"Dead end" is a bit harsh. Nearly all technologies are transitional given a long enough perspective. I suspect DVD's will have pretty good staying power. Not as long as fire or the wheel, but longer than the 5.25" floppy I would guess.
And there will always be a demand for a fully private media, the consumption of which can't be logged by an online service. Whatever finally replaces the DVD, it won't be VOD.
It seems to me that the biggest security problem with FTP is that it transmits passwords in the clear. Anonymous FTP in a chroot jail should be reasonably secure. I'd be interested to hear contrary opinions.
According to the article, the officer's attorney argued that the search was illegal under the Oregonian constitution. It may be that the Oregonian constitution affords greater protections than the US constitution.
The fact that it's easy do to something doesn't mean it should be a legal mandate.
The airline should be required to make ticket sales available to the blind, but they should not be required to do so through every conceivable medium. Do you require all printed product catalogs to be in brail?
Actually, librarians were one of the earlier professions outside of the hard sciences to "get" computers.
Upgraded yesterday, Apache migration info
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I upgraded on a mouseless server without a GUI. The prior version was Red Hat 7.3 with a highly customized Apache config.
I got a gpm oops during package install that caused a minor formatting problem with the progress bar, but it didn't obscure the information or break the install.
Needless to say, managing the Apache migration to 2.0 was the biggest headache, but I'd say Red Hat did a reasonably good job of easing the pain. When you try to start Apache from the rc script, it fails with an error directing you to an html file for information on migration. That file was fairly helpful as a starting point.
It explained that my old config files had not been changed but would not work with the new Apache version, and it explained that new stock config files had been installed and where I could find them. Working with the two files was awkward without the GUI, having to Alt-F2 and Alt-F1 between terminals, but I managed to get the config file updated for my sites in about an hour. I had already been off line for quite a while during the OS install, so I didn't mind much. If down time is an issue, consider bringing in a temporary box.
Interestingly, I did choose to customize the packages that I upgraded, but I didn't see Apache there. It apparently forced me to upgrade. Can anyone confirm this? Perhaps I overlooked it.
I would have liked to see some warning or information during the installation. I'm not sure everyone will stumble onto that migration message as serendipitously as I did. (It's here:/usr/share/doc/httpd-2.0.40/migration.html.) It may have been visible during the system startup, but since Apache starts relatively late you would have had to have been paying close attention. I didn't notice. I'd also liked to have seen options to install 2.0 to a different directory while leaving the 1.3 version in a working state, or to revert to 1.3. Also, it's fortunate that my sites don't make use of any modules that aren't available in 2.0.
Forgiveness is unwise until the wrongdoer is either repentant or rendered incapable of further wrongdoing (read: killed). They tried to kill me, and they are still trying to kill me.
If they saw the light and apologized and undertook not to do it again, then we can have a meaningful discussion of forgiveness. But frankly, that possibility is a bit too hypothetical for me.
Perhaps the poster meant that we should forgive Muslims or Arabs. On that score, there is nothing to forgive. My own hatred is restricted to the specific men who planned and executed these attacks. The poster who mentioned American napalm would do well to maintain such a distinction. There is a wide gulf in moral culpability between terrorists and private citizens whose government acts reprehensively. The 9/11 attacks targeted private citizens.
Isn't Haiku supposed to incorporate nature?
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The herd of wild boars
thundering through the forest
stopped dead by haiku.
Where the yangtze flows
copyright finds no respect
as RIAA well knows.
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Your patent points 1 and 2 are theoretically already required by the patent law. The patent law also requires that inventions must be useful; would you keep that requirement?
Your point 3 seems impossible to maintain. Where would the line be drawn? Would warp technology not be patentable as a consequence of the prior invention of fire?
I seem to recall a couple of years ago (1999?) that someone figured out the BG makes approximately $100 per second. I believe they based the calculation on the appreciation of MS stock.
If that's still true, then two 8-hour days of testimony would cost him $5,760,000.
So you'd have to make almost $600,000 per year for a decade for your statement to be true:-)
Actually, depending on the context, you often don't need a signature to form a binding contract. Just some clear indication of acceptance. In the case of the GPL, acceptance is indicated by the act of modification or redistribution. (GPL paragraph 5)
"Fraud" is a good word for the password analogy, but only if the password were used to fool someone. What if, instead, it were used to gain access to your system?
"Conversion" is a good word for the larger topic of unauthorized use of your hardware.
No one should use your computer for any purpose that you do not authorize, any more than they should drive your car without asking you. You don't need to agree on whether information is ownable to agree to that.
Here's a somewhat strained analogy: suppose someone used a projecter to create a billboard on the side of your house. It doesn't damage the paint, it just turns your house into a billboard. Never mind who, if anyone, owns the information content of the ad -- they shouldn't do that to YOUR HOUSE.
I can see banning long-duration cookies, but e commerse would collapse without the session cookie, or something functionally eqivelant. A better rule would be to require browser makers to provide better granularity in cookie preferences, and to make the settings more conspicuous.
If the new policy conficts with your project goals, send a memo to the project manager (or higher if that's you) explaining that you cannot achieve your project goals under the new policy. Let the higher-ups decide whether the project is more or less important than the policy.
In short, this problem is not of your making; there's no need to make it yours.
A bit off topic, perhaps, but under the rubric of the policy decisions behind full disclosure -- this is my memory of a portion of an actual US immigration interview:
Immigration Officer: Have you ever committed a crime in any jurisdiction not related to political speech which nobody else knows about?
My Wife: No.
Me: Listen, I'm not trying to be a wise-ass, but has anyone ever answered "Yes" to that question?
Immigration Officer: Actually, yeah. I have actually had people confess crimes to me that they had never been caught at before.
Like others who have commented, I too have repurposed an old PC that someone was going to throw out. I used Linux kernel 2.4.2, and three NIC's in a LAN/DMZ configuration.
For my purposes, I was happy to have the learning experience. But if you're new to it, be forewarned that it can be a big headache getting it right.
Before becoming a developer I was a law librarian, and I had the pleasure of seeing you debate a representative of West Publishing over the issue of their asserted copyright to reporter pagination. I think this is an issue that Slashdotters would be interested in, but I haven't seen it discussed much here.
Briefly: West (since bought by Thompson) publishes nearly all court reporters in the US. Courts require page citation to earlier decisions in any documents that parties submit for their consideration. Obviously West can't claim a copyright to the decisions since the courts authored them, but they do assert a copyright to the page breaks in their reporters. So directly or indirectly, each litigant must pay West a license for citing case law.
It seems to me that this issue in some ways presaged the fair use issues raised by the DMCA. The trend seems to be toward rights without remedies. Yes case law is in the public domain but you can't use it in court. Yes you have a fair use right to digital media, but you can't circumvent technology aimed at thwarting that right.
My question: do you agree that this is a trend, and do you see it continuing?
In The Cuckoo's Egg, Cliff Stoll asks (I paraphrase) "If you lived in a small town where nobody locked their doors, would you thank the first burglar?"
OK, the Internet isn't a small town any more, but one has to wonder where it all ends? As black and gray hats keep upping the ante, just running a simple web site requires more and more vigilance. IMHO, they have already succeeded in making the web an experts-only club.
That said, this security hole does not seem to have been exploited by anyone. It appears that it was stumbled upon. So I don't know what Jerks Taco is referring to here. Did I over-look something?
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"Dead end" is a bit harsh. Nearly all technologies are transitional given a long enough perspective. I suspect DVD's will have pretty good staying power. Not as long as fire or the wheel, but longer than the 5.25" floppy I would guess.
And there will always be a demand for a fully private media, the consumption of which can't be logged by an online service. Whatever finally replaces the DVD, it won't be VOD.
It seems to me that the biggest security problem with FTP is that it transmits passwords in the clear. Anonymous FTP in a chroot jail should be reasonably secure. I'd be interested to hear contrary opinions.
According to the article, the officer's attorney argued that the search was illegal under the Oregonian constitution. It may be that the Oregonian constitution affords greater protections than the US constitution.
The fact that it's easy do to something doesn't mean it should be a legal mandate.
The airline should be required to make ticket sales available to the blind, but they should not be required to do so through every conceivable medium. Do you require all printed product catalogs to be in brail?
Who thought the LOC could be so 31337?"
Actually, librarians were one of the earlier professions outside of the hard sciences to "get" computers.
I upgraded on a mouseless server without a GUI. The prior version was Red Hat 7.3 with a highly customized Apache config.
/usr/share/doc/httpd-2.0.40/migration.html.) It may have been visible during the system startup, but since Apache starts relatively late you would have had to have been paying close attention. I didn't notice. I'd also liked to have seen options to install 2.0 to a different directory while leaving the 1.3 version in a working state, or to revert to 1.3. Also, it's fortunate that my sites don't make use of any modules that aren't available in 2.0.
I got a gpm oops during package install that caused a minor formatting problem with the progress bar, but it didn't obscure the information or break the install.
Needless to say, managing the Apache migration to 2.0 was the biggest headache, but I'd say Red Hat did a reasonably good job of easing the pain. When you try to start Apache from the rc script, it fails with an error directing you to an html file for information on migration. That file was fairly helpful as a starting point.
It explained that my old config files had not been changed but would not work with the new Apache version, and it explained that new stock config files had been installed and where I could find them. Working with the two files was awkward without the GUI, having to Alt-F2 and Alt-F1 between terminals, but I managed to get the config file updated for my sites in about an hour. I had already been off line for quite a while during the OS install, so I didn't mind much. If down time is an issue, consider bringing in a temporary box.
Interestingly, I did choose to customize the packages that I upgraded, but I didn't see Apache there. It apparently forced me to upgrade. Can anyone confirm this? Perhaps I overlooked it.
I would have liked to see some warning or information during the installation. I'm not sure everyone will stumble onto that migration message as serendipitously as I did. (It's here:
Forgiveness is unwise until the wrongdoer is either repentant or rendered incapable of further wrongdoing (read: killed). They tried to kill me, and they are still trying to kill me.
If they saw the light and apologized and undertook not to do it again, then we can have a meaningful discussion of forgiveness. But frankly, that possibility is a bit too hypothetical for me.
Perhaps the poster meant that we should forgive Muslims or Arabs. On that score, there is nothing to forgive. My own hatred is restricted to the specific men who planned and executed these attacks. The poster who mentioned American napalm would do well to maintain such a distinction. There is a wide gulf in moral culpability between terrorists and private citizens whose government acts reprehensively. The 9/11 attacks targeted private citizens.
Copyright haiku
as umbrella repells rain
foils spam spam spam spam.
The herd of wild boars
thundering through the forest
stopped dead by haiku.
Where the yangtze flows
copyright finds no respect
as RIAA well knows.
Your patent points 1 and 2 are theoretically already required by the patent law. The patent law also requires that inventions must be useful; would you keep that requirement?
Your point 3 seems impossible to maintain. Where would the line be drawn? Would warp technology not be patentable as a consequence of the prior invention of fire?
I seem to recall a couple of years ago (1999?) that someone figured out the BG makes approximately $100 per second. I believe they based the calculation on the appreciation of MS stock.
:-)
If that's still true, then two 8-hour days of testimony would cost him $5,760,000.
So you'd have to make almost $600,000 per year for a decade for your statement to be true
Actually, depending on the context, you often don't need a signature to form a binding contract. Just some clear indication of acceptance. In the case of the GPL, acceptance is indicated by the act of modification or redistribution. (GPL paragraph 5)
Kinda tough to find, but http://www.the-dma.org/consumers/optoutform_emps.s html
"Fraud" is a good word for the password analogy, but only if the password were used to fool someone. What if, instead, it were used to gain access to your system?
"Conversion" is a good word for the larger topic of unauthorized use of your hardware.
No one should use your computer for any purpose that you do not authorize, any more than they should drive your car without asking you. You don't need to agree on whether information is ownable to agree to that.
Here's a somewhat strained analogy: suppose someone used a projecter to create a billboard on the side of your house. It doesn't damage the paint, it just turns your house into a billboard. Never mind who, if anyone, owns the information content of the ad -- they shouldn't do that to YOUR HOUSE.
Yes, there are other ways, but each way I can think of is just as invasive of privacy as a session cookie would be.
I can see banning long-duration cookies, but e commerse would collapse without the session cookie, or something functionally eqivelant. A better rule would be to require browser makers to provide better granularity in cookie preferences, and to make the settings more conspicuous.
Remember this?
If the new policy conficts with your project goals, send a memo to the project manager (or higher if that's you) explaining that you cannot achieve your project goals under the new policy. Let the higher-ups decide whether the project is more or less important than the policy.
In short, this problem is not of your making; there's no need to make it yours.
...I tunnel my web browsing over SSH2 to my OpenBSD box at home....
Careful. When you visit a web site, they can still sniff your DNS queries.
Let's all stop alerting the world when we find a security hole in an MS product. Then let's see if MS's security improves.
He was very nice.
Linus could get involved but not because he owns the rights to the trademark "Linux". This a copyright issue, not a trademark issue.
Like others who have commented, I too have repurposed an old PC that someone was going to throw out. I used Linux kernel 2.4.2, and three NIC's in a LAN/DMZ configuration.
For my purposes, I was happy to have the learning experience. But if you're new to it, be forewarned that it can be a big headache getting it right.
Jamie,
Before becoming a developer I was a law librarian, and I had the pleasure of seeing you debate a representative of West Publishing over the issue of their asserted copyright to reporter pagination. I think this is an issue that Slashdotters would be interested in, but I haven't seen it discussed much here.
Briefly: West (since bought by Thompson) publishes nearly all court reporters in the US. Courts require page citation to earlier decisions in any documents that parties submit for their consideration. Obviously West can't claim a copyright to the decisions since the courts authored them, but they do assert a copyright to the page breaks in their reporters. So directly or indirectly, each litigant must pay West a license for citing case law.
It seems to me that this issue in some ways presaged the fair use issues raised by the DMCA. The trend seems to be toward rights without remedies. Yes case law is in the public domain but you can't use it in court. Yes you have a fair use right to digital media, but you can't circumvent technology aimed at thwarting that right.
My question: do you agree that this is a trend, and do you see it continuing?
ccarr.com
The NOSPAM trick isn't designed to fool anyone; a forged reply-to header is.
In The Cuckoo's Egg, Cliff Stoll asks (I paraphrase) "If you lived in a small town where nobody locked their doors, would you thank the first burglar?"
OK, the Internet isn't a small town any more, but one has to wonder where it all ends? As black and gray hats keep upping the ante, just running a simple web site requires more and more vigilance. IMHO, they have already succeeded in making the web an experts-only club.
That said, this security hole does not seem to have been exploited by anyone. It appears that it was stumbled upon. So I don't know what Jerks Taco is referring to here. Did I over-look something?