"When the U.S. government cannot get a
controversial policy adopted domestically, they
pressure an international group to adopt it,
and then bring it back to the U.S. as an
international treaty - which obliges Congress
to enact it,"
Just look at the thread before, I get frigthened at this combination, subverting software companies (to s**t at their customers), suppressing free information exchange and forbidding the usage and/or information about tools to check your system appears quite systematic to me.
will the next step be an Internet license and an allow list which information is allowed ?
I.B.M. has also made a thing like this in the HQ of the socialist party in an Eastern country, there were additional disks in the system carrying a copy of the database on it.
This seems to be quite usual.
Ther was a discussion about industrial espionage a few month ago, it was said, that Airbus will process against the US and the UK because of information towards Boeing, does anyone know any news in this case ?
This is nothing for Apples hall of fame, instead of reinventing something similar or trying to show up against software patents they prefer a simle (and maybe even danger) solution.
I always thought Apple was one of the few companies with innovation, thats not the usual philosophy. (I hope someone gets the idea of patenting some Apple-stuff, probably theill notice when they are confronted with the problems)
I can remember a thread a few month ago about the NSA (or a company doing this for the nsa) was/is working on a "Secure Linux" Project which should replace OBSD as a "many plattform OS" for their use. Has anyone heard of this thing since then ?
Im quite sure, that if youd ask the Canadians at the moment, theyd probably prefer OS in the future since they had to learn that one cant trust stuff coming from other countries and/or unknown sources
. (If its really critical stuff, they should do a general code reviewing from diffrent institutions to ensure that they arent installing any kind of backdoors for anyone).
Another thing here is that the Gov cant really regulate or lead the development of the OS as the main development happens far outside of any governemental institution.
It seems as at some consultants were able to learn about it, only I beleive that the Industry will once again have too much pressure to allow an realistc decision about this topic.
Beeing a sysadmin for a company with about 2000 users spam can really be a problem, especially if users start to complain about beeing bothered by spam or demanding to prevent mails like this.
Generally I think one should be able to decide wether he is willing to accept it or not, if I decide not to want spam and therefor Im using MAPS, RBL or other stuff it my decision and if they get forced to remove certain sites from their list, I'll be forced to maintain a manual blocking list also - it will be more work for me but still the same effect. So, if the spamming lists get compromised by legal decisions, it will be time for an "Additional Open Source Spamming List" as an addon.
I personally think that the time for non open sourced Unices for X86 has passed. The only thing that was left from SCO (except some memories) was the name, so I think its much harder to relaunch business using a different brandname... and there are more than enough other good OSses theill have to compete against.
Game ROMs are expensive, thats true, but anyone knew this allready when buying this stuff. If they take measures against illegal copying its their right to do so. They live from producing and selling them.
I think this is diffrent from the Napster discussion, as most people I know are not satisfied with mp3 quality so they buy the CDs they like anyway.
This is pure illegal software spreading so you should not wonder about them closing down the sites, this is nothing new...
Basicaly in states where you have the right to protest and damonstrate against something you should take it whenever you beleive its necessary.
If the state hast to react with power against peacefull events, it usually has a reason for it or at least something to fear about.
Sad enough, but I think you can rate your state by its reaction to you taking your rights by going public with other than the wanted opinion.
Sadly enough I dont know many coutries where going out on the streets doesent bring any consequences...
Having been a quite intensive Amiga user when it was the time for it, I'd love to see some kind of rebirth of this machine. But I dont think, that just having the same name as a product that was very innovative at its time will be enough to compete with PS2 and the other "fast graphic" devices which are available.
In Austria about htree weks ago the conservative party (oevp) started a pro-spamming-initiative on their webpage. On the following weekend this feature (a web interface to send mass-emails !) was used by surfers to send their comments about this feature to the politicians - the mail system went down......
It wasn't such an easy decision for all parties as it seems now but at least its astounding that the Austrian are first... Well see if the EC will follow or at leas how they'll execute it with international spam... Is this gonna be a legalisation trip for consorship ? hope not....
Well, AFAIK there are quite a few known cases of industrial espionage in the last years, none of them was brought in contact with gouvernmental acions. But on the other hand it has been stated by various highstanding people, that the advance in technology in fact *is* a matter of national security.... At least I would hope, that the Echelon project and that are not used together, this would mean that all commercial data transfer could be checked for buseness secrets which will be abused ba American comanies. According to the german CT magazine, there are a few cases known, where transmission of engineering data was spied and tha plans have been patented in the US right after. Noone mattered that the original companies Logo was still on the drawings....
At least the keep me thinking and we should stay aware....
If its got a value: Encrypt ASAP (as strong as possible)
Most of you see the problem in migrating the userdata like passwords to linux, but what if you consider of using LDAP to dump the NT-Database to the directoryservice (afaik only the Netscape-directoryserver, which is currently in betastade for Linux knows how to do this - please let me know if this is not the case). Then you could use the directory to authenticate your *x hosts (and therefore your samba-server) via NIS against it.
The directory could be managed from a database (probably a HR or a customer database).
But I have got no idea how the MS-Maildata (I think you are talking about MS-Exchange) could be converted... and to what ? local mailfolders ? I'd be pleased about answers...
Also the argument about ACLs is quite strong for a comany or could it be done via smb.conf ? (does sambs speak LDAP ? you could also manage your acls via the same database)
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controversial policy adopted domestically, they
pressure an international group to adopt it,
and then bring it back to the U.S. as an
international treaty - which obliges Congress
to enact it,"
Just look at the thread before, I get frigthened at this combination, subverting software companies (to s**t at their customers), suppressing free information exchange and forbidding the usage and/or information about tools to check your system appears quite systematic to me.
will the next step be an Internet license and an allow list which information is allowed ?
Brave new world
I.B.M. has also made a thing like this in the HQ of the socialist party in an Eastern country, there were additional disks in the system carrying a copy of the database on it.
This seems to be quite usual.
Ther was a discussion about industrial espionage a few month ago, it was said, that Airbus will process against the US and the UK because of information towards Boeing, does anyone know any news in this case ?
This is nothing for Apples hall of fame, instead of reinventing something similar or trying to show up against software patents they prefer a simle (and maybe even danger) solution.
I always thought Apple was one of the few companies with innovation, thats not the usual philosophy. (I hope someone gets the idea of patenting some Apple-stuff, probably theill notice when they are confronted with the problems)
. (If its really critical stuff, they should do a general code reviewing from diffrent institutions to ensure that they arent installing any kind of backdoors for anyone).Im quite sure, that if youd ask the Canadians at the moment, theyd probably prefer OS in the future since they had to learn that one cant trust stuff coming from other countries and/or unknown sources
Another thing here is that the Gov cant really regulate or lead the development of the OS as the main development happens far outside of any governemental institution.
It seems as at some consultants were able to learn about it, only I beleive that the Industry will once again have too much pressure to allow an realistc decision about this topic.
Just keep using it !!
Beeing a sysadmin for a company with about 2000 users spam can really be a problem, especially if users start to complain about beeing bothered by spam or demanding to prevent mails like this.
Generally I think one should be able to decide wether he is willing to accept it or not, if I decide not to want spam and therefor Im using MAPS, RBL or other stuff it my decision and if they get forced to remove certain sites from their list, I'll be forced to maintain a manual blocking list also - it will be more work for me but still the same effect. So, if the spamming lists get compromised by legal decisions, it will be time for an "Additional Open Source Spamming List" as an addon.
I personally think that the time for non open sourced Unices for X86 has passed. The only thing that was left from SCO (except some memories) was the name, so I think its much harder to relaunch business using a different brandname... and there are more than enough other good OSses theill have to compete against.
Zappa
Game ROMs are expensive, thats true, but anyone knew this allready when buying this stuff. If they take measures against illegal copying its their right to do so. They live from producing and selling them. ...
I think this is diffrent from the Napster discussion, as most people I know are not satisfied with mp3 quality so they buy the CDs they like anyway.
This is pure illegal software spreading so you should not wonder about them closing down the sites, this is nothing new
Basicaly in states where you have the right to protest and damonstrate against something you should take it whenever you beleive its necessary.
If the state hast to react with power against peacefull events, it usually has a reason for it or at least something to fear about.
Sad enough, but I think you can rate your state by its reaction to you taking your rights by going public with other than the wanted opinion.
Sadly enough I dont know many coutries where going out on the streets doesent bring any consequences...
Having been a quite intensive Amiga user when it was the time for it, I'd love to see some kind of rebirth of this machine. But I dont think, that just having the same name as a product that was very innovative at its time will be enough to compete with PS2 and the other "fast graphic" devices which are available.
Let the legend sleep, it had its time !
I dont know many ideas or concepts beeing able used for such a long time, and its nice to read about how a great idea was implemented.
Best wishes !
works fine with my suse 6.2/netscape 4.61. was in the chess chatroom...
In Austria about htree weks ago the conservative party (oevp) started a pro-spamming-initiative on their webpage. On the following weekend this feature (a web interface to send mass-emails !) was used by surfers to send their comments about this feature to the politicians - the mail system went down ......
... Well see if the EC will follow or at leas how they'll execute it with international spam ... Is this gonna be a legalisation trip for consorship ? hope not ....
It wasn't such an easy decision for all parties as it seems now but at least its astounding that the Austrian are first
Best wishes
Zappa
Well, AFAIK there are quite a few known cases of industrial espionage in the last years, none of them was brought in contact with gouvernmental acions. But on the other hand it has been stated by various highstanding people, that the advance in technology in fact *is* a matter of national security.... ....
....
At least I would hope, that the Echelon project and that are not used together, this would mean that all commercial data transfer could be checked for buseness secrets which will be abused ba American comanies.
According to the german CT magazine, there are a few cases known, where transmission of engineering data was spied and tha plans have been patented in the US right after. Noone mattered that the original companies Logo was still on the drawings
At least the keep me thinking and we should stay aware
If its got a value: Encrypt ASAP (as strong as possible)
Best wishes !
Most of you see the problem in migrating the userdata like passwords to linux, but what if you consider of using LDAP to dump the NT-Database to the directoryservice (afaik only the Netscape-directoryserver, which is currently in betastade for Linux knows how to do this - please let me know if this is not the case).
... and to what ? local mailfolders ? I'd be pleased about answers ...
Then you could use the directory to authenticate your *x hosts (and therefore your samba-server) via NIS against it.
The directory could be managed from a database (probably a HR or a customer database).
But I have got no idea how the MS-Maildata (I think you are talking about MS-Exchange) could be converted
Also the argument about ACLs is quite strong for a comany or could it be done via smb.conf ? (does sambs speak LDAP ? you could also manage your acls via the same database)