No link needed since most of the article is ICANN's viewpoint.
"The record doesn't even begin to support that," Lynn said of the assertion that ICANN has gradually taken on more power than it was authorized to wield. "This is rhetoric by someone who runs the biggest registry -- by a factor of four -- in the world," Lynn said of VeriSign.
Use the Wayback Machine to view older versions of the unix.net. Here's a quick summary if you don't feel like clicking the links. From dec 98 to mar 2000, it consisted of only a construction page for 'unix network consulting'. Then, despite never having any Unix info or books, it got replaced with the statement 'I had to take the books offline so I didnt get my pants sued off'. This was up for a year until it became mountainback.com for four months. Now it's just the message 'fsck you open group'. IMHO it doesn't look like they had much of a case.
I agree that your "magic database" is unlikely, but there has to be some way to streamline the process and make finding prior art easier for the patent office and for filers. One place that's trying is Bounty Quest, which awards cash for finding prior art on existing patents. They're now marketing themselves as a service for patent holders and applicants. This may work, except that companies unwilling to divulge trade secrets may reject the concept.
nothing could possibly go faster than an electron zipping through silicon at absolute zero...
except an electron going through gallium arsenide. (see 10th paragraph) The speed of each electron isn't much compared to the speed of light. See this article for more information about the speed of electrons vs. the speed of electrical current propagation.
Perhaps this proves you right? He says that he's working on a "PhD at Adelaide University, Australia" and the submitted article is from that school. There plenty of equally fascinating *laugh* material in the root web for the truly bored.
Here's Jon Katz from this article which is as clear as anything I've seen him write, even though it's translated from French. I definitely see the Spike Lee resemblance.
Perhaps the blind could use vibration feedback in the iFeel mouse to be informed of shot accuracy. Immersion has already added distinct vibrations for many events in Unreal Tournament.
This is one of the reasons I'm reluctant to pony up money for any web site.
Even print subscriptions can go sour.. I bought a 5 year subscription to Byte about 2 months before they quit publishing. To add to the injustice they replaced my subscription with PCMag.
Use the view current signatures link at http://www.petitiononline.com/twotower/. FYI, if you look at the bottom of the page you'll find that the petition was not legit and was posted by a slashdot troll.
Exactly.. it wouldn't take long for a page that says Download the UT 2003 demo to nuke a bunch of computers. (Where's the demo anyway, dammit, I'm dying to play!)
As I pointed out yesterday, there's more info about the bug and it's prevention available from Oy Solutions, who found the exploit.
Luckily Microsoft has their own internal group to generate bad press... the development group. Check out the article about the new IE gopher exploit. It was found by Oy, and they have more info.
So the BSA is claiming that 5-10% of the 3 million unemployed people in the US lost their jobs to piracy. Does anyone know what these numbers are based on? I guess all that success that the RIAA is having hasn't helped after all.
there will need to be effective, quick, and hash penalties against ISPs that fail to block spam
Why go after ISP's? I think the culprit to go after can be found in the body of the email. The email text almost always contains an ad trying to get you to buy something from a company and this is who is breaking the law. The gov't could revoke their business license or fine them. Also, a group of people could file a class-action lawsuit. This could cause problems if a company's competitor sends spam in their name, but this seems unlikely since they would also be sending business to the opposition.
It seems to me that the US could just add the word "email" to the existing law, 47USC227, and be done with this problem.
In case anyone hasn't heard of it by now, I've had good success reporting every spam to SpamCop.
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This is a bad analogy since McDonald's ended up much worse off than the two women. British law states that if you say something bad about someone or a company, the burden of proof is on you to prove the allegations. McDonald's charged them with libel for distributing a pamphlet with a very negative image of them. The two women trained themselves ans lawyers and ended up proving almost all of the allegations using reams of evidence and 70 witnesses. Many top executives had to testify. It was the longest running trial in English history. Thanks, the link you gave made for an interesting read..
Actually, as mentioned in the article and by other posters, the Security Focus article quotes Johannes Ullrich of SANS as saying that the worm uses a "brute force" password cracker. This seems to be a misquote since I cannot find anywhere on incidents.org or any other site (besides SlashDot) that claims that the worm uses password cracking. This small detail makes a big difference since the patch only fixes some of the things that the worm does. The first thing the worm does is change the SA password to a random string. What will these poor DBAs do if their password gets cracked, and they can't get into their database?
It looks like almost everyone has a different preference for
navigation keys. Would it be possible to personalize the navigation
keys? Perhaps you could have a form for the user to match each feature
to a key and then save the settings to a cookie.
I personally found the current configuration to be ok, but I would be
more comfortable with other layouts I've seen suggested like VI or the
3D shooter default of WASD. Perhaps you could just have 5 layouts and
a user could pick the one they like the most?
Also, I second the motion mentioned in another post to allow opening
in a new window. How about shift-enter to open the link in a new
window and shift-C to open the cached article in a new window?
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But are you well enough off to reinstate your plan to take on the DMCA? If so, good riddance HP and good luck!
Bummer, you already missed the $10,000 bounty.
always have this odd looking box sitting next to the rest of your equipment
A few days ago there was a Slashdot article where Overclockers Melbourne's installed a PC in a VCR case. View here
No link needed since most of the article is ICANN's viewpoint.
"The record doesn't even begin to support that," Lynn said of the assertion that ICANN has gradually taken on more power than it was authorized to wield. "This is rhetoric by someone who runs the biggest registry -- by a factor of four -- in the world," Lynn said of VeriSign.
I agree that your "magic database" is unlikely, but there has to be some way to streamline the process and make finding prior art easier for the patent office and for filers. One place that's trying is Bounty Quest, which awards cash for finding prior art on existing patents. They're now marketing themselves as a service for patent holders and applicants. This may work, except that companies unwilling to divulge trade secrets may reject the concept.
Perhaps this proves you right? He says that he's working on a "PhD at Adelaide University, Australia" and the submitted article is from that school. There plenty of equally fascinating *laugh* material in the root web for the truly bored.
Here's Jon Katz from this article which is as clear as anything I've seen him write, even though it's translated from French. I definitely see the Spike Lee resemblance.
Yeah right, that's just the story he told his mom when she found the case of Viagra sitting on the front porch.
Perhaps the blind could use vibration feedback in the iFeel mouse to be informed of shot accuracy. Immersion has already added distinct vibrations for many events in Unreal Tournament.
If you get nostalgic, you can visit the old versions at the Internet Archive. The more recent links work best.
Use the view current signatures link at http://www.petitiononline.com/twotower/. FYI, if you look at the bottom of the page you'll find that the petition was not legit and was posted by a slashdot troll.
Exactly.. it wouldn't take long for a page that says Download the UT 2003 demo to nuke a bunch of computers. (Where's the demo anyway, dammit, I'm dying to play!)
As I pointed out yesterday, there's more info about the bug and it's prevention available from Oy Solutions, who found the exploit.
Luckily Microsoft has their own internal group to generate bad press... the development group. Check out the article about the new IE gopher exploit. It was found by Oy, and they have more info.
It seems to me that the US could just add the word "email" to the existing law, 47USC227, and be done with this problem.
In case anyone hasn't heard of it by now, I've had good success reporting every spam to SpamCop.
This is a bad analogy since McDonald's ended up much worse off than the two women. British law states that if you say something bad about someone or a company, the burden of proof is on you to prove the allegations. McDonald's charged them with libel for distributing a pamphlet with a very negative image of them. The two women trained themselves ans lawyers and ended up proving almost all of the allegations using reams of evidence and 70 witnesses. Many top executives had to testify. It was the longest running trial in English history. Thanks, the link you gave made for an interesting read..
Johann just answered my question. The worm only attacks servers with no password.
Johann just answered my question. The worm only attacks servers with no password.
Actually, as mentioned in the article and by other posters, the Security Focus article quotes Johannes Ullrich of SANS as saying that the worm uses a "brute force" password cracker. This seems to be a misquote since I cannot find anywhere on incidents.org or any other site (besides SlashDot) that claims that the worm uses password cracking. This small detail makes a big difference since the patch only fixes some of the things that the worm does. The first thing the worm does is change the SA password to a random string. What will these poor DBAs do if their password gets cracked, and they can't get into their database?
Am I blind or has the page changed? I can find no mention of brute force attacks on Sophos' JS/SQLSpider-B analysis page.
I posted the following to the google.public.labs.keyboard-shortcuts newsgroup:
First, I think this feature is great!
It looks like almost everyone has a different preference for navigation keys. Would it be possible to personalize the navigation keys? Perhaps you could have a form for the user to match each feature to a key and then save the settings to a cookie. I personally found the current configuration to be ok, but I would be more comfortable with other layouts I've seen suggested like VI or the 3D shooter default of WASD. Perhaps you could just have 5 layouts and a user could pick the one they like the most?
Also, I second the motion mentioned in another post to allow opening in a new window. How about shift-enter to open the link in a new window and shift-C to open the cached article in a new window?
This is guaranteed to end up on Bounty Quest, and this guy should definitely get first dibs on the cash.