There's more! Under this bill it would also be a crime to use false information when registering a domain name. The punishment is up to five years in prison. Of course, there are no prohibitions against using that now guarenteed-to-be-accurate information for marketing purposes. Sigh.
If they're testing the system with military voters, than using Windows is probably the only choice. There are a lot of bases where the desktop platform, by directive, is Windows. Running alternative software can be a violation of policy and mean Real Trouble(tm) for military members. They're not going to court martial anybody, but it can be a black eye on your record.
We all laughed (or cried, depending) upon reading about the Navy vessel that had to be towed back to port when its WindowsNT command system failed. All of the articles mention that parts for this ship were delayed so that they could have the latest and greatest control technology. What is it? Does this thing run XP Service Pack 1? Linux? Something else?
That won't work either then. The CIA is chartered for foreign intelligence only. (See the CIA Mission Statement for more.) If the CIA handles anything domestic, they get in trouble with Congress big time.
Misuse of police authority is not taken lightly. Some violations, such as illegal wiretapping (e.g. phone monitoring, sniffing networks, etc) can carry civil penalities for the law enforcement officer personally. (See 18 USC 2520 for more details. Civil penalities of up to $10,000 per offense.)
I'm not sure about the specifics of gathering information like credit card data, but I suspect that I would get at least fired and probably hit with a civil suit.
I think we're looking too deeply into this concept. The Western Digital definition for MTBF says, the MTBF "is calculated by dividing the total number of operating hours observed by the total number of failures. Also, the length of time a user may reasonably expect a device or system to work before an incapacitating fault occurs."
This means that they hook a whole bunch of drives up and run then for a while. Add the total hours of drive operation up and divide by the number of failures. They're estimate of 500,000 hours could correspond to the following experiment:
Connect 100 drives and run them, 24/7, for 200 days. This yields 100 * 24 * 20 about 500,000 drive hours. If there was only one drive failure in that time, then you could say that the MTBF is 500,000 hours. Granted, that's not 500,000 hours for ONE drive, but it's spread across all drive hours completed.
It means that all of the code that I write is public domain and has no copyright, but the BSD code has to be labled as being copyrighted and the BSD license included.
We're not really sure. Our lawyers haven't been able to give me a good answer on that question. On the other hand, we have to be very careful when we borrow code from other projects.
For example, right now I'm working on a project that makes use of some BSD-licensed code. Although the derivative work, as a whole, is not eligible for copyright protection, those parts of the code that are BSD-licensed have to be singled out and mentioned. It's annoying, but the worth the effort of not having to reimplement basic functions.
First, remember that I have a government job and pretty much can't get fired. [wink]
Secondly, as somebody else noted, there is no default scripting ability in Windows. md5deep was originally developed a module for a Windows incident response tool called the First Responder's Evidence Disk (FRED). We have just obtained permission to make FRED public and will be releasing it soon. The linux/*BSD/OS X versions of md5deep were all ports written by people outside of the USG.
Ironically enough, however, it was easier to write, compile, debug, and test md5deep under Linux than Windows.
Not always. As an employee of the US Government, my work is not eligible for copyright protection in accordance with 17 USC 105.
Thus, the programs I've written and been allowed to distribute are available as public domain. You can check out my programs for computer forensics and system administration, foremost, and md5deep, on Sourceforge.
And ditto for some class A networks. I know that MIT does a LOT of computer research, but do they really need an entire class A? Did you know that each fraternity at MIT has their own class B? Really! For an example, try looking the hostnames for the routers in some of the frat houses. $ host 18.[231-238].0.1
During the conference call SCO claimed that they own the intellectual property of UNIX. "When you think of UNIX you're thinking of the core code base that we own." Really.
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There's more! Under this bill it would also be a crime to use false information when registering a domain name. The punishment is up to five years in prison. Of course, there are no prohibitions against using that now guarenteed-to-be-accurate information for marketing purposes. Sigh.
To paraphrase, I wish I had a daughter so I could forbid her to marry you.
If they're testing the system with military voters, than using Windows is probably the only choice. There are a lot of bases where the desktop platform, by directive, is Windows. Running alternative software can be a violation of policy and mean Real Trouble(tm) for military members. They're not going to court martial anybody, but it can be a black eye on your record.
Much more information is available at the GridWars II official site.
We all laughed (or cried, depending) upon reading about the Navy vessel that had to be towed back to port when its WindowsNT command system failed. All of the articles mention that parts for this ship were delayed so that they could have the latest and greatest control technology. What is it? Does this thing run XP Service Pack 1? Linux? Something else?
Somebody sooner or later will come up with that. "My son's avatar was violently killed online!! I'll sue!!"
I'm picturing a cross of The Sims and Happy Tree Friends.
Which creates an interesting problem when buying a tin-foil hat, I suppose.
That won't work either then. The CIA is chartered for foreign intelligence only. (See the CIA Mission Statement for more.) If the CIA handles anything domestic, they get in trouble with Congress big time.
No, because I would get in serious trouble.
Misuse of police authority is not taken lightly. Some violations, such as illegal wiretapping (e.g. phone monitoring, sniffing networks, etc) can carry civil penalities for the law enforcement officer personally. (See 18 USC 2520 for more details. Civil penalities of up to $10,000 per offense.)
I'm not sure about the specifics of gathering information like credit card data, but I suspect that I would get at least fired and probably hit with a civil suit.
Just not worth it for me, sorry.
Yes, because they (hopefully) will be feeding AOL with a new browser to wean users away from IE.
That being said, however, what advantages does the Netscape version of Mozilla have?
Another Microsoft patch? It must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays...
Hi, I'm Clippy! I seem to be unable to comply! Would you like to use the Photon Torpedos wizard to plot a firing solution?
A dentist? Like in Cryptonomicon? Uh oh...
I think we're looking too deeply into this concept. The Western Digital definition for MTBF says, the MTBF "is calculated by dividing the total number of operating hours observed by the total number of failures. Also, the length of time a user may reasonably expect a device or system to work before an incapacitating fault occurs."
This means that they hook a whole bunch of drives up and run then for a while. Add the total hours of drive operation up and divide by the number of failures. They're estimate of 500,000 hours could correspond to the following experiment:
Connect 100 drives and run them, 24/7, for 200 days. This yields 100 * 24 * 20 about 500,000 drive hours. If there was only one drive failure in that time, then you could say that the MTBF is 500,000 hours. Granted, that's not 500,000 hours for ONE drive, but it's spread across all drive hours completed.
I just thought that Boeing was numbering planes in Hex: 727, 737, 757, 767, 777, 7e7, and so on.
They are still out there, thanks to Skylarov's old company. Elcomsoft makes an Advanced Zip Password Recovery tool.
It means that all of the code that I write is public domain and has no copyright, but the BSD code has to be labled as being copyrighted and the BSD license included.
Nice sig, btw.
We're not really sure. Our lawyers haven't been able to give me a good answer on that question. On the other hand, we have to be very careful when we borrow code from other projects.
For example, right now I'm working on a project that makes use of some BSD-licensed code. Although the derivative work, as a whole, is not eligible for copyright protection, those parts of the code that are BSD-licensed have to be singled out and mentioned. It's annoying, but the worth the effort of not having to reimplement basic functions.
First, remember that I have a government job and pretty much can't get fired. [wink]
Secondly, as somebody else noted, there is no default scripting ability in Windows. md5deep was originally developed a module for a Windows incident response tool called the First Responder's Evidence Disk (FRED). We have just obtained permission to make FRED public and will be releasing it soon. The linux/*BSD/OS X versions of md5deep were all ports written by people outside of the USG.
Ironically enough, however, it was easier to write, compile, debug, and test md5deep under Linux than Windows.
Not always. As an employee of the US Government, my work is not eligible for copyright protection in accordance with 17 USC 105.
Thus, the programs I've written and been allowed to distribute are available as public domain. You can check out my programs for computer forensics and system administration, foremost, and md5deep, on Sourceforge.
But they said I could listen to the radio at a reasonable volume...
And ditto for some class A networks. I know that MIT does a LOT of computer research, but do they really need an entire class A? Did you know that each fraternity at MIT has their own class B? Really! For an example, try looking the hostnames for the routers in some of the frat houses.
$ host 18.[231-238].0.1
It means that all of your IP addresses are belong to us. Wait a second--
During the conference call SCO claimed that they own the intellectual property of UNIX. "When you think of UNIX you're thinking of the core code base that we own." Really.
You have performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.