Take a look at the MIT and others / RIAA article. I'd like to see SCO take on a state governent, or a local school system with big friends. Schools, especially higher ed, use linux. Most don't have to turn a profit, and they have lawyers. State schools have lots of lawyers, Atourney Generals, etc. Come on SCO, take on MIT! Go for Florida State! Heck, come on down to my school. I believe I'm covered by the state's legal umbrella, and we've got linux boxes. (At home, I can just go to BSD if I want to. Heck, I'm on a BSD now - OS X.)
What I mean is, what if some fifty, or say a hundred kernel developers individually sue SCO for copyright infringement?
An idea that just occurred to me. If a bunch of coders, specifically those who work on parts that might have come from IBM, were to sure SCO based on these ideas, then SCO would have to defend themselves to individual attacks on certain sections of the kernel. As more information is "cleared" by these small lawsuits of being "tainted", the infinging code becomes narrowed down without ever having to sign an NDA.
First distributed testing of Linus' code, then distributed coding of Linux combined with distributed testing. A pattern is developing...
Quick, someone grab the MAINTAINERS document and start the distributed lawsuits!
I laughed when I read this, but you've obviously never had the pleasure of working with ftp on Mac OS 9. No one should ever have to know that much about resource forks just to share files. Ever try to explain that when you d/l from some Mac OS 9 servers from some non-mac ftp clients, the file gets binhex'ed for no apparent reason (even if they don't have or need a resource fork). Thankfully, I'm not at that job anymore, and OS 9 is dying for all but the niche of anti-spam web servers. (ShapHaus IIRC).
Two words of warning: samba built into OS X has some permissions problems, Dave for OS 9 crashes, and Netatalk has permissions problems as well (if you're thinking of hosting shares on linux for everyone). Samba on the linux box has been my best bet so far, both at home and work. I wish there was a free NFS client for Windows that I could find (but I could look harder really).
IIRC, there is a anti-abortion group that was putting information on abortion doctors on the web that was forced to remove the site as they were used for murdering the doctors listed. I wish I could remember the name of the site, and searching for anti-abortion or pro-life will get me more hits than I care to wade through. Anyone remember the case I'm talking about here?
And this seems like a public TIA targeted towards police officers. We don't want it applied towards us, I certainly don't want it publically applied to police officers who get people pissed off at them daily trying to protect us. It's not like he's publishing a few involved in a specific complaint.
He's expainding following this ruling to include all the people he can in the criminal justice system. He's not just giving their work addresses, but their personal info. TIA for the criminal justice system for Washington State!
I'm glad I don't have a job there. If he was targeting my state, in my field, my personal info would be immediadately accessable on the web just because I work for someone: Not because I pissed someone off, but just because I have a job!
Considering people scan the net for vulnerable FTP servers, I wouldn't be surprised if many of those boxes are rooted right now. Probably running an IRC bot or running attacks on other hosts.
They're probably secured by now - by the script kiddies who got into them in the first place so no one else will 0wn3z "their" b0x. Just hope it's the 13 year old who is using it to swap warez.
I just pick syllables I like at random and go with it. I came up with this handle (Kalak) years ago this way and have kept it as a result. Plus it's a nice palindrome. Lanar is another one I came up with that I can remember.
I never liked coming up with names anyway, so this way I can use the syllables as building blocks and come up with something that might sound original. Makes for nice throw away names, which is why I can't remember them a few years later. For all I know I've been using the same one over and over, but keep forgetting.
Maybe I should write a quick script that produces names based on this idea. I could patent it and sue everyone for infringement because it can come up with any name used in any media.
(This method is a great excuse for the fact that I can't spell well either.)
OK, so is it ironic that I'm reading this discussion to post a suggestion I made in my journal for this same thing after I got frustrated by someone moderating a post I made as "Insightful"?
It's not ironic though, since I expected someone to mention that already (or else I wouldn't be looking for it).
IANAL, and this doesn't make SP4 compliant with anything, but look at this clause:
Your use of the Components is subject to the terms and conditions of the end user license agreement (either from Microsoft or some other entity) under which you have previously licensed the Software (the "Software EULA") and this Supplemental EULA.
Now point it out to the lawyer you're claiming you're talking to. While SP4 includes technical components of SP3, contracts cannot include items not stated in them, or specifically referred to. SP3's agreement is not referred to, so if you haven't agreed to the SP3 EULA, and SP4's EULA doesn't include a provision, then you are not bound by that provision. Contracts don't imply much of anything; they either say it, or they don't. A Common Sense reading of the clause should tell you this much.
I wouldn't take business legal advice on the subject of Microsoft (or any other business) from someone going by the handle of "msoftsucks" with a Hotmail address (hypocrite) even if they claim to be talking to a lawyer. (Or take legal advice from/. on anything for that matter.)
And if you're really talking to a lawyer and they're missing this point, get a second opinion. Lawyers are not always in agreement.
Since BT is for large files, and many don't believe in patching, it sould make sense to use the kernel.org's rsync server. Patching w/o the patch. *However*, rsync.kernel.org::pub/ is only good for mirroring the ftp site, not for mirroring the released kernels.
Putting an un-tarred version of the kernel up on a site would be like CVS read only. It seem seems like this would make sense for release kernel distribution. The PPC kernel tree is distrubuted this way, and it's really handy. Why isn't / where is the main tree distributed this way? You get a fresh, updated kernel by only updating the changes, and you don't have to do a make mrproper as rsync -avz --delete would give you a pristine version of the tree.
Maybe the fact that there is no available information about this hearing means that it's not really important.
Or the lack of available info on this may show that it was trying to be slipped in under the radar of those who are speaking about the "Dark Side" being not as dark as they think. I'm sure there are tons of committee hearings that we don't hear about on/. afterall. This one just happens to be about a subject talked about here frequently, and a bunch of Senators are getting to talk about it. I can't think of a reason the time and place of it should be posted here. After all, no one on/. can see what Senators are on the committee and call them, no one on/. lives in DC, and no one watches the news anyway.
It's not like we can do anything to contribute. Much better to moan about it on/.
So could the spy decoder ring in a box of cereal, the fertilizer in our local hardware store, and so could the rat poison, the SSL self-signed cert I created a few days ago, so could......
Judging by the title of "The Dark Side of a Bright Idea: Could Personal and National Security Risks Compromise the Potential of P2P File-Sharing Networks?", I'd say that someone's mind is made up already. The "Dark Side" of anything is not going to be shown in a positive "light".
I hope someone is there to represent wiser heads. At the rate things are going, ACs on/. posting from proxies the US builds to get aroung the Great Firewall will be the only way Terrorists can communicate.
How about the users step in where the editors won't. If you post a article, mirror the text of it in your journal, then post a link to it in the article. Instant/. mirror. No one gets to karma whore just by posting a mirror either.
You can't sign a contract and have it be binding under US contract law until you read it, and if you can read it, you can copy it and post it somewhere (IANAL, but this is also common sense).
NDAs vary, and no one seems to have the text of it available.
Someone post the NDA at least. You don't need to be anonymous to do that. Then let the search for loopholes begin! I know that no one seems to be signing the NDA so it must be crap. If they're writing their NDA with the same brains they're using(?) to handle their case, then there probably is someplace you can drive a truck through.
Can some non-name blogger or/.er with a Journal (there's no difference afterall) just get the NDA and tell us where in the code the issue is. Then we can check the committs to see who committed them and if they are connected to SCO or IBM at all. No connection, no case.
Sound like a variation on "direct to video" which is in Anime all the time and has been seeing increasing use in kid's animation in the US. There's like 20 "Land Before Time" videos now. Just enjoy the movie in the theater if you want, and suggestive sell the DVD on the way out. "Would you like a DVD with that popcorn?"
This would be great for me, since I wouldn't have to skip work or hire a babysitter to see a move inless than 6 months after it's released.
Try the 5.06 OSX beta or run your files through DivX Validator before playing. I can't speak for the Matrix, but this has worked for some other files (Anime) that have been missing sound. DivX Validator makes a copy of the files, so it needs drive space, but it works pretty quickly.
Our mail server admins let VT know about it during testing. It was recently purchased after a successful trial. I'm not sure the arrangement, but you can probably ask postmaster at vt dot edu and get a good referral on the setup.
At our uiversity, Virginia Tech, the hardware e-mail virus scanners (Mirapoint Messaging Server )also do Spam Assassin now, it puts info in headers (sample below). Filter for "X-Junkmail: UCE" and you've got a spam filter (though I run a more aggressive SA on my workstation, since I can customize it there).
Return-Path: Received: from vt.edu (gkar.cc.vt.edu [198.82.161.196]) by xxxx.xxxx.vt.edu (8.12.8/linuxconf) with ESMTP id h47JISRm004277 for ; Wed, 7 May 2003 15:18:28 -0400 Received: from steiner.cc.vt.edu ([10.1.1.14]) by gkar.cc.vt.edu (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2001.05.04.11.50.p10) with ESMTP id for noone@xxxx.xxxx.vt.edu; Wed, 7 May 2003 15:18:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: from aol.com (host217-40-92-155.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.40.92.155]) by steiner.cc.vt.edu (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.2-CR) with SMTP id BIE36579; Wed, 07 May 2003 15:18:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 03:13:26 -0800 From: Kate Welsh Subject: [SPAM] Remember me? To: spam@vt.edu Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-Junkmail: UCE(58) X-Priority: 3 X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=13.0 required=5.0 tests=ALL_NATURAL,BASE64_ENC_TEXT,BIG_FONT,CLICK_B ELOW, CLICK_HERE_LINK,DATE_IN_FUTURE_12_24,HGH, HTML_FONT_COLOR_CYAN,HTML_FONT_COLOR_GRAY, HTML_FONT_COLOR_NAME,HTML_FONT_COLOR_RED, HTML_FONT_COLOR_UNSAFE,HTML_FONT_COLOR_YELLOW,NO_Q S_ASKED, RCVD_IN_DSBL,REMOVE_PAGE,SPAM_PHRASE_13_21,SPAM_RE DIRECTOR, SUSPICIOUS_RECIPS,USER_AGENT_OUTLOOK,VERY_SUSP_REC IPS version=2.44 X-Spam-Flag: YES X-Spam-Level: ************* X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.44 (1.115.2.24-2003-01-30-exp) X-Spam-Prev-Content-T ype: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="Boundary_(ID_d+Bzp/dF6h/2OkPD89OTbQ)" C ontent-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII X-Evolution-Source: imap://jackie@localhost/
I also have "forged headers" as you claim, but changing your "Reply-To" header is not a forged header. It adds a "Reply-To" header to the other headers present in an e-mail. You're not claiming to be from an IP address that you're not using. You're not using non-existant domain names in headers. You *want* to be contacted by your clients in your business dealings.
Have you ever actually read e-mail headers? I'm not sure if you're trolling or just plain ignorant of what e-mail headers are. Open your Outlok Express and looks at the properties of an e-mail message sometime. Or better yet, send me an e-mail and I'm sure I can tell where you sent it from, right down to if you were at work or at home when you sent it.
I stopped being an Apple Buyer for my college's bookstore shortly after the policy was implimentd, and long before the Apple Store, but Apple had implimented the concept of "closed box" and "open box" returns. Returns were allowed based on a percentage of purchases. So you could return say 1% of your purchases as "open box" returns w/o problems. These "open box" returns include exchanges and consumer returns. This may be influencing the return policies of retailers, as exchanges due to manufacturing issues would impact the retailers ability to return products. Assuming this is still in effect, I suspect Apple Stores don't have to deal with this limitation, and are therefore more likely to exchange products.
Mine has a similar issue, which is normal on most LCDs, but the odd thing with my screen is the whigh pitched whine that happens sometimes when the brightness is at max. turn it down 2 notches and the whine goes away.
To keep it on topic, definitely never buy a Rev 1 of anything, especially an Apple product. My TiBook is a rev 1, but it's work's money so we bought the only G4 notebook available at the end of the fiscal year (love government budgeting logic).
A link to a journal entry with notes on playing, comments, impressions etc. would be interesting. I can find a link to the pricing on Zelda w/o CT's help, but reading something may interest me enough to go look at reviews, etc.
Make these more than just a curiosity. I see pudge is playing with the twins tonight....whee....
Slashdot Mirror
Take a look at the MIT and others / RIAA article. I'd like to see SCO take on a state governent, or a local school system with big friends. Schools, especially higher ed, use linux. Most don't have to turn a profit, and they have lawyers. State schools have lots of lawyers, Atourney Generals, etc. Come on SCO, take on MIT! Go for Florida State! Heck, come on down to my school. I believe I'm covered by the state's legal umbrella, and we've got linux boxes. (At home, I can just go to BSD if I want to. Heck, I'm on a BSD now - OS X.)
What I mean is, what if some fifty, or say a hundred kernel developers individually sue SCO for copyright infringement?
An idea that just occurred to me. If a bunch of coders, specifically those who work on parts that might have come from IBM, were to sure SCO based on these ideas, then SCO would have to defend themselves to individual attacks on certain sections of the kernel. As more information is "cleared" by these small lawsuits of being "tainted", the infinging code becomes narrowed down without ever having to sign an NDA.
First distributed testing of Linus' code, then distributed coding of Linux combined with distributed testing. A pattern is developing...
Quick, someone grab the MAINTAINERS document and start the distributed lawsuits!
Works on every platform know to man kind.
I laughed when I read this, but you've obviously never had the pleasure of working with ftp on Mac OS 9. No one should ever have to know that much about resource forks just to share files. Ever try to explain that when you d/l from some Mac OS 9 servers from some non-mac ftp clients, the file gets binhex'ed for no apparent reason (even if they don't have or need a resource fork). Thankfully, I'm not at that job anymore, and OS 9 is dying for all but the niche of anti-spam web servers. (ShapHaus IIRC).
Two words of warning: samba built into OS X has some permissions problems, Dave for OS 9 crashes, and Netatalk has permissions problems as well (if you're thinking of hosting shares on linux for everyone). Samba on the linux box has been my best bet so far, both at home and work. I wish there was a free NFS client for Windows that I could find (but I could look harder really).
IIRC, there is a anti-abortion group that was putting information on abortion doctors on the web that was forced to remove the site as they were used for murdering the doctors listed. I wish I could remember the name of the site, and searching for anti-abortion or pro-life will get me more hits than I care to wade through. Anyone remember the case I'm talking about here?
And this seems like a public TIA targeted towards police officers. We don't want it applied towards us, I certainly don't want it publically applied to police officers who get people pissed off at them daily trying to protect us. It's not like he's publishing a few involved in a specific complaint.
He's expainding following this ruling to include all the people he can in the criminal justice system. He's not just giving their work addresses, but their personal info. TIA for the criminal justice system for Washington State!
I'm glad I don't have a job there. If he was targeting my state, in my field, my personal info would be immediadately accessable on the web just because I work for someone: Not because I pissed someone off, but just because I have a job!
Considering people scan the net for vulnerable FTP servers, I wouldn't be surprised if many of those boxes are rooted right now. Probably running an IRC bot or running attacks on other hosts.
They're probably secured by now - by the script kiddies who got into them in the first place so no one else will 0wn3z "their" b0x. Just hope it's the 13 year old who is using it to swap warez.
I just pick syllables I like at random and go with it. I came up with this handle (Kalak) years ago this way and have kept it as a result. Plus it's a nice palindrome. Lanar is another one I came up with that I can remember.
I never liked coming up with names anyway, so this way I can use the syllables as building blocks and come up with something that might sound original. Makes for nice throw away names, which is why I can't remember them a few years later. For all I know I've been using the same one over and over, but keep forgetting.
Maybe I should write a quick script that produces names based on this idea. I could patent it and sue everyone for infringement because it can come up with any name used in any media.
(This method is a great excuse for the fact that I can't spell well either.)
I've mirrored the mirror and added it to the link above. Enjoy!
Now what I want to know is what the Gears fps rate was at full 1bit color rendering!
OK, so is it ironic that I'm reading this discussion to post a suggestion I made in my journal for this same thing after I got frustrated by someone moderating a post I made as "Insightful"?
It's not ironic though, since I expected someone to mention that already (or else I wouldn't be looking for it).
IANAL, and this doesn't make SP4 compliant with anything, but look at this clause:
/. on anything for that matter.)
Your use of the Components is subject to the terms and conditions of the end user license agreement (either from Microsoft or some other entity) under which you have previously licensed the Software (the "Software EULA") and this Supplemental EULA.
Now point it out to the lawyer you're claiming you're talking to. While SP4 includes technical components of SP3, contracts cannot include items not stated in them, or specifically referred to. SP3's agreement is not referred to, so if you haven't agreed to the SP3 EULA, and SP4's EULA doesn't include a provision, then you are not bound by that provision. Contracts don't imply much of anything; they either say it, or they don't. A Common Sense reading of the clause should tell you this much.
I wouldn't take business legal advice on the subject of Microsoft (or any other business) from someone going by the handle of "msoftsucks" with a Hotmail address (hypocrite) even if they claim to be talking to a lawyer. (Or take legal advice from
And if you're really talking to a lawyer and they're missing this point, get a second opinion. Lawyers are not always in agreement.
Since BT is for large files, and many don't believe in patching, it sould make sense to use the kernel.org's rsync server. Patching w/o the patch. *However*, rsync.kernel.org::pub/ is only good for mirroring the ftp site, not for mirroring the released kernels.
Putting an un-tarred version of the kernel up on a site would be like CVS read only. It seem seems like this would make sense for release kernel distribution. The PPC kernel tree is distrubuted this way, and it's really handy. Why isn't / where is the main tree distributed this way? You get a fresh, updated kernel by only updating the changes, and you don't have to do a make mrproper as rsync -avz --delete would give you a pristine version of the tree.
Maybe the fact that there is no available information about this hearing means that it's not really important.
/. afterall. This one just happens to be about a subject talked about here frequently, and a bunch of Senators are getting to talk about it. I can't think of a reason the time and place of it should be posted here. After all, no one on /. can see what Senators are on the committee and call them, no one on /. lives in DC, and no one watches the news anyway.
/.
Or the lack of available info on this may show that it was trying to be slipped in under the radar of those who are speaking about the "Dark Side" being not as dark as they think. I'm sure there are tons of committee hearings that we don't hear about on
It's not like we can do anything to contribute. Much better to moan about it on
Yes.
/. posting from proxies the US builds to get aroung the Great Firewall will be the only way Terrorists can communicate.
So could the spy decoder ring in a box of cereal, the fertilizer in our local hardware store, and so could the rat poison, the SSL self-signed cert I created a few days ago, so could......
Judging by the title of "The Dark Side of a Bright Idea: Could Personal and National Security Risks Compromise the Potential of P2P File-Sharing Networks?", I'd say that someone's mind is made up already. The "Dark Side" of anything is not going to be shown in a positive "light".
I hope someone is there to represent wiser heads. At the rate things are going, ACs on
How about the users step in where the editors won't. If you post a article, mirror the text of it in your journal, then post a link to it in the article. Instant /. mirror. No one gets to karma whore just by posting a mirror either.
NDA=non disclosure agreement=contract
You can't sign a contract and have it be binding under US contract law until you read it, and if you can read it, you can copy it and post it somewhere (IANAL, but this is also common sense).
NDAs vary, and no one seems to have the text of it available.
Someone post the NDA at least. You don't need to be anonymous to do that. Then let the search for loopholes begin! I know that no one seems to be signing the NDA so it must be crap. If they're writing their NDA with the same brains they're using(?) to handle their case, then there probably is someplace you can drive a truck through.
Can some non-name blogger or /.er with a Journal (there's no difference afterall) just get the NDA and tell us where in the code the issue is. Then we can check the committs to see who committed them and if they are connected to SCO or IBM at all. No connection, no case.
Sound like a variation on "direct to video" which is in Anime all the time and has been seeing increasing use in kid's animation in the US. There's like 20 "Land Before Time" videos now. Just enjoy the movie in the theater if you want, and suggestive sell the DVD on the way out. "Would you like a DVD with that popcorn?"
This would be great for me, since I wouldn't have to skip work or hire a babysitter to see a move inless than 6 months after it's released.
Try the 5.06 OSX beta or run your files through DivX Validator before playing. I can't speak for the Matrix, but this has worked for some other files (Anime) that have been missing sound. DivX Validator makes a copy of the files, so it needs drive space, but it works pretty quickly.
postmaster at vt dot edu would be the best start.
Our mail server admins let VT know about it during testing. It was recently purchased after a successful trial. I'm not sure the arrangement, but you can probably ask postmaster at vt dot edu and get a good referral on the setup.
At our uiversity, Virginia Tech, the hardware e-mail virus scanners (Mirapoint Messaging Server )also do Spam Assassin now, it puts info in headers (sample below). Filter for "X-Junkmail: UCE" and you've got a spam filter (though I run a more aggressive SA on my workstation, since I can customize it there).
B ELOW, CLICK_HERE_LINK,DATE_IN_FUTURE_12_24,HGH, HTML_FONT_COLOR_CYAN,HTML_FONT_COLOR_GRAY, HTML_FONT_COLOR_NAME,HTML_FONT_COLOR_RED, HTML_FONT_COLOR_UNSAFE,HTML_FONT_COLOR_YELLOW,NO_Q S_ASKED, RCVD_IN_DSBL,REMOVE_PAGE,SPAM_PHRASE_13_21,SPAM_RE DIRECTOR, SUSPICIOUS_RECIPS,USER_AGENT_OUTLOOK,VERY_SUSP_REC IPS version=2.44T ype: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="Boundary_(ID_d+Bzp/dF6h/2OkPD89OTbQ)"
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Any such forbidden use shall immediately terminate Your license to the Software.
/. now commands that he terminate his license.
OK, so
I also have "forged headers" as you claim, but changing your "Reply-To" header is not a forged header. It adds a "Reply-To" header to the other headers present in an e-mail. You're not claiming to be from an IP address that you're not using. You're not using non-existant domain names in headers. You *want* to be contacted by your clients in your business dealings.
Have you ever actually read e-mail headers? I'm not sure if you're trolling or just plain ignorant of what e-mail headers are. Open your Outlok Express and looks at the properties of an e-mail message sometime. Or better yet, send me an e-mail and I'm sure I can tell where you sent it from, right down to if you were at work or at home when you sent it.
I stopped being an Apple Buyer for my college's bookstore shortly after the policy was implimentd, and long before the Apple Store, but Apple had implimented the concept of "closed box" and "open box" returns. Returns were allowed based on a percentage of purchases. So you could return say 1% of your purchases as "open box" returns w/o problems. These "open box" returns include exchanges and consumer returns. This may be influencing the return policies of retailers, as exchanges due to manufacturing issues would impact the retailers ability to return products. Assuming this is still in effect, I suspect Apple Stores don't have to deal with this limitation, and are therefore more likely to exchange products.
Mine has a similar issue, which is normal on most LCDs, but the odd thing with my screen is the whigh pitched whine that happens sometimes when the brightness is at max. turn it down 2 notches and the whine goes away.
To keep it on topic, definitely never buy a Rev 1 of anything, especially an Apple product. My TiBook is a rev 1, but it's work's money so we bought the only G4 notebook available at the end of the fiscal year (love government budgeting logic).
A link to a journal entry with notes on playing, comments, impressions etc. would be interesting. I can find a link to the pricing on Zelda w/o CT's help, but reading something may interest me enough to go look at reviews, etc.
Make these more than just a curiosity. I see pudge is playing with the twins tonight....whee....