I thought the DMCA was solely for preventing unauthorized access. Newgroups doesn't fall under unauthorized. Now, I can see pulling the groups due to criminal files, and huge amounts of bandwidth usage.
Furthermore, I personally don't consider it much of news anyways, since most free news servers don't carry ANY alt.binaries.*
The only reason it made it onto \. is because of the four magical letters: DMCA.
Now if this really has something to do with the DMCA, would somebody kindly explain that here.
the day when the headline @ fuckedcomapny is...."Rumor has it that FuckedCompany.com is planning on laying off a large number of employees. At this time, employees could not be reached for comment."
you write a piece of code that infringes on the DMCA and then turn it in for a class assignment. When you get sued, you tell them "Hey, Fuck Off. My school owns the copyright!"
yeah, so you'll get kicked out of school. it'd still be funny:)
The fungi used to be part of a very secret cult. However, around 1998-1999, various corporations and government agencies learned of their addiction to polycarbonate layers, and decided they could turn a profit with them.
People would think that the fungi would have become common around 1997 when America Online began distributing large quantities of cds; however, the fungi had no knowledge of this. It wasn't until 98-99 that, due to the high demand of cdrs, that the RIAA, in partnership with various CD manufacturing companies and the US Customs, began importing these little creatures, and spreading them around the country, hoping to reduce the lifespan of cds, and in essence, make more money.
It's a conspiracy, I tell you, a conspiracy!
Re:and how is the program going to get my DNA?
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no shit...i mentioned that...you might want to read the rest of my post....
You NEVER give out your real name and address, unless you WANT to receive something (as if you ordered something)
By giving out your name and address, you're essentially asking for the name to get distributed around in mailing groups.
For example, I signed up once with BMG with a fake name at my house. Only a few weeks later, that imaginary person supposedly won $10 million dollars from Publisher's Clearing House.
And this was BEFORE the internet became popular.
and how is the program going to get my DNA?
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wondering how a JAva program is going to get my DNA sequence, especially since I don't have a DNA sequence finder setting around in my room?
However, the implications of this are pretty cool....(could be gross violation of privacy too)
once they can get everyone's DNA sequence (not even all of it, since 99% is the same, but just the unique portion), and then convert it to a number, it can serve as a unique encryption key/id whatever...although it could also kill anonymity...
uhm...encryption -does- require more bandwidth in order to be effective.
Any decent encryption uses checksums, repeated bits, and a ton of other info in order to make sure the info being sent is valid, and hence requires more bandwidth. Sometimes, they can use compression to make it smaller, but not by much.
If you don't believe me, take any file, and run a decent encryption algorithm on it, and watch the file size change. It also slows the game down due to additional clock cycles being spent on encrypting the data...
Spector records Screenshots, ALL POP3 and AOL email, ALL chat conversations in AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo! messengers, and additionally logs all keystrokes, along with a few other features. Furthermore, it is virtually undetectable.
Their older version (2.2) was great. But in some time, they'll be releasing v3.0 which is truly kickass (Take this from someone who is beta-testing it now)
Highly recommend for parents. Note: This doesn't block anything, but rather it LOGS everything.
It tries error-checking and fixing on its own. No more warnings when you fail to initialize a variable... VB does it for you!
By default, yes, but you turn on "Require Variable Declaration" or set Option Explicit in Declarations and you will be forced to declare and initialize your own variables. It's actually bad programming practice to let VB declare your own variable, because then they're declared as variants, and are slower and take up more room than native types.
Sounds like someone doesn't know what he's talking about...
people who legally bought region-free dvd players? (as in not hacked, or used a backdoor, but paid upwards of $1000 to get professional quality region-free dvd players. They may be able to be region switched, I'm not sure about that, but if not, they're SOL, and most likely extremely pissed too....
IMO, i believe Google is doing this to prevent somebody from suing them for distributing someone else's information, and making it available in a format it was not originally intended. By posting information on Usenet through, you're relinquishing your claim to that information.
Just playing it safe when anybody will suee anybody for any reason whatsoever....
Why should consumers trust third party software to "do the right thing" in the right locations, especially when installing software you don't have the source to.
Okay, this whole open-source thing is going a little too far. Yes, I appreciate and fully support open-source, but: 1) Not all programs can be open-sourced 2) Having something open-sourced isn't going to verify that it does nothing wrong. I forgot the name of the program, but about a year ago, someone found a huge security leak in a program that had been open-sourced for years.
3) You don't HAVE TO "trust third party software to "do the right thing" in the right locations." You can NOT BUY IT. If you can't trust third-party programs, WRITE YOUR OWN PROGRAM.
So there IS a reason to sniff somebody's Logitech trackball. I got myself I new patent, for a fingerprint like technology using mice. I'll call it Mouseprint.
not really surprising actually....
The RIAA initially went after Napster because it was an easy (and correct imo) win but more importantly it would provide a legal precedent.
Now they're going after companies that do have licenses but who's practices might be a little iffy. If they can win this case, they can go ahead and try to make digital music either illegal or highly protected. They've realized that they're a bit behind on the times regarding creating a new medium, so the only way to get time is file suit...
Logitech keyboards and mice mice work from over a hundred feet away
but seriously speaking. If something is airborne, it CAN be sniffed. If the computer can decipher something which is not directly connected to it, then something else can too.
Sure, you can encrypt the data stream, but encryption isn't full security.
The old adage 'The only safe computer is locked in a room and unplugged from the Internet' proves false.
No it doesn't prove false, you have to use common sense. So you unplugged it from the internet but decided to use a WIRELESS device, especially one that is not built with the intent of being cryptographically secure.
This is purely a stupid post. Releasing data into the airstream obviously makes it more susceptible to sniffers. And it's been known for ages that you can sniff out WIRED keyboards by checking electrmagnetic pulses in the air. Sure it takes very expensive equipment, and you need to be close to the computer, but if that can be done, then why the hell is it surprising that WIRELESS keyboards can be sniffed?
for those of you who haven't read this, read it; it explains some of the things i said in my earlier post...
mentor's last words
by: +++the mentor+++
written january 8, 1986
Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal," "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"...
Damn kids. They're all alike.
But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?
I am a hacker, enter my world...
Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...
Damn underachiever. They're all alike.
I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. quot;No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..."
Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike.
I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me... Or feels threatened by me.. Or thinks I'm a smart ass.. Or doesn't like teaching and think it shouldn't be here...
Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike.
And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetence's is sought... a board is found. "This is it... this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...
Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike...
You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but they are like drops of water in the desert.
This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.
Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.
I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.
...is solely because computer "power users" tend to be outcasts. Outcasts, as not being in the popular crowd, have a lot more time alone, and spend it learning various things.
I wouldn't say it's as much computers than the social position of computer users.
Regarding antisocial behavior, well that stems from the same thing.
Also check: I doubt it's computers that make kids intelligent, but rather intelligent kids that have a need to learn how to fully use a computer.
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I thought the DMCA was solely for preventing unauthorized access. Newgroups doesn't fall under unauthorized. Now, I can see pulling the groups due to criminal files, and huge amounts of bandwidth usage.
Furthermore, I personally don't consider it much of news anyways, since most free news servers don't carry ANY alt.binaries.*
The only reason it made it onto \. is because of the four magical letters: DMCA.
Now if this really has something to do with the DMCA, would somebody kindly explain that here.
Yeah sure, whatever, I'm not trying to make sense. I'm just trying to be funny.
In all actuality, though, he could just sell the domain. Remember when he put it up on eBay, and it got up to a few million?
Please take a little more time to proofread CmdrTaco.
Reasonable expactations, man, reasonable expactations. That's all we ask.
Speaking of which, where's your comma?
the day when the headline @ fuckedcomapny is...."Rumor has it that FuckedCompany.com is planning on laying off a large number of employees. At this time, employees could not be reached for comment."
ummm...I'm pretty sure it was an ICEBERG and not Free Software that sank the Titanic.
actually, now that I think about it, i'm pretty sure there wasn't much in the way of software back then either....
And you guys talk about Slashdot stories not getting researched enough!
goddammit.......you guys are taking this way too seriously....i was just trying to be funny
you write a piece of code that infringes on the DMCA and then turn it in for a class assignment. When you get sued, you tell them "Hey, Fuck Off. My school owns the copyright!"
:)
yeah, so you'll get kicked out of school. it'd still be funny
The fungi used to be part of a very secret cult. However, around 1998-1999, various corporations and government agencies learned of their addiction to polycarbonate layers, and decided they could turn a profit with them.
People would think that the fungi would have become common around 1997 when America Online began distributing large quantities of cds; however, the fungi had no knowledge of this. It wasn't until 98-99 that, due to the high demand of cdrs, that the RIAA, in partnership with various CD manufacturing companies and the US Customs, began importing these little creatures, and spreading them around the country, hoping to reduce the lifespan of cds, and in essence, make more money.
It's a conspiracy, I tell you, a conspiracy!
no shit...i mentioned that...you might want to read the rest of my post....
how often do I have to tell people.
You NEVER give out your real name and address, unless you WANT to receive something (as if you ordered something)
By giving out your name and address, you're essentially asking for the name to get distributed around in mailing groups.
For example, I signed up once with BMG with a fake name at my house. Only a few weeks later, that imaginary person supposedly won $10 million dollars from Publisher's Clearing House.
And this was BEFORE the internet became popular.
wondering how a JAva program is going to get my DNA sequence, especially since I don't have a DNA sequence finder setting around in my room?
However, the implications of this are pretty cool....(could be gross violation of privacy too)
once they can get everyone's DNA sequence (not even all of it, since 99% is the same, but just the unique portion), and then convert it to a number, it can serve as a unique encryption key/id whatever...although it could also kill anonymity...
hmmmm....
uhm...encryption -does- require more bandwidth in order to be effective.
Any decent encryption uses checksums, repeated bits, and a ton of other info in order to make sure the info being sent is valid, and hence requires more bandwidth. Sometimes, they can use compression to make it smaller, but not by much.
If you don't believe me, take any file, and run a decent encryption algorithm on it, and watch the file size change. It also slows the game down due to additional clock cycles being spent on encrypting the data...
Spector records Screenshots, ALL POP3 and AOL email, ALL chat conversations in AIM, ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo! messengers, and additionally logs all keystrokes, along with a few other features. Furthermore, it is virtually undetectable.
Their older version (2.2) was great. But in some time, they'll be releasing v3.0 which is truly kickass (Take this from someone who is beta-testing it now)
Highly recommend for parents. Note: This doesn't block anything, but rather it LOGS everything.
The parent can then decide what's inappropriate.
Philip Morriss patents Method To Decrease Lung Capacity
AOL patents Method to Increase Porn Sales in Family Entertainment
I could go on with Microsoft, Sony, TimeWarner, but I'm too damn tired....
is another very good way to sweeten the pot.
Then again, I think I'm talking about a differenct pot...;)
It tries error-checking and fixing on its own. No more warnings when you fail to initialize a variable... VB does it for you!
By default, yes, but you turn on "Require Variable Declaration" or set Option Explicit in Declarations and you will be forced to declare and initialize your own variables. It's actually bad programming practice to let VB declare your own variable, because then they're declared as variants, and are slower and take up more room than native types.
Sounds like someone doesn't know what he's talking about...
people who legally bought region-free dvd players? (as in not hacked, or used a backdoor, but paid upwards of $1000 to get professional quality region-free dvd players. They may be able to be region switched, I'm not sure about that, but if not, they're SOL, and most likely extremely pissed too....
as it says, man, nothing beats the drugs :)
IMO, i believe Google is doing this to prevent somebody from suing them for distributing someone else's information, and making it available in a format it was not originally intended. By posting information on Usenet through, you're relinquishing your claim to that information.
Just playing it safe when anybody will suee anybody for any reason whatsoever....
Why should consumers trust third party software to "do the right thing" in the right locations, especially when installing software you don't have the source to.
Okay, this whole open-source thing is going a little too far. Yes, I appreciate and fully support open-source, but:
1) Not all programs can be open-sourced
2) Having something open-sourced isn't going to verify that it does nothing wrong. I forgot the name of the program, but about a year ago, someone found a huge security leak in a program that had been open-sourced for years.
3) You don't HAVE TO "trust third party software to "do the right thing" in the right locations." You can NOT BUY IT. If you can't trust third-party programs, WRITE YOUR OWN PROGRAM.
So there IS a reason to sniff somebody's Logitech trackball. I got myself I new patent, for a fingerprint like technology using mice. I'll call it Mouseprint.
not really surprising actually.... The RIAA initially went after Napster because it was an easy (and correct imo) win but more importantly it would provide a legal precedent. Now they're going after companies that do have licenses but who's practices might be a little iffy. If they can win this case, they can go ahead and try to make digital music either illegal or highly protected. They've realized that they're a bit behind on the times regarding creating a new medium, so the only way to get time is file suit...
Logitech keyboards and mice mice work from over a hundred feet away
but seriously speaking. If something is airborne, it CAN be sniffed. If the computer can decipher something which is not directly connected to it, then something else can too.
Sure, you can encrypt the data stream, but encryption isn't full security.
The old adage 'The only safe computer is locked in a room and unplugged from the Internet' proves false.
No it doesn't prove false, you have to use common sense. So you unplugged it from the internet but decided to use a WIRELESS device, especially one that is not built with the intent of being cryptographically secure.
This is purely a stupid post. Releasing data into the airstream obviously makes it more susceptible to sniffers. And it's been known for ages that you can sniff out WIRED keyboards by checking electrmagnetic pulses in the air. Sure it takes very expensive equipment, and you need to be close to the computer, but if that can be done, then why the hell is it surprising that WIRELESS keyboards can be sniffed?
for those of you who haven't read this, read it; it explains some of the things i said in my earlier post...
mentor's last words
by: +++the mentor+++
written january 8, 1986
Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal," "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"...
Damn kids. They're all alike.
But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him?
I am a hacker, enter my world...
Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me...
Damn underachiever. They're all alike.
I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. quot;No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..."
Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike.
I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me... Or feels threatened by me.. Or thinks I'm a smart ass.. Or doesn't like teaching and think it shouldn't be here...
Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike.
And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetence's is sought... a board is found. "This is it... this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...
Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike...
You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but they are like drops of water in the desert.
This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals.
Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for.
I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike.
The Mentor
-EOF-
...is solely because computer "power users" tend to be outcasts. Outcasts, as not being in the popular crowd, have a lot more time alone, and spend it learning various things.
I wouldn't say it's as much computers than the social position of computer users.
Regarding antisocial behavior, well that stems from the same thing.
Also check: I doubt it's computers that make kids intelligent, but rather intelligent kids that have a need to learn how to fully use a computer.