Without attracting a troll modifier, I'm glad. The genre is now sufficiently well-established that there are other franchises (Farscape spin-off anyone?) who could do more interesting things with the Network's money.
It's sad letting our favourite things end, but moving on is cool too.
As far as I know, no rental companies over here do this though.
We have 60 million people here, and 4 million CCTV cameras. We also have numberplate recognition systems operating on main routes into London as well as in some police cars (it looks at every car it sees and alerts the police driver if it sees a 'wanted' vehicle). We have the Official Secrets Act where you have FOIA. We have D-Notices to keep the press quiet, and our right to silence when under arrest was removed a few years ago.
Still, at least we have leader elected by millions of citizens rather than by nine judges:)
Which is so useful and needed in tracking down an email/IP path by using quantum chromodynamics instead of the ole web-bug and look at logs trick
My point was that everyone is assuming a web bug with 0 evidence - there are numerous methods to confound this and any lawyer will get the "proof" thrown out using a trojan defence. Law enforcement will have better "IP verification methods" than Joe Spammer.
Actually, I'm pretty sure they measure it terms of GHz, GFlops, etc. just like the rest of us do.
This is a well-known and oft-repeated fact. The obvious conclusion is that they have so much power that usual measures are worthless, but if you can't understand this principle of the English language (poetic exaggeration) then I can see how you might be confused, pedantic and sarcastic.
I was referring to SomethingOrOther's "fact" that "you can't turn off HTML in M$ LookOut", and his "opinion" that this was what this guy had been caught by. I just replied to the wrong parent.
Outlook 2003 has the option to both disable HTML and to disable loading of images, specifically aiming at web-bugs. Stop basing all of your opinions on 1997 era Outlook Express.
Obviously I just defended MS against outdated and uninformed/.ers, so this will be marked as trolling.
I think you'll find this was carnivore's "chain of evidence" feature in operation, and guessing at how they verified the recipient IP won't do you much good. Remember that NSA still measure computing power in acres.
My house has many known security flaws. The largest would be the windows. They are easily broken with just a rock, allowing access. My door would also be a flaw, it's solid, but nothing a battering ram in experienced hands couldn't break down in a few minutes. My lock is aslo a flaw. IT's better than most, a high security lock that is much harder to pick than normal, but it still is pickable.
You're missing a key point - known versus unknown security flaws. You know you have windows, doors and locks that are vulnerable to the determined.
What if you had a secret trapdoor leading into your house, and a passerby found it? Would you be annoyed if they pointed it out to you? Or would you rather they didn't, for fear of you pointing a gun in their face, and you only found out when someone used it to really screw you over?
I wasn't exactly sure what diseases 5.5 billion might be curing in Africa.
Oops, yes, it was AIDS.
Do Coke, Marlboro, and Budweiser really need more ads in America? Probably not, though I've heard on occasion that Pepsi might overtake Coke in the top 3 brands in the country.
Being *only* the fourth biggest company in the US needs billions spent rectifying it because...
..no market research to support a stop in funding of advertising.
Hardly surprising, considering who'd be doing the market research. I agree that advertising is not going to vanish, but I think complaining that people aren't watching your shiny new TV ad that you spent the GDP of bolivia producing is incredibly boorish and a mockery of what our legislatures should be looking at.
I paid nearly 50% of my income in taxes last year, where are the people asking to give me a tax break? Nowhere.
Unless you're in that top 1%, I believe I asked just that. Less tax expenditure on stupid, stupid moneypits = lower taxes for all. Although Bush is developing new nuclear weapons, and I'd imagine they still aren't as cheap as a paying your dues to the UN for instance. Last I looked, Ted Turner was still paying these on the US' behalf.
Let's see, let Israel and Pakistan kill each other and focus on containment, or try to play peacekeeper
Great. So, we'll send half of it to the second-class, denigrated, humiliated and generally spit-upon Palestinians then, rather than supporting a 'regime' that indulges in a shocking occupation of UN-proscribed land.
These are actually places I'd rather spend the money, though probably more because troops have been committed and war has started rather than because I would've liked it spent in the first place.
If I read this right, you're OK with splurging dosh on these places becuase you went in unmandated and made a right royal fuck-up of occupying these places. Interesting use of military force, creating a place where your voters feel it's alright to spend their taxes on building pipelines and supporting opium-producing warlords.
I guess that all depends on what you're looking at as tinpot, as well as the reasons for the installation of those governments in the first place.
Google: Pinochet. Guatemala. Noriega. Dozens of others. Or just watch Bowling for Columbine, he sums it up fairly well.
..you just mentioned Israel in general. 6billion is a nice round figure, though
Isn't it? what's that, 10$ for every man woman and child in the US, including your good self. What were you saying about wanting to pay less tax? And it's not just financial - how many times has the US vetoed a UN statement criticising Israel, even as the rest of the World is? Fact is, Israel is why OBL went schitz, it's why a huge chunk of the world hates the US and it will be the cause of many more lost lives. And all with US support - where's the regime change in Israel, where they have nuclear weapons physically stolen from the US arsenal? Iraqis on 9/11 flights: 0 Saudis: 15. Which country did we invade in the name of the war on 'turr'??
I don't believe a politician should have to completely divest himself of all business interests when they gain office.
That's what blind trusts are for. You still reap the profits but you're removed from being able to control your portfolio, as you are the second most powerful man in the US and in a position to massively profiteer. Al Gore moved everything to BT before he even started campaigning. Bush, Cheney et al are warmingering (disprove?), profiteering (disprove?) sunzabitches who are pursuing a Christian-influenced, business-led campaign to secure future petroleum reserves (their words) outside of those nasty arabs at OPEC. Hey, we invaded the Falklands too, so it's not like you're unique. Just the only nation in the world with the chutzpah to start ordering the rest of us around because someome finally got so pissed off with the US attitude they took drastic, mortal and now infamous action.
Hugely off-topic by now, I suspect. Damn personal opinions.
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When you martyr what the other guys would call a freedom fighter, is there one less 'terrorist' or 9 more? And what the hell's an illegal comment?
Ah, the old "AIDS is just [God's|Nature's] way of compensating" routine. Reminds me of the early comments about AIDS, when it was only affecting certain parts of the population.
Of course, your comment is totally inane as no matter what you'd prefer it was spent on, it is being spent on adverts that I can guarantee 99.9% of the populace could live without.
My point was not that tax money should go overseas - it was that corporations have no sense of moral decency. If you want arguments about where your taxes go, start here:
"The power of accurate observation is more often known as cycnicism by those who do not possess it" - GB shaw.
Cost of advertising tampax to men and Mercedes to low-income families - $72 billion. Actually, let me write that out: 72,000,000,000 US Dollars.
Cost of providing enough generic retro-viral drugs to Africa to stave off 8,000 deaths PER DAY - $5.5 billion. This is the deal that has just been announced.
So this democratic western world, in which you, me and all of us are apparently active participants, would rather watch Buffy smear herself in Max Factor than have suffering stopped. Where do I get off this planet?
When is our advertising>demand>sales culture going to give way to a quality>demand>sales one?
Manufacturers seem to have become convinced that a soft drink with a flashy, basketball-endorsed campaign will sell, whereas a soft drink that is refreshing, tasty and *value for money* has no merit?
This applies to all genres of product - I'll give a friend's recommendation about 11,000% more credence than some TV ad, and I only buy products that are genuinely
Value for money
Of a quality suitable for appreciation
and haven't been made by a Chinese political dissident in some camp in Shenzen.
If only the music industry, food makers etc would listen. Stop telling us what is good and cool, and let true market forces dictate success. Obviously the success of convenient and easy P2P apps shows HyperGlobalMegaNet for what they are - outdated, increasingly irrelevant and outrageously selfish.
Oh, and I use a TiVo for all of the above reasons. Last I checked Disney(R, FL) hadn't made commercial-watching compulsory, or made commericals an attractive viewing proposition. Does throwing away the crap in my New Scientist mean that I am stealing that?
Why does no-one get that WE are the power and THEY are the supplier?
There was an interview with the legal representation for the IFPI on the BBC yesterday that I was listening to out the corner of my ear, discussing the "fall" in industry profits. The phrase that caught my attention was "we are going after the people that run these [P2P] networks, and the ISPs that allow access to them".
This sounds a hell of a lot like we can expect to see, and be subjected to, things like this from our ISPs. Not a happy thought.
I recently attempted to sell one of my old UINs for ICQ on eBay, as it is very low and quite desirable; I received an email telling me that AOL had requested my auction be pulled as they were the "verified rights owner" of this number
Seems that AOL have the monopoly on numbers now...
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You might be interested in what Mr Morrell has to say about IPcop...
*dickmorrell* I'm actually having them shut down
*dickmorrell* right now
*dickmorrell* their Sourceforge listing
*dickmorrell* for breach of GPL
*dickmorrell* breach of copyright
*dickmorrell* theft of documentation
*dickmorrell* and oh
*dickmorrell* see their lists ?
*dickmorrell* I PAID FOR IPCOP f***o
*dickmorrell* we sacked the crap developers involved
*dickmorrell* they havnet the first f***ing clue
*dickmorrell* lol
*dickmorrell* we have 890,000 installs
*dickmorrell* they have 82
*dickmorrell* ipcop will need big pockets to get anywhere
*dickmorrell* BIG pockets
*dickmorrell* and BIG name friends
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Back, and to the left.
Back, and to the left.
Back, and to the left.
Quite obviously the grapefruit was shot from somewhere else, and you're just trying to set up the poor BASIC controller as a patsy.
Whenever Sky hype something, it's a surefire sign the US network will pull the plug a week before Sky airs it.
*raises a glass to Fastlane, Above and Beyond, Kingpin*
Without attracting a troll modifier, I'm glad. The genre is now sufficiently well-established that there are other franchises (Farscape spin-off anyone?) who could do more interesting things with the Network's money.
It's sad letting our favourite things end, but moving on is cool too.
As far as I know, no rental companies over here do this though.
:)
We have 60 million people here, and 4 million CCTV cameras. We also have numberplate recognition systems operating on main routes into London as well as in some police cars (it looks at every car it sees and alerts the police driver if it sees a 'wanted' vehicle). We have the Official Secrets Act where you have FOIA. We have D-Notices to keep the press quiet, and our right to silence when under arrest was removed a few years ago.
Still, at least we have leader elected by millions of citizens rather than by nine judges
One of the grand-daddy certs expired. Screwed everything from websites to Norton Antivirus
I was referring to SomethingOrOther's "fact" that "you can't turn off HTML in M$ LookOut", and his "opinion" that this was what this guy had been caught by. I just replied to the wrong parent.
Outlook 2003 has the option to both disable HTML and to disable loading of images, specifically aiming at web-bugs. Stop basing all of your opinions on 1997 era Outlook Express.
/.ers, so this will be marked as trolling.
Obviously I just defended MS against outdated and uninformed
I think you'll find this was carnivore's "chain of evidence" feature in operation, and guessing at how they verified the recipient IP won't do you much good. Remember that NSA still measure computing power in acres.
You're missing a key point - known versus unknown security flaws. You know you have windows, doors and locks that are vulnerable to the determined.
What if you had a secret trapdoor leading into your house, and a passerby found it? Would you be annoyed if they pointed it out to you? Or would you rather they didn't, for fear of you pointing a gun in their face, and you only found out when someone used it to really screw you over?
Every fscking porn popup ever, c.1995 onwards.
So when MS f$cks up it's funny, but when it's a distro you mock it's trolling?
And I thought MCSEs had no sense of humour.
Maybe Debian could give it a try. I hear NTFS is the World's Most Secure and Reliable Filesystem.
Oops, yes, it was AIDS.
Do Coke, Marlboro, and Budweiser really need more ads in America? Probably not, though I've heard on occasion that Pepsi might overtake Coke in the top 3 brands in the country.Being *only* the fourth biggest company in the US needs billions spent rectifying it because...
Hardly surprising, considering who'd be doing the market research. I agree that advertising is not going to vanish, but I think complaining that people aren't watching your shiny new TV ad that you spent the GDP of bolivia producing is incredibly boorish and a mockery of what our legislatures should be looking at.
I paid nearly 50% of my income in taxes last year, where are the people asking to give me a tax break? Nowhere.
Unless you're in that top 1%, I believe I asked just that. Less tax expenditure on stupid, stupid moneypits = lower taxes for all. Although Bush is developing new nuclear weapons, and I'd imagine they still aren't as cheap as a paying your dues to the UN for instance. Last I looked, Ted Turner was still paying these on the US' behalf.
Let's see, let Israel and Pakistan kill each other and focus on containment, or try to play peacekeeper
Great. So, we'll send half of it to the second-class, denigrated, humiliated and generally spit-upon Palestinians then, rather than supporting a 'regime' that indulges in a shocking occupation of UN-proscribed land.
These are actually places I'd rather spend the money, though probably more because troops have been committed and war has started rather than because I would've liked it spent in the first place.
If I read this right, you're OK with splurging dosh on these places becuase you went in unmandated and made a right royal fuck-up of occupying these places. Interesting use of military force, creating a place where your voters feel it's alright to spend their taxes on building pipelines and supporting opium-producing warlords.
I guess that all depends on what you're looking at as tinpot, as well as the reasons for the installation of those governments in the first place.
Google: Pinochet. Guatemala. Noriega. Dozens of others. Or just watch Bowling for Columbine, he sums it up fairly well.
Isn't it? what's that, 10$ for every man woman and child in the US, including your good self. What were you saying about wanting to pay less tax? And it's not just financial - how many times has the US vetoed a UN statement criticising Israel, even as the rest of the World is? Fact is, Israel is why OBL went schitz, it's why a huge chunk of the world hates the US and it will be the cause of many more lost lives. And all with US support - where's the regime change in Israel, where they have nuclear weapons physically stolen from the US arsenal? Iraqis on 9/11 flights: 0 Saudis: 15. Which country did we invade in the name of the war on 'turr'??
I don't believe a politician should have to completely divest himself of all business interests when they gain office.
That's what blind trusts are for. You still reap the profits but you're removed from being able to control your portfolio, as you are the second most powerful man in the US and in a position to massively profiteer. Al Gore moved everything to BT before he even started campaigning. Bush, Cheney et al are warmingering (disprove?), profiteering (disprove?) sunzabitches who are pursuing a Christian-influenced, business-led campaign to secure future petroleum reserves (their words) outside of those nasty arabs at OPEC. Hey, we invaded the Falklands too, so it's not like you're unique. Just the only nation in the world with the chutzpah to start ordering the rest of us around because someome finally got so pissed off with the US attitude they took drastic, mortal and now infamous action.
Hugely off-topic by now, I suspect. Damn personal opinions.
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When you martyr what the other guys would call a freedom fighter, is there one less 'terrorist' or 9 more?
And what the hell's an illegal comment?
It's just not cricket.
Of course, your comment is totally inane as no matter what you'd prefer it was spent on, it is being spent on adverts that I can guarantee 99.9% of the populace could live without.
My point was not that tax money should go overseas - it was that corporations have no sense of moral decency. If you want arguments about where your taxes go, start here:
Cost of advertising tampax to men and Mercedes to low-income families - $72 billion. Actually, let me write that out: 72,000,000,000 US Dollars.
Cost of providing enough generic retro-viral drugs to Africa to stave off 8,000 deaths PER DAY - $5.5 billion. This is the deal that has just been announced.
So this democratic western world, in which you, me and all of us are apparently active participants, would rather watch Buffy smear herself in Max Factor than have suffering stopped. Where do I get off this planet?
When is our advertising>demand>sales culture going to give way to a quality>demand>sales one?
Manufacturers seem to have become convinced that a soft drink with a flashy, basketball-endorsed campaign will sell, whereas a soft drink that is refreshing, tasty and *value for money* has no merit?
This applies to all genres of product - I'll give a friend's recommendation about 11,000% more credence than some TV ad, and I only buy products that are genuinely
If only the music industry, food makers etc would listen. Stop telling us what is good and cool, and let true market forces dictate success. Obviously the success of convenient and easy P2P apps shows HyperGlobalMegaNet for what they are - outdated, increasingly irrelevant and outrageously selfish.
Oh, and I use a TiVo for all of the above reasons. Last I checked Disney(R, FL) hadn't made commercial-watching compulsory, or made commericals an attractive viewing proposition. Does throwing away the crap in my New Scientist mean that I am stealing that?
Why does no-one get that WE are the power and THEY are the supplier?
Yes, but apart from that, what have they ever done for us?
Cripes. How about republishing the republished links to a large-ish geek site?
The equivalent of 20 CD-ROM's what?
There was an interview with the legal representation for the IFPI on the BBC yesterday that I was listening to out the corner of my ear, discussing the "fall" in industry profits. The phrase that caught my attention was "we are going after the people that run these [P2P] networks, and the ISPs that allow access to them".
This sounds a hell of a lot like we can expect to see, and be subjected to, things like this from our ISPs. Not a happy thought.
I recently attempted to sell one of my old UINs for ICQ on eBay, as it is very low and quite desirable; I received an email telling me that AOL had requested my auction be pulled as they were the "verified rights owner" of this number
Seems that AOL have the monopoly on numbers now...
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You might be interested in what Mr Morrell has to say about IPcop...