information that you send across their networks is silly.
The Echelon crowd may, but the carriers don't. Anything remotely close to this would constitiute a wiretap and the carriers don't need the hassles. Your e-mail to your aisian hooker sweetie is just not worth the huge fines they would get slapped with if they got tagged.
Actually using 128 or for that matter anything over 56 is tough. I do a ton of business in China and other Aisian countries and I cant send 128. The best I can hope for is IPSec tunneled across my vpn, but even that is fair game for anyone who cares to look at it.
Honestly I'd be a little pissed if I was actually sending anything that anyone cared about. The typoes of transactions I do ar not very sexy, mainly code reviews and design documents for some offshore development we do. I suppose if it wer James Bond type stuff or black hatesque I'd care, but as it is now, it really doesn't bother me, if it's done via vable modem, IPS or VPN.
As a cable modem user, after reading through the article a couple of times, I must disagree. Here's why.
Plain and simple, I have a little more peace of mind and a little more security with my connections because I run a firewall. I get randomly port scanned about 10 times a day, pinged hard and a number of other things about once a week. I know this is common with cable modems, as opposed to dial up connections, however I have better security simply because I installed a firewall, not because my provider gives me any additional level of confidence.
I worked for MCI for about ten years and I can tell you Worldcom came in and destroyed the company. They are just selling off part by part, The sprint merger would have been no different.
Aside from all the regulatory reasons, I;m just glad Wolrdcom lost.
Grow up, I doubt from looking at your past posts that you're even onld enough to have a credit card. That greedy oil company provides fuel for the trucks that bring sharmin to your store so you can wipe your ass as well as over 90% of the other goods such as cars, Linux CD's, hardware etc. Lot's of people including me sympathised with Exxon and companies like them I work for the trucking industry and they DO make american commerce work. Try living without them for a couple of weeks. You'd be getting really tired of old Tang and Ramen 3 times a day.
The big bad oil companies as you seem to think of them are the blood which makes commerce flow in 1st word nations, it's not the net, it's not open source, it's not technology, it's the men and women in the trenches that work 7x24 to supply the energy so that you can log into/. with your truck supplied workstaion with your truck supplied software burning electricity that's partially supplied by the oil companies you flame.
Look the net was built for commerce, by people who understand commerce, for the intended use of commerce, the oil companies and energy companies provide the bolld for their network, not yours, you're an invited guest here, mind your manners.
Prior to the ceremony? Must have been, how else could you explain such horrible photography. Guys, come on, you're rich, hire someone other than "drunk uncle elmer" to take the pictures next time.
They already are, and have been for at least the last 25 years. In the NSA and FBI and most other federal facilities, IT and IT like systems are developed and run by 80% contractors, very little of the staff is employed by the fed.
And a related question: our solar system has solid and gaseous planets; is there any fundamental eason that there couldn't be liquid planets, or is that just how it happens to fall in this particular uncharted backwater of the unfashionable end of the western spiralx?
Well, there aren't that many karma elements at the temperatures present in the Slashcode System - the material that formed it would have been mainly simple slasjbots that were either gaseous or solid at those kinds of temperatures. IIRC some of the karma whores have liquid ammonia and methane on their surfaces, but in terms of overal quality these substances remain rare.
Current bid is at 125K. Who would pay 125K for a plastic kit car that more than likely cost less than 20K to make and has no relation to anything officially relating to Speed Racer the cartoon.
Reminds me of the auctions that were selling bottles of air from that little eilian kids neighborhood down in Florida. They were getting bids for upwards of a hundred bucks just for Air that Eilian may have breathed.
I do monitor their activities, and I agree that the tools only go part of the way, and I agree that no law is going to go 100%. I simply think that this is a good thing, because mainly I believe I'm the exception, not the rule. Most wired PC's that kids have access to have zero tools in place, no parental control and this puts the kids at risk. Sorry if you disagree, but I happen to be a good parent with good kids and I want my kids to be safe. The rest of the world suffering? come on. Look, I do police my kids and I took the time to look and read ALL of this bill, did you? Doubt it. I support the bill because i like the values it tries to uphold, it has nothing to do with wether or not I police my kids, which I do. How many kids you got? if you had any that were old enough to be net literate, I doubt if you;d hold the same perspective.
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The funny part is, is that the fed is continually trying to enforce and tweak laws to meet technology problems. Unfortunately the laws were written 100 years or more ago and simply do not port well to technology. The representatives and members simply do not understand. Get involved with your senator or congressman and talk to them. It's actually quite easy. I've never heard of one not being willing to meet with a consituant.
The point was that even with IPSec, 128 encryption, VPN Tunneling etc, you're still fair game. The only real recouse is to lock down as tight as you can and change protocols, and IP's regularly. Wheather it's to keep the feds or the black hats from looking at your data.
However your one statement:
I think that interception of information, in the form of telephone wiretaps, digital gathering of private email, etc... should be treated exactly like property seizure, no matter what the medium.
Struck me as ironic. I'll bet half the slashdot crowd is cheering along shouting "Hell Yeah!", and if you look at the whole Napster mess, there is a strange similarity. Can't have it both ways.
They sell your demographic and pattern information but nothing else. Assuming they scan and sell propriatary information that you send across their networks is silly.
The Echelon crowd may, but the carriers don't. Anything remotely close to this would constitiute a wiretap and the carriers don't need the hassles. Your e-mail to your aisian hooker sweetie is just not worth the huge fines they would get slapped with if they got tagged.
Honestly I'd be a little pissed if I was actually sending anything that anyone cared about. The typoes of transactions I do ar not very sexy, mainly code reviews and design documents for some offshore development we do. I suppose if it wer James Bond type stuff or black hatesque I'd care, but as it is now, it really doesn't bother me, if it's done via vable modem, IPS or VPN.
Plain and simple, I have a little more peace of mind and a little more security with my connections because I run a firewall. I get randomly port scanned about 10 times a day, pinged hard and a number of other things about once a week. I know this is common with cable modems, as opposed to dial up connections, however I have better security simply because I installed a firewall, not because my provider gives me any additional level of confidence.
I think the whole article is just a troll. It simply doesn't add up, from a technical standpoint or a business standpoint. Seems like WHBT, WHL, HAND.
Pluto was a complete waste of time.
Yeah, and wait 18 mos for it to happen. In the mean time all your competitors have crushed you in the speed to market game.
Go fast turn left! NASCAR is clearly the most exciting to watch.
Sphere-web.
Like most everything else they have produced lately, it appears that their executive team went to the kamakazi school of customer relations.
They will never make a server out of this, reminds me of MCA, what a flop.
Aside from all the regulatory reasons, I;m just glad Wolrdcom lost.
The big bad oil companies as you seem to think of them are the blood which makes commerce flow in 1st word nations, it's not the net, it's not open source, it's not technology, it's the men and women in the trenches that work 7x24 to supply the energy so that you can log into /. with your truck supplied workstaion with your truck supplied software burning electricity that's partially supplied by the oil companies you flame.
Look the net was built for commerce, by people who understand commerce, for the intended use of commerce, the oil companies and energy companies provide the bolld for their network, not yours, you're an invited guest here, mind your manners.
Seriously, congrats Jeff.
-ttm
The request is valid.
They already are, and have been for at least the last 25 years. In the NSA and FBI and most other federal facilities, IT and IT like systems are developed and run by 80% contractors, very little of the staff is employed by the fed.
If you can't figure that out, I don't think we'll have much to discuss anyway.
And a related question: our solar system has solid and gaseous planets; is there any fundamental eason that there couldn't be liquid planets, or is that just how it happens to fall in this particular uncharted backwater of the unfashionable end of the western spiralx?
Well, there aren't that many karma elements at the temperatures present in the Slashcode System - the material that formed it would have been mainly simple slasjbots that were either gaseous or solid at those kinds of temperatures. IIRC some of the karma whores have liquid ammonia and methane on their surfaces, but in terms of overal quality these substances remain rare.
Reminds me of the auctions that were selling bottles of air from that little eilian kids neighborhood down in Florida. They were getting bids for upwards of a hundred bucks just for Air that Eilian may have breathed.
Just seems silly.
And what about Sprital and Chim Chim? Are they still hiding in the trunk?
Very eloquent response.
Agreed, but that's what the bill states. In short terms, it is enforcing validation of age, prior to accessing the sites, not denial.
I do monitor their activities, and I agree that the tools only go part of the way, and I agree that no law is going to go 100%. I simply think that this is a good thing, because mainly I believe I'm the exception, not the rule. Most wired PC's that kids have access to have zero tools in place, no parental control and this puts the kids at risk. Sorry if you disagree, but I happen to be a good parent with good kids and I want my kids to be safe. The rest of the world suffering? come on. Look, I do police my kids and I took the time to look and read ALL of this bill, did you? Doubt it. I support the bill because i like the values it tries to uphold, it has nothing to do with wether or not I police my kids, which I do. How many kids you got? if you had any that were old enough to be net literate, I doubt if you;d hold the same perspective.
Heck since it's on topic, I'm looking for about ten BSD gurus and around 5 perl hackers in the DC metro area. If interested drom me a mail.