I'm surprised no one has mentioned the site www.peacefire.org It covers many web censorship issues throughout the world(think NetNanny and The great Firewall of China).
Interestingly enough, one of the first things seen on the site, is a method to circumvent all these filter programs, and firewalls. This attempt to block sites by BT, is pointless. If pedophiles want to look at kiddie porn, they can just set up a proxy in a different country. These people already goto great lengths to look at the sites, and this isn't going to stop them.
As others have pointed out, it's only a matter of time before people start advocating that other sites be banned, and eventually, these other sites will be. Unfortunately, the choice of what shoudl be blocked and what shouldn't be is ultimately subjective. I have no issues with BT blocking kiddie porn because it's pretty disgusting. But what's the point? So everyone can feel better about themselves, cause we're stopping children from being exploited? That's laughable. This is a short-sighted, and fairly ineffective solution to a serious problem. The kids will still have been exploited; just that we won't see it. See no evil, Speak no evil.
Meanwhile, it may also lead to other sites being blocked that certain people find offensive. In America there are alot of sites I could see being blocked, just cause people don't agree with them. Besides breast-cancer sites(which have already been blocked), gun sites have been blocked. I don't like guns, but I do like free speech. What if ISP's started blocking marijuana cultivation sites, or sites that gave tutorials for hacking your tivo or xbox? All these actions are technically illegal to perform, but the info is still covered under free speech. It's a subjective choice, that I don't trust anyone to make.
What a crappy writer. His language is ambiguous and confusing. I feel like he's trying to hammer a really big square peg through a very tiny round hole.
I just spent a couple months researching and writing a paper on why Open Source software should be adopted by public(government/schools/libraries) and non-profit organizations. I spent about half my time making the paper understandable for the average reader(a college undergrad). The end result was a paper that everyone could read without being drowned by tech talk, and overly-complicated phrases. It's a little too dumb for techies, but that wasn't who I was writing for.
Kevin brown on the other hand, obviously never took freshmen english. His writing is crap, and the only reason I forced myself to read the whole thing was because I wanted to rip every aspect of his argument to shreds. This is pretty sad, since I probably know as much, if not more than his desired audience, and should have no problem reading about the topics(IP and software development).
I think the only way we can fend off FUD like this, is to make things easy and understandable for the masses. After all, politicians aren't much smarter. Luckily Kevin Brown and the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution already sucks at clarity, so we don't have too much work to do.
At first I felt his point, about hybrid software might be valid. Then I thought some more. He says that Linus, Tanenbaum, and everyone else is wrong when they say Linus wrote Linux from scratch. However his proof of this is, "I don't buy it." Unfortunately this "proof" is total crap, and Brown does not provide any other examples. All he says is that "i'm afraid of this threat" which he never really clearly shows is actually a threat(ie: Linux infringes on IP), just that it might be a threat. Sounds kind of like the US case for war in Iraq, except this argument doesn't even provide direct (but incorrect evidence); just hunches from scooby doo and the gang.
If I had been that person, I would have told the officer to come back with a warrant. If the FBI wants to make a national security issue out of it, let them. Once they expend the effort searching for nothing, they might realize that the whole system of violating people's privacy is flawed and stupid. That's why we require warrants in the first place.
read the fucking articles before you start making corrections. Neither of them the links say that there will definitely be a draft. In fact one of them has nothing to do with the draft or selective service.
The first link covers how, soldiers are being forced to extend their service beyond what they originally signed up for(and were promised).
The second article is about how local draft boards are being restaffed, so that if the government was to reinstate the draft, the system would be ready to handle it. As the selective service site points out, this is supposed to be happening, and should not be a cause for alarm. The link even cites comments from the Pentagon/Rumsfeld that the selective service site also cites. If anything, the articles are in agreement. One is from the government view(obviously biased) and the other is from the view of a political commentator(also obviously biased). The only difference is the bias, and that doesn't make the article false.
Background checks would never be thorough enough to have access to any information stored about you and the cell cloning incidents. You didn't testify in court, nor were you charged with anything. The only place it'd be documented in, is the case file for the FBI. By now that kind of thing may have been digitized so other FBI agents have easy access(search) to it, but not a casino, or any other employer(besides the government).
The reason this story is serious, is that this guy's rights to privacy were taken away. Just cause the repairman didn't understand what he was doing, doesn't mean he was terrorist. If I see some guy tinkering with wires in a wall, I don't assume he's a terrorist. I assume he's an electrician.
If I had been that person, I would have told the officer to come back with a warrant. If the FBI wants to make a national security issue out of a national-waste-of-time, let them. Once they expend the effort searching for nothing, they might realize that the whole Homeland Security system of violating people's privacy is flawed and stupid. That's why we require warrants in the first place.
It all comes back to people being intimidated and afraid of what they don't understand.
I think he means UFS, simply because as stated in the wiki descriptions, UDF is not natively supported by any operating systems. UFS is, and hence would satisfy there strict requirement for standards and compatibility.
I have a firewall securing a bunch of windows machines. It doesn't let anyone try to ping or teardrop or whatever the windows machines. The only attacks they're open to are things like outlook bugs and things in IE 5. No one uses outlook here so that's not a problem. Now if you are saying that it's just as good to leave the windows machines with a direct hookup to the net then you've lost it. How the hell does that make sense?
Also you are definetly allowing the servers more power to do there thing. If you think about it, it doesn't make sense to leave em all sitting there for anyone to hit. Also it makes it much easier to hookup unsecure devices to the connection. The idea of the firewall is to stop any crap( ie: bad data, attackers ) getting through. The only time it wouldn't do that is if the firewall was insecure. From CmdrTaco said they had an uber bsd admin secure the router so what's the problem. Unless he screwed up( he's uber so it's unlikely) then the thing seems ironclad unless there are bug in mysql or whatever other services they are running.
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Well since satelite phones are expensive you might want to rent one. I always thought they were cool and last time my dad was in jordan he saw a lot of ads for sat. phones because they don't have the coverage we have in europe and the US adn japan. Anyway you might be able to rent them in the country your in but i think it would be better to rent it before you leave. Here's some sites but search on google, altavista, whatever.
This is a page at stanford but it seems out of date. It just tells you your options and it's recommendations http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/comp/telecom/cellp hone/int-service.htm
Imagine if these things were networked. I wonder how much a sysadmin of this kind of network would get paid. Maybe they could even have a connection to the Internet. Your doctor could monitor your vital signs and then send back a message saying release this hormone or send this electrical pulse. Problems might arise though. What if some scrpit kiddie pinged you to death. If you think about it these little things would whae to have wireless connections to the net which would be very slow. It'd be interesting to see what kind of attacks would be made on these devices to cause problems. Maybe a DHR(Distributed Hormone Release) that causes you to suddenly start getting really horny. But you could also use a DHR to make someone grow more. I'd set up my old 486 as a firewall to prevent "malicious hackers" from breaking into me and causing some kind of meltdown. Maybe have the 486 notify a special Nano device that "pages" my brain with the person's IP and what they are doing.
"Hey guys I'm just about to beat the last level in...The following program has commited a fatal runtime error and must be shut down. Hit anykey to close surrent....Damn"
If my experience with windows has any relation to the X-box, Microsoft is going to have to do some serious rethinking about their OS. I'm sure gamers aren't going to put up with having to keep restarting the X-box all the time just because it doesn't like something. The only time Playstation or N64 or dreamcast ever freeze is when a cd is scratched or you pull the cartridge out. The only good thing about using windows is that developers won't have to develop for another platform because most games are already made for Windows.
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned the site www.peacefire.org It covers many web censorship issues throughout the world(think NetNanny and The great Firewall of China).
Interestingly enough, one of the first things seen on the site, is a method to circumvent all these filter programs, and firewalls. This attempt to block sites by BT, is pointless. If pedophiles want to look at kiddie porn, they can just set up a proxy in a different country. These people already goto great lengths to look at the sites, and this isn't going to stop them.
As others have pointed out, it's only a matter of time before people start advocating that other sites be banned, and eventually, these other sites will be. Unfortunately, the choice of what shoudl be blocked and what shouldn't be is ultimately subjective. I have no issues with BT blocking kiddie porn because it's pretty disgusting. But what's the point? So everyone can feel better about themselves, cause we're stopping children from being exploited? That's laughable. This is a short-sighted, and fairly ineffective solution to a serious problem. The kids will still have been exploited; just that we won't see it. See no evil, Speak no evil.
Meanwhile, it may also lead to other sites being blocked that certain people find offensive. In America there are alot of sites I could see being blocked, just cause people don't agree with them. Besides breast-cancer sites(which have already been blocked), gun sites have been blocked. I don't like guns, but I do like free speech. What if ISP's started blocking marijuana cultivation sites, or sites that gave tutorials for hacking your tivo or xbox? All these actions are technically illegal to perform, but the info is still covered under free speech. It's a subjective choice, that I don't trust anyone to make.
- fozz
What a crappy writer. His language is ambiguous and confusing. I feel like he's trying to hammer a really big square peg through a very tiny round hole.
I just spent a couple months researching and writing a paper on why Open Source software should be adopted by public(government/schools/libraries) and non-profit organizations. I spent about half my time making the paper understandable for the average reader(a college undergrad). The end result was a paper that everyone could read without being drowned by tech talk, and overly-complicated phrases. It's a little too dumb for techies, but that wasn't who I was writing for.
Kevin brown on the other hand, obviously never took freshmen english. His writing is crap, and the only reason I forced myself to read the whole thing was because I wanted to rip every aspect of his argument to shreds. This is pretty sad, since I probably know as much, if not more than his desired audience, and should have no problem reading about the topics(IP and software development).
I think the only way we can fend off FUD like this, is to make things easy and understandable for the masses. After all, politicians aren't much smarter. Luckily Kevin Brown and the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution already sucks at clarity, so we don't have too much work to do.
At first I felt his point, about hybrid software might be valid. Then I thought some more. He says that Linus, Tanenbaum, and everyone else is wrong when they say Linus wrote Linux from scratch. However his proof of this is, "I don't buy it." Unfortunately this "proof" is total crap, and Brown does not provide any other examples. All he says is that "i'm afraid of this threat" which he never really clearly shows is actually a threat(ie: Linux infringes on IP), just that it might be a threat. Sounds kind of like the US case for war in Iraq, except this argument doesn't even provide direct (but incorrect evidence); just hunches from scooby doo and the gang.
Once again, his essay is total crap.
- fozz
If I had been that person, I would have told the officer to come back with a warrant. If the FBI wants to make a national security issue out of it, let them. Once they expend the effort searching for nothing, they might realize that the whole system of violating people's privacy is flawed and stupid. That's why we require warrants in the first place.
try giving a link to backup your claim, otherwise it's just hearsay.
read the fucking articles before you start making corrections. Neither of them the links say that there will definitely be a draft. In fact one of them has nothing to do with the draft or selective service.
The first link covers how, soldiers are being forced to extend their service beyond what they originally signed up for(and were promised).
The second article is about how local draft boards are being restaffed, so that if the government was to reinstate the draft, the system would be ready to handle it. As the selective service site points out, this is supposed to be happening, and should not be a cause for alarm. The link even cites comments from the Pentagon/Rumsfeld that the selective service site also cites. If anything, the articles are in agreement. One is from the government view(obviously biased) and the other is from the view of a political commentator(also obviously biased). The only difference is the bias, and that doesn't make the article false.
Background checks would never be thorough enough to have access to any information stored about you and the cell cloning incidents. You didn't testify in court, nor were you charged with anything. The only place it'd be documented in, is the case file for the FBI. By now that kind of thing may have been digitized so other FBI agents have easy access(search) to it, but not a casino, or any other employer(besides the government).
The reason this story is serious, is that this guy's rights to privacy were taken away. Just cause the repairman didn't understand what he was doing, doesn't mean he was terrorist. If I see some guy tinkering with wires in a wall, I don't assume he's a terrorist. I assume he's an electrician.
If I had been that person, I would have told the officer to come back with a warrant. If the FBI wants to make a national security issue out of a national-waste-of-time, let them. Once they expend the effort searching for nothing, they might realize that the whole Homeland Security system of violating people's privacy is flawed and stupid. That's why we require warrants in the first place.
It all comes back to people being intimidated and afraid of what they don't understand.
I think he means UFS, simply because as stated in the wiki descriptions, UDF is not natively supported by any operating systems. UFS is, and hence would satisfy there strict requirement for standards and compatibility.
-fozz
...and this story worries me. Anybody with some legitamate knowledge have any opinions on this one?
- fozzy
There's finally a reason to get a PocketPC over a Palm, here's an application that needs the speed.
Also you are definetly allowing the servers more power to do there thing. If you think about it, it doesn't make sense to leave em all sitting there for anyone to hit. Also it makes it much easier to hookup unsecure devices to the connection. The idea of the firewall is to stop any crap( ie: bad data, attackers ) getting through. The only time it wouldn't do that is if the firewall was insecure. From CmdrTaco said they had an uber bsd admin secure the router so what's the problem. Unless he screwed up( he's uber so it's unlikely) then the thing seems ironclad unless there are bug in mysql or whatever other services they are running.
Well since satelite phones are expensive you might want to rent one. I always thought they were cool and last time my dad was in jordan he saw a lot of ads for sat. phones because they don't have the coverage we have in europe and the US adn japan. Anyway you might be able to rent them in the country your in but i think it would be better to rent it before you leave.
p hone/int-service.htm
Here's some sites but search on google, altavista, whatever.
www.intouchusa.com
www.cellone-online.com/rental.htm
This is a page at stanford but it seems out of date. It just tells you your options and it's recommendations
http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/comp/telecom/cell
THat would be a good idea too. Someone mentioned that in another message. It'd be pretty cool.
Imagine if these things were networked. I wonder how much a sysadmin of this kind of network would get paid. Maybe they could even have a connection to the Internet. Your doctor could monitor your vital signs and then send back a message saying release this hormone or send this electrical pulse.
Problems might arise though. What if some scrpit kiddie pinged you to death. If you think about it these little things would whae to have wireless connections to the net which would be very slow. It'd be interesting to see what kind of attacks would be made on these devices to cause problems. Maybe a DHR(Distributed Hormone Release) that causes you to suddenly start getting really horny. But you could also use a DHR to make someone grow more.
I'd set up my old 486 as a firewall to prevent "malicious hackers" from breaking into me and causing some kind of meltdown. Maybe have the 486 notify a special Nano device that "pages" my brain with the person's IP and what they are doing.
"Hey guys I'm just about to beat the last level in...The following program has commited a fatal runtime error and must be shut down. Hit anykey to close surrent....Damn"
If my experience with windows has any relation to the X-box, Microsoft is going to have to do some serious rethinking about their OS. I'm sure gamers aren't going to put up with having to keep restarting the X-box all the time just because it doesn't like something. The only time Playstation or N64 or dreamcast ever freeze is when a cd is scratched or you pull the cartridge out. The only good thing about using windows is that developers won't have to develop for another platform because most games are already made for Windows.