There was a time when books and movies were made to let people think about what is happening in their society. For example Metropolis, 1984 and Fahrenheit911.
Arresting reporters, webmasters and other disseminators of information is very common in the US, europe, china and elsewhere. I guess I don't see why this is that special.
Just because it happens a lot doesn't mean that it isn't right and that we shouldn't protest against it.
There will also be a lite version of this patent freely available to everybody, limited to the letters needed to say "open source damages innovation" and "intellectual properties are an essential part of the economy".
Subject: Redirecting caseydonovan.com to caseydonovan.com.au may be illegal
I've also heard rumours that other ISPs are doing much the same thing. I'd like to point out that doing this is: 1) Bad; 2) Sets a very bad precedent; and 3) Is probably illegal.
Technically speaking, they have done the only thing they could do (besides proxy-intercepting).
I'm not in favour of immediately coming up with the lawbooks (I'm also not in favour of putting signs everywhere how much your fine will be if you do or don't do things), but let's see what is happening here:
- PR department makes a mistake. Asks technical department for a solution. Whatever the technical departments comes up with, it's good enough for them to do it because it reduces the damage.
- The only people affected are the people whose computers use the Telstra nameservers, i.e. people within the Telstra network.
- This is a fix of a genuine fuck-up, not an attempt from Telstra to block access to competiting websites.
Now, your statements:
1. Bad
Yes. Of the PR department, not of the technical department.
2. Sets a very bad precedent
Does it? It happens all the time.
But I have three zones in my DNS server which are doing the same for domains which were expired and hijacked. It doesn't affect anybody outside our network, and it prevents a number of dumbwits to have to change configurations. And after two years we'll re-register them again anyway. This is a technical solution for an administrative problem.
Comdindico and NTT have zones in their DNS which have been moved away from them ages ago, but they don't want to remove them because they need an official paper (whois information isn't authoritatve enough for them). This is just bad of them.
3. Probably illegal.
Talk with your lawyer about it. And keep in mind who is affected. If I was the judge, I would put a time-limit restriction on what Telstra did (say for most 2 years), but I wouldn't forbid it.
CRIMES ACT 1914 - SECT 85ZD Wrongful delivery of communications
A person shall not intentionally cause a communication in the course of telecommunications carriage to be received by a person or carriage service other than the person or service to whom it is directed.
That sounds like it's illegal to have transparent HTTP proxies and POP3 virus scanners.
Unlike the harvester, there's lots of information about the outfit behind the spam. The whois information points to an Illinois-based direct marketing company, Expedite Marketing Corporation.
Look at the output of "whois foo.com.au". It has absolutely no information at all. Yes, it gives two email addresses, but for the bulk of the domains the information of incorrect or outdated.
Ab-so-lu-te-ly useless if you're chasing problems.
It is getting more and more interesting because the two networks (the PSTN and the Internet) are getting mixed. For example, from my home I can call the office for free, I can call to the local area in the city for a local tariff instead of a LD tariff. And the people in the office can call me for free too.
We have setup our SIP servers so that anybody can call our office for free. But if you want to call outside the office you need to be authenticated (billing:-).
It's all a matter of meshing and choosing the cheapest paths.
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He should have made a deal with Philips Electronics to work in the Philips Research Laboratories which are all around the world.
Just because it is easy doesn't mean it's allowed.
That's a cracker, not a hacker.
That's only compared to WindowsXP.
How about comparing it with MacOS/X, FreeBSD and others?
A movie is suppose to be entertainment.
Maybe *this* movie is, but not all movies are.
There was a time when books and movies were made to let people think about what is happening in their society. For example Metropolis, 1984 and Fahrenheit911.
Arresting reporters, webmasters and other disseminators of information is very common in the US, europe, china and elsewhere. I guess I don't see why this is that special.
Just because it happens a lot doesn't mean that it isn't right and that we shouldn't protest against it.
It's not about the stuff you install, it's about the stuff that others install for you.
Include links to IE and Outlook exploits here.
There will also be a lite version of this patent freely available to everybody, limited to the letters needed to say "open source damages innovation" and "intellectual properties are an essential part of the economy".
A.CDEFG.I..LMNOP.RSTUV..Y.
Well, not so lite but the joke is there.
Subject: Redirecting caseydonovan.com to caseydonovan.com.au may be illegal
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I've also heard rumours that other ISPs are doing much the same thing. I'd like to point out that doing this is: 1) Bad; 2) Sets a very bad precedent; and 3) Is probably illegal.
Technically speaking, they have done the only thing they could do (besides proxy-intercepting).
I'm not in favour of immediately coming up with the lawbooks (I'm also not in favour of putting signs everywhere how much your fine will be if you do or don't do things), but let's see what is happening here:
- PR department makes a mistake. Asks technical department for a solution. Whatever the technical departments comes up with, it's good enough for them to do it because it reduces the damage.
- The only people affected are the people whose computers use the Telstra nameservers, i.e. people within the Telstra network.
- This is a fix of a genuine fuck-up, not an attempt from Telstra to block access to competiting websites.
Now, your statements:
1. Bad
Yes. Of the PR department, not of the technical department.
2. Sets a very bad precedent
Does it? It happens all the time.
But I have three zones in my DNS server which are doing the same for domains which were expired and hijacked. It doesn't affect anybody outside our network, and it prevents a number of dumbwits to have to change configurations. And after two years we'll re-register them again anyway. This is a technical solution for an administrative problem.
Comdindico and NTT have zones in their DNS which have been moved away from them ages ago, but they don't want to remove them because they need an official paper (whois information isn't authoritatve enough for them). This is just bad of them.
3. Probably illegal.
Talk with your lawyer about it. And keep in mind who is affected. If I was the judge, I would put a time-limit restriction on what Telstra did (say for most 2 years), but I wouldn't forbid it.
http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/pasteact/0/28/
CRIMES ACT 1914
- SECT 85ZD
Wrongful delivery of communications
A person shall not intentionally cause a communication in the course of telecommunications carriage to be received by a person or carriage service other than the person or service to whom it is directed.
That sounds like it's illegal to have transparent HTTP proxies and POP3 virus scanners.
Unlike the harvester, there's lots of information about the outfit behind the spam. The whois information points to an Illinois-based direct marketing company, Expedite Marketing Corporation.
Look at the output of "whois foo.com.au". It has absolutely no information at all. Yes, it gives two email addresses, but for the bulk of the domains the information of incorrect or outdated.
Ab-so-lu-te-ly useless if you're chasing problems.
and all the counting is done in a central location
The counting of the papers is done in the same place, it's not moved anywhere until it is counted.
This is in Sydney, NSW. Don't know why it was done different in your location.
However, weight was a premium, especially in the earlier missions.
Why didn't they go for midget-astronauts?
We have a new Zaphod Beeblebrox[sp]:
"Bill Gates (is number one) because he is Bill Gates."
He's the guy you know!
Hoping to prevent the loss of a child through kidnapping
:-)
Somebody got some statistics(*) on how often this happens?
(*) Feel free to make up
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/. version of terrorism.
So even if they change it, you don't have to change along.
But then, *every* description they give can be interpreted as a submarine patent, which is
Is that 2024 before or after the economies have crashed because nothing was possible anymore?
It is getting more and more interesting because the two networks (the PSTN and the Internet) are getting mixed. For example, from my home I can call the office for free, I can call to the local area in the city for a local tariff instead of a LD tariff. And the people in the office can call me for free too.
:-).
We have setup our SIP servers so that anybody can call our office for free. But if you want to call outside the office you need to be authenticated (billing
It's all a matter of meshing and choosing the cheapest paths.
It's the same Wired which came with the Creative Commons Licensed audio CD.
See Wired Releases Creative Commons Sampling CD for more reactions.
Here's the text, I can't see this site holding up much longer.
Yeah right. Wired is better at this than the average cable modem ISP.
Oh, that makes sense. Thanks!
This is shown at the top:
:-P
No Country Note
But I can't find any links to the explanation of the notes. Is there somebody who can read better than me?
"... but human contact instead?"
He says from the safe comfort of his home...
If it was a real liberation, this alienation wouldn't be needed.
When my grand-parents were liberated at the end of WW2, the canadians/british/polish soldiers didn't have to worry about this.
Wake me up when a game hasn't been leaked, stolen, copied or otherwise made available to the public before it has been released.
Next step in advertisement will be the combination of ads in games and this!
<small>upgrades to the latest version of NetHack</small>
Hello troll, who let /you/ out?