If you send CERT anonymous mail it is in their interest to handle the problem and it is in their interest not to try and figure out who you are.
CERT however only really works out well if the vendors will co-operate. It is nevertheless a responsible starting point, and if you want to motivate them be sure to tell them you have witnesses that you told them and of the date you told them.
Also understand that most college people won't want to know. They have what government likes to call "plausible deniability" if it comes out. If they've been provably told the system is insecure and then people hack grades and the values of degrees from that body go down then they get all upset about class action lawsuit issues.
Systems like DAMA have taken it somewhat further than Aloha but it is alive and well in a lot of situations. The trick is working out when its a win to use it
I'm using NMH batteries for just about everything battery powered in the house nowdays. NiCad's dont last as long and are very bad for the environment. The batteries I have claim to be good for several hundred cycles, which at the current rate is going to be about 30 years;)
Perhaps a bit extreme however it is certainly true that a lot of users work with one application maximised at all times. Similarly UI design people get very annoyed with programmers who make other bits of the desktop blink, scroll, flash or otherwise move when they are passive on the desktop, because they distract the user.
You can put all your "distracting" applications into a group that your "work" login doesn't allow access to. You can remove the network cable except in specific pre-planned periods.
Nowdays I have to get a lot done, and there are a few things I've found very helpful (and believe me I used to do my homework in the lesson it was being handed in for 8))
- If I think of something else that needs doing I write it down, I don't start doing it disrupting the current task - If I think of stuff late in the evening I write it down so I dont spent the night trying not to forget it - Split big tasks quickly into a list of little subtasks, cross them off as you finish them - Don't sit on irc , its the ultimate productivity killer and distraction bar none (some people seem to swear by putting all their non "work" stuff on a seperate desktop so its not in their vision except when they take a break) - Remember you can read your email just once or twice a day. Ditto web news sites/slashdot - Don't look at a pile of things and think I really ought to be doing something. Do *something* even if its pick the easiest looking task to knock off the list. - When you build up a pile of tasks that can't be done in the required time (wait for final year university 8)) prioritize them and cross of stuff you have to discard, don't sit around doing nothing because you can't do them all. - Get into a routine (I'm dire at this but when it works it helps). Get up read email, go do work the same pattern every day.
Ultimately though its about willpower., someone suggested exercise, one good exercise way to learn about relaxation and willpower is martial arts. Not all of them are about beating the crap out of people (although if you like that sort of competitive thing there are plenty to choose from), others like Aikido are much more about self control and at the extreme soft end they verge into deeply internal things like T'ai Chi.
And indeed against Microsoft. The press is remarkably less keen to cover the threats by other patent holders to sue Microsoft customers or the intertrust lawsuit microsoft is losing right now, which could affect almost their entire product line and given intertrust good reason (under US law anyway) to go sue every user.
Hell now MS is insuring those users intertrust can even go sue the companies without offending the company just raking in the cash...
China owns 1/3 of the US national debt and makes most of its products. Quite where the US is going to go when all the jobs except lawyering have moved offshore isnt clear, but a good candidate is "downhill"
For Red Hat at least just go into Preferences->Fonts and set the DPI to something different and your font sizes will adjust. Another useful tip is that most displays (even the junkier ones) will display very well at doubles of their optimal resolution - so a 1280x1024 panel is very happy at 640x512. Shifting the DPI normally gives better results.
Sun also provided a desktop theme for Gnome designed for optimal accessibility by users with sight problems
Almost all the music I listen to is from non mainstream labels - thats mostly because thats where all the good music is nowdays. Its a lot harder to find but its out there and many of these bands are not just local outfits but just not publicised by the music cartel.
Show of Hands for example won't be found on any RIAA list but they play the Albert Hall in the UK each year, which is not a small or cheap venue. This year they are playing the Eden Project with a load of other bands.
Some of the sounds and styles also just don't exist in the RIAAdom, hop over to www.machinaesupremacy.com and find out what happens when rock and computer game music collide.
Certainly in the UK nowdays if you want to hear decent music, turn off the radio, turn off MTV and go down the pub. or go to some music festivals that have non "mainstream" bands. Much of the music is very good and for the stuff that isnt tbe beer at festivals is almost always excellent.
They don't want to zap them. Thats loss of lots of nice information. "User is carrying CD-R disks but buys them elsewhere", "User's socks are 12 months old, suggest promo"
Think how much easier shopping will be when the shop can tell you what you should have bought 8)
That is the same problem as hotel automated mini-bars, and one of the long standing ob electronic people jokes - removing all the items from the minibar then putting them all back.
Needless to say its very hard for the manager to explain the automated bar bill that appears as a result.
The police aren't the only problem with RFID though. If I have the RFID data for a range of products I can do several things that favour the criminal - consider a mugger sitting with a PDA zapping people going past and getting valuations on them..
Estimated $350
Notes:
Take the ring, take the phone
[OK] [CANCEL]
Teenage kids (or bad newspapers) using RFID to obtain the colours of passing womens underwear and bra size is at least merely going to irritate rather than get people targetted.
Just do what everyone else does, make it abroad import it sending all the money back out of the US and fold if anyone sues you.
Its not just that foreign jobs are cheaper than US or EU jobs, is that there is a patent, liability and general law driven economic incentive to move everything offshore except lawyers
There are a collection of things happening the first of which will be officially announced monday. Suffice to say that Red Hat isn't crazy enough to leave people unable to obtain software on CD, nor is it going enterprise only..
You think it will help you ? Pirating music is an offence in rather a lot of places. If you want the stuff pay for it, if you don't want to pay for it go listen to all the really good music out there by bands smart enough not to join the RIAA bandwagon, bands who can still say what they want, write music the way they want and experiment.
Alan.. waiting for the first Machinaesupremacy album...
MacOS location manager is itself old hat. Multiple roles according to what the user/system is currently doing goes back to military systems in the 1960's. The military stuff is actually vastly more powerful because you can in general tie anything to a role - security rights, commands you can run, settings, files you can read.
Linux pcmcia has had similar stuff since about 1994/5.
Apple's is just a *lot* prettier and more used oriented than anyone elses 8)
Well they say *commercial* web sites. In addition there are huge numbers of non infringing uses of a trademark that even if they were so inclined they could do nothing about.
I don't see anything intriguing there. The Linux clock wraps at 497 days. It's also not "intriguing" as such because FreeBSD is an extremely stable OS.
I am suprised AIX didn't show up in the top five I must admit
The audio is working well (except record in OSS) now, and thats sort of my fault because I have the docs to fix it. The CPU power management works a treat. The firewire apparently works, USB definitely works. I've not explored the consumer IR port. On the X side 2D works (accelerated) as does TV out. VIA sent me a code drop fairly recently which includes XFree 4.2 3D support and kernel side DRI modules, as well as further Xv overlay (but not the mpeg2 engine). Testing that hit a problem on 1600x1200 but once that is sorted it'll get pushed upstream. The 3D needs a couple of people with the time to work through the Mesa changes from XFree4.2->4.3 and update the 3D driver code to make it work again. (or use Xfree 4.2 8))
The 3D stuff is all in the DRI project CVS for the interested, as is the savage 3D stuff they released at the same time - although that also needs further work.
In the UK case they can go to an ISP to get the information having gathered enough evidence to get a magistrate to ok it (which isnt a huge barrier when you can show the time, the data, the files, a video of the download, the music playing and a signed testimony you own the copyright). Data protection law is not a right to do illegal things anonymously. In fact an ISP is permitted to give such data to the police without them even asking if it has good reason to believe a crime is being committed.
I'd expect people in the UK to be dealt with by UK law, just as large scale UK video pirates were. Large scale video piracy was stopped by basically targetting the big pirates and giving them nowhere to advertise their wares either. Now its a hand to hand market or dodgy street market stalls and that keep the volume of piracy under control
As regards file names - given a few downloads that are verified as pirate and the relevant paperwork done and affidavits filed I suspect the rest would be resolved by seizing the equipment in question and seeing what else is on it.
I approve of the RIAA approach this time, its the first sane thing they've done for a long time. Go after the bigger copiers, instead of harassing everyone, screwing up the law and building unusable systems actually go after the criminals for once.
What should be the real limits on "fair use" is another debate, but it will be a lot easier to have when large scale copying of copyright works is under control, and also may actually go back to the old ways - as video has where small scale copying/lending isnt a threat, helps everyone and the law is conveniently ignored by all parties.
I've still yet to see anything that can touch the digital out off a motherboard or USB audio - both of them give the raw digital data stream right to the amp - and at 24bit with some USB - just how good are your speakers ?
How come if this technology works so well we aren't using it to stop people flying to mountains. Put a "soft" wall over all those mountains that people keep crashing aircraft into as well.
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If you send CERT anonymous mail it is in their interest to handle the problem and it is in their interest not to try and figure out who you are.
CERT however only really works out well if the vendors will co-operate. It is nevertheless a responsible starting point, and if you want to motivate them be sure to tell them you have witnesses that you told them and of the date you told them.
Also understand that most college people won't want to know. They have what government likes to call "plausible deniability" if it comes out. If they've been provably told the system is insecure and then people hack grades and the values of degrees from that body go down then they get all upset about class action lawsuit issues.
http://www.debategate.com/forums/PIC/posts/84363.h tml
Systems like DAMA have taken it somewhat further than Aloha but it is alive and well in a lot of situations. The trick is working out when its a win to use it
I'm using NMH batteries for just about everything battery powered in the house nowdays. NiCad's dont last as long and are very bad for the environment. The batteries I have claim to be good for several hundred cycles, which at the current rate is going to be about 30 years ;)
Perhaps a bit extreme however it is certainly true that a lot of users work with one application maximised at all times. Similarly UI design people get very annoyed with programmers who make other bits of the desktop blink, scroll, flash or otherwise move when they are passive on the desktop, because they distract the user.
You can put all your "distracting" applications into a group that your "work" login doesn't allow access to. You can remove the network cable except in specific pre-planned periods.
.
Nowdays I have to get a lot done, and there are a few things I've found very helpful (and believe me I used to do my homework in the lesson it was being handed in for 8))
- If I think of something else that needs doing I write it down, I don't start doing it disrupting the current task
- If I think of stuff late in the evening I write it down so I dont spent the night trying not to forget it
- Split big tasks quickly into a list of little subtasks, cross them off as you finish them
- Don't sit on irc , its the ultimate productivity killer and distraction bar none (some people seem to swear by putting all their non "work" stuff on a seperate desktop so its not in their vision except when they take a break)
- Remember you can read your email just once or twice a day. Ditto web news sites/slashdot
- Don't look at a pile of things and think I really ought to be doing something. Do *something* even if its pick the easiest looking task to knock off the list.
- When you build up a pile of tasks that can't be done in the required time (wait for final year university 8)) prioritize them and cross of stuff you have to discard, don't sit around doing nothing because you can't do them all.
- Get into a routine (I'm dire at this but when it works it helps). Get up read email, go do work the same pattern every day.
Ultimately though its about willpower., someone suggested exercise, one good exercise way to learn about relaxation and willpower is martial arts. Not all of them are about beating the crap out of people (although if you like that sort of competitive thing there are plenty to choose from), others like Aikido are much more about self control and at the extreme soft end they verge into deeply internal things like T'ai Chi
And indeed against Microsoft. The press is remarkably less keen to cover the threats by other patent holders to sue Microsoft customers or the intertrust lawsuit microsoft is losing right now, which could affect almost their entire product line and given intertrust good reason (under US law anyway) to go sue every user.
Hell now MS is insuring those users intertrust can even go sue the companies without offending the company just raking in the cash...
China owns 1/3 of the US national debt and makes most of its products. Quite where the US is going to go when all the jobs except lawyering have moved offshore isnt clear, but a good candidate is "downhill"
For Red Hat at least just go into Preferences->Fonts and set the DPI to something different and your font sizes will adjust. Another useful tip is that most displays (even the junkier ones) will display very well at doubles of their optimal resolution - so a 1280x1024 panel is very happy at 640x512. Shifting the DPI normally gives better results.
Sun also provided a desktop theme for Gnome designed for optimal accessibility by users with sight problems
Almost all the music I listen to is from non mainstream labels - thats mostly because thats where all the good music is nowdays. Its a lot harder to find but its out there and many of these bands are not just local outfits but just not publicised by the music cartel.
Show of Hands for example won't be found on any RIAA list but they play the Albert Hall in the UK each year, which is not a small or cheap venue. This year they are playing the Eden Project with a load of other bands.
Some of the sounds and styles also just don't exist in the RIAAdom, hop over to www.machinaesupremacy.com and find out what happens when rock and computer game music collide.
Certainly in the UK nowdays if you want to hear decent music, turn off the radio, turn off MTV and go down the pub. or go to some music festivals that have non "mainstream" bands. Much of the music is very good and for the stuff that isnt tbe beer at festivals is almost always excellent.
They don't want to zap them. Thats loss of lots of nice information. "User is carrying CD-R disks but buys them elsewhere", "User's socks are 12 months old, suggest promo"
Think how much easier shopping will be when the shop can tell you what you should have bought 8)
That is the same problem as hotel automated mini-bars, and one of the long standing ob electronic people jokes - removing all the items from the minibar then putting them all back.
Needless to say its very hard for the manager to explain the automated bar bill that appears as a result.
The police aren't the only problem with RFID though. If I have the RFID data for a range of products I can do several things that favour the criminal - consider a mugger sitting with a PDA zapping people going past and getting valuations on them..
Estimated $350
Notes:
Take the ring, take the phone
[OK] [CANCEL]
Teenage kids (or bad newspapers) using RFID to obtain the colours of passing womens underwear and bra size is at least merely going to irritate rather than get people targetted.
Just do what everyone else does, make it abroad import it sending all the money back out of the US and fold if anyone sues you.
Its not just that foreign jobs are cheaper than US or EU jobs, is that there is a patent, liability and general law driven economic incentive to move everything offshore except lawyers
The aliens is belivable, the tentacled monsters are believable, but apt-get.. ;)
There are a collection of things happening the first of which will be officially announced monday. Suffice to say that Red Hat isn't crazy enough to leave people unable to obtain software on CD, nor is it going enterprise only..
You will however have to wait until Monday
Of course its always rather likely it isn't right. This is slashdot after all. The real story is naturally a little different.
You think it will help you ? Pirating music is an offence in rather a lot of places. If you want the stuff pay for it, if you don't want to pay for it go listen to all the really good music out there by bands smart enough not to join the RIAA bandwagon, bands who can still say what they want, write music the way they want and experiment.
Alan.. waiting for the first Machinaesupremacy album...
MacOS location manager is itself old hat. Multiple roles according to what the user/system is currently doing goes back to military systems in the 1960's. The military stuff is actually vastly more powerful because you can in general tie anything to a role - security rights, commands you can run, settings, files you can read.
Linux pcmcia has had similar stuff since about 1994/5.
Apple's is just a *lot* prettier and more used oriented than anyone elses 8)
Well they say *commercial* web sites. In addition there are huge numbers of non infringing uses of a trademark that even if they were so inclined they could do nothing about.
I don't see anything intriguing there. The Linux clock wraps at 497 days. It's also not "intriguing" as such because FreeBSD is an extremely stable OS.
I am suprised AIX didn't show up in the top five I must admit
The audio is working well (except record in OSS) now, and thats sort of my fault because I have the docs to fix it. The CPU power management works a treat. The firewire apparently works, USB definitely works. I've not explored the consumer IR port.
On the X side 2D works (accelerated) as does TV out. VIA sent me a code drop fairly recently which includes XFree 4.2 3D support and kernel side DRI modules, as well as further Xv overlay (but not the mpeg2 engine). Testing that hit a problem on 1600x1200 but once that is sorted it'll get pushed upstream.
The 3D needs a couple of people with the time to work through the Mesa changes from XFree4.2->4.3 and update the 3D driver code to make it work again. (or use Xfree 4.2 8))
The 3D stuff is all in the DRI project CVS for the interested, as is the savage 3D stuff they released at the same time - although that also needs further work.
Alan
In the UK case they can go to an ISP to get the information having gathered enough evidence to get a magistrate to ok it (which isnt a huge barrier when you can show the time, the data, the files, a video of the download, the music playing and a signed testimony you own the copyright). Data protection law is not a right to do illegal things anonymously. In fact an ISP is permitted to give such data to the police without them even asking if it has good reason to believe a crime is being committed.
.
I'd expect people in the UK to be dealt with by UK law, just as large scale UK video pirates were. Large scale video piracy was stopped by basically targetting the big pirates and giving them nowhere to advertise their wares either. Now its a hand to hand market or dodgy street market stalls and that keep the volume of piracy under control
As regards file names - given a few downloads that are verified as pirate and the relevant paperwork done and affidavits filed I suspect the rest would be resolved by seizing the equipment in question and seeing what else is on it.
I approve of the RIAA approach this time, its the first sane thing they've done for a long time. Go after the bigger copiers, instead of harassing everyone, screwing up the law and building unusable systems actually go after the criminals for once.
What should be the real limits on "fair use" is another debate, but it will be a lot easier to have when large scale copying of copyright works is under control, and also may actually go back to the old ways - as video has where small scale copying/lending isnt a threat, helps everyone and the law is conveniently ignored by all parties
I've still yet to see anything that can touch the digital out off a motherboard or USB audio - both of them give the raw digital data stream right to the amp - and at 24bit with some USB - just how good are your speakers ?
How come if this technology works so well we aren't using it to stop people flying to mountains. Put a "soft" wall over all those mountains that people keep crashing aircraft into as well.
Its deeply ironic, because their insurers will get half the money back by upping *your* insurance premiums
US fair use is actually more liberal than a lot of places btw