I saw a post here from someone that said a buck a year would be their threshold to remove ads. I figure that a banner ad at the top would still be alright (I actually even click on them from time to time - 'specially for the thinkgeek stuff), but those huge ads that end up being flash/etc in the centre of the article would have to go.
A buck or two max per year should provide enough additional revenue (say, 10% of the 500,000+ users) to keep the lights on, no? Oh wait, there are VA shareholders now too, aren't there. Guess subscription will be higher than a couple bucks.
As part of the ongoing Internet law enforcement initiative, the FTC has trained more than 700 law enforcement and consumer protection officials from 20 different countries, including 17 federal agencies, 25 state governments and 14 Canadian consumer protection offices in online investigation and law enforcement techniques in locations ranging from Anchorage, Alaska to Paris, France.
Sounds like these are the boys (and girls) in blue to talk to. This is where to find them to file a complaint.
Less than 66% of internet users have not been a victim of online fraud... Per victim, the price of fraud hovers around $600, which is more than most research estimates of average online retail spending.
What this means is that 34% of all internet users have been screwed over (if you believe their report). Show me another industry that has that high a fraud rate - there isn't, why? 'cause the Fed's would come down hard.
Hatch is quoted "current law perversely gives the terrorist privacy rights.... We should not tie the hands of our law enforcement and help hackers and cyber-terrorists to get away"
First off, obviously Hatch doesn't know the differences between a hacker and a cracker.
Then the comment about giving the terrorist privacy rights... unfortunately terrorists are a subset of people... and this legislation is going to hammer PEOPLE's privacy rights - at least in the US.
Sorry to see this happening, and I sure am glad to be a Canadian right now.
There was a post earlier about hardware devices and the inherent restrictions - RightsMarket.com seems to have a pretty decent software only product, that according to their website:
"provides software and services to securely distribute digital content and prevent unauthorized use - even after delivery. Offering solutions for both text and audio in the areas of ePublishing, eLearning , and eHealth, RightsMarket enables organizations to capitalize on the enormous opportunities inherent in distribution over the Net."
Since the device(s) "wasn't supposed to" capture non-passphrase (probably through identifying the unique PGP pop up window) keys, if you for instance typed in the passphrase into an email's To: field then copied and pasted into the PGP window you wouldn't need to have it in plaintext somewhere on your computer or floppy (eck!)
that the FBI was so concerned about not capturing anything but the passphrase for the PGP key? Call me a sceptic but I'd say that the affidavit merely states this to either make it seem like they really know what they are doing, or to appease whatever restrictions the warrant for their entry to the premises and 'bugging' of the computer allowed.
I would seriously doubt that if this 'device' was capable to record every keystroke as they claim, that if they had the opportunity to sift through Scarfo's (outgoing) email/online banking/Adult-Check/etc. they wouldn't.
according to a Washington Post article "In Hollywood, Fla., the FBI last weekend quizzed Paul Dragomir, manager at the Longshore Motel, about a visit in late August from two men he believes were hijackers Atta and Ziad Samir Jarrah, who demanded 24-hour Internet access.
Loaded down with baggage and laptops, the men signed in at the small pink beachfront motel using apparent aliases. They claimed to be computer engineers from Iran, Dragomir said, and said they were down from Canada to find jobs.
They booted up a laptop, showing Dragomir that they had NetZero Internet accounts. For the next few hours, Dragomir unsuccessfully tried to accommodate the men."
Makes one wonder just what or who 'motivated' NetZero to pull the plug on this product.
"Zero-Knowledge is introducing Freedom Privacy & Security Tools 3.0, the next generation of its online security software for consumers. This new software includes a personal firewall, form filler/password manager, ad manager, cookie manager and keyword alert. As a result, we have decided to focus our main development efforts on this product as well as other software solutions providing online security.
As such, I regret to inform you that Freedom Premium Services - Anonymous Web Browsing and Private Encrypted Email - will be discontinued as of October 22nd, 2001. Please refer to the detailed Freedom Network shutdown timetable below"
So basically they are winding down their subscription based business model, leasing nyms (4 minimum as far as I recall) on an annual basis and going with a shrink wrap product.
I'm holding my breath to see what the reviewers have to say about this Tool kit v3.0 - it may provide what most users are looking for.
"Earlier this month, a German group known as the Chaos Computer Club publicly appealed to hackers worldwide not to engage in retaliatory hacking in the wake of the terrorist attacks."
Aren't the Afgan's essentially in the stone age? - at least that's what has been spun in the media to us all.
Yes, FAA Federal Air Marshals who are armed and trained in the use of firearms on board aircraft will be flying anonymously. Federal Air Marshals are FAA civil aviation security specialists who are specially trained for deployment on anti-hijacking missions. The FAA will not reveal the number or identities of the marshals. The DOT is working with the Department of Defense to see if other highly trained agents may be deployed to augment the Federal Air Marshal force.
First off - my previous post had 2 errors, 'Debt of Honour' was Clancey's book, and yes, GWB was not in power last year, my apologies in writing at too fevered a pitch.
Now, my report regarding the escorted landing of two 747's at Whitehorse International Airport:
11:42am A Korean Airlines cargo 747-400 landed using every inch of available runway
11:50am We spotted another inbound jet
11:52am A Korea Airlines passenger 747 landed coming down just 15 feet above the fence....an awesome and scary sight from only 100 feet away. 3 F-18's (hard to say, they were pretty high up) escorted them in and continued to circle Whitehorse's airspace.
Luckily Whitehorse's runway had just been extended to facilitate 747's last year.
Emergency vehicles kept their distance from both planes, the passenger plane having taxied back to the north end of the runway, as far away from the terminal as possible.
A gray truck approached the passenger plane, dispersing ground personnel to chalk the wheels, then fell in behind an officer wielding a long barreled weapon and backed up behind the officer to the truck and departed the scene
A ramp was brought to the aircraft but no one left for about 20 minutes (at 12:36pm) when a single male came down and walked towards the police vehicles (we could hear the occasional word from a police loudspeaker) he made it about half way when he was obviously ordered to lift his shirt up, turn around, lift his pant legs, then he removed the shirt completely, holding it over his head while continuing to walk towards the vehicles. People with binoculars were able to see several FBI jackets amongst the police. There was a lear jet nearby which was probably used to get the FBI here from Alaska (since as far as I know we don't have any resident FBI in Yukon).
At 12:43pm we were ordered away from the area by the RCMP. Apparently for 'our own safety' - we were on crown land, outside the airport's perimeter fence.
There is the possibility that we may be receiving up to 10 planes, but I have no idea where they could park them.
Further information available at:
http://www.canoe.ca/MoneyNews/sept11_yukon-dow.h tm l
http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSWorldTrade0109/11_white -c p.html
http://cbc.ca/
Two 747's forced to land in Whitehorse Yukon
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Our New Pearl Harbor
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First off - my previous post had 2 errors, 'Debt of Honour' was Clancey's book, and yes, GWB was not in power last year, my apologies in writing at too fevered a pitch.
Now, my report regarding the escorted landing of two 747's at Whitehorse International Airport:
11:42am A Korean Airlines cargo 747-400 landed using every inch of available runway
11:50am We spotted another inbound jet
11:52am A Korea Airlines passenger 747 landed coming down just 15 feet above the fence....an awesome and scary sight from only 100 feet away. 3 F-18's (hard to say, they were pretty high up) escorted them in and continued to circle Whitehorse's airspace.
Luckily Whitehorse's runway had just been extended to facilitate 747's last year.
Emergency vehicles kept their distance from both planes, the passenger plane having taxied back to the north end of the runway, as far away from the terminal as possible.
A gray truck approached the passenger plane, dispersing ground personnel to chalk the wheels, then fell in behind an officer wielding a long barreled weapon and backed up behind the officer to the truck and departed the scene
A ramp was brought to the aircraft but no one left for about 20 minutes (at 12:36pm) when a single male came down and walked towards the police vehicles (we could hear the occasional word from a police loudspeaker) he made it about half way when he was obviously ordered to lift his shirt up, turn around, lift his pant legs, then he removed the shirt completely, holding it over his head while continuing to walk towards the vehicles. People with binoculars were able to see several FBI jackets amongst the police. There was a lear jet nearby which was probably used to get the FBI here from Alaska (since as far as I know we don't have any resident FBI in Yukon).
At 12:43pm we were ordered away from the area by the RCMP. Apparently for 'our own safety' - we were on crown land, outside the airport's perimeter fence.
There is the possibility that we may be receiving up to 10 planes, but I have no idea where they could park them.
Further information available at:
http://www.canoe.ca/MoneyNews/sept11_yukon-dow.h tm l
http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSWorldTrade0109/11_white -c p.html
http://cbc.ca/
Have you ever read Tom Clancey's novel, Rising Sun? The similarities are stunning - in that book the President (character Jack Ryan) had the terrorist leader's house bombed (with him in it) with a live video feed to the world as part of the retaliation.
Did you know that President Bush repealed a law last year that outlawed the hunting and execution of terrorist leaders? I will be watching to see what happens.
Condolences to all those whom lost loved ones in this horrible tragedy.
CDN fighter aircraft. This is not a scheduled flight, it is apparently being treated as a possible hijacked aircraft. The airport is evacuated as is everything in it's flight path.
In Diablo 2's expansion, we now have a choice of 7 character types. Since getting one up to a level where you can enjoy the game to it's fullest, with the most difficult monsters and best item drops takes 100 hours or more of play, most players don't have the time to play each character type to this level. Therefore items found along the character's development which are not suited to that character type, and may be excellent, can be made available for others to use.
Personally I am now a member of a guild (Knights of the Sacred) that emphasizes sharing and trading of items amongst guild members. Prior to joining this guild, I had made about $600 from selling items. I have probably purchased $200 worth of items as well.
What I needed I was able to find from those people that didn't need it and vice-versa.
There are just too many items, too many character classes, and too much time required to invest to play each character type to use up the great items one will find getting just one character up to high levels.
I applaud Blizzard in not interfering with player's methods of sharing items.
Looks like all the assets are for
sale, who knows maybe one of the big boyz will snap it up and keep it running with their own people. Sorry to see more job losses in this battered sector.
In order to see just what the ratio of Windows vs. *nix users there are visiting/. This would indicate what (approximately) the costs could be, estimating $125 per winbox and $40 per *nix
Ok, really... who would sign up for internet service from the POST OFFICE!....
"ya - your e-mail should/maybe/possibly arrive in 3-5 business days, but maybe longer... "
no thanks!
There has been a lot of controversy about filtering for certain 'naughty words' and blocking sites that some company has deemed 'inappropriate' (NetNanny et al). Many sites that had useful non-pr0n information (cancer, historical sites ie. WWII and the Nazi's etc) were unfairly being swept into this banned category.
I read an article in the Vancouver Sun about new product which has a rather large database of educational and 'safe' sites and they have a panel adding more sites weekly. It is SafeXplorer.com.
Another annoying thing is when re-aligning the mouse back from the edge of the desk during an intense UT fragfest, somehow the eye translates the movement to looking straight up and spinning in circles so fast it brings one to nausea. Also, I noticed that the eye generates heat and the damn mouse gets all sweaty especially during above noted fragfest... next they'll have active cooling mice, then someone will start tweaking that.... peltier mice anyone?
Nowhere on King's site does it mention that there are ONLY three installments. Merely that the third will arrive online (if... blah blah) in September. From reading the first installment, I cannot see how the story could be wrapped up by then. Twenty installments at a buck apiece? Who knows, the Reader should have some idea of what they are getting themselves into. Also, why take down the first episode when (if) the third arrives? Sounds like that would alienate potential new readers...
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A buck or two max per year should provide enough additional revenue (say, 10% of the 500,000+ users) to keep the lights on, no? Oh wait, there are VA shareholders now too, aren't there. Guess subscription will be higher than a couple bucks.
Damn.
open source UNfriendly?
Kinda looks like that is Cox's interpretation.
As part of the ongoing Internet law enforcement initiative, the FTC has trained more than 700 law enforcement and consumer protection officials from 20 different countries, including 17 federal agencies, 25 state governments and 14 Canadian consumer protection offices in online investigation and law enforcement techniques in locations ranging from Anchorage, Alaska to Paris, France.
Sounds like these are the boys (and girls) in blue to talk to. This is where to find them to file a complaint.
Less than 66% of internet users have not been a victim of online fraud... Per victim, the price of fraud hovers around $600, which is more than most research estimates of average online retail spending.
What this means is that 34% of all internet users have been screwed over (if you believe their report). Show me another industry that has that high a fraud rate - there isn't, why? 'cause the Fed's would come down hard.
This just isn't acceptable.
Living in Whitehorse, I use this site from the University of Alaska Geophysical Institute to see if staying up late will be worth it.
Hatch is quoted "current law perversely gives the terrorist privacy rights.... We should not tie the hands of our law enforcement and help hackers and cyber-terrorists to get away"
First off, obviously Hatch doesn't know the differences between a hacker and a cracker.
Then the comment about giving the terrorist privacy rights... unfortunately terrorists are a subset of people... and this legislation is going to hammer PEOPLE's privacy rights - at least in the US.
Sorry to see this happening, and I sure am glad to be a Canadian right now.
There was a post earlier about hardware devices and the inherent restrictions - RightsMarket.com seems to have a pretty decent software only product, that according to their website:
"provides software and services to securely distribute digital content and prevent unauthorized use - even after delivery. Offering solutions for both text and audio in the areas of ePublishing, eLearning , and eHealth, RightsMarket enables organizations to capitalize on the enormous opportunities inherent in distribution over the Net."
Maybe this is an option that would work?
Since the device(s) "wasn't supposed to" capture non-passphrase (probably through identifying the unique PGP pop up window) keys, if you for instance typed in the passphrase into an email's To: field then copied and pasted into the PGP window you wouldn't need to have it in plaintext somewhere on your computer or floppy (eck!)
that the FBI was so concerned about not capturing anything but the passphrase for the PGP key? Call me a sceptic but I'd say that the affidavit merely states this to either make it seem like they really know what they are doing, or to appease whatever restrictions the warrant for their entry to the premises and 'bugging' of the computer allowed.
I would seriously doubt that if this 'device' was capable to record every keystroke as they claim, that if they had the opportunity to sift through Scarfo's (outgoing) email/online banking/Adult-Check/etc. they wouldn't.
according to a Washington Post article
"In Hollywood, Fla., the FBI last weekend quizzed Paul Dragomir, manager at the Longshore Motel, about a visit in late August from two men he believes were hijackers Atta and Ziad Samir Jarrah, who demanded 24-hour Internet access.
Loaded down with baggage and laptops, the men signed in at the small pink beachfront motel using apparent aliases. They claimed to be computer engineers from Iran, Dragomir said, and said they were down from Canada to find jobs.
They booted up a laptop, showing Dragomir that they had NetZero Internet accounts. For the next few hours, Dragomir unsuccessfully tried to accommodate the men."
Makes one wonder just what or who 'motivated' NetZero to pull the plug on this product.
"Zero-Knowledge is introducing Freedom Privacy & Security Tools 3.0, the next generation of its online security software for consumers. This new software includes a personal firewall, form filler/password manager, ad manager, cookie manager and keyword alert. As a result, we have decided to focus our main development efforts on this product as well as other software solutions providing online security.
As such, I regret to inform you that Freedom Premium Services - Anonymous Web Browsing and Private Encrypted Email - will be discontinued as of October 22nd, 2001. Please refer to the detailed Freedom Network shutdown timetable below"
So basically they are winding down their subscription based business model, leasing nyms (4 minimum as far as I recall) on an annual basis and going with a shrink wrap product.
I'm holding my breath to see what the reviewers have to say about this Tool kit v3.0 - it may provide what most users are looking for.
"Earlier this month, a German group known as the Chaos Computer Club publicly appealed to hackers worldwide not to engage in retaliatory hacking in the wake of the terrorist attacks."
Aren't the Afgan's essentially in the stone age? - at least that's what has been spun in the media to us all.
What potential targets would hackers have?
Will armed officers be put on flights?
Yes, FAA Federal Air Marshals who are armed and trained in the use of firearms on board aircraft will be flying anonymously. Federal Air Marshals are FAA civil aviation security specialists who are specially trained for deployment on anti-hijacking missions. The FAA will not reveal the number or identities of the marshals. The DOT is working with the Department of Defense to see if other highly trained agents may be deployed to augment the Federal Air Marshal force.
As seen on the FAA's website http://www.faa.gov/apa/faq/pr_faq.htm
We have 2 747's (Korean Airlines) sitting on the runway at Whitehorse International Airport in Yukon.
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See my report on their forced landing and authorities' actions:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=21548&thresho
First off - my previous post had 2 errors, 'Debt of Honour' was Clancey's book, and yes, GWB was not in power last year, my apologies in writing at too fevered a pitch.
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e -c p.html
Now, my report regarding the escorted landing of two 747's at Whitehorse International Airport:
11:42am A Korean Airlines cargo 747-400 landed using every inch of available runway
11:50am We spotted another inbound jet
11:52am A Korea Airlines passenger 747 landed coming down just 15 feet above the fence....an awesome and scary sight from only 100 feet away. 3 F-18's (hard to say, they were pretty high up) escorted them in and continued to circle Whitehorse's airspace.
Luckily Whitehorse's runway had just been extended to facilitate 747's last year.
Emergency vehicles kept their distance from both planes, the passenger plane having taxied back to the north end of the runway, as far away from the terminal as possible.
A gray truck approached the passenger plane, dispersing ground personnel to chalk the wheels, then fell in behind an officer wielding a long barreled weapon and backed up behind the officer to the truck and departed the scene
A ramp was brought to the aircraft but no one left for about 20 minutes (at 12:36pm) when a single male came down and walked towards the police vehicles (we could hear the occasional word from a police loudspeaker) he made it about half way when he was obviously ordered to lift his shirt up, turn around, lift his pant legs, then he removed the shirt completely, holding it over his head while continuing to walk towards the vehicles. People with binoculars were able to see several FBI jackets amongst the police. There was a lear jet nearby which was probably used to get the FBI here from Alaska (since as far as I know we don't have any resident FBI in Yukon).
At 12:43pm we were ordered away from the area by the RCMP. Apparently for 'our own safety' - we were on crown land, outside the airport's perimeter fence.
There is the possibility that we may be receiving up to 10 planes, but I have no idea where they could park them.
Further information available at:
http://www.canoe.ca/MoneyNews/sept11_yukon-dow.
http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSWorldTrade0109/11_whit
http://cbc.ca/
First off - my previous post had 2 errors, 'Debt of Honour' was Clancey's book, and yes, GWB was not in power last year, my apologies in writing at too fevered a pitch.
h tm l
e -c p.html
Now, my report regarding the escorted landing of two 747's at Whitehorse International Airport:
11:42am A Korean Airlines cargo 747-400 landed using every inch of available runway
11:50am We spotted another inbound jet
11:52am A Korea Airlines passenger 747 landed coming down just 15 feet above the fence....an awesome and scary sight from only 100 feet away. 3 F-18's (hard to say, they were pretty high up) escorted them in and continued to circle Whitehorse's airspace.
Luckily Whitehorse's runway had just been extended to facilitate 747's last year.
Emergency vehicles kept their distance from both planes, the passenger plane having taxied back to the north end of the runway, as far away from the terminal as possible.
A gray truck approached the passenger plane, dispersing ground personnel to chalk the wheels, then fell in behind an officer wielding a long barreled weapon and backed up behind the officer to the truck and departed the scene
A ramp was brought to the aircraft but no one left for about 20 minutes (at 12:36pm) when a single male came down and walked towards the police vehicles (we could hear the occasional word from a police loudspeaker) he made it about half way when he was obviously ordered to lift his shirt up, turn around, lift his pant legs, then he removed the shirt completely, holding it over his head while continuing to walk towards the vehicles. People with binoculars were able to see several FBI jackets amongst the police. There was a lear jet nearby which was probably used to get the FBI here from Alaska (since as far as I know we don't have any resident FBI in Yukon).
At 12:43pm we were ordered away from the area by the RCMP. Apparently for 'our own safety' - we were on crown land, outside the airport's perimeter fence.
There is the possibility that we may be receiving up to 10 planes, but I have no idea where they could park them.
Further information available at:
http://www.canoe.ca/MoneyNews/sept11_yukon-dow.
http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSWorldTrade0109/11_whit
http://cbc.ca/
Have you ever read Tom Clancey's novel, Rising Sun? The similarities are stunning - in that book the President (character Jack Ryan) had the terrorist leader's house bombed (with him in it) with a live video feed to the world as part of the retaliation.
Did you know that President Bush repealed a law last year that outlawed the hunting and execution of terrorist leaders? I will be watching to see what happens.
Condolences to all those whom lost loved ones in this horrible tragedy.
CDN fighter aircraft. This is not a scheduled flight, it is apparently being treated as a possible hijacked aircraft. The airport is evacuated as is everything in it's flight path.
I will post an update when I have more info..
In Diablo 2's expansion, we now have a choice of 7 character types. Since getting one up to a level where you can enjoy the game to it's fullest, with the most difficult monsters and best item drops takes 100 hours or more of play, most players don't have the time to play each character type to this level. Therefore items found along the character's development which are not suited to that character type, and may be excellent, can be made available for others to use.
Personally I am now a member of a guild (Knights of the Sacred) that emphasizes sharing and trading of items amongst guild members. Prior to joining this guild, I had made about $600 from selling items. I have probably purchased $200 worth of items as well.
What I needed I was able to find from those people that didn't need it and vice-versa.
There are just too many items, too many character classes, and too much time required to invest to play each character type to use up the great items one will find getting just one character up to high levels.
I applaud Blizzard in not interfering with player's methods of sharing items.
Looks like all the assets are for sale, who knows maybe one of the big boyz will snap it up and keep it running with their own people. Sorry to see more job losses in this battered sector.
In order to see just what the ratio of Windows vs. *nix users there are visiting /. This would indicate what (approximately) the costs could be, estimating $125 per winbox and $40 per *nix
Ok, really... who would sign up for internet service from the POST OFFICE!.... "ya - your e-mail should/maybe/possibly arrive in 3-5 business days, but maybe longer... " no thanks!
I read an article in the Vancouver Sun about new product which has a rather large database of educational and 'safe' sites and they have a panel adding more sites weekly. It is SafeXplorer.com.
What does the /. community think of this option?
Another annoying thing is when re-aligning the mouse back from the edge of the desk during an intense UT fragfest, somehow the eye translates the movement to looking straight up and spinning in circles so fast it brings one to nausea. Also, I noticed that the eye generates heat and the damn mouse gets all sweaty especially during above noted fragfest... next they'll have active cooling mice, then someone will start tweaking that.... peltier mice anyone?
Nowhere on King's site does it mention that there are ONLY three installments. Merely that the third will arrive online (if ... blah blah) in September. From reading the first installment, I cannot see how the story could be wrapped up by then. Twenty installments at a buck apiece? Who knows, the Reader should have some idea of what they are getting themselves into. Also, why take down the first episode when (if) the third arrives? Sounds like that would alienate potential new readers...