To me, portscannign is like walking down the street and jiggling every handle on every door. Sure, you might not do anythign bad, but it does raise some suspicion. Also, could someone tell me a real use for a portscanner, except done by the admin himself?
Alexander
CmdrTaco: can you please implement a spellchecker for the comments?:)
Who said you have to wait for everything to load before starting a shell? why not modify the inittab and rc scripts and whatnot to run a shell on the first VC as soon as all the manditory services and drivers are load, things like SCSI,/usr, etc. Sure, the first minute or two ill be slow while you load sendmail and apache and all the rest of the stuff manditory for a personal computer, but you will have a shell. I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to do that same with X, for nice GUI in the first few seconds.
I'd think tcl is one of the easier languages to teach to a person unpolluted with java and c++ and all that other nonesence. But seriously, tcl/tk has a very decent syntax, and its very easy to understand. You'll have your kids making nice gui apps in no time.
Do we actually need laws to stop these people from bringing stupid lawsuits up? I hate to say it, but at the rate things are going, we might need a little government control to smack these companies around. Someone needs to propose some kind of bill to stop this BS. As much as I hate government control, this seems like the only way to stop this type of action, which is most certainly against the spirit of the net, is through the government or the legal system.
What we need in this country is a "loser pays" civil litigation system. That way innocent defendats don't waste money on legal fees, and trigger happy prosecutors have more to think about before filing cases. Trial lawyers sure don't like this, which means we HAVE to do it:).
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... people actually get rid of old computers???
To me, portscannign is like walking down the street and jiggling every handle on every door. Sure, you might not do anythign bad, but it does raise some suspicion. Also, could someone tell me a real use for a portscanner, except done by the admin himself?
:)
Alexander
CmdrTaco: can you please implement a spellchecker for the comments?
Who said you have to wait for everything to load before starting a shell? why not modify the inittab and rc scripts and whatnot to run a shell on the first VC as soon as all the manditory services and drivers are load, things like SCSI, /usr, etc. Sure, the first minute or two ill be slow while you load sendmail and apache and all the rest of the stuff manditory for a personal computer, but you will have a shell. I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to do that same with X, for nice GUI in the first few seconds.
Alexander Beyn
I'd think tcl is one of the easier languages to teach to a person unpolluted with java and c++ and all that other nonesence. But seriously, tcl/tk has a very decent syntax, and its very easy to understand. You'll have your kids making nice gui apps in no time.
>>...but McDonalds is a famous name, and it was >>created (I assume) by a guy named McDonald.
>Nope, Ray Kroc (sp?)
Actually, Ray Kroc bought the McDonald's restuarant from the McDonalds brothers way back when.
Alexander Beyn
Do we actually need laws to stop these people from bringing stupid lawsuits up? I hate to say it, but at the rate things are going, we might need a little government control to smack these companies around. Someone needs to propose some kind of bill to stop this BS. As much as I hate government control, this seems like the only way to stop this type of action, which is most certainly against the spirit of the net, is through the government or the legal system.
:).
What we need in this country is a "loser pays" civil litigation system. That way innocent defendats don't waste money on legal fees, and trigger happy prosecutors have more to think about before filing cases. Trial lawyers sure don't like this, which means we HAVE to do it
Alexander Beyn
This patent is actually one of the more legit ones, when you consider some of the stuff we've all read on Slashdot.
hey, i have an idea. i'll follow their lead and mail out a bunch of letters saying:
By opening this envelope and reading this
letter you agree to pay me $100. You
have one week to reply before I call
my lawyers.
Thank you.
seems legally identical to me.