Why has Debian tied its long-term future to the Hurd's so long before the Hurd is ready for prime time? We all know about the hopes and dreams the GNU project has for its kernel, but why is Debian going along for the ride when the future is so hazy?
...we will not have our liberty or possesions taken away because of [the First Ammendment].
If you organize a "sick-out" and your employer finds out who you are, expect to be fired.
You certainly can have "liberty or possetions" taken away from actions like these, because "sick-outs" constitute a breach of labor laws and/or contracts. You can get the heck sued out of you for doing these things.
Smart publishers [i.e. O'Reilly as of late:] just use host as their "example" server. It is just so damn eligant, plus it "acknowledges" the fact that, in the networked world, hostnames don't have to have the damn dots.
Of course there is about one or two machines that actually use TLDs. I seem to remember a guy with the user@cx domain who posted on/. Everyone he gave his address to freaked out.
The moral of the story? Just use user@host for your fake email. Or better yet, the slicker root@localhost for an evil loopback effect.
Interesting. What is the definition of a carrier? I would have guessed Yahoo is not a carrier, since its servers are merely clients on the net, and is not directly "above me" in the net's "hierarchy". Whereas my ISP is a carrier.
Since it's actually your account, it'd be a felony for Yahoo to reveal the contents of the email, so you're set.
Yahoo can do whatever it wants with your electronic mail; its sitting there on their servers, after all. Only U.S. Postal Service mail is protected with the felony mail tampering law.
What Syberghost recommends, though, is a really good idea. If you start up a Yahoo spam account, you can still retrieve any important info [because sometimes you have to interact with an electronic commerce company with electronic mail (and end up on their list) to complete a transaction].
If you study several languages, you might realize something: it is US English that originated that vile expression "Person X is worth Y," where Y is some amount of money.
Interesting note, but can you show specific evidence that this came from the States and not Britain?
Note: the poster is Canadian, so he may have alterior motives (i.e. sticking up for his Commonwealth Brothers)
The rumours about this have been festering for months now. I was about to say/. is stupid to post this story before the press releases go up on apple.com and nvidia.com, but the reality is that this deal has probably gone through, and Apple is holding off until its next big conference to announce the news.
My cynicism has been overruled both because of ongoing reports about this from Mac OS Rumors and because Heise would be pretty stupid to put its reputation on the line for something like this if it wasn't verifiably true.
The FBI and other LEAs are worried because of the potential of moving the actual servers outside of the US. If the email resides on servers elsewhere, then the US laws don't have much effect.
This is pretty weak because the company's U.S. operations will almost certainly be compartmentalized within the company, and based within the U.S. They wouldn't set their network up so that U.S. consumers have to access Japanese servers for their mail anyway, that would waste a lot of intercontinental bandwidth.
Slashdotters need to remember, U.S. subsidiaries of foreign companies are basically subject to all the same commerce laws that American companies are. This is why the floating of the Microsoft goes to Canada rumour was rather obnoxiously stupid. It could have shielded them a bit, but we still could have thrown a lot of huge fines and restrictions on what they could sell down here.
In fact, I'd say there is an "information implosion" going on right now - there is more data, but information is harder to find, as there is more chaff being added to the wheat of the internet.
You're damn right, and one only needs to load up/. at a -1 comments threshhold (even 0, sometimes +1 works, too) to prove it.
I'm really looking forward to the next set of search engines; current "innovations" such as Google are making progress, but there have been no real leaps and bounds made to turn raw data into information.
/. style moderation might be a good model, despite what my.sig says:]
What's going to happen to US-EU relations when they find out the truth about Echelon?"
Another important question is, what's going to happen when Americans find out what is going on? Less than a year ago, on 60 Minutes, a woman stated that she had heard Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina on a telephone wire tap in an Echelon center (I believe it was in Britain). Any such intrusion is not only in breach of Echelon's internal policy as stated by the NSA (no spying on US citizens) but a severe breach of the Senator's civil rights.
If I recall correctly, the basic point of that story was that American intelligence is using Echelon stations in Britain (and the foreign agents running them) to get around the rule that bans surveillance on U.S. citizens.
After this current round of accusations, the story has been all over the mainstream media outlets.
The answer to the question above is nothing. On the whole, Americans just don't give a damn. In fact, they seem to like the idea of their intelligence looking after them, despite the inherent risks and problems it creates.
I have talked with all my friends, some of them extremely well-informed and intelligent people, and I could barely get an ounce of concern out of them.
Linux Rocks! Linux Rocks! Now can anyone tell me what TUX 1.0 is? I want it!
I agree that Linux is a good thing, but, as far as I know, there is no such thing as TUX 1.0.
Tux the Linux Penguin is a mascot, not a piece of software.
If you are implying that Linux users jump on the bandwagon of everything even remotely Linux or OSS related, regardless of the quality of said item, there are numerous examples where you can be proven wrong.
I use a 56K external serial port modem, and I consitently get 48000 bps connections. Its on a dual boot system. Performance under Linux is kickass, with 5-7 KB/sec downloads from bandwidth-rich software download sites. I still get a kick about going to Freshmeat, finding a killer app, and downloading it with lynx all in the time it would take me to even figure out what I need for the job under Windows.
Under win98, net performance is mediocre but I think we can blame that on the win tcp stack. [If John Carmack says it sucks, that's enough evidence for me:]
That being said, I live in a fifty year old house with fifty year old wiring and fifty year old telephone equipment on the poles in the alley.
If you or your friends are getting poor performance, try another ISP [not aol btw]
Also, stay away from winmodems!!! I paid $90 for this generic hardware modem, but its been well worth it over the last year.
This would have been great... a couple of years ago. Maybe if we push the companies to standardize faster they can get technology like this to consumers sooner in the future.
I'm not complaining about this tho; it could make it much more feasible for me to upload crap to my cable modem friends machines, IFF there are patches avaliable for my generic ZOOM brand 56K modem.
My box can download 7KB/sec from cdrom.com under linux but is lucky to get 4KB/sec under windows...
Violence is against people, destroying a McDonald is destruction, two very different things IMHO.
Actually this is a good point. But by destroying a McDonald's they furthered there cause in no way.
Now center and center-right people view them as leftist radicals. Taking down the building was not only a symbolic, but a Pyrric victory, because McDonald's will get all the lost $$$ back from some french insurance company. All they lost was the three months it takes to make a POS McDonalds shack.
Well, sure lots of evil was done in the name of Judaism and Christianity and Islam, but that doesn't counter the fact that they shaped our world more than *anything*.
The scene on the first day of the trial was hilarious. Jose came into town on this old farm cart, with thousands of hippie supporters like he was Jesus or something.
I saw this story on BBC World. What he did was gather a mob and demolish a McDonald's that was about 3/4 constructed. Hey, you can demonstrate all you want, but when you get violent, you are nothing better than a |33+ script kiddie.
...and then only send encrypted music to the speakers.
Hmm, seems like you can still crack open your speakers, then splice and split the wire after the Digital-->Analog converter, then connect the cable to the input on your circa 2000 audio card (which doesn't know a damn thing about crypto).
Like the guy said above, if you can listen to music, you can copy music. I never really thought of it that way, since we're so used to ripping CDDA to WAVE format, but its so true.
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You certainly can have "liberty or possetions" taken away from actions like these, because "sick-outs" constitute a breach of labor laws and/or contracts. You can get the heck sued out of you for doing these things.
I'm actually suprised that I have this many protections.
Of course there is about one or two machines that actually use TLDs. I seem to remember a guy with the user@cx domain who posted on /. Everyone he gave his address to freaked out.
The moral of the story? Just use user@host for your fake email. Or better yet, the slicker root@localhost for an evil loopback effect.
Interesting. What is the definition of a carrier? I would have guessed Yahoo is not a carrier, since its servers are merely clients on the net, and is not directly "above me" in the net's "hierarchy". Whereas my ISP is a carrier.
I am going to look up the ECPA right now.
We should remember, hope is one thing, but having no realistic means to achieve your hopes ultimately leaves you... hopeless.
The people at issue need good education, so they might be able to build a middle class, the bedrock of any functional society.
There won't be loads of IT jobs opening up in rural Peru anytime soon. A good way for them to use the internet is to learn a discipline.
Heh, I'd bet all the good forts do it
Yahoo can do whatever it wants with your electronic mail; its sitting there on their servers, after all. Only U.S. Postal Service mail is protected with the felony mail tampering law.
What Syberghost recommends, though, is a really good idea. If you start up a Yahoo spam account, you can still retrieve any important info [because sometimes you have to interact with an electronic commerce company with electronic mail (and end up on their list) to complete a transaction].
How many IPs fall into the lowest level "block?"
If I buy a block from NSI or whomever, can I "symbolically link" it to say, a SW Bell DSL line?
Just little things I'm wondering about, I'm not too versed in internet architecture.
Interesting note, but can you show specific evidence that this came from the States and not Britain?
Note: the poster is Canadian, so he may have alterior motives (i.e. sticking up for his Commonwealth Brothers)
[a bit of kidding folks :]
My cynicism has been overruled both because of ongoing reports about this from Mac OS Rumors and because Heise would be pretty stupid to put its reputation on the line for something like this if it wasn't verifiably true.
Slashdotters need to remember, U.S. subsidiaries of foreign companies are basically subject to all the same commerce laws that American companies are. This is why the floating of the Microsoft goes to Canada rumour was rather obnoxiously stupid. It could have shielded them a bit, but we still could have thrown a lot of huge fines and restrictions on what they could sell down here.
You're damn right, and one only needs to load up /. at a -1 comments threshhold (even 0, sometimes +1 works, too) to prove it.
Another important question is, what's going to happen when Americans find out what is going on? Less than a year ago, on 60 Minutes, a woman stated that she had heard Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina on a telephone wire tap in an Echelon center (I believe it was in Britain). Any such intrusion is not only in breach of Echelon's internal policy as stated by the NSA (no spying on US citizens) but a severe breach of the Senator's civil rights.
If I recall correctly, the basic point of that story was that American intelligence is using Echelon stations in Britain (and the foreign agents running them) to get around the rule that bans surveillance on U.S. citizens.
After this current round of accusations, the story has been all over the mainstream media outlets.
The answer to the question above is nothing. On the whole, Americans just don't give a damn. In fact, they seem to like the idea of their intelligence looking after them, despite the inherent risks and problems it creates.
I have talked with all my friends, some of them extremely well-informed and intelligent people, and I could barely get an ounce of concern out of them.
Tux the Linux Penguin is a mascot, not a piece of software.
If you are implying that Linux users jump on the bandwagon of everything even remotely Linux or OSS related, regardless of the quality of said item, there are numerous examples where you can be proven wrong.
Under win98, net performance is mediocre but I think we can blame that on the win tcp stack. [If John Carmack says it sucks, that's enough evidence for me :]
That being said, I live in a fifty year old house with fifty year old wiring and fifty year old telephone equipment on the poles in the alley.
If you or your friends are getting poor performance, try another ISP [not aol btw]
Also, stay away from winmodems!!! I paid $90 for this generic hardware modem, but its been well worth it over the last year.
I'm not complaining about this tho; it could make it much more feasible for me to upload crap to my cable modem friends machines, IFF there are patches avaliable for my generic ZOOM brand 56K modem.
My box can download 7KB/sec from cdrom.com under linux but is lucky to get 4KB/sec under windows...
Corporatism v. Individualism, Internet v. Society, and usually the causes for the conflict are much smaller and pettier than he realizes them to be.
He does occasionally offer insight, though.
Actually this is a good point. But by destroying a McDonald's they furthered there cause in no way.
Now center and center-right people view them as leftist radicals. Taking down the building was not only a symbolic, but a Pyrric victory, because McDonald's will get all the lost $$$ back from some french insurance company. All they lost was the three months it takes to make a POS McDonalds shack.
I saw this story on BBC World. What he did was gather a mob and demolish a McDonald's that was about 3/4 constructed. Hey, you can demonstrate all you want, but when you get violent, you are nothing better than a |33+ script kiddie.
Oh, those French... they really are wacky. [j/k]
It is also the most copied text ever. If you were going to pick one text, what would you pick? O'Reilly's Programming Perl?
Actually, now that I think of it... that's a great choice!
Hmm, seems like you can still crack open your speakers, then splice and split the wire after the Digital-->Analog converter, then connect the cable to the input on your circa 2000 audio card (which doesn't know a damn thing about crypto).
Like the guy said above, if you can listen to music, you can copy music. I never really thought of it that way, since we're so used to ripping CDDA to WAVE format, but its so true.
As shown in the photographs at these sites, Sealand is just a tiny platform high over the open sea. Smallest damn principality I've ever seen...