Why doesn't a white-hat hacker modify Code Red to apply the proper patches to systems it penetrates? (And not attack the White House website, of course.) Kind of like releasing sterile Medflys in an infected area.
Unfortunately, the link to the home is just one of the bottlenecks. I've had a cable modem for a couple of years now, and speeds still suck. It isn't because of the wire to my house, either; downloads from @Home's newsgroups, which are hosted on their own servers, hit 3-4Mbps. For most downloads from non-@Home servers, it's rare if the speed exceeds 300-400 kbps. The servers themselves and paths on the internet at large are going to have to be improved for high-speed access to really meet its full potential.
If the material is resident on machines outside of Australian jurisdiction but controlled (not necessarily owned) by you, are you in "posession" of it? If you simply used telnet to edit, compile, and run it remotely in, say, Nigeria, with the code never touching your local machine have you violated this law?
To be honest, the only thing that really surprised me there was how small a percentage of queries were adult related.
I think with the increasing number of 'normal' people (i.e. non- hormonally-amped, socially challenged geeks) using the web, porn search requests have declined to an insignificant portion of the whole. In the past, when I've checked the 'search voyeurs' that some search sites offer, the "britney spears naked"-type requests were in the majority. I just checked Excite's voyeur and didn't see a single query like that in 150 that I looked at (but what the hell are "porker pipes"? It turned up twice. On second thought, maybe I don't want to know). I don't think that Google is sanitizing things, unless the other search voyeurs are too.
I'm developing software for Special Forces units to use in the field. Presently, it's running under Windows 2000 (their choice, not mine). Can you imagine being in a jungle somewhere, trying to call in for an evac when your laptop suddenly declares that you need to register XP again? Maybe they could get one of the business versions that doesn't require registration, but in their place, I wouldn't risk my life on it.
The server was physically removed by the police, and the disks wiped after 'evidence' was removed. All known backups were destroyed,
A. If everything has been destroyed except the 'evidence,' how is the university going to press its claim that this is their intellectual property? Seems like they'll have a hard time proving that. B. Never, ever host something controversial on a server that belongs to someone else. ISPs, universities, businesses, etc. contain spineless weasels who'll likely succumb to the first pressure. C. Forget about asking questions on SlashDot. Get a lawyer. Fast.
Your argument just reinforces the point. If the government is tracking us, ask yourself, "For whom?" The answer is, of course, the corporate sponsors who have bought off the politicians
I keep forgetting that it's useless to argue with deeply paranoid people. Any evidence presented just confirms their delusion.
So the eeevil corporations want to chip our asses, huh? Well, here's a great example of our kind and benevolent government doing exactly that. Here's the relevant part:
But there's a darker side. Several government agencies are claiming that the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act lets them use this technology to track you legally, without a warrant or even probable cause, in what it deems "emergencies." Do you trust these clowns?
They're talking about a requirement that phone companies be able to geolocate wireless phones, not just to find you when your car has run off the road, but for 'tracking' purposes. Now who's doing the ass-chipping?
He doesn't seem to be as mentally broken as the man he advises.
Until your side gets over its tendency to construct alternate realities, you're going to continue to lose to the man. Even Clinton has warned people not to underestimate Bush, that he's intelligent and wiley. The "he's dumb" ploy has been used against every Republican since Reagan because it makes you feel better. Why don't you just say that you detest conservatives, Bush is one, and therefore he's not entitled to draw breath. It's a lot more honest than this "he couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the sole" schtick.
There's also the need for a steady data stream when writing. Operating systems are meant to run off a hard drive, which doesn't really care how fast the data arrives in the buffer, as long as it gets there.
Some of the new drives like the Plextor 12/10/32A employ 'burn-proof' technology that prevents underrun problems. The drive stops and then starts up again if it runs out of data. I haven't made a coaster since I got mine.
Without thinking about it, I clicked on the link to read the court order and then noticed that it was posted on IndyMedia. Now my door is going to be kicked in by federal agents. Thanks a bunch, SlashDot.
if someone threatents the president from your anonymizer, and you don't keep logs, it's just as though *you* threatened the president from your own machine.
Assuming this to be true (and I've certainly never heard of any law or precedent like this), then I think you'd still be within your rights to have a log destruction policy that deletes them after a short time. This is what lawyers are telling their clients to do with corporate email to avoid having it used against them in court. And by the way, what happens if your logging hard disk crashes and you don't have a backup? Seems like going to jail would be a pretty harsh penalty for incompetence.
Taking this semi-seriously, smart robots capable of performing menial tasks will be along before human cloning becomes possible and acceptable, IMO. I'd rather rely on a robot than a lazy slob like myself anyway.
and most noise, believe it or not, is generated from those cruddy little CPU fans.
Unless you're one of those nuts (ahem) who wants to put the biggest, baddest hard drive available in his computer. Adding my 75Gb DeskStar made my computer go from "is that thing turned on?" to "Hey, something's making a horrible racket in the next room."
A local station (KOGO) is considering simply removing the ads from the streamed web audio as their solution to this. They don't get any additional money for the web listeners, so it's no skin off their nose to remove advertising. Long-term, I hope some more sensible people come up with a realistic system of compensation. 300% extra for web audio is completely beyond the pale with the sizes of the audiences they're getting.
This reminds me of the time a U.S. Navy ship was being refurbished and the workers cut thru a bulkhead to find a completely-outfitted machine shop that had been walled up since it had been built. You'd think that you'd miss one of those, wouldn't you?
It's just a feeling on my part, but XP is shaping up to be a bad idea for Microsoft. The 'your papers please' attitude of having to register it every time you reinstall is going to put off a lot of people, myself included. I'm definitely not going to leap off my Aeron chair and rush to install it. Maybe it isn't going to matter much whether XP supports USB 2.0 if people aren't going to want to use it in the first place.
I agree with the other suggestions offered here (possibly use laptops, turn on all 'green' features, etc.) but add one: turn the computers (and printers, modems, hubs, and everything else) off when not in use for extended periods. My personal criterion is 45 minutes. There are arguments to be made that it might shorten machine life, take too much time to boot, and a host of other reasons, but being here in the midst of the California power crunch I've decided my power bill is going to take precedence over everything else.
I've also thought for a while that putting skylights in certain areas of schools would be a real power saver. Maybe your lab could consider doing that, if it were possible and made sense.
But the same scientists who took away our earth's flatness are now telling us they're running into trouble. They say they can't handle the curvature they invented. Their antennas aren't long enough. They can't even master what they themselves have wrought.
You're absolutely right. Further confirmation of the Curved Earth Conspiracy comes with the news that C.K. Johnson, President of the International Flat Earth Society has died. Even though he was 76, I think it was the CIA. He was getting too close to the truth...
This brings to light a fundamental flaw in filtering. If it relies on correct spelling, it's doomed. I base this observation on the deterioration I'm continuing to see everywhere. When I spotted two misspellings and a punctuation error in the Wall Street Journal the other day, I knew the end was at hand.
A more interesting question is how Slashdot (and others) would be permitted to operate in war. If the U.S. got into a serious conflict where our national survival was at stake, I'm guessing that the pressure to try to control the dissemination of information would be overwhelming. Any web sites that didn't toe the line on disseminating sensitive information would be shut down or forced to expunge content. Even if they were hosted offshore, I'd expect that if they had U.S. citizens running them, those folks would be subject to arrest. Plus, any sites that had content that was counter to U.S. interests, whether run by U.S. citizens or not, would be attacked electronically.
This is the dumbest slashdot in the history of the universe and I'm going to stop reading slashdot for all time. Unsanitary will be my veng... Oh. April 1. Never mind.
Every time I read a story that makes predictions about what life is going to be like in 50 years, much less 'centuries', I think back to some early Heinlein stories. Ole Robert A. was no slouch in the imagination department, but even he had starships producing their computer output on punched cards. I'm not going to give much credence to some newspaper writer who's probably just sore that he couldn't assemble his kid's Big Wheel last Christmas.
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Why doesn't a white-hat hacker modify Code Red to apply the proper patches to systems it penetrates? (And not attack the White House website, of course.) Kind of like releasing sterile Medflys in an infected area.
Airport Security: What's that in your bag?
You: That's a Mine.
Airport Security: You're under arrest.
Unfortunately, the link to the home is just one of the bottlenecks. I've had a cable modem for a couple of years now, and speeds still suck. It isn't because of the wire to my house, either; downloads from @Home's newsgroups, which are hosted on their own servers, hit 3-4Mbps. For most downloads from non-@Home servers, it's rare if the speed exceeds 300-400 kbps. The servers themselves and paths on the internet at large are going to have to be improved for high-speed access to really meet its full potential.
If the material is resident on machines outside of Australian jurisdiction but controlled (not necessarily owned) by you, are you in "posession" of it? If you simply used telnet to edit, compile, and run it remotely in, say, Nigeria, with the code never touching your local machine have you violated this law?
To be honest, the only thing that really surprised me there was how small a percentage of queries were adult related.
I think with the increasing number of 'normal' people (i.e. non- hormonally-amped, socially challenged geeks) using the web, porn search requests have declined to an insignificant portion of the whole. In the past, when I've checked the 'search voyeurs' that some search sites offer, the "britney spears naked"-type requests were in the majority. I just checked Excite's voyeur and didn't see a single query like that in 150 that I looked at (but what the hell are "porker pipes"? It turned up twice. On second thought, maybe I don't want to know). I don't think that Google is sanitizing things, unless the other search voyeurs are too.
I'm developing software for Special Forces units to use in the field. Presently, it's running under Windows 2000 (their choice, not mine). Can you imagine being in a jungle somewhere, trying to call in for an evac when your laptop suddenly declares that you need to register XP again? Maybe they could get one of the business versions that doesn't require registration, but in their place, I wouldn't risk my life on it.
A. If everything has been destroyed except the 'evidence,' how is the university going to press its claim that this is their intellectual property? Seems like they'll have a hard time proving that.
B. Never, ever host something controversial on a server that belongs to someone else. ISPs, universities, businesses, etc. contain spineless weasels who'll likely succumb to the first pressure.
C. Forget about asking questions on SlashDot. Get a lawyer. Fast.
I keep forgetting that it's useless to argue with deeply paranoid people. Any evidence presented just confirms their delusion.
But there's a darker side. Several government agencies are claiming that the 1994 Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act lets them use this technology to track you legally, without a warrant or even probable cause, in what it deems "emergencies." Do you trust these clowns?
They're talking about a requirement that phone companies be able to geolocate wireless phones, not just to find you when your car has run off the road, but for 'tracking' purposes. Now who's doing the ass-chipping?
Until your side gets over its tendency to construct alternate realities, you're going to continue to lose to the man. Even Clinton has warned people not to underestimate Bush, that he's intelligent and wiley. The "he's dumb" ploy has been used against every Republican since Reagan because it makes you feel better. Why don't you just say that you detest conservatives, Bush is one, and therefore he's not entitled to draw breath. It's a lot more honest than this "he couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were on the sole" schtick.
If it does, I've never done anything to enable it. The drive itself supposedly buffers what it needs and simply stops if it runs out.
Some of the new drives like the Plextor 12/10/32A employ 'burn-proof' technology that prevents underrun problems. The drive stops and then starts up again if it runs out of data. I haven't made a coaster since I got mine.
Without thinking about it, I clicked on the link to read the court order and then noticed that it was posted on IndyMedia. Now my door is going to be kicked in by federal agents. Thanks a bunch, SlashDot.
Assuming this to be true (and I've certainly never heard of any law or precedent like this), then I think you'd still be within your rights to have a log destruction policy that deletes them after a short time. This is what lawyers are telling their clients to do with corporate email to avoid having it used against them in court. And by the way, what happens if your logging hard disk crashes and you don't have a backup? Seems like going to jail would be a pretty harsh penalty for incompetence.
Taking this semi-seriously, smart robots capable of performing menial tasks will be along before human cloning becomes possible and acceptable, IMO. I'd rather rely on a robot than a lazy slob like myself anyway.
Unless you're one of those nuts (ahem) who wants to put the biggest, baddest hard drive available in his computer. Adding my 75Gb DeskStar made my computer go from "is that thing turned on?" to "Hey, something's making a horrible racket in the next room."
A local station (KOGO) is considering simply removing the ads from the streamed web audio as their solution to this. They don't get any additional money for the web listeners, so it's no skin off their nose to remove advertising. Long-term, I hope some more sensible people come up with a realistic system of compensation. 300% extra for web audio is completely beyond the pale with the sizes of the audiences they're getting.
This reminds me of the time a U.S. Navy ship was being refurbished and the workers cut thru a bulkhead to find a completely-outfitted machine shop that had been walled up since it had been built. You'd think that you'd miss one of those, wouldn't you?
It's just a feeling on my part, but XP is shaping up to be a bad idea for Microsoft. The 'your papers please' attitude of having to register it every time you reinstall is going to put off a lot of people, myself included. I'm definitely not going to leap off my Aeron chair and rush to install it. Maybe it isn't going to matter much whether XP supports USB 2.0 if people aren't going to want to use it in the first place.
I've also thought for a while that putting skylights in certain areas of schools would be a real power saver. Maybe your lab could consider doing that, if it were possible and made sense.
You're absolutely right. Further confirmation of the Curved Earth Conspiracy comes with the news that C.K. Johnson, President of the International Flat Earth Society has died. Even though he was 76, I think it was the CIA. He was getting too close to the truth ...
This brings to light a fundamental flaw in filtering. If it relies on correct spelling, it's doomed. I base this observation on the deterioration I'm continuing to see everywhere. When I spotted two misspellings and a punctuation error in the Wall Street Journal the other day, I knew the end was at hand.
A more interesting question is how Slashdot (and others) would be permitted to operate in war. If the U.S. got into a serious conflict where our national survival was at stake, I'm guessing that the pressure to try to control the dissemination of information would be overwhelming. Any web sites that didn't toe the line on disseminating sensitive information would be shut down or forced to expunge content. Even if they were hosted offshore, I'd expect that if they had U.S. citizens running them, those folks would be subject to arrest. Plus, any sites that had content that was counter to U.S. interests, whether run by U.S. citizens or not, would be attacked electronically.
This is the dumbest slashdot in the history of the universe and I'm going to stop reading slashdot for all time. Unsanitary will be my veng... Oh. April 1. Never mind.
Every time I read a story that makes predictions about what life is going to be like in 50 years, much less 'centuries', I think back to some early Heinlein stories. Ole Robert A. was no slouch in the imagination department, but even he had starships producing their computer output on punched cards. I'm not going to give much credence to some newspaper writer who's probably just sore that he couldn't assemble his kid's Big Wheel last Christmas.