Viacom owns the VH1 Classic network. They may not hold the copyright to the music video, but they certainly have a claim to video reproductions of their broadcast.
Viacom has threatened YouTube before, and I remember hearing that the Comedy Central clips had gone back up. Here's the previous coverage from Slashdot,
Apparently it wasn't as clear cut as I'd recalled, though, and Viacom never actually gave YouTube permission to put the clips back up, they were simply interested in reaching an agreement ($$$). Apparently the recent threats came about because the talks fell through.
You actually have to file a request to get your stuff back. Otherwise they'll just keep it forever or until they decide to throw it out or sell it.
Interesting, and I'm not surprised in the least that they never bothered to inform me as such. Their search was questionable to begin with, so it's no surprise that they didn't bother to inform me that I had any rights. All I ever wanted was to get my goddamn Pulse pulser back:)
At this juncture, I hope they've discarded it. I'd be even more pissed to think that they sold it to anyone.
What puzzles me is how the bomb squad got to these things before anyone stole them?
By the time anyone noticed them, the media had convinced the populace that they were bombs. I don't envision people flocking to the scene of a "bomb" for a quick pilfering...
The cops searched my place a few years ago (trumped up BS, nothing came of it) and found the little "blinker" circuit board from Pink Floyd's "Pulse" box set. I'd taken it out of the case because it had stopped blinking and the battery needed replaced, and I thought it looked cooler sitting around on the bookshelf. They confiscated it, claiming it resembled bomb-making materials. And that was before 9/11 (but not long after Columbine). I'd hate to think what would have happened if they'd found it today, I'd probably be sitting in a cell somewhere.
I never got the damn thing back, either; to this day I figure the Shelby County Sheriff's Office owes me about $20.
Filter emails with a Message-Id header that contains the string "6c822ecf." Apparently the trojan/zombieware that sends this spew out has that string hardcoded as a part of the Message-Id it generates.
I've been eating Activia for breakfast every morning for probably 6 months, and haven't really noticed that it's doing any good in the gastro department. Maybe if I quit having vodka for dinner...
I wanted to say thanks to all who replied to my question. I'm left with the impression that while a two-step networked upgrade (4.11 to 5.3, 5.3 to 6.x) is apparently possible, a ton of things can go wrong, especially if I don't do the upgrade during the proper phase of the moon:) I think I'll give it one shot on a low-priority machine. If it works, I'll replicate the process and document it for others; if not, perhaps having the colo folks do a fresh install to a new drive is the best course of action.
Thanks again y'all, good to know there's still a nice BSD crowd on/.
He's thinking of Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa county. He has prisoners dress in pink underwear and live in tents on the prison grounds. No, I'm not making this up, Google for "sheriff joe" and you'll get plenty of information on this disgrace to our legal system.
For once I find myself actually rooting for a cop! Next thing you know, Microsoft will be giving away Windows, and Wal-Mart will go bankrupt... Someone pinch me before I wake up.
I run FreeBSD 4.11 on a number of machines, many of which I have no physical access to. Those who keep up with such things will know that 4.11 will be EOL'd for security purposes as of the end of this month (i.e. the RELENG_4_11 branch will no longer have guaranteed security updates). Does anyone have any experience with a remote, networked upgrade from 4.11 to 6.x? I dread that this is going to become necessary sooner rather than later, and I'm curious if anyone can give any pointers on the migration, or if it's even possible without physical access and burned media.
They've already tried it once, and so has the FBI/DOJ, both of them dropping the ball and wasting millions of taxpayer dollars/pounds. A modest team of pros should be able to complete a project like this for far less money and in a reasonable amount of time, it's getting to where I don't think they actually intend to make these systems function, it's just a money pit. Another pork project for the IT consultancies who happen to know the right people.
Why are so many nerds on Slashdot prolific drinkers of alcohol? Don't you know it kills the brain and is bad for your liver? Why would you purposely damage your own body?
Probably the same reason a lot of us smoke, even though we know damn well the effects it has ("sooner or later, everyone stops smoking"). Nerds are not generally known for our impressive social capabilities. Smoking and drinking are both highly social activities, avenues for meeting new people. Drinking, in particular, allows one to shed the stress of whatever's going on at work, lighten up, and become a bit more friendly with strangers. The results are often positive.
Oh, fuck it, I'm just trying to rationalize bad habits. We drink to be merry, and we don't need a reason why. Bottoms up!:)
On the plus side, I don't see anything wrong with eating rabbit meat. Rabbits are well known for their reproductive capabilities, so if it's edible, why not? It beats kimchee...
I just typed in "Javalobby" in the Google search and their link came up on top.
If you know the site exists and what it's called, it's not very likely that you're going to be looking for it on Google. I think the idea is that Javalobby's copious articles had been showing up with good placement on Google, under more "generic" java-related searches (couldn't resist the pun). They were getting a great deal of traffic from these Google results because they'd worked very hard to build an original, content-rich site with information that appealed to surfers... Then, thanks to a spammer, all of that dried up within a matter of days.
I'm not intimating that anyone is entitled to any particular search rank, and I think it's rather irresponsible for the administrators of a large site to completely drop off the grid over the holidays (and, therefore, not notice that someone's posting thousands of spams to your forum). But to say that "Javalobby is at the top of the search results for 'javalobby'" is missing the point.
For those posts calling this a Slashvertisement because they'd never heard of the site before, come on. Just because a site you don't visit shows up here does not an advertisement make. I've been visiting Javalobby.com (and DZone.com, and TheServerSide.com, and Ajaxian.com, and EclipseZone.com) daily for about six months; aside from Sun's own site, reading this handful of sites is a good way to keep on top of Java news and software.
So, you can get this form from the post office that declares that you don't want the junk mail from that one particular source. You also need to bring a sample of the junk mail. My wife found it all on the web, so it's there, but again I'm too lazy to Google for it.
I can highly recommend the Composite Block List (CBL), cbl.abuseat.org. They seem to have an extremely good handle on trojanned zombie/bot machines. I started using the CBL when the massive pump-and-dump stock spam runs started several months ago, and it's been very effective.
As an aside, if you're being flooded with the stock spams, implement a filter to silently drop mails with a message-ID containing "6c822ecf"...
I don't think I've ever hit a limit on single SMTP attachment size unless sending to freebie providers (Hotmail, Yahoo, etc). Although I'll admit that if I want to send a large file to more than one person, I'll usually put it up on a server somewhere and send a link instead of forcing the file upon the recipients; and most of my dealings with emailing insanely large files (sometimes into the gigabyte range) have been in enterprise environments run by competent admins.
I do run into "quota exceeded" from time to time. This happens less and less frequently, though, particularly with even the free services constantly trying to one-up each other. My Gmail account says I've got 2801 megs of storage, which is far more than I'll ever use, but I imagine they'd give it to me if someone sent me that much.
You've got me trying to tease a long-dead part of my brain that wants to remember what the upper boundaries were on AOL back in the day, 1994 or 1995. They implemented quotas in a unique manner. I want to say that your mailbox could hold a maximum of 550 messages, 1100 if you worked for them, regardless of the message size. Their attachment limit was 16 megs, I think; this would have been nearly unheard of at the time with the exception of all the warez traffic.
Anyone out there remember the details more clearly than I do? We're talking 12 years ago, and sometimes I'm fortunate to remember 12 days ago...
I know the poster was looking for funny/interesting anecdotes directly from our community, but for those of you who haven't stumbled across The Daily WTF, hop on over to that site and make it a part of your daily reading. While the focus used to be mostly on programming, it's abstracted itself to the generic IT level in recent months, and you'll see all sorts of bizarre stories there.
The Daily WTF is to IT workers what Jerry Springer is to everyone else. Just when you think you're having a bad day and your life is in the crapper, you can take a few minutes to soak in a situation where somebody else has it much, much worse...:)
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"Apparently Google and YouTube were willing" ... to comply with a subpoena from a US District Court. I think most companies would do the same thing.
A lot of them, lately.
Viacom owns the VH1 Classic network. They may not hold the copyright to the music video, but they certainly have a claim to video reproductions of their broadcast.
Viacom has threatened YouTube before, and I remember hearing that the Comedy Central clips had gone back up. Here's the previous coverage from Slashdot,
YouTube Removes Comedy Central Clips Due to DMCA
YouTube Restores Comedy Central Clips
Apparently it wasn't as clear cut as I'd recalled, though, and Viacom never actually gave YouTube permission to put the clips back up, they were simply interested in reaching an agreement ($$$). Apparently the recent threats came about because the talks fell through.
At this juncture, I hope they've discarded it. I'd be even more pissed to think that they sold it to anyone.
The cops searched my place a few years ago (trumped up BS, nothing came of it) and found the little "blinker" circuit board from Pink Floyd's "Pulse" box set. I'd taken it out of the case because it had stopped blinking and the battery needed replaced, and I thought it looked cooler sitting around on the bookshelf. They confiscated it, claiming it resembled bomb-making materials. And that was before 9/11 (but not long after Columbine). I'd hate to think what would have happened if they'd found it today, I'd probably be sitting in a cell somewhere.
I never got the damn thing back, either; to this day I figure the Shelby County Sheriff's Office owes me about $20.
Filter emails with a Message-Id header that contains the string "6c822ecf." Apparently the trojan/zombieware that sends this spew out has that string hardcoded as a part of the Message-Id it generates.
I've been eating Activia for breakfast every morning for probably 6 months, and haven't really noticed that it's doing any good in the gastro department. Maybe if I quit having vodka for dinner...
I wanted to say thanks to all who replied to my question. I'm left with the impression that while a two-step networked upgrade (4.11 to 5.3, 5.3 to 6.x) is apparently possible, a ton of things can go wrong, especially if I don't do the upgrade during the proper phase of the moon :) I think I'll give it one shot on a low-priority machine. If it works, I'll replicate the process and document it for others; if not, perhaps having the colo folks do a fresh install to a new drive is the best course of action.
/.
Thanks again y'all, good to know there's still a nice BSD crowd on
He's thinking of Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa county. He has prisoners dress in pink underwear and live in tents on the prison grounds. No, I'm not making this up, Google for "sheriff joe" and you'll get plenty of information on this disgrace to our legal system.
This thread is useless without..oops, nevermind! :)
For once I find myself actually rooting for a cop! Next thing you know, Microsoft will be giving away Windows, and Wal-Mart will go bankrupt... Someone pinch me before I wake up.
I run FreeBSD 4.11 on a number of machines, many of which I have no physical access to. Those who keep up with such things will know that 4.11 will be EOL'd for security purposes as of the end of this month (i.e. the RELENG_4_11 branch will no longer have guaranteed security updates). Does anyone have any experience with a remote, networked upgrade from 4.11 to 6.x? I dread that this is going to become necessary sooner rather than later, and I'm curious if anyone can give any pointers on the migration, or if it's even possible without physical access and burned media.
Thanks in advance..!
They've already tried it once, and so has the FBI/DOJ, both of them dropping the ball and wasting millions of taxpayer dollars/pounds. A modest team of pros should be able to complete a project like this for far less money and in a reasonable amount of time, it's getting to where I don't think they actually intend to make these systems function, it's just a money pit. Another pork project for the IT consultancies who happen to know the right people.
Oh, fuck it, I'm just trying to rationalize bad habits. We drink to be merry, and we don't need a reason why. Bottoms up!
Is that you, Harvey? I can't see... :)
On the plus side, I don't see anything wrong with eating rabbit meat. Rabbits are well known for their reproductive capabilities, so if it's edible, why not? It beats kimchee...
I'm not intimating that anyone is entitled to any particular search rank, and I think it's rather irresponsible for the administrators of a large site to completely drop off the grid over the holidays (and, therefore, not notice that someone's posting thousands of spams to your forum). But to say that "Javalobby is at the top of the search results for 'javalobby'" is missing the point.
For those posts calling this a Slashvertisement because they'd never heard of the site before, come on. Just because a site you don't visit shows up here does not an advertisement make. I've been visiting Javalobby.com (and DZone.com, and TheServerSide.com, and Ajaxian.com, and EclipseZone.com) daily for about six months; aside from Sun's own site, reading this handful of sites is a good way to keep on top of Java news and software.
I can highly recommend the Composite Block List (CBL), cbl.abuseat.org. They seem to have an extremely good handle on trojanned zombie/bot machines. I started using the CBL when the massive pump-and-dump stock spam runs started several months ago, and it's been very effective.
...
As an aside, if you're being flooded with the stock spams, implement a filter to silently drop mails with a message-ID containing "6c822ecf"
I don't think I've ever hit a limit on single SMTP attachment size unless sending to freebie providers (Hotmail, Yahoo, etc). Although I'll admit that if I want to send a large file to more than one person, I'll usually put it up on a server somewhere and send a link instead of forcing the file upon the recipients; and most of my dealings with emailing insanely large files (sometimes into the gigabyte range) have been in enterprise environments run by competent admins.
I do run into "quota exceeded" from time to time. This happens less and less frequently, though, particularly with even the free services constantly trying to one-up each other. My Gmail account says I've got 2801 megs of storage, which is far more than I'll ever use, but I imagine they'd give it to me if someone sent me that much.
You've got me trying to tease a long-dead part of my brain that wants to remember what the upper boundaries were on AOL back in the day, 1994 or 1995. They implemented quotas in a unique manner. I want to say that your mailbox could hold a maximum of 550 messages, 1100 if you worked for them, regardless of the message size. Their attachment limit was 16 megs, I think; this would have been nearly unheard of at the time with the exception of all the warez traffic.
Anyone out there remember the details more clearly than I do? We're talking 12 years ago, and sometimes I'm fortunate to remember 12 days ago...
I know the poster was looking for funny/interesting anecdotes directly from our community, but for those of you who haven't stumbled across The Daily WTF, hop on over to that site and make it a part of your daily reading. While the focus used to be mostly on programming, it's abstracted itself to the generic IT level in recent months, and you'll see all sorts of bizarre stories there.
:)
The Daily WTF is to IT workers what Jerry Springer is to everyone else. Just when you think you're having a bad day and your life is in the crapper, you can take a few minutes to soak in a situation where somebody else has it much, much worse...