Furthermore, it appears this wasn't simply a response to someone else trying to publish and profit from his address, it sounds like he claimed copyright a mere month after he gave the speech
From (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-pasternack/i-have-a-dream-copyright_b_944784.html):
"Also crucial in the estate’s copyright claims: though King himself claimed copyright of the speech a whole month after he delivered it, his claim was seen as valid because no “tangible” copy of the speech had been distributed before he made his claim. (The ruling was based on previous copyright law, from 1909, not the 1975 law we use today.)"
I'm on call right now, actually. If I have a bad night, that requires me to be awake from 2am to 6am I will send an email saying I'll either be in for half day, working from home, or not at all. My boss will not ask any questions other than requesting a follow up email about the outage when I can.
If I work an over night at the data center that runs past 2am, we're given an automatic comp day. This is all "under the table". The bosses bosses boss has no real idea. Hell, even if he did he probably would have no problem with it. Having a boss who is willing at acknowledge the time you put in and grant you some liberty with that can really make up for the fact you don't get paid extra.
I agree the cost is not nearly as much as one may think.
Having played WoW since day one launch I can understand it often seems like the bills add up over time. But as others have said many other hobbies cost much more. I used to play paintball with my friends for fun. The gun(s) were about $200-$1000 and most people owned two. You would usually buy one new gun per year and sell an old one. On top of this, the better quality the gun, the better quality paint you needed to shoot. You could figure you needed about one full box of paint (2,000 rounds) per paintball session. So at about $50-$75/box, playing every weekend (four times a month) just for paint you're talking $200-$300/month.
Compare that to 6 hours of WoW/day for $15/month...
nProtect GameGuard (sometimes called GG) is an anti-cheating software
Because of the way that GameGuard hooks into core system DLLs and interrupts[6], it is impossible (without hacking GameGuard and violating the TOS) to run games protected by GameGuard under Windows API Emulators, such as Wine under Unix-based operating systems[7]. The key issue being that GameGuard bypasses the OS safeguards in order to:
* Hide the game application process.
* Monitor the entire memory range.
* Terminate specific applications without the user consent (sometimes tries to disable Kernel hooks).
* Block specific calls to DirectX or the Windows API.
Don't try and compare this to Blizzard's Warden, which no longer scans out of game memory, doesn't kill process as it wishes, doesn't actively block API calls, nor does it imbed its self into your OS only to be removed via a reformat and reinstall.
Which would work nicely if TrueCrypt didn't make a point of advertising that it could be used for this sort of thing. All it takes is one person to bother looking that up and then it's "right, what are you really hiding?"
Yeah I continue to wonder what would stop law enforcement from asking for both passwords. If they know the software can do it they wouldn't simply stop at the outer shell.
The article never said it was sold and I know that it wasn't. It was given by Sourceforge to the LF. But hey, this is slashdot and headlines almost always are incorrect:-)
When you all started out, what route did you take to pick up the server setup and maintenance skills you have now?
10 years of messing around with redhat, ubuntu, debian, slackware, gentoo, solaris, openbsd, freebsd and windows. I went project by project. First I learned how to setup an eggdrop. Than IRCD. Moved on to Apache. Eventually learned perl, and combined that into Apache + PHP. I've run a personal colo for 9 years and began working as a part time Jr Admin when I was 17.
Is there anything in particular that you would recommend to someone who has excellent skills with consumer PCs and servers but is a total newbie to corporate and enterprise networking and servers?
Despite my experience, I to had limited experience in enterprise administration as well. That is why I was on a team of 4 Sys Admins and the other 3 are all Seniors who had worked for the company a minimum of 3 years. You sound in over your head to me. I don't blame you, that should have been clear during the interview process. Sounds to me like your boss needs to refine their hiring practice and set you up with a Sr Admin to train you while you get up on your skill set.
I used to work for an unnamed Pro Audio company that was licensed by Sony to push DSD/SACD & A-TRAC products out the door. Sony pays vendors to create products for their technology so that the end consumer will make the assumption that if the vendors are making product, it must be a good technology. I can't say I'm surprised one bit by this move from Sony.
That provision would require universities to filter P2P and to offer legal alternatives.
I was unaware that P2P is illegal. What law am I violating when I download Linux ISO via bittorrent? Or use World of Warcraft's built-in torrent system to download updates to my game?
Having worked in the IT industry for both the College Education system and in Pro Audio (think Warner Bros, Universal, Sony), I can say that I was shocked to learn how utterly helpless gifted, brilliant, and educated people are.
Most professors at the University, whom were honored scholars, prize winners, and very well respected and brilliant individuals had absolutely no ability to operator a computer out side of the bubble thy built. If you tried to deploy a new version of a program, they would immediately go to your Director and start pulling rank. I heard numerous threats from Professors about how some new piece of software has "made [their] job impossible to do and [they] will quit if it's not fixed immediately".
It gets even worse in Pro Audio. Most engineers at major studios are very helpless. Even though they've mastered 100 albums and could produce a Top 10 hit with out even thinking about it.. If you ask them to "Trash their prefs" (on Mac OS), the first thing they ask is, "where's that?". So you say, it's in Macintosh HD (think back to OS9).. Their next question is, "where's that?".
Average people, above average people, and everybody else, will always rely on some kind of IT professional.
Removing the legal exchange won't prevent it. Look at Diablo 2 and the insane rates of SOJs on eBay in the beginning. No matter what, people will scam for money because even if its not worth real money, its still worth something to someone.
Who said automatically? They said they COULD have gone a step further. They could have placed a trojan on the computer, which would then contact the TS computer and allow remote access. They are saying that they DO that when the customer requests it, but it was not requested in this case. By hacking the OS from the login prompt? By standing at the terminal for 20 minutes while they reboot and bypass the OS? By installing software on an unlocked terminal? I still find this whole story fluff.
TraceSecurity could have gone one step further and uploaded its software onto the financial institution's system with the discs. A signal would then be sent to TraceSecurity computers, which could access the system remotely.
So by placing the CD-ROM in a computer, it will automatically hack what ever OS the computer is running and auto install your software? Or are you implying that this company left server consoles logged in as an admin user?
I call major bullshit on this article. There's some real iffy stuff here as pointed out by other/.'ers as well. I get that it's all about social engineering, which is a huge problem. But some of their claims are a little too out there. Like saying they "could" have done this, or "could" have done that. Well you don't know that you really could until you try it. Most of our environments here have NO Internet access. It is entirely firewalled going out. Does your magic CD-ROM also auto-hack their firewalls too?
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"But many tenants are here not so much for the cheap rent — $40 a night — as for the camaraderie and idea-swapping."
$40/night * 30 days (month~) == $1200/month
Well, I guess it is San Francisco.. so maybe that's cheap for them.
It isn't just his family who has turned this into a nightmare, MLK Jr. himself started the whole issue:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/mlk_speech/
Furthermore, it appears this wasn't simply a response to someone else trying to publish and profit from his address, it sounds like he claimed copyright a mere month after he gave the speech
From (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-pasternack/i-have-a-dream-copyright_b_944784.html):
"Also crucial in the estate’s copyright claims: though King himself claimed copyright of the speech a whole month after he delivered it, his claim was seen as valid because no “tangible” copy of the speech had been distributed before he made his claim. (The ruling was based on previous copyright law, from 1909, not the 1975 law we use today.)"
the movie Outbreak.
I realized you can't do private browsing AND normal browsing in two separate windows or tabs... Please tell me I over looked something.
who pioneered use of the first persistent cookie (set to expire in 2038, I believe?)
Um, you can buy one of these? http://j.mp/9o6pCs
I'm on call right now, actually. If I have a bad night, that requires me to be awake from 2am to 6am I will send an email saying I'll either be in for half day, working from home, or not at all. My boss will not ask any questions other than requesting a follow up email about the outage when I can.
If I work an over night at the data center that runs past 2am, we're given an automatic comp day. This is all "under the table". The bosses bosses boss has no real idea. Hell, even if he did he probably would have no problem with it. Having a boss who is willing at acknowledge the time you put in and grant you some liberty with that can really make up for the fact you don't get paid extra.
I agree the cost is not nearly as much as one may think.
Having played WoW since day one launch I can understand it often seems like the bills add up over time. But as others have said many other hobbies cost much more. I used to play paintball with my friends for fun. The gun(s) were about $200-$1000 and most people owned two. You would usually buy one new gun per year and sell an old one. On top of this, the better quality the gun, the better quality paint you needed to shoot. You could figure you needed about one full box of paint (2,000 rounds) per paintball session. So at about $50-$75/box, playing every weekend (four times a month) just for paint you're talking $200-$300/month.
Compare that to 6 hours of WoW/day for $15/month...
Negotiations were followed up by a nice serving of broccoli. Freshly chopped.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameGuard
nProtect GameGuard (sometimes called GG) is an anti-cheating software
Because of the way that GameGuard hooks into core system DLLs and interrupts[6], it is impossible (without hacking GameGuard and violating the TOS) to run games protected by GameGuard under Windows API Emulators, such as Wine under Unix-based operating systems[7]. The key issue being that GameGuard bypasses the OS safeguards in order to:
* Hide the game application process.
* Monitor the entire memory range.
* Terminate specific applications without the user consent (sometimes tries to disable Kernel hooks).
* Block specific calls to DirectX or the Windows API.
Don't try and compare this to Blizzard's Warden, which no longer scans out of game memory, doesn't kill process as it wishes, doesn't actively block API calls, nor does it imbed its self into your OS only to be removed via a reformat and reinstall.
Which would work nicely if TrueCrypt didn't make a point of advertising that it could be used for this sort of thing. All it takes is one person to bother looking that up and then it's "right, what are you really hiding?"
Yeah I continue to wonder what would stop law enforcement from asking for both passwords. If they know the software can do it they wouldn't simply stop at the outer shell.
The article never said it was sold and I know that it wasn't. It was given by Sourceforge to the LF. But hey, this is slashdot and headlines almost always are incorrect :-)
Amazingly I only learned this a couple years ago having already been using Linux/Solaris for 9 years:
# touch "filename"
# ls -l !$
ls -l "filename"
-rw-r--r-- 1 user group 0 2008-11-05 15:50 "filename"
#
I honestly don't know where in bash this is controlled (or even what it's called). Does anyone know a list of other similar bash syntax?
If only they made software and hardware to do this for you..
One word for you:
hack-n-slash
When you all started out, what route did you take to pick up the server setup and maintenance skills you have now?
10 years of messing around with redhat, ubuntu, debian, slackware, gentoo, solaris, openbsd, freebsd and windows. I went project by project. First I learned how to setup an eggdrop. Than IRCD. Moved on to Apache. Eventually learned perl, and combined that into Apache + PHP. I've run a personal colo for 9 years and began working as a part time Jr Admin when I was 17.
Is there anything in particular that you would recommend to someone who has excellent skills with consumer PCs and servers but is a total newbie to corporate and enterprise networking and servers?
Despite my experience, I to had limited experience in enterprise administration as well. That is why I was on a team of 4 Sys Admins and the other 3 are all Seniors who had worked for the company a minimum of 3 years. You sound in over your head to me. I don't blame you, that should have been clear during the interview process. Sounds to me like your boss needs to refine their hiring practice and set you up with a Sr Admin to train you while you get up on your skill set.
Because Winrar can and most commonly is used to package Pirated Software. Does AT&T consider the use of Winrar to be grounds for termination as well?
I used to work for an unnamed Pro Audio company that was licensed by Sony to push DSD/SACD & A-TRAC products out the door. Sony pays vendors to create products for their technology so that the end consumer will make the assumption that if the vendors are making product, it must be a good technology. I can't say I'm surprised one bit by this move from Sony.
I was unaware that P2P is illegal. What law am I violating when I download Linux ISO via bittorrent? Or use World of Warcraft's built-in torrent system to download updates to my game?
Having worked in the IT industry for both the College Education system and in Pro Audio (think Warner Bros, Universal, Sony), I can say that I was shocked to learn how utterly helpless gifted, brilliant, and educated people are.
Most professors at the University, whom were honored scholars, prize winners, and very well respected and brilliant individuals had absolutely no ability to operator a computer out side of the bubble thy built. If you tried to deploy a new version of a program, they would immediately go to your Director and start pulling rank. I heard numerous threats from Professors about how some new piece of software has "made [their] job impossible to do and [they] will quit if it's not fixed immediately".
It gets even worse in Pro Audio. Most engineers at major studios are very helpless. Even though they've mastered 100 albums and could produce a Top 10 hit with out even thinking about it.. If you ask them to "Trash their prefs" (on Mac OS), the first thing they ask is, "where's that?". So you say, it's in Macintosh HD (think back to OS9).. Their next question is, "where's that?".
Average people, above average people, and everybody else, will always rely on some kind of IT professional.
Removing the legal exchange won't prevent it. Look at Diablo 2 and the insane rates of SOJs on eBay in the beginning. No matter what, people will scam for money because even if its not worth real money, its still worth something to someone.
As soon as they figure that one out, they can patent it and start selling the technology to Microsoft to use for their customers.
I'd feel a lot better if I could get SELinux to work on Linux..
So by placing the CD-ROM in a computer, it will automatically hack what ever OS the computer is running and auto install your software? Or are you implying that this company left server consoles logged in as an admin user?
I call major bullshit on this article. There's some real iffy stuff here as pointed out by other