there are other things. perhaps it will have a better firewall config. or perhaps it will merely have its configs in general tweaked for security: fewer exploits. that kind of thing.
then again, I'm not sure I would ever consider RedHat to be a secure distro. but that's me.:)
OpenBSD's record is for that many years (I can't remember the total number) without a root exploit.
that is, no root exploits, at all, in the default install. local or remote. it's pretty crazy. does make it a popular firewall os though. (though I use FreeBSD for mine. but I respect the hairiness of the OpenBSD folks.)
your university requires you to use M$ Office? hey, that's what OS X is for.:)
if he does that, he's still liable for prosecution. he's broken the encryption. he's proven that he's done it. he's manufactured a device for breaking the encryption. this device could be used to circumvent copy protection.
game over.
odds are, that a criminal prosecution against him would still fail. however, it could be launched, and he might find himself unable to leave the United States on his next visit, at least until the trial.
that's right. the proof requirement is lower in a civil case.
normally, the prosecution in a criminal case needs to show that the accused is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. also normally, the plaintiff in a civil case needs to show that the defendant is liable on the balance of probabilities.
there are exceptions to both. and this only applies to anglo-american common-law countries.
there are other things too. generally, to show criminal liability, the prosecution needs to show a criminal intent. that is, the state of mind of the accused is relevant. usually that's not the case with civil trials.
the criminal intent requirement is probably Dmitry's biggest hope. the prosecution has to show that the accused either know or should have known that the conduct in question was illegal and wrong. his argument against would be, as a Russian citizen, he had no way to keep track of the intellectual property laws of every country in the world. he was just coding for his boss.
unfortunately, his arrest and the publicity surrounding it makes this argument weaker for any programmers in the future, like Ferguson.
also, I'm not convinced it's totally reliable when dealing with firewalls.
for example, I asked it to look at my domain. it correctly identified the server I'm running (PersonalNetFinder/1.0, which is the MacOS 9 personal web server) but when it looked at the operating system, it got the firewall's operating system (FreeBSD). this is because I'm running rinetd on a NAT firewall. port 80 is forwarded to the Mac that works as a little mini-server. (someday I'm going to buy a Real Server(tm) and move my web stuff over there. until then, the Mac works fine.)
the fact of the matter is that PersonalNetFinder/1.0 does not, and will never, run on FreeBSD. it's a MacOS-only server (it doesn't even run on OSX as far as I know). so if it was a little brighter, it would know that.
I wouldn't normally reply to comments which show a relatively low level of literacy ("stull if", random quote marks inserted, capitalization for no reason, lots of shouting, etc.).
However, I feel the need here. Large enterprises don't use CGI+Perl? Hmm. I'm not sure your web is quite the same as mine.:)
Many megacorps have millions of dollars invested in Oracle.
MS SQL is way cheaper than Oracle already. They don't care. They like Oracle's uptime. 'Cause when your accounting database goes down, you can lose very large sums of money very quickly.
Oracle gets to charge its frightening fees for that reason, and that reason alone. Nobody minds that it's uber-expensive (well, not too much anyway) because it's dependable.
What international law is the USA violating? Please tell me, I'll add it to the next letter I send a politician about this.
Extraterritoriality.
There's a common principle in international law that, with very few exceptions, states should only prosecute people as criminals if their illegal behaviour occurred in the jurisdiction of the state prosecuting.
For example, if a brewer visits Saudi Arabia, he or she should not be held criminally liable for assisting in the distribution of liquour in Saudi Arabia. Only if the brewer brought a bottle of the Cap'n should an arrest be made.
However, the United States (like some other countries; say, Turkey) violates this rule all the time. Anytime Cuba is mentioned, for example. So I wouldn't hold your breath.
you can indeed copy the key region using a DVD-RW drive.
how do you think Sony et al. duplicate their own DVDs?:)
the closed library suggestion might have been a solution at one point. of course, now it's not. CSS is totally broken.
the other reason for using DeCSS BTW is to allow you to play DVDs that your player's region code won't let you play. you decrypt the vob, and voila: a playable DVD.
the permanent-disable function presumably would override future installs.
some M$ things install other M$ things automatically. I'm hoping that the permanent disable function would detect other programs trying to install IIS and stop them.
to install said T1s and so on, yes, you had to get approval hoops. but to gain access to them?
no.:)
zitface? that would be high school: the time before tcp/ip. (for me. I'm not an american.)
usenet? yes. lurker? no. hah.
.edu? never, wrong country.:) (and besides - who only had one address? jeez, even legally I usually had about four.:)
FWIW, I only rarely telnetted into VAXen. most of the time I used SET HOST.:)
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you know, t1s and t3s have been around for a while. it's just that in the old days you had to Know Things to get access to them.
now, the idiots have broadband. is this better? I am not sure. I suppose in a way. I now have DSL whereas a few years ago I was running SLiRP on my university's sun box for free 'net access.
Until Adobe does something significant and concrete to make amends for their actions I will continue to hold them in the highest contempt, I will continue to boycott their products, I will continue to encourage my employer and my friends to do the same, and I will continue to speak out about it on public fora such as this one.
that's your right, and you're making a good point.
nevertheless, the point is that the next opportunity Adobe has to make a significant contribution to the case is when their employees go to the stand. You're right that their retraction doesn't mean anything: complaining to the FBI was enough to get the ball rolling, and withdrawing the complaint has had no effect thus far. And I think you're certainly justified in boycotting Adobe for their significant actions so far: they have to take responsibility for what they've done.
still, it's in the hands of the DOJ right now. if you really want to see Sklyarov go free, don't lobby Adobe... now. Wait until trial, or a grand jury hearing. Now is the time to hammer the DOJ.
for the record, Return of the Jedi is episode VI. Empire is V. and A New Hope is IV.
star wars was originally planned as a nine-movie trilogy of trilogies. the first trilogy is what is currently being released. the second trilogy was released first. and the third trilogy, Lucas has said he's not gonna make anymore.
The Supreme Court will deny the application for a hearing, correctly realizing that the best opportunity for a hearing will be after the remedy hearing. hopefully they will take an expedited appeal from the second trial.
it stores, basically, postscript output data. like, we want the letter 'a' at this set of coordinates using this font, and these attributes. it doesn't have the "paragraph" concept, needed for word processing.
I can't imagine how you'd use it for spreadsheets and presentation formats.
anyway, that aside. Apple is currently being helped by MS Office. they've been touting Office for OS X.
Despite the "pro-Microsoft" (or at least "only-familiar-with-Microsoft" or "nobody-every-got-fired-for-buying-MS") management crowd at a lot of companies, I agree that in the (fairly near) future Linux will have a strong presence in the corporate Desktop and a stronger presence in the corporate Server markets.
like all servers are either NT or Linux.
there's a little company I want to tell you about. they were founded 19 years ago. their head office is in Palo Alto, which I'm beginning to think none of you have ever heard of.
they've had some success in penetrating the corporate server market. the numbers I hear are in the 60-70% range.
linux and NT are dwarfed by them.
their servers run Samba and Apache.
this is the threat to Microsoft. machines like this. the megacorps have tons and tons of money sunk into their sun/ibm/etc. servers. they're not giving it up easily.
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there are other things. perhaps it will have a better firewall config. or perhaps it will merely have its configs in general tweaked for security: fewer exploits. that kind of thing.
then again, I'm not sure I would ever consider RedHat to be a secure distro. but that's me. :)
OpenBSD's record is for that many years (I can't remember the total number) without a root exploit.
that is, no root exploits, at all, in the default install. local or remote. it's pretty crazy. does make it a popular firewall os though. (though I use FreeBSD for mine. but I respect the hairiness of the OpenBSD folks.)
your university requires you to use M$ Office? hey, that's what OS X is for. :)
if he does that, he's still liable for prosecution. he's broken the encryption. he's proven that he's done it. he's manufactured a device for breaking the encryption. this device could be used to circumvent copy protection.
game over.
odds are, that a criminal prosecution against him would still fail. however, it could be launched, and he might find himself unable to leave the United States on his next visit, at least until the trial.
that's right. the proof requirement is lower in a civil case.
normally, the prosecution in a criminal case needs to show that the accused is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. also normally, the plaintiff in a civil case needs to show that the defendant is liable on the balance of probabilities.
there are exceptions to both. and this only applies to anglo-american common-law countries.
there are other things too. generally, to show criminal liability, the prosecution needs to show a criminal intent. that is, the state of mind of the accused is relevant. usually that's not the case with civil trials.
the criminal intent requirement is probably Dmitry's biggest hope. the prosecution has to show that the accused either know or should have known that the conduct in question was illegal and wrong. his argument against would be, as a Russian citizen, he had no way to keep track of the intellectual property laws of every country in the world. he was just coding for his boss.
unfortunately, his arrest and the publicity surrounding it makes this argument weaker for any programmers in the future, like Ferguson.
also, I'm not convinced it's totally reliable when dealing with firewalls.
for example, I asked it to look at my domain. it correctly identified the server I'm running (PersonalNetFinder/1.0, which is the MacOS 9 personal web server) but when it looked at the operating system, it got the firewall's operating system (FreeBSD). this is because I'm running rinetd on a NAT firewall. port 80 is forwarded to the Mac that works as a little mini-server. (someday I'm going to buy a Real Server(tm) and move my web stuff over there. until then, the Mac works fine.)
the fact of the matter is that PersonalNetFinder/1.0 does not, and will never, run on FreeBSD. it's a MacOS-only server (it doesn't even run on OSX as far as I know). so if it was a little brighter, it would know that.
The problem with stupid people is that they're stupid. Stupid people aren't competent.
What stupid people who become server admins want is for the server to solve the problems on its own.
Perhaps, eventually, AI research will advance to the point where this is a reasonable expectation. Right now, though, I really don't think so. :)
I wouldn't normally reply to comments which show a relatively low level of literacy ("stull if", random quote marks inserted, capitalization for no reason, lots of shouting, etc.).
However, I feel the need here. Large enterprises don't use CGI+Perl? Hmm. I'm not sure your web is quite the same as mine. :)
Many megacorps have millions of dollars invested in Oracle.
MS SQL is way cheaper than Oracle already. They don't care. They like Oracle's uptime. 'Cause when your accounting database goes down, you can lose very large sums of money very quickly.
Oracle gets to charge its frightening fees for that reason, and that reason alone. Nobody minds that it's uber-expensive (well, not too much anyway) because it's dependable.
Netscape was never dependable. ;)
there are more Win2K server installs than Linux server installs, at least more than the subset of distros that install Apache by default.
more Linux server installs also are done by technically inclined people who don't just click defaults randomly. :)
these two factors tend to support the claim that M$ enabling IIS by default would enhance its marketshare more than Linux distros bundling Apache.
Extraterritoriality.
There's a common principle in international law that, with very few exceptions, states should only prosecute people as criminals if their illegal behaviour occurred in the jurisdiction of the state prosecuting.
For example, if a brewer visits Saudi Arabia, he or she should not be held criminally liable for assisting in the distribution of liquour in Saudi Arabia. Only if the brewer brought a bottle of the Cap'n should an arrest be made.
However, the United States (like some other countries; say, Turkey) violates this rule all the time. Anytime Cuba is mentioned, for example. So I wouldn't hold your breath.
you don't have to have a choice to be a hero. I don't think Stephen Biko had a choice, for example.
I'm not sure Dmitry stands up to Biko's rather high standard. but you never know. the case is yet young.
you can indeed copy the key region using a DVD-RW drive.
how do you think Sony et al. duplicate their own DVDs? :)
the closed library suggestion might have been a solution at one point. of course, now it's not. CSS is totally broken.
the other reason for using DeCSS BTW is to allow you to play DVDs that your player's region code won't let you play. you decrypt the vob, and voila: a playable DVD.
the permanent-disable function presumably would override future installs.
some M$ things install other M$ things automatically. I'm hoping that the permanent disable function would detect other programs trying to install IIS and stop them.
I'm probably too optimistic...
to install said T1s and so on, yes, you had to get approval hoops. but to gain access to them?
no. :)
zitface? that would be high school: the time before tcp/ip. (for me. I'm not an american.)
usenet? yes. lurker? no. hah.
.edu? never, wrong country. :) (and besides - who only had one address? jeez, even legally I usually had about four. :)
FWIW, I only rarely telnetted into VAXen. most of the time I used SET HOST. :)
you know, t1s and t3s have been around for a while. it's just that in the old days you had to Know Things to get access to them.
now, the idiots have broadband. is this better? I am not sure. I suppose in a way. I now have DSL whereas a few years ago I was running SLiRP on my university's sun box for free 'net access.
sell it to me :)
I bought an ATAPI Zip100 drive precisely to stop the endless flow of sneakernet.
it just really sucks having to cart back like six floppies from school just to get the new netscape (and that's with browser download only).
for a few years, splitfile was on every floppy I owned. then I got a zip drive.
floppies suck. zip and cdr are the ways to go.
you can change your network configuration from /stand/sysinstall too.
I don't get to use it because I'm a PPPoE user, though: you have to edit ppp.conf manually for DSL.
that's your right, and you're making a good point.
nevertheless, the point is that the next opportunity Adobe has to make a significant contribution to the case is when their employees go to the stand. You're right that their retraction doesn't mean anything: complaining to the FBI was enough to get the ball rolling, and withdrawing the complaint has had no effect thus far. And I think you're certainly justified in boycotting Adobe for their significant actions so far: they have to take responsibility for what they've done.
still, it's in the hands of the DOJ right now. if you really want to see Sklyarov go free, don't lobby Adobe... now. Wait until trial, or a grand jury hearing. Now is the time to hammer the DOJ.
chewie's not in episode III. at least not yet.
for the record, Return of the Jedi is episode VI. Empire is V. and A New Hope is IV.
star wars was originally planned as a nine-movie trilogy of trilogies. the first trilogy is what is currently being released. the second trilogy was released first. and the third trilogy, Lucas has said he's not gonna make anymore.
in theory, yes, you do. Foobar can get an injunction forbidding you from using it.
patent law's a big stick. it's good that the things only last 20 years, instead of however long Disney wants them to. :)
this is a correct analysis.
The Supreme Court will deny the application for a hearing, correctly realizing that the best opportunity for a hearing will be after the remedy hearing. hopefully they will take an expedited appeal from the second trial.
use this.
PDF sucks as a word-processing file-format.
it stores, basically, postscript output data. like, we want the letter 'a' at this set of coordinates using this font, and these attributes. it doesn't have the "paragraph" concept, needed for word processing.
I can't imagine how you'd use it for spreadsheets and presentation formats.
anyway, that aside. Apple is currently being helped by MS Office. they've been touting Office for OS X.
sun already did StarOffice.
Oracle doesn't care. they're doing just fine.
jesus, people.
like all servers are either NT or Linux.
there's a little company I want to tell you about. they were founded 19 years ago. their head office is in Palo Alto, which I'm beginning to think none of you have ever heard of.
they've had some success in penetrating the corporate server market. the numbers I hear are in the 60-70% range.
linux and NT are dwarfed by them.
their servers run Samba and Apache.
this is the threat to Microsoft. machines like this. the megacorps have tons and tons of money sunk into their sun/ibm/etc. servers. they're not giving it up easily.