If there was a Linux/Unix worm running around, couldn't the exact same situation happen?
Yup. But I havn't heard of them. I've heard of a couple viri/worms/trojans with windows that have taken out significant parts of the internet. My Linux/Solaris machines still get hit daily with code red, a 2 year old exploit.
If you were interviewing 2 people for a job, and one was a convicted violent self confessed felon, would you hire him over someone without a record?
9. The RIAA has not changed their product/business model in about 20 years. Yes, there have been new bands, but their product, the thing that we give our hard earned money for, has not changed since the release of CDs. The MPAA has done so with DVDs and especially the extras that come with them. To me a DVD video is a much better value than and audio CD.
It floors me that the RIAA cannot seem to make enough money to keep themselves happy, when just about everyone from 12->25 wants their products! I certainly wish I had thier financial problems.
Give them a choice. If they choose to be tracked it makes their life a little better. And if they don't, fine, they likely don't want to be part of society anyway.
Err, do you work for the feds in the homeless taskforce?
Your proposing giving a mentally ill person that cannot legally make a decision for themselves a choice? Oh, but if they make the "choice", their life will be a little better??? Also, they already aren't a part of our society.
Homelessness is a societal problem. Not a tracking problem. There is plenty of $$ and places for the people to live, there is plenty of food.
Like they saying goes. Communism is the equal distribution of poverty, and Capitolism is the uneven distribution of wealth.
We live in a capitolist societly. Not everyone is going to rise to the top.
I could be like the MPAA, blame everyone but myself when something bad happens
But you can:)
And many people do. However, these people are pretty much at the bottom of the food chain as far as our society goes. Those are the ppl on welfare, use those $500 payday loan places, click on strange email attachments, etc.
However, its a stressful life, and it is not too terribly adaptive. I encourage the MPAA and the RIAA to keep blaming others. Life will move on without them, and a more successful business model will superceed them.
So are they going to put tags on their ears and/or homing transmitters on thier backs?
I can see the "scientists" now with big antenae looking for signals of wild homeless people.
I mean, if the govn't is that concerned with homeless people, maybe instead of tracking them they could give them some skills training, food, and a place to stay.
3. If you're behind a firewall, and you really should be, Only allow outgoing SMTP from your mail server(this keeps the worm from spreading FROM your organization).
This is a big one. Where I work they closed outgoing connections to port 25. I was pissed at first because my server was not sending mail, but once I relayed all mail through the central mail server, everything was fine.
...one and only one copy to be made, for backup purposes...
This is the second time I've seen this on slastdot recently. Where did this one and only one copy for backup come from? It has nothing to do with copyright. Fair use, maybe.
unstable always seems to have package problems which leads you back to dependency hell
I'm not trolling here, but by definition, unstable in Debian speak refers to the package management of the package is not thoroughly tested. Unstable does not necessarily have anything to do with the software within the package.
You still want to be using a CPU from the 70s for how much longer? You still desire 8 and 16 bit apps do you? You still run a.out binaries under linux?
Granted, if you plan on using an Itanium on a Windows platform, you may have some creature comfort programs unavailable, but as for Linux and HPUX, everything you need is there. Also, backwards compatability with parisc 32 and 64 bit apps are available under HPUX. From http://www.hp.com/products1/itanium/infolibrary/wh itepapers/archives/parisc.pdf:
1)Execution without conversion With very few exceptions,HP-UX 11i and HP-UX 11.00 32-bit and 64-bit PA-RISC application binaries execute on HP-UX 11i Itanium systems automatically and transparently without modification or conversion.Binaries from earlier versions of HP-UX (HP-UX 10.20,10.10,etc.)qualify for Itanium compatibility if they are certified on HP-UX 11.00 or HP-UX 11i.
2)Recompiling without modification With very few exceptions,HP-UX 11i and HP-UX 11.00 PA-RISC application source code can be recompiled without modification for native execution on HP-UX 11i Itanium systems.
3)Data transfer without modification or conversion Existing PA-RISC data can be transferred and used without modification or conversion on Itanium HP-UX 11i systems.
Oh, and with your Opteron, which compiler are you going to use to get performance anywhere near the performance of the Intel compiler for the Itanium? You know those spec numbers were most likely done with handcrafted assembler from AMD and unreproducable by you and me. I was able to measure _exactly_ the memory bandwidth of the Itanium as reported by Intel. And, yeah, its fast.
They're trying to say that if I create something (it doesn't have to be a software program, call it a book) that I can't allow other people to copy it? What baloney!
I see no mention of how many copys are allowed from the ppl that wrote the law here.
Isn't the key to generating a truly random number having an essentially analog source?
Not necessarily. Its best to have some kind of chaotic source. Also, being that the world we live in is analog, not digital, aren't all sources analog in nature?
An interesting source for chaotic conditions would be weather. If one could pick a seed from an arbitrary date in history and a seed for some arbitrary extra weather condition (increase/decrease temp, humidity, pressure, etc) and feed that back into a weather simulator, you should get some nice chaos pretty quickly.
This is a reaction to the market. I havn't really seen singles for sale since the early 80s or so, the only way to recently get singles was in mp3 format. Look at ppls mp3 collections (that they download, not rip from their own collections), I doubt that they have more than 1 complete album.
Also, I'm pleased that you used the word "album". Many people (read marketing ppl) mistake the word "album" for "CD". A CD is a piece of plastic and aluminum, an album is a collection of songs, much like a photo album is a collection of pictures.
If the big business did it directly, you would have an easy target and could hit them pretty hard and fast to stop it. This way they have a large number of layers of seperation(deniability) available. As the one company in the article said, they canned the account of the person who spammed to get the lead, but that person was probably already signed up under 15 other names and loses accounts once or twice a week. But that company has deniability, and can claim they took action, knowing that it was worthless...
Read that a couple times and think mafia, not spam.
A while back their was a poll on/. about who was the most powerful with multination corps being one of the choices. Hmm........
you don't know about fuser, do you? (its a little more portable)
yeah, I always have thought that it was unintuitive that you could do a rm -rf/mountpoint with open files in it, but you could not unmount it.
also, it really sucks to mount a floppy and forget to unmount it, eject it, and then you have to reboot to get your system back. Thank god this was fixed with the cdrom driver.
Thats all fine, but the license that SCO is selling is a "right-to-use" and is only in the object file (binary) format. Also, SCO makes no claim to distribute the binaries, so they know your getting the goods from somewhere else.
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If there was a Linux/Unix worm running around, couldn't the exact same situation happen?
Yup. But I havn't heard of them. I've heard of a couple viri/worms/trojans with windows that have taken out significant parts of the internet. My Linux/Solaris machines still get hit daily with code red, a 2 year old exploit.
If you were interviewing 2 people for a job, and one was a convicted violent self confessed felon, would you hire him over someone without a record?
9. The RIAA has not changed their product/business model in about 20 years. Yes, there have been new bands, but their product, the thing that we give our hard earned money for, has not changed since the release of CDs. The MPAA has done so with DVDs and especially the extras that come with them. To me a DVD video is a much better value than and audio CD.
It floors me that the RIAA cannot seem to make enough money to keep themselves happy, when just about everyone from 12->25 wants their products! I certainly wish I had thier financial problems.
You cant blame a tool for its improper use.. or the tool maker..
Unless its tobacco.
valuable target?
target for what?
On average, if I stopped a person in the street, I'd have a > 50% chance of finding someone who never voted for Davis at all
This is America. Less than 50% of the people vote for anyone.
Give them a choice. If they choose to be tracked it makes their life a little better. And if they don't, fine, they likely don't want to be part of society anyway.
Err, do you work for the feds in the homeless taskforce?
Your proposing giving a mentally ill person that cannot legally make a decision for themselves a choice? Oh, but if they make the "choice", their life will be a little better??? Also, they already aren't a part of our society.
Homelessness is a societal problem. Not a tracking problem. There is plenty of $$ and places for the people to live, there is plenty of food.
Like they saying goes. Communism is the equal distribution of poverty, and Capitolism is the uneven distribution of wealth.
We live in a capitolist societly. Not everyone is going to rise to the top.
And what are they bitching about?
I could be like the MPAA, blame everyone but myself when something bad happens
:)
But you can
And many people do. However, these people are pretty much at the bottom of the food chain as far as our society goes. Those are the ppl on welfare, use those $500 payday loan places, click on strange email attachments, etc.
However, its a stressful life, and it is not too terribly adaptive. I encourage the MPAA and the RIAA to keep blaming others. Life will move on without them, and a more successful business model will superceed them.
So are they going to put tags on their ears and/or homing transmitters on thier backs?
I can see the "scientists" now with big antenae looking for signals of wild homeless people.
I mean, if the govn't is that concerned with homeless people, maybe instead of tracking them they could give them some skills training, food, and a place to stay.
3. If you're behind a firewall, and you really should be, Only allow outgoing SMTP from your mail server(this keeps the worm from spreading FROM your organization).
This is a big one. Where I work they closed outgoing connections to port 25. I was pissed at first because my server was not sending mail, but once I relayed all mail through the central mail server, everything was fine.
Network admins, are you listening?
Why ask the user to click on something when you can just embed the same info in an img url?
This is one of many reasons I dislike html email. And since I don't use it, I really don't get that much spam.
Take a peek here:
http://linuxia64.org/
Plus the imh1.jpg image does not appear to be real linux kernel code.
the maplock() function or macro that they have listed is not found in 2.6.0r3 nor 2.4.9 kernel source. There is a struct called maplock in 2.6.
same with mapstart(), its an unsigned long in one file in 2.4.9 and 2.6.
Also, the ASSERT() (macro I assume) can only be found in the 2.6 source fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c file with an 0x80000000 where the function looks like:
if ((v & (v - 1)) == 0)
return v;
ASSERT((v & 0x80000000) == 0);
So, I'm glad SCO has cleared things up for us and why they want $699 for a "right to use" license of Linux.
Oh, and I'm _still_ waiting for them to call me back and tell me how much I owe them.
...one and only one copy to be made, for backup purposes...
This is the second time I've seen this on slastdot recently. Where did this one and only one copy for backup come from? It has nothing to do with copyright. Fair use, maybe.
Take a look at the copyright website.
unstable always seems to have package problems which leads you back to dependency hell
I'm not trolling here, but by definition, unstable in Debian speak refers to the package management of the package is not thoroughly tested. Unstable does not necessarily have anything to do with the software within the package.
You still want to be using a CPU from the 70s for how much longer? You still desire 8 and 16 bit apps do you? You still run a.out binaries under linux?
Granted, if you plan on using an Itanium on a Windows platform, you may have some creature comfort programs unavailable, but as for Linux and HPUX, everything you need is there. Also, backwards compatability with parisc 32 and 64 bit apps are available under HPUX. From http://www.hp.com/products1/itanium/infolibrary/w
Oh, and with your Opteron, which compiler are you going to use to get performance anywhere near the performance of the Intel compiler for the Itanium? You know those spec numbers were most likely done with handcrafted assembler from AMD and unreproducable by you and me. I was able to measure _exactly_ the memory bandwidth of the Itanium as reported by Intel. And, yeah, its fast.
They're trying to say that if I create something (it doesn't have to be a software program, call it a book) that I can't allow other people to copy it? What baloney!
I see no mention of how many copys are allowed from the ppl that wrote the law here.
You're on the right track though. Its an analog source, just like the lava lamps.. but how the heck are you going to tamper with a lava lamp? :)
Cut the cord?
Isn't the key to generating a truly random number having an essentially analog source?
Not necessarily. Its best to have some kind of chaotic source. Also, being that the world we live in is analog, not digital, aren't all sources analog in nature?
An interesting source for chaotic conditions would be weather. If one could pick a seed from an arbitrary date in history and a seed for some arbitrary extra weather condition (increase/decrease temp, humidity, pressure, etc) and feed that back into a weather simulator, you should get some nice chaos pretty quickly.
... "truly random numbers in a variety of formats" ...
Think about that for a second.
This is a reaction to the market. I havn't really seen singles for sale since the early 80s or so, the only way to recently get singles was in mp3 format. Look at ppls mp3 collections (that they download, not rip from their own collections), I doubt that they have more than 1 complete album.
Also, I'm pleased that you used the word "album". Many people (read marketing ppl) mistake the word "album" for "CD". A CD is a piece of plastic and aluminum, an album is a collection of songs, much like a photo album is a collection of pictures.
Heh, someone beat me to it. Btw, this toggles through your working resolutions and color depts, and you have to use the numeric keypad + and -.
If the big business did it directly, you would have an easy target and could hit them pretty hard and fast to stop it. This way they have a large number of layers of seperation(deniability) available. As the one company in the article said, they canned the account of the person who spammed to get the lead, but that person was probably already signed up under 15 other names and loses accounts once or twice a week. But that company has deniability, and can claim they took action, knowing that it was worthless...
/. about who was the most powerful with multination corps being one of the choices. Hmm........
Read that a couple times and think mafia, not spam.
A while back their was a poll on
you don't know about fuser, do you? (its a little more portable)
/mountpoint with open files in it, but you could not unmount it.
yeah, I always have thought that it was unintuitive that you could do a rm -rf
also, it really sucks to mount a floppy and forget to unmount it, eject it, and then you have to reboot to get your system back. Thank god this was fixed with the cdrom driver.
Thats all fine, but the license that SCO is selling is a "right-to-use" and is only in the object file (binary) format. Also, SCO makes no claim to distribute the binaries, so they know your getting the goods from somewhere else.