is it bad that i liked two of those movies enough to own them? ("baron munchausen" and "hudson hawk")
hell, if i remember right, munchausen even had enough of a cult following to get a criterion collection laserdisc set made for it. although the studio wouldn't let them rerelease it on dvd for some reason. bastards.
because all four companies would have to stop paying at once, otherwise whoever stopped first would be screwed. nobody wants to be the first out of the gate on this one out of fear of retaliation from clear channel. so they had their industry lobbying group start whining that their monopoly is being hurt by another monopoly in a different industry.
ask yourself -- why is the price where it is? record companies, when explaining the price of cd's explain that much of the price of cd's is because of the budget required to promote albums. so why do you have to pay fifteen to twenty dollars for a CD that has no promotion? when you pay $20 for a cd by an actually talented musician, you're paying for the record companies to promote britney spears and n'sync. the drive to make a select few records into "hits" drives the promotions budget skywards.
meanwhile, joe consumer decides he doesn't like britney spears. he decides to shell out $18 for an old david bowie album instead.* this is one less britney spears cd sold, and so the record companies get annoyed that people aren't buying what they're supposed to be brainwashed into liking. and so they increase the promotions budget, and take it out of those david bowies cd's.
* did anybody else notice that three years ago, rykodisc charged, like $8 for bowie's back catalog? then virgin bought it. they cut the bonus tracks and more than doubled the price. there's no way any production costs warrant that kind of abuse of the consumer.
keep in mind that both deep throat and mulder's father appeared posthumously in dream sequences in the third season, and scully's father appeared posthumously in a dream sequence in the second season. there's probably more, but it's been too long since i've watched the show, and i don't remember others. there's also been some occurences of people appearing in flashback sequences after they've died. that's how deep throat got into the fourth season. not to mention shapeshifters taking the forms of dead people. that happened a few times. most notably at the beginning of season 4.
then again, "killing" characters only to have them turn out to still be alive has happend more that its share of times. mulder, krycek and the smoking man have all died and come back a few times.
i have no idea who released it in germany. and sire isn't exactly one of the good ones. not anymore at least. maybe in the late 70's. it's warp and rephlex that deserve our respect.
i sincerely doubt that he even knew about the copy protection before it happened. he releases most of his music through either Warp Records or Rephlex Records both are non-riaa affiliated and have a history of treating their fans/customers well. warp used to license their music out to other labels in other countries. for instance, aphex twin is on sire in the US. now, at least in part due to licensing out acts like aphex twin, autechre, and boards of canade, warp has a us division, and rephlex has us distribution through caroline distribution. aphex twin's latest album, "drukqs" was released in the us on sire, because they were still under contract. (alhtough i thought i heard somewhere that that was the last album under the contract. we'll see who releases aphex albums in the future.)
it's worth noting that sire IS an riaa member. while warp included the windowlicker video in quicktime on the windowlicker single, (actually the windowlicker was released as a 2-parter, and the video was on part 2. but multi-part singles never go over well in the us.) sire used an edited mpeg of the video, crippled by a scheme called HyperCD.
don't blame aphex or warp for the actions of licensees.
i've heard that doom 2099 was good. but given that i was too young to have a job at that point, i had a very limited comics budget. it's only recently that i've been getting back into comics and even then it's mostly slave labor graphics stuff and other comics on the "alternative" rack.
and the bsd box still hosts the site. (know http? telnet 198.63.57.204 80 and try it.) dns just doesn't point to it anymore. this was really switched in a hurry.
we were actually bitten by this over this past summer. i work for the electrical engineering department at the college i attend, and we don't have a whole lot of choice as to where our server room is, or how the air conditioning works. we just got stuck with an interior room in a converted train station. over the summer, we filed complaints with the maintenance people that the whole ac system was screwed. we were getting so much ac in the server room that we had to HEAT it, and none of the other rooms in that area of the building were getting much of anything. after a few weeks of complaining futilely, we come in one morning to find a puddle covering half our floor, and a steady drip coming from the ceiling. (thank god it was over a low point in our painfully uneven floors, or some equipment might have been damaged.) after we told this to maintenence, they finally sent somebody over. it seems there was a backup of some sort of crap in the air ducts that caused everything, including that water, to come out of our vent.
actually, microsoft is obligated to say that due to a contract with sun. i don't think they like having that in the eula, either, but sun wants their asses covered. i can't remember which one, but one of their eulas specifically followed that paragraph with something along this lines of "we were contractualy obligated to make that disclaimer by sun microsystems, inc.
granted, a non-executable stack makes it significantly harder to exploit a buffer vulnerability, but it's not impossible. you can also put your shellcode in environment variables, in the heap, or various other places. if you wanted to follow your line of reasoning to completion, you'd have to have an isolated code segment, marked read-only, and everything else marked non-executable. of course, then we have the issue of how to handle run-time dynamic loading, and programs like vmware--pretty much anything that gets machine code from a source outside of itself and the libraries that are linked in at compile time.
i do agree with the idea of a non-executable stack, though. it's just regarded far too often as a panacea for buffer overflows.
hmmm.... well, i'm not really familiar with mod_bwlimited, but it sounds like a module for limitimg the bandwidth used by certain pages. (correct me if i'm being an idiot.)
assuming i'm right, this really wasn't the place to put virus code. even though it's only a smallish html document, all the hits you can get from a virus would really add up. so you've already limited the spread of the virus. although, i'd bet it's just free web space, and <aphorism>beggars can't be choosers</aphorism>
i'm not sure specifically about xbox, but historically, consoles have frequently been sold at a loss, with the expectation that they can make it back in game production, both in-house, and licensing to other companies who would develop games.
then there's the notion of games that exist to draw people into a platform. for instance, final fantasy x will be big for sony, because all the people who devour the final fantasy series will need to have a ps2 to play it. console companies are willing to do almost anything to get these games released exclusively for their platform, as they want an advantage over their competitors. then, once these consoles and the draw games are in the houses of the consumers, the consumer will theoretically buy more games, since he already has the system.
true, few people use TOC. but there are those of us who still use it.
as for licq... yes, the newer versions of icq use Oscar, but the older ones weren't TOC. They were the ICQ protocol, which was horrible. virtually all the security in the protocol depended on client-side implementation. thus, wich unofficial clients, you can spoof UINs, see people's ip addresses when they have the 'hide ip' option checked, etc. But even with newer versions, we still have the problem of Oscar being a proprietary protocol....But then again, i'm not sure if the original protocol was published or reverse engineered. But at least they never made arbitrary changes in the protocol to stop "unauthorized access."
well, here's yet another reason to be using TOC (as opposed to Oscar, the newer of the two AIM protocols.) TOC is/was an open protocol, and i've had very little problem with it. admittedly, it doesn't have all the "features" that Oscar has, but if all you want is chat, and you don't care a whole lot about file transfers, et al. TOC is more than sufficient. plus, unlike Oscar, AOL doesn't seem to arbitrarily change the protocol. And it seems to be more stable, server-side. I've had countless instances of hearing the dispaired cries of "AIM is down" from throughout my dorm without having a problem. TOC goes down occasionally, but not nearly as much, from my experience.
as for clients, i recommend Gaim for Linux. You can select the TOC protocol in the Account Editor window.
<asbestos>yes, i know there's a million things that Oscar can do that TOC can't. but I don't care. TOC just works better from my experience, especially when clients have to release new versions to work around AOL changing the Oscar protocol slightly in order to screw over MS.</asbestos>
Started in 1999 and you think you're a guru? Slack 1999 is a piece of cake compared with Amiga NetBSD 1995. And I still don't consider myself a guru. Personally I think I have better things to do than spend time calculating monitor frequencies and configuring X by hand. Like you do, because you don't like using the newer easier ways of doing things.
i never said i was a guru. i don't consider myself a guru. i was merely pointing out that a person who attepmpts to do things the "lhard" way isn't necessarily just trying to prove their superiority. there's a lot of us that got fed up with the crap involved in the "easy" way.
WRONG! you picked a wannabe or poser as your expert.
i consider myself to know my way around linux, but i genuinely don't know the easy ways to do things in the newbie-oriented distros. i started using linux in 1999 using an early version of mandrake. i was pissed off that it was trying to do everything for me (and doing it wrong far too often), so i switched to slackware. then i learned to do things on my own, the "hard" way. after about 2 or 3 months of using linux, i pretty much stopped using windows, except for games, which slowly got phased out because i didn't want to reboot just for a game.
i have a perl script which scans for lines that match/Content-(?:Disposition|Type):/ and checks for potentially viral attachments (i.e. windows executables) and redirects them into a separate mail folder. i have another one that appends a configurable extention to windows executables so that users would have to rename them to run them.
honestly, though, i'm not sure what would happen on the windows side of things if you called a virus ".exe". windows doesn't like filenames that start with a period, and i've never seen it used, so i'll let it slide for now.
admittedly, these would use a lot of cpu time if implemented for all users on a mail server, but i find it works beautifully for my account on my workstation.
i saw this comment, and i though, "well, what about plex86? " it was striving to be a free (LGPL) replacement for vmware, and it was mentioned on slashdot a fewtimes, but it looks like the main developer was laid off from MandrakeSoft, and the project is in limbo right now...
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and luke thought his father died when he was very young, too. what's you're bloody point?
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luke's father isn't dead. he wnet to the dark side and became darth vader.
is it bad that i liked two of those movies enough to own them? ("baron munchausen" and "hudson hawk")
hell, if i remember right, munchausen even had enough of a cult following to get a criterion collection laserdisc set made for it. although the studio wouldn't let them rerelease it on dvd for some reason. bastards.
because all four companies would have to stop paying at once, otherwise whoever stopped first would be screwed. nobody wants to be the first out of the gate on this one out of fear of retaliation from clear channel. so they had their industry lobbying group start whining that their monopoly is being hurt by another monopoly in a different industry.
ask yourself -- why is the price where it is? record companies, when explaining the price of cd's explain that much of the price of cd's is because of the budget required to promote albums. so why do you have to pay fifteen to twenty dollars for a CD that has no promotion? when you pay $20 for a cd by an actually talented musician, you're paying for the record companies to promote britney spears and n'sync. the drive to make a select few records into "hits" drives the promotions budget skywards.
meanwhile, joe consumer decides he doesn't like britney spears. he decides to shell out $18 for an old david bowie album instead.* this is one less britney spears cd sold, and so the record companies get annoyed that people aren't buying what they're supposed to be brainwashed into liking. and so they increase the promotions budget, and take it out of those david bowies cd's.
* did anybody else notice that three years ago, rykodisc charged, like $8 for bowie's back catalog? then virgin bought it. they cut the bonus tracks and more than doubled the price. there's no way any production costs warrant that kind of abuse of the consumer.
keep in mind that both deep throat and mulder's father appeared posthumously in dream sequences in the third season, and scully's father appeared posthumously in a dream sequence in the second season. there's probably more, but it's been too long since i've watched the show, and i don't remember others. there's also been some occurences of people appearing in flashback sequences after they've died. that's how deep throat got into the fourth season. not to mention shapeshifters taking the forms of dead people. that happened a few times. most notably at the beginning of season 4.
then again, "killing" characters only to have them turn out to still be alive has happend more that its share of times. mulder, krycek and the smoking man have all died and come back a few times.
i have no idea who released it in germany. and sire isn't exactly one of the good ones. not anymore at least. maybe in the late 70's. it's warp and rephlex that deserve our respect.
i sincerely doubt that he even knew about the copy protection before it happened. he releases most of his music through either Warp Records or Rephlex Records both are non-riaa affiliated and have a history of treating their fans/customers well. warp used to license their music out to other labels in other countries. for instance, aphex twin is on sire in the US. now, at least in part due to licensing out acts like aphex twin, autechre, and boards of canade, warp has a us division, and rephlex has us distribution through caroline distribution. aphex twin's latest album, "drukqs" was released in the us on sire, because they were still under contract. (alhtough i thought i heard somewhere that that was the last album under the contract. we'll see who releases aphex albums in the future.)
it's worth noting that sire IS an riaa member. while warp included the windowlicker video in quicktime on the windowlicker single, (actually the windowlicker was released as a 2-parter, and the video was on part 2. but multi-part singles never go over well in the us.) sire used an edited mpeg of the video, crippled by a scheme called HyperCD.
don't blame aphex or warp for the actions of licensees.
i've heard that doom 2099 was good. but given that i was too young to have a job at that point, i had a very limited comics budget. it's only recently that i've been getting back into comics and even then it's mostly slave labor graphics stuff and other comics on the "alternative" rack.
hell no. i loved spider-man, and i loved some of the 2099 titles (punisher 2099 was great.) but spider-man 2099 sucked hard.
and the bsd box still hosts the site. (know http? telnet 198.63.57.204 80 and try it.) dns just doesn't point to it anymore. this was really switched in a hurry.
we were actually bitten by this over this past summer. i work for the electrical engineering department at the college i attend, and we don't have a whole lot of choice as to where our server room is, or how the air conditioning works. we just got stuck with an interior room in a converted train station. over the summer, we filed complaints with the maintenance people that the whole ac system was screwed. we were getting so much ac in the server room that we had to HEAT it, and none of the other rooms in that area of the building were getting much of anything. after a few weeks of complaining futilely, we come in one morning to find a puddle covering half our floor, and a steady drip coming from the ceiling. (thank god it was over a low point in our painfully uneven floors, or some equipment might have been damaged.) after we told this to maintenence, they finally sent somebody over. it seems there was a backup of some sort of crap in the air ducts that caused everything, including that water, to come out of our vent.
Christ, this sounds like it should be a "free USENET" appendix to Steal This Book.
actually, microsoft is obligated to say that due to a contract with sun. i don't think they like having that in the eula, either, but sun wants their asses covered. i can't remember which one, but one of their eulas specifically followed that paragraph with something along this lines of "we were contractualy obligated to make that disclaimer by sun microsystems, inc.
granted, a non-executable stack makes it significantly harder to exploit a buffer vulnerability, but it's not impossible. you can also put your shellcode in environment variables, in the heap, or various other places. if you wanted to follow your line of reasoning to completion, you'd have to have an isolated code segment, marked read-only, and everything else marked non-executable. of course, then we have the issue of how to handle run-time dynamic loading, and programs like vmware--pretty much anything that gets machine code from a source outside of itself and the libraries that are linked in at compile time.
i do agree with the idea of a non-executable stack, though. it's just regarded far too often as a panacea for buffer overflows.
hmmm.... well, i'm not really familiar with mod_bwlimited, but it sounds like a module for limitimg the bandwidth used by certain pages. (correct me if i'm being an idiot.)
assuming i'm right, this really wasn't the place to put virus code. even though it's only a smallish html document, all the hits you can get from a virus would really add up. so you've already limited the spread of the virus. although, i'd bet it's just free web space, and <aphorism>beggars can't be choosers</aphorism>
neat. now we have holden caulfield's slashdot nick.
i'm not sure specifically about xbox, but historically, consoles have frequently been sold at a loss, with the expectation that they can make it back in game production, both in-house, and licensing to other companies who would develop games.
then there's the notion of games that exist to draw people into a platform. for instance, final fantasy x will be big for sony, because all the people who devour the final fantasy series will need to have a ps2 to play it. console companies are willing to do almost anything to get these games released exclusively for their platform, as they want an advantage over their competitors. then, once these consoles and the draw games are in the houses of the consumers, the consumer will theoretically buy more games, since he already has the system.
true, few people use TOC. but there are those of us who still use it.
as for licq... yes, the newer versions of icq use Oscar, but the older ones weren't TOC. They were the ICQ protocol, which was horrible. virtually all the security in the protocol depended on client-side implementation. thus, wich unofficial clients, you can spoof UINs, see people's ip addresses when they have the 'hide ip' option checked, etc. But even with newer versions, we still have the problem of Oscar being a proprietary protocol. ...But then again, i'm not sure if the original protocol was published or reverse engineered. But at least they never made arbitrary changes in the protocol to stop "unauthorized access."
well, here's yet another reason to be using TOC (as opposed to Oscar, the newer of the two AIM protocols.) TOC is/was an open protocol, and i've had very little problem with it. admittedly, it doesn't have all the "features" that Oscar has, but if all you want is chat, and you don't care a whole lot about file transfers, et al. TOC is more than sufficient. plus, unlike Oscar, AOL doesn't seem to arbitrarily change the protocol. And it seems to be more stable, server-side. I've had countless instances of hearing the dispaired cries of "AIM is down" from throughout my dorm without having a problem. TOC goes down occasionally, but not nearly as much, from my experience.
as for clients, i recommend Gaim for Linux. You can select the TOC protocol in the Account Editor window.
<asbestos>yes, i know there's a million things that Oscar can do that TOC can't. but I don't care. TOC just works better from my experience, especially when clients have to release new versions to work around AOL changing the Oscar protocol slightly in order to screw over MS.</asbestos>
i never said i was a guru. i don't consider myself a guru. i was merely pointing out that a person who attepmpts to do things the "lhard" way isn't necessarily just trying to prove their superiority. there's a lot of us that got fed up with the crap involved in the "easy" way.
i consider myself to know my way around linux, but i genuinely don't know the easy ways to do things in the newbie-oriented distros. i started using linux in 1999 using an early version of mandrake. i was pissed off that it was trying to do everything for me (and doing it wrong far too often), so i switched to slackware. then i learned to do things on my own, the "hard" way. after about 2 or 3 months of using linux, i pretty much stopped using windows, except for games, which slowly got phased out because i didn't want to reboot just for a game.
i find that the best way to block these things is by matching attachments with the following regular expression (pcre syntax):
i have a perl script which scans for lines that match /Content-(?:Disposition|Type):/ and checks for potentially viral attachments (i.e. windows executables) and redirects them into a separate mail folder. i have another one that appends a configurable extention to windows executables so that users would have to rename them to run them.
honestly, though, i'm not sure what would happen on the windows side of things if you called a virus ".exe". windows doesn't like filenames that start with a period, and i've never seen it used, so i'll let it slide for now.
admittedly, these would use a lot of cpu time if implemented for all users on a mail server, but i find it works beautifully for my account on my workstation.
This was done when Al Gore gave a commencement speech at MIT in 1996.
actually, he said he got it at Cheap CDs in a previous post. the sad thing is that i remembered that.
i saw this comment, and i though, "well, what about plex86? " it was striving to be a free (LGPL) replacement for vmware, and it was mentioned on slashdot a few times, but it looks like the main developer was laid off from MandrakeSoft, and the project is in limbo right now...