It's not that hard to take down a spammer who causes you problems beyond just sending you unwanted email... I had one friend who had a spammer run a couple hundred thousand emails thru his system (a bug had made it into an open relay). It took one stern call to the ISP hosting the advertised websites to get his hosting and DNS cut off at the knees.
This is more than just sending off a single email to a scantly watched abuse email.. This means getting hold of a real person and explaining, realistisay, what sort of legal liabilities they might be open to if they continue to support the spammer's actions.
(Hacking laws, aiding and abetting, Trademark infringement and vicarious liability) often fit in there.
If more people would do this, life would get a lot harder for spammers.
It's not that hard to take down a spammer who causes you problems beyond just sending you unwanted email... I had one friend who had a spammer run a couple hundred thousand emails thru his system (a bug had made it into an open relay). It took one stern call to the ISP hosting the advertised websites to get his hosting and DNS cut off at the knees.
This is more than just sending off a single email to a scantly watched abuse email.. This means getting hold of a real person and explaining, realistisay, what sort of legal liabilities they might be open to if they continue to support the spammer's actions.
(Hacking laws, aiding and abetting, Trademark infringement and vicarious liability) often fit in there.
If more people would do this, life would get a lot harder for spammers.
What I'd really like to see is a format that allows any audio storage format to be used. Then, the user could select any format (OGG! Please!), and the company can still put their DRM in.
Now, I know that the DRM step isn't attractive to us slashdot folks, but it seems a requirement in the age of DCMA.
Hopefully the open source community can come up with an ideal solution to this dilemma. If Linux has taught us anything, a group of hackers just having fun can often trump any "innovations" that closed-source software bring us.
Compulsory licensing, eh? What's that when it's at home?
Perhaps I haven't been following closely enough, but exactly who is to be compelled to license what, from whom? Is this a big license signed between big companies, or a little license signed by people who listen to music, or those who make it, or just those who download it, or is it a shrink-wrap license like you get with software? Is it free, or does someone pay for it? Who? How much? What does it all mean? Am I the only person who doesn't know? PLEASE MOM, I WANT TO KNOW? WHY? WHY?
It's a standard reaction on behalf of the parents and a sad one. There are kids who will go out and do terrible things, but violence is not exactly a new thing in human history. If anything, todays' societies are remarkably non-violent compared to past ones.
For the parents - especially of the killers - it's an attempt to find blame somewhere. I feel sorry for them: since Freud's time, parents have been told "you are responsible for the way your kids turn out", when in fact many studies show that parents are amazingly irrelevant to their children's character. One long twin study showed approximately 50% coming from genes, 45% from unknown sources but presumably peer influence, and 5% from parents.
There is violence in our genes, but it generally needs a certain kind of culture to bring it out. The place to look for the causes of such killings are the youth cultures these kids hung-out in. There is no evidence at all that violent games or movies influence children, but it seems clear that violent children prefer to express themselves through violent games, virtual or real.
Court cases like this resolve absolutely nothing, because they divert the discussion in meaningless directions. Let's ban all violent games and movies... OK, will that change anything? Take a look at (random selection from a large pool) Uganda, where the kids watch no movies at all, yet 10,000 young (5-12) killers roam the north.
It is very difficult to change a violent culture, but it is possible.
The first thing is to understand the way violence is propagated. Like all youth cultures, it goes from youth to youth, bypassing all adult control. You have to work at this level, thus.
The second thing is to understand how individuals get drawn into violent behaviour that reinforces itself and finally becomes habitual. Can a young man turn to authority for fair protection? If not, he is more likely to use his own force for self-protection. Can a young man who uses drugs turn to authority for help? If not, he is likely to resort to retribution and violence. Can a young man escape from a violent or oppressive environment? If not, he will eventually give up on himself and "go postal", taking his own life but first taking the lives of as many of his peers as he can, in an attempt to regain some face.
I think it's clear that the rigid and somewhat intolerant mentality of adult-youth relations in the States is a large part of the problem.
Banning violent video games goes further in the wrong direction. Now we make criminals out of those youngsters who want such games. Excellent.
You know, this is just going to place a good bit more load on everyone's nameserver, not just the roots. Every request that used to be discarded from NS caches because it didn't exist will now be cached normally as a "good" request. 10-12% more data load might not be much for small DNS uses, but for companies like AOHell and other large ISPs, VeriSign is just screwing them over.
On another note, this would have to be some form of nameserver hack, not a root file hack(correct me if I'm wrong). But not all of the root servers are controlled by Verisign. Are those independant roots going to go along with this? Why should they?
I'm not trying to rain on KDE's parade; they've made outstanding progress in the last few years. However, being almost as good as Windows isn't really something to brag about, is it? Why not shoot for the stars, and try to match Apple's usability? This is open source! The "unreachable" is within our grasp!
This is nothing new. This sort of flaw is inherent in CSMA/CD, the WiFi problem is just another example of it. Before CSMA/CD was even rolled out people knew about this situation. The pros just outweigh the cons, for what this network design philosophy is used for.
Last year's was a landmark because it was so heavily OS X focused. However, I think this year's may be even more remarkable, since there has been such a huge influx of *nix users buying Macs lately.
I look forward to the diversity that the collaboration of two distinct groups of hackers has to offer.
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You say that like the majority of WMs for X11 *are* good looking.
That has been my philosophy since about 1996, and it has served me well. Having a notebook also helps to making sure that important data is duplicated.
I buy a new HD about every 18 months, it usually gives me enough room to dump my (full) previous HD, and still have an equivalent amount of free space. It takes me about 18 months anyways to fill up what's left on the new hard drive.
My friend's trick is to buy small sized hard drives from a big retailer that gives the 'premium' warranty, which is usually good for 2-3 years. When the warranty is almost out, he backs up his data, takes the drive out of the case and drops it from waist height onto the floor. He brings it in, and thanks to Moore's law, gets a new drive that is usually about twice as big as what he originaly had, since HD manufacturers stop making the small sized drives with time.
...and you're completely off base. There is a distinct scientific benefit of doing this. The VPU is fast as hell for how cheap the hardware is.
They aren't just "playing around"... this project initially was being directly used by the chemistry department in scientific computing. Only after word got around a little bit did more people start looking into how best to exploit the PS2's power for research.
How else do you propose that people run arbitrary scientific programs on the PS2? Right now Linux is the only solution, nobody saying it's the end-all be-all of computing.
You know, the AC is right on this one. The only Linux you can get for PS2 is a Japanese version, which does suck for non-Japanese. You have to use a strange keyboard.
I Highly doubt they paid a dime for any of it... I'm sure they told Sony what they wanted todo and Sony said "Hmm, 65 PS2's and you'll make a cluster out of them and we'll get good press? Sure, where would you like the pallet delivered..."
Nope, completely wrong. Not trying to drop names here, but I know some of the people that were closely involved in the project. None of it was free, and it was done completely without documentation from Sony.
But of course, you still got a +5, informative. Nice job, mods.
No matter what path they choose, whether to be malicious hackers or peacekeeping notify-devs-before-it-gets-noticed types, the end result will be the same: better code.
Now if only we can get MS to believe what us open source folks have been saying for years!
In the world of the future, it will be corporations, not governments, that will oppress the people. The governments will only serve as a tool to those corporations.
I am concerned that when all of this is said and done, only users of a Microsoft OS will not receive spam.;-)
Great! See if I care- do you think spammers will really bother if they know that only 5% of computer users will even see the emails? And those 5% being the, in general, enlightened minority?
Yes, right now this sort of thing is highly impractical, for a number of reasons, TCP/IP overhead being one of the major ones. Slashdot just likes to post sensationalist headlines to get more banner views.
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This is more than just sending off a single email to a scantly watched abuse email.. This means getting hold of a real person and explaining, realistisay, what sort of legal liabilities they might be open to if they continue to support the spammer's actions. (Hacking laws, aiding and abetting, Trademark infringement and vicarious liability) often fit in there.
If more people would do this, life would get a lot harder for spammers.
This is more than just sending off a single email to a scantly watched abuse email.. This means getting hold of a real person and explaining, realistisay, what sort of legal liabilities they might be open to if they continue to support the spammer's actions. (Hacking laws, aiding and abetting, Trademark infringement and vicarious liability) often fit in there.
If more people would do this, life would get a lot harder for spammers.
What I'd really like to see is a format that allows any audio storage format to be used. Then, the user could select any format (OGG! Please!), and the company can still put their DRM in.
Now, I know that the DRM step isn't attractive to us slashdot folks, but it seems a requirement in the age of DCMA.
Hopefully the open source community can come up with an ideal solution to this dilemma. If Linux has taught us anything, a group of hackers just having fun can often trump any "innovations" that closed-source software bring us.
Compulsory licensing, eh? What's that when it's at home?
Perhaps I haven't been following closely enough, but exactly who is to be compelled to license what, from whom? Is this a big license signed between big companies, or a little license signed by people who listen to music, or those who make it, or just those who download it, or is it a shrink-wrap license like you get with software? Is it free, or does someone pay for it? Who? How much? What does it all mean? Am I the only person who doesn't know? PLEASE MOM, I WANT TO KNOW? WHY? WHY?
Ahem.
It's a standard reaction on behalf of the parents and a sad one. There are kids who will go out and do terrible things, but violence is not exactly a new thing in human history. If anything, todays' societies are remarkably non-violent compared to past ones.
For the parents - especially of the killers - it's an attempt to find blame somewhere. I feel sorry for them: since Freud's time, parents have been told "you are responsible for the way your kids turn out", when in fact many studies show that parents are amazingly irrelevant to their children's character. One long twin study showed approximately 50% coming from genes, 45% from unknown sources but presumably peer influence, and 5% from parents.
There is violence in our genes, but it generally needs a certain kind of culture to bring it out. The place to look for the causes of such killings are the youth cultures these kids hung-out in. There is no evidence at all that violent games or movies influence children, but it seems clear that violent children prefer to express themselves through violent games, virtual or real.
Court cases like this resolve absolutely nothing, because they divert the discussion in meaningless directions. Let's ban all violent games and movies... OK, will that change anything? Take a look at (random selection from a large pool) Uganda, where the kids watch no movies at all, yet 10,000 young (5-12) killers roam the north.
It is very difficult to change a violent culture, but it is possible.
The first thing is to understand the way violence is propagated. Like all youth cultures, it goes from youth to youth, bypassing all adult control. You have to work at this level, thus.
The second thing is to understand how individuals get drawn into violent behaviour that reinforces itself and finally becomes habitual. Can a young man turn to authority for fair protection? If not, he is more likely to use his own force for self-protection. Can a young man who uses drugs turn to authority for help? If not, he is likely to resort to retribution and violence. Can a young man escape from a violent or oppressive environment? If not, he will eventually give up on himself and "go postal", taking his own life but first taking the lives of as many of his peers as he can, in an attempt to regain some face.
I think it's clear that the rigid and somewhat intolerant mentality of adult-youth relations in the States is a large part of the problem.
Banning violent video games goes further in the wrong direction. Now we make criminals out of those youngsters who want such games. Excellent.
You know, this is just going to place a good bit more load on everyone's nameserver, not just the roots. Every request that used to be discarded from NS caches because it didn't exist will now be cached normally as a "good" request. 10-12% more data load might not be much for small DNS uses, but for companies like AOHell and other large ISPs, VeriSign is just screwing them over.
On another note, this would have to be some form of nameserver hack, not a root file hack(correct me if I'm wrong). But not all of the root servers are controlled by Verisign. Are those independant roots going to go along with this? Why should they?
I'm not trying to rain on KDE's parade; they've made outstanding progress in the last few years. However, being almost as good as Windows isn't really something to brag about, is it? Why not shoot for the stars, and try to match Apple's usability? This is open source! The "unreachable" is within our grasp!
This is nothing new. This sort of flaw is inherent in CSMA/CD, the WiFi problem is just another example of it. Before CSMA/CD was even rolled out people knew about this situation. The pros just outweigh the cons, for what this network design philosophy is used for.
The site www.respectcopyrights.org is running Microsoft-IIS/5.0 on Windows 2000.
ssshhh! You can't post that! Somebody might notice that the editors don't read the articles!
Last year's was a landmark because it was so heavily OS X focused. However, I think this year's may be even more remarkable, since there has been such a huge influx of *nix users buying Macs lately.
I look forward to the diversity that the collaboration of two distinct groups of hackers has to offer.
You say that like the majority of WMs for X11 *are* good looking.
That has been my philosophy since about 1996, and it has served me well. Having a notebook also helps to making sure that important data is duplicated.
I buy a new HD about every 18 months, it usually gives me enough room to dump my (full) previous HD, and still have an equivalent amount of free space. It takes me about 18 months anyways to fill up what's left on the new hard drive.
My friend's trick is to buy small sized hard drives from a big retailer that gives the 'premium' warranty, which is usually good for 2-3 years. When the warranty is almost out, he backs up his data, takes the drive out of the case and drops it from waist height onto the floor. He brings it in, and thanks to Moore's law, gets a new drive that is usually about twice as big as what he originaly had, since HD manufacturers stop making the small sized drives with time.
suck it
...and you're completely off base. There is a distinct scientific benefit of doing this. The VPU is fast as hell for how cheap the hardware is.
They aren't just "playing around"... this project initially was being directly used by the chemistry department in scientific computing. Only after word got around a little bit did more people start looking into how best to exploit the PS2's power for research.
How else do you propose that people run arbitrary scientific programs on the PS2? Right now Linux is the only solution, nobody saying it's the end-all be-all of computing.
You know, the AC is right on this one. The only Linux you can get for PS2 is a Japanese version, which does suck for non-Japanese. You have to use a strange keyboard.
I Highly doubt they paid a dime for any of it... I'm sure they told Sony what they wanted todo and Sony said "Hmm, 65 PS2's and you'll make a cluster out of them and we'll get good press? Sure, where would you like the pallet delivered..."
Nope, completely wrong. Not trying to drop names here, but I know some of the people that were closely involved in the project. None of it was free, and it was done completely without documentation from Sony.But of course, you still got a +5, informative. Nice job, mods.
No matter what path they choose, whether to be malicious hackers or peacekeeping notify-devs-before-it-gets-noticed types, the end result will be the same: better code.
Now if only we can get MS to believe what us open source folks have been saying for years!
the IP over FireWire Preview Release adds support for using the Internet Protocol - commonly known as TCP/IP
No, IP is just known as IP. TCP sits on top of it, but it's not the only one who can. UDP does too, and anything else could if you felt like it.
I know this is getting picky, but this is "news for nerds", so try to keep it straight.
In the world of the future, it will be corporations, not governments, that will oppress the people. The governments will only serve as a tool to those corporations.
In the future?
What happens when your psycho girlfriend breaks your memento?
Well, it's a good thing laptop hard drives don't go 7200 then.
I am concerned that when all of this is said and done, only users of a Microsoft OS will not receive spam. ;-)
Great! See if I care- do you think spammers will really bother if they know that only 5% of computer users will even see the emails? And those 5% being the, in general, enlightened minority?
Yes, right now this sort of thing is highly impractical, for a number of reasons, TCP/IP overhead being one of the major ones. Slashdot just likes to post sensationalist headlines to get more banner views.