A data format, which formats
information shared between two programs, may be reverse engineered as well. The restriction here is that this is allowed only if it "does not constitute infringement". A purchased DVD is a mixture of programs and encrypted data formats. The formats have been reverse engineered to enable the licensed data contained therein to be passed between programs, allowing a purchaser to play the program he licensed by his purchase on the operating system of his choice. The
distribution of DeCSS fits well under the law, when the legislative history is taken into account.
Many lawyers have difficulties explaining technologies when they barely understand it themselves, which may be one of the problems with cases such as this.
Honestly my feelings on this is simple, if it was predefined in some sort of clause (like "by purchasing a DVD you the buyer would not under penalty of law, attempt to use it on other formats aside from the intended devices meaning your home DVD player under penalty of law") then the industry should not bitch about it.
Whats happening is a shame and is going to be a definite blow to the entire Internet should the judge rule against 2600. Think about what this case is about. Linking (for those who don't know) explain to me how linking to an article is against the law in the land where under 1st amendment right your entitled to free speech?
DVDs are published media to which fair use rights apply. Creation of technological circumvention measures which are useable only on purchased media are not in themselves infringing, due to fair use rights of the public. Reverse engineering of
such media is fair use, and distribution of the tools used in such fair use is sanctioned under 1201(f)(3).
Laws are laws and there is no way in hell any judge should turn their backs on whats written unless they care to revamp the entire system. Regardless of who is putting money under the tables for anyone.
Issues such as the present should be addressed by those in law schools, and perhaps an organization could be drawn up to define what is legal and what isn't when dealing with Internet based factors.
Its rather unsettling that there is not a set of rules however you wanna draw them up, on an ethical level, or in a court of law. There are some great things people miss out on due to not coporate greed for the most matter, as many companies turn around and cut deals [Napster].
Worldwide however many companies stand to benefit more from losening up around the collars instead of waisting so much effort to sue each other. For instance in this case, an American company, and a Canadian company could merge to make this happen, and everyone would be happy. Both sides could predefine what terms are to be laid down the line, and move from there.
In the U.S. lawsuits - one from the Motion Picture Association of America on behalf of 10 movie studios and three broadcast networks, and one from the National Football League and the National Basketball Association - a settlement was reached after a federal court judge in Pittsburgh, Penn., issued a preliminary injunction forbidding iCraveTV from leaking into the U.S. content belonging to the American plaintiffs.
This is understandable when dealing with monies involved which dip into the billions (yearly) for advertising spots. Maybe a settlement can be reached with the broadcasters to switch off on revenues by allowing a pre-determined amount of ads to be shown if their programming content is used.
ICraveTV did what JumpTV plans to do - capture television signals available off the air and pipe them across the Internet as live streaming video.
Industry should allow this for a few reasons. One it gives a foundation for future attempts to capitalize on an Internet/Television combination. It provides an outlet as well for greater learning of cultures from our neighbors in Canada, and vice versa.
However the downside I see to this is simple. Not everyone will be able to watch content if they're on slow connections no matter which format you choose to stream this content on. The latency would be horrendous for one, and another downside is, at home I have a nice sized television which makes my computer monitor look like a PDA. So what makes this company think people would be willing to give up their televisions to watch their pc's?
Even moreso, is why would someone want to watch this. What distinctive programming would I benefit from this? I already have DSS which I barely watch. 300+ channels of nothing to watch so it often remains on, either on Discovery, History or MTV and acts as a radio while I play on PC. So again why would someone need this?
Honestly though smoe organization needs to come together and address all these legal woes, before it causes major rifts with international relations somewhere down the line.
RedHat Systems announced today that they will no longer produce
RedHat Linux but instead are focusing on creating new and improved
Windows Managers. Industry analysts see a sudden boom for WM's as
they're called in the geek world of Linux, and are urging RedHat
to compete with the established 2,069,722 different window managers
currently on the market.
"We're all ecstatic over here. To think that five years ago there
were about four or five window managers such as FVWM, TWM, and
others, we now have a variety." stated a developer at RedHat.
RedHat is planning on releasing its first RHWM or RedHat Windows
Manager complete with 100 megabytes of animated gif images for
buttons. Third quarter they expect to release WM3M or Window
Manager 3 Million which is built with both QT, and GTK libraries
for interoperability.
No longer will you have 2,069,722 options, but you will now have
complete access to 8 cd's worth of window managers including WM's
built on XML, JAVA, PERL, Python, REBOL, and an attempt to intermix
Wine by releasing an entire WM built with Visual Basic.
RedHat's stock price is going through the roof at this announcement
as venture capitalists without a clue as to what they're purchasing
are jumping on the bandwagon.
I wonder if folks over at SGI plan on dropping Irix in the near future for Linux entirely. As it stands right now the majority of their hardware run Linux, and the last version of Irix released was to mainly fix bugs.
Its a shame that SGI has done pretty poor the past few years, when they're such kick ass machines, and personally I think they should kick the marketing teams asses.
I know previously they've used a customized version of Windows exclusively on their 320/540 servers, I guess they changed em all around to avoid fireselling them at crackhead prices. Maybe someday I'll see a BSD running on an Irix machine to see how it would run in comparison to Linux (don't bother to troll this post this is not an OS war-penis-envious-linux-vs-bsd-post) as far as benchmarking is concerned. As for XFS support I though it was supported for reading and not writing? Oh well I don't use Linux anymore;)
Recently I was on IRC when this guy was beefing about paying for the CD of OpenBSD when he could just download it instead of having the ISO, not neccessarily related but hear me out. I argued with this guy for a few minutes pointing out the fact that developers often create these OS' on their own spare time, and $30.00 is relatively cheap considering most Open Sourced operating systems are heaven compared with others.
I often wonder how people manage to continously create some of the most useful open sourced products when they are not getting paid for it. Don't get me wrong I understand life isn't all about money, but you have to sometimes look at the realities of life, and you do need money to pay your bills.
To all the open source developers most of us appreciate your works extremely much, and for the majority of us who do understand life as it is, I know speaking for myself I would rather purchase a CD every here and there to support you as much as I can. Maybe its time many start looking into ways of recognizing the developers of the products they're using, and assist them with anything they can, even a dollar helps.
It keeps developers who are under tough times semi compensated when times can go rough for them, as well as provides incentive to create better work. Think about that for a quick second. If you were in the opposite person's shoes you would hope someone would do the same for you.
Sadly I hope these layoffs/out of business/quittings/etc don't affect the overall Open Source segment in the long run. Maybe its time most Open Source developers start using Pay Pal for tips on their sites. I know I would kick in between 5-10$ for products I use. Multiply that by about 2000 others and you have a nice little salary for a side job.
Heres an argument for the cause of Napster. Have everyone record their favorite songs from the normal radio stations where they live, then burn them to MP3's this way RIAA will have to sue the radio stations for allowing their listeners to record copywritten songs.
Then have RIAA prove Billy Bob Redneck in Wyoming somewhere recorded it from something other than radio.
Geez all these lawsuits, threats of lawsuits make me sick. Have people forgotten that patents were made to innovate designs, not meant to add fuel to a legal suit.
Someone track down that old phone phreaker named Capn Crunch and have him sue those tone ringing idiots for infringing on the whistles he discovered once upon a time before cellphones were hip. While your at it, have him email me so we can split the money since I gave him the bright idea.
Anyone up for registering www.lookingforlawsuitsinallthestupidplaces.com?
This is nothing more than content firewalling, and many fortune 500 companies already do this. Example my brother works at JP Morgan Chase, and documents they send via internal email cannot be printed, forwarded, copy and pasted, etc.
Sounds great at first but should someone want the information they don't neccessarily have to use tech methods to get it. Take a good old pen and paper and write down what you want, or take a picture of the screen with a digital camera.
NetRecall requires users to download a small browser plug-in that communicates with server software. Together, the plug-in and software make sure the use of the content complies with rules set by the content owner.
What if the second party receiving the email chooses not to use the plugin then what? Are companies going to be willing to let business go because someone doesn't want to comply with using a certain product. Aside from that how is this plugin written, my guess is its a Windows based plugin which does little for Nix users.
Its sort of like this tool called Comet Cursor which allows you to highlight any word in a document and get all the information on that word even if they don't have a link posted on the document, only difference is, its blocking information.
Oh well I'll wait to see how people circumvent this, and laugh at the companies who dished out 30+ thousand dollars for this cheesy program.
I found that article rather amusing as opposed to MS trying to take over the world. It would have been nice to include the entire email, headers and all as opposed to just posting something..
Equally funny is:
we need your help in assuring that each and every PC has a licensed and legal operating system.
Did they mean PC running Windows or are non MS based OS' illegal?
Either way I could see MS' beef with wanting to know if PC's are shipped with Windows where the buyer didn't pay MS for their oh so beautiful product. Now it would have been interesting to hear from MS sending out something similar stating they wanted to know how many PC's are shipped with alternative OS'.
What ever happened to that incident where users of Linux/BSD were demanding rebates for purchasing PC's without Windows, where they felt they shouldn't have to pay for Windows since they didnt use it.
Anyone remember that from like 2 years back or so?
IBM today announced its latest project code named "Mitnick" which is expected
to be released sometime in the 3rd quarter of 2001. IBM is hoping by moving
the Mitnick project into the Open Source market, companies worldwide make the
switch to IBM software and hardware.
"Mitnick" is an artificial intelligence based Denial of Service and Hacker
tool which can ingeniously compromise the systems of non IBM based products
and wreck havoc.
According to an anonymous official at IBM "If we can't capture the market in
its entirety, then Mitnick will make sure we can capture as much of it as we
possibly can."
Mitnick in its beta stage carries a whopping 2.6 gigabytes worth of denial of
service tools, along with every single exploit ever listed on Bugtraq, and
developers at IBM have created an all-in-one GUI based attack center for the
inexperienced script kiddie.
Officials at various law enforcement agencies are praising IBM's effort to
provide the tools neccessary for malicious crackers to continue their actions.
According to an agent at the FBI who wished to remain anonymous: "We think its
a great move for IBM to provide the tools neccessary for evil hackers to use,
maybe we can catch them one day when we finish training."
The German U-791's used Hydrogen Peroxide for fuel, and I wonder if NASA altogether dropped this idea. Would be interesting to see someone power a car on peroxide and test the environmental hazards involved.
Well hopefully Carmack can get it up and going soon, maybe he can get people like Tito to give him 20 million to send them to space.
I wonder how this will affect Qwest overall. For those that don't know the story about Qwest, if I'm not mistaken, the company was working with a railraod company, and laying fiber alongside the tracks of the railroad, when the internet was in its infancy stage.
Anyways one thing I know is Qwest owns a hell of a lot of dark fiber, and I know MS would love to get their hands on some of it for their MS.NET world. I wonder if Qwest unloaded because they were losing money, or could this be the staging for a future rival to AOL-TW. Qwest is pumping out about 15+ billion $ so I can't see them needing money that bad now.;\
But now powerful commercial media are seeking to gain total control over the airwaves. Imagine a world in which a handful of global media conglomerates like Vivendi, Sony, BskyB, Disney, and News Corporation own literally all the airwaves all over the planet and trade them back and forth as `private electronic real estate'. A strategy is beginning to unfold in Washington DC to make that happen.
At my intial thought I was someone excited, not thinking about the obvious... AM/FM filled with nothing but companies gloating over their products. Its bad enough in radio now an hours worth of time means 25 minutes of music, 5 minutes of rootarded deejays, 29 minutes of commercials, and sometimes a test of the Emergency Broadcast System.
Ironic is the name of the site and the corresponding issue "CommonDreams.org" posting about the FCC giving up control. *stops, thinks, laughs*
Lets get realistic for a second here, gov is hard pressed to retain control of most things in the country, and when you think about this deeply you know it won't happen.
Picture some mid west gun hippy cult crew spewing all day talk of guns, and "Big Brother cominuh git me" talk. Or other forms of media government has worked hard to surpress, imagine a non stop Cypherpunk channel where Bruce Shneier, and others called in to talk about the latest Elliptical Theories to protect data.
Man politicians in DC would shit in their pants coming up with reversed/conspiracy theory factors to block this from happening.
Didn't a company sort of do this with Real Player, set up a sort of 100 channel Real Player server where you could watch whatever, whenever? Just think about that for a second anyway, (because I remember watching Parse about 2-3 years ago) if it didn't work on the net where technology is cheaper than buying huge arrays of antennas to send out signals (then hoping your neighbors don't sue for fscking up their lives with it), getting permits for equipment, yadda yadda, I see it as a corporation only like benefit, not meant for the little guy.
But the first practical use for the research turns out to be snooping on shoppers.
The whole idea itself does not bother me one bit since I have to choice of entering the store or not so I see no problems with it however I see it as overhyped market hooplah.
Lets see how well the software determines my thoughts based on my eyes when: I have red eye, I jokingly widen my eyes to purposely look like I'm going to do something evil, begin to look around erratically just to piss security off, etc.. What are they going to do charge me with using my eyes for my own actions?
If department stores are stupid enough to think some camera and its software are able to determine my actions, they're dumbasses. Maybe I'll just get those joke glasses with the eyes attached to those slinky links that droop down.
Did their faces register boredom or delight? How many reached for the item and put it in their shopping carts?
Well once many people get a whiff of this I'm sure the jokesters will find ways of shaming IBM's system, and exposing it for the joke I see it as.
When monitoring pupils, the system uses a camera and two infrared light sources placed inside the product display. One light source is aligned with
the camera's focus; the other is slightly off axis.
I wonder who will be the first to sue a department store for causing deterioration in their eyesight with their toy;)
"Soon you won't only be able to capture how many people stopped by, but who they were,"
This doesnt bother me at all I would have nothing to hide going in a department store. "Hrmm that tiger print thong looks tight!
Sometimes people go overboard and wanna bitch about everything, well I think the department stores stand more to lose by placing this in their stores than I do having to worry about what DKNY or Tommy Hilfiger sweater I'm buying.
"Once identity is established it will be cross-referenced to capture that person's income and buying preferences. It's only a matter of time."
What a sad excuse give me a damn break. Advertising agencies have been target marketing for years using other means, so where is the ACLU to bitch about all those Malt Liquor and Cigarette posters in my neighborhood? Shit last time I saw pics of Rodeo Drive there were none.
Maybe you're a civil libertarian, and maybe you're not. Maybe you worry about how the United States exercises its vast
investigative and prosecutorial powers, and maybe you don't.
But if you counsel U.S. corporations on computer-related issues, you should be concerned about a new proposed
treaty known as the "Convention on Cybercrime." The Council of Europe, a 43-nation public body created to promote
democracy and the rule of law, is nominally drafting the treaty. Curiously, however, the primary architect is the United
States Department of Justice.
The Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation are using a foreign forum to create an international
law-enforcement regime that favors the interests of the feds over those of ordinary citizens and businesses. Their goal
is to make it easier to get evidence from abroad and to extradite and prosecute foreign nationals for certain kinds of
crimes.
Maybe you trust the law-enforcement chiefs in D.C. to do the right thing. But here's the catch. The same new powers
given to the United States will also handed over to Bulgaria, Romania, Azerbaijan, and other Council of Europe nations
that-although officially democratic now-don't have a strong traditions of checks and balances on police power.
Do you want investigators rummaging around your clients' computer systems on warrants issued by former Soviet bloc
nations?
I wonder how many people visit the site using proxies, and if IP addresses are going to be used, I hope Indy Media know how circumstantial thay shit is. I wonder if it can be fought with in court with a demonstration of Packet Replays and Packet Injections, to show how just how shitty using IP addresses as identification can be.
And people think I'm paranoid about using daisy chaining proxies along with Safeweb
Well for those here who need it (I doubt there's many) here are my privacy links.
WinErr: 001 Windows loaded - System in danger
WinErr: 002 No Error - Yet
WinErr: 003 Dynamic linking error - Your mistake is now in every file
WinErr: 004 Erroneous error - Nothing is wrong
WinErr: 005 Multitasking attempted - System confused
WinErr: 006 Malicious error - Desqview found on drive
WinErr: 007 System price error - Inadequate money spent on hardware
WinErr: 008 Broken window - Watch out for glass fragments
WinErr: 009 Horrible bug encountered - God knows what has happened
WinErr: 00A Promotional literature overflow - Mailbox full
WinErr: 00B Inadequate disk space - Free at least 50MB
WinErr: 00C Memory hog error - More Ram needed. More! More! More!
WinErr: 00D Window closed - Do not look outside
WinErr: 00E Window open - Do not look inside
WinErr: 00F Unexplained error - Please tell us how this happened
WinErr: 010 Reserved for future mistakes by our developers
WinErr: 013 Unexpected error - Huh ?
WinErr: 014 Keyboard locked - Try anything you can think of.
WinErr: 018 Unrecoverable error - System has been destroyed. Buy a new one. Old Windows licence is not valid anymore.
WinErr: 019 User error - Not our fault. Is Not! Is Not!
WinErr: 01A Operating system overwritten - Please reinstall all your software. We are terribly sorry.
WinErr: 01B Illegal error - You are not allowed to get this error. Next
time you will get a penalty for that.
WinErr: 01C Uncertainty error - Uncertainty may be inadequate.
WinErr: 01D System crash - We are unable to figure out our own code.
WinErr: 01E Timing error - Please wait. And wait. And wait. And wait.
WinErr: 020 Error recording error codes - Additional errors will be lost.
WinErr: 042 Virus error - A virus has been activated in a dos-box. The virus, however, requires Windows. All tasks will automatically
be closed and the virus will be activated again.
WinErr: 079 Mouse not found - A mouse driver has not been installed. Please click the left mouse button to continue.
WinErr: 103 Error buffer overflow - Too many errors encountered. Additional errors may not be displayed or recorded.
WinErr: 678 This will end your Windows session. Do you want to play
another game?
WinErr: 683 Time out error - Operator fell asleep while waiting for the
system to complete boot procedure.
WinErr: 625 Working Error - The system has been working perfectly for the
past ten minutes
WinErr: 902 Screen Error - The system is working perfectly, I'm not
lying, your monitor is wrong
WinErr: 72a Crucial Halt - Hang on, WHAT was that?
WinErr: 72b Memory Error - What? Tell me again.
WinErr: 39c Disk Error in drive a: - Although your disk is in perfect
condition (I just formatted it), I don't like it any more
WinErr: 983 Hard Disk Error - The files on the hard disk were neatly
arranged and fully optimised, so I had to mess them up and put
a couple of hundred.TMP files all over the place
WinErr: 294 BlackMail Error - $500 to Gates or your computer gets screwed
Winerr: 294b BlackMail Error - $500 to Gates or I'll show your wife the
JPG's you just downloaded
vroom vroom
SAP DB will become Open Source. It is the first object of the SAP portfolio to go that direction.
SAP DB can be used free of charge in non SAP environments
Hrmm Ok.. Well anyways after looking at it, has anyone used it to claim its better than MySQL, etc, etc., sure the page layout blows MySQL's out the frame, but it damn sure needs a heck of a lot of dependencies (JAVA, PERL, and Python?!) to run it. I wonder how it would hold up (server loads) in comparison to MySQL, or Oracle on diff architects.
Its nice to see someone on the Nix side of the world finally created that supports other file formats. Hey Real may have been nice in its opening months, but most of the times, videos were choppy, and sounds were awful. I'll tinker with this to try it out just for kicks, to compare them, and as for the sound issue, something I've wondered about for a while regarding video on the net...
You would think on the net it would be easier for handicapped people to access hearing impaired type videos they normally wouldn't see on TV, yet I've yet to see one product come from Windows, or Real with captioning. Odd I would think someone could capture a nice little niche there and help a shitload of others out.
Yes ladies and gentleman of the jury the time has now come where you must decide the facts of the case, and make final judgement on the case. As
stated by the RIAA, Napster has continously stolen from the mouths of poor millionaire artists worldwide by providing a peer to peer network solution for sharing music in illegal fashions.
It does not matter that most of the mp3 music stored on Napster was purchased in order to actually make the mp3, nor does it matter that you
could also record most of the songs from radio onto cassette tapes. It does not matter that studies have show many Napster users actually purchase billions of dollars in music.
Ladies and gentleman of the jury we provide you with fact based statements
and stipulations that don't show much, but the RIAA is footing the bill
for this case, and my new golf clubs.
You must come to an agreement, that shows Napster, the thieving service that they are, are no better than someone robbing a bank at gunpoint, or
the white collared criminal giving away insider trading information with
their boiler room tactics.
It is without reasonable doubt, Napster is the Michael Milken, Charles Manson, O.J. Simpson, Kenneth Kimes, Timothy McVeigh of the computing world. Sure they didn't hurt anybody physically, but Metallica's feeling were hurt, and in
pop and media culture attention and money are what counts in society today. DON'T let Metallica and the RIAA go hungry
Ladies and gentleman of the jury I ask you find the defendant GUILTY.
If it bugs you so much get a fucking clue and move on. Who gives a shit about what someone has done and hasn't done everyone has faults in life you dumb fuck. Whats the point in rambling on like a mindless crackhead posting anonymously about someone's actions, too hypocritical to post under a name?
If it bugs you so damn much go elsewhere you fucking idiot.
You have to wonder how much of this is to market IBM so here goes my take on this.
"If they can actually create servers that battle crackers -- that can monitor their own health and
bandage their own wounds -- then I can turn my attention to work that only a truly sentient
being can do," he added.
The problem with security vulnerabilities at most is poor programming along with lousy administration, so how do they plan on bandaging a wound for a newly found vulnerabilty that has yet been exposed to the security community as a whole? Do they expect their system to just guess on its own?
our customers will need help to deploy technology so they can focus their people on real business issues instead of just managing and maintaining their infrastructure."
Nicely put. "Our customers".. So I take it this is strictly for IBM customers using their products. Why not make it an open project and let everyone reap the benefits, they would be martyred.
"Automation is the way to go. That said, the IT industry hasn't yet focused on it and very few
skills are out there. Many of the experts are long-time IBMers, so the company has a head start
here."
Automation is a small step. One of the biggest problems facing companies, is their administrators are poorly trained. Even if the products, their using are broken, chances are there are patches, fixes, tweaks, etc., to get it up and running properly, its the administrators job to make sure this is done.
After its done, automation should come next, not vice versa, no machine no matter what IBM thinks they're gonna do, is going to be smart enough to determine what is and what isn't secure when it comes to exposing new flaws. Sure they could patch up all the older ones as they go along, but if I sat here and coded a new vulnerability, how is that machine going to determine a fix if it hasn't been exposed without automation, to what is right and wrong?
Getting back to reality now, companies should look to training instead of spending X more on X product simply because X says it will secure your network. Total bullshit and typical snake oil salesman tactics. "Buy X product and be secured!" give me a break
This is old news (Wireless Insecurities) and I think on every single wireless article I seen posted here, I kind of trolled about it before.
There's slight temporary fixes for the Wireless problems dealing with security, I think someone has PKI certs for them (almost sure they have them) but PKI is not really a fix at all now is it?
I'm hoping Pat Calhoun and the folks over at Diameter get on the mark soon with their protocol, since it seems RADIUS is now a dinosaur of sorts. Well for those interested in Wireless security, check out this thesis on it. "Security in Public Access Wireless Networks"
1.The FOOL: a manager using a Sunblade to run a
screensaver.
2.The MAGICIAN: a hacker with a Mac, a Pentium box, a U10, and a Cray on the table in front of him --- all running the same program with the same GUI. An infinity sign is over his head.
3.The HIGH PRIESTESS: a woman holding the Documentation, closed and concealed. The crescent moon is showing on an SGI Origin behind her.
4.The EMPEROR: Steve Jobs sitting on a G4 running OSX, holding an optical disk vertically in his hand.
5.The EMPRESS: A secretary with a IMAC running OSX.
6.The HEIROPHANT: Bill Gates with two flunkies kneeling before him, their faces averted, offering him floppy disks. He wears a laptop computer on his head.
7.The LOVERS: a PowerMAC and an IBM Power PC exchanging software as an angel bathed in glory regards them.
8.The CHARIOT: A man in a chariot, hurtling up an exponential curve, drawn by the twin sphinxes of Technology (black) and Culture (white).
9.STRENGTH: A woman holding the entire design and implementation of Microsoft Excel in her mind as she corrects the final error. An infinity sign is over her head.
10.The HERMIT: An old hacker, white-bearded, burns the midnight oil; its Star-of-David flame illuminates his keyboard.
11.The WHEEL OF FORTUNE: A rotating wheel. Cray is on the side going down, despite its good technology; Smalltalk is opposite it, and C++ is sitting on top. Four winged beings -- a mouse, a turtle, a dog-cow, and a human -- look on.
12.JUSTICE. A cold-faced woman holds a calculator in one hand and a delete- key in the other.
13.The HANGED MAN: A programmer is tied by his ankle to a cable duct. His phase is completely shifted: he awakens at sunset, he sleeps at dawn. His monitor is reverse-video. He programs on,
flawlessly, oblivious to his circumstances.
14.DEATH: A skeleton weilding a scythe surveys a field, on which are scattered Intel P4's, Cyrix's, IBM 360/91's, Xerox Alto's, and many other machines.
15.TEMPERANCE: An angel stands with one foot on her chair and one on the floor, as she copies files from one disk to another. A cursor blinks from her chest.
16.The DEVIL: The goat-headed Lord of the Pit stands on a pile of Windows manuals, holding an inverted torch in one hand. Two humans, male and female, are in chains at his feet.
17.The TOWER: An ivory tower is struck by a bolt of lightning. Two robed figures, denied tenure, are hurtled to the ground.
18.The STAR: A Mac is running its `warp' screen saver, in a transient fragile moment of peace.
19.The MOON: A wolf and a jackal are typing
at two PC's. A crayfish crawls out of a pool, offering suggestions that may ultimately prove deadly. The moon shines through a window.
20.The SUN: A naked child riding a winged rocking horse programs clever applications on a high-quality workstation.
21.JUDGEMENT: An angel blows a trumpet; all over the net, web pages arise, to be rated Cool or not.
22.The WORLD: A woman dances on the clouds, unclothed, unencumbered, in a ring of clouds, a 3-d mouse in each hand. The four winged beings from the Wheel of Fortune surround her.
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Honestly my feelings on this is simple, if it was predefined in some sort of clause (like "by purchasing a DVD you the buyer would not under penalty of law, attempt to use it on other formats aside from the intended devices meaning your home DVD player under penalty of law") then the industry should not bitch about it.
Whats happening is a shame and is going to be a definite blow to the entire Internet should the judge rule against 2600. Think about what this case is about. Linking (for those who don't know) explain to me how linking to an article is against the law in the land where under 1st amendment right your entitled to free speech?
Laws are laws and there is no way in hell any judge should turn their backs on whats written unless they care to revamp the entire system. Regardless of who is putting money under the tables for anyone.
Hardcore Crypto
Issues such as the present should be addressed by those in law schools, and perhaps an organization could be drawn up to define what is legal and what isn't when dealing with Internet based factors.
Its rather unsettling that there is not a set of rules however you wanna draw them up, on an ethical level, or in a court of law. There are some great things people miss out on due to not coporate greed for the most matter, as many companies turn around and cut deals [Napster].
Worldwide however many companies stand to benefit more from losening up around the collars instead of waisting so much effort to sue each other. For instance in this case, an American company, and a Canadian company could merge to make this happen, and everyone would be happy. Both sides could predefine what terms are to be laid down the line, and move from there. This is understandable when dealing with monies involved which dip into the billions (yearly) for advertising spots. Maybe a settlement can be reached with the broadcasters to switch off on revenues by allowing a pre-determined amount of ads to be shown if their programming content is used. Industry should allow this for a few reasons. One it gives a foundation for future attempts to capitalize on an Internet/Television combination. It provides an outlet as well for greater learning of cultures from our neighbors in Canada, and vice versa.
However the downside I see to this is simple. Not everyone will be able to watch content if they're on slow connections no matter which format you choose to stream this content on. The latency would be horrendous for one, and another downside is, at home I have a nice sized television which makes my computer monitor look like a PDA. So what makes this company think people would be willing to give up their televisions to watch their pc's?
Even moreso, is why would someone want to watch this. What distinctive programming would I benefit from this? I already have DSS which I barely watch. 300+ channels of nothing to watch so it often remains on, either on Discovery, History or MTV and acts as a radio while I play on PC. So again why would someone need this?
Honestly though smoe organization needs to come together and address all these legal woes, before it causes major rifts with international relations somewhere down the line.
hardcore crypto
RedHat Systems announced today that they will no longer produce RedHat Linux but instead are focusing on creating new and improved Windows Managers. Industry analysts see a sudden boom for WM's as they're called in the geek world of Linux, and are urging RedHat to compete with the established 2,069,722 different window managers currently on the market.
"We're all ecstatic over here. To think that five years ago there were about four or five window managers such as FVWM, TWM, and others, we now have a variety." stated a developer at RedHat.
RedHat is planning on releasing its first RHWM or RedHat Windows Manager complete with 100 megabytes of animated gif images for buttons. Third quarter they expect to release WM3M or Window Manager 3 Million which is built with both QT, and GTK libraries for interoperability.
No longer will you have 2,069,722 options, but you will now have complete access to 8 cd's worth of window managers including WM's built on XML, JAVA, PERL, Python, REBOL, and an attempt to intermix Wine by releasing an entire WM built with Visual Basic.
RedHat's stock price is going through the roof at this announcement as venture capitalists without a clue as to what they're purchasing are jumping on the bandwagon.
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I wonder if folks over at SGI plan on dropping Irix in the near future for Linux entirely. As it stands right now the majority of their hardware run Linux, and the last version of Irix released was to mainly fix bugs.
Its a shame that SGI has done pretty poor the past few years, when they're such kick ass machines, and personally I think they should kick the marketing teams asses.
I know previously they've used a customized version of Windows exclusively on their 320/540 servers, I guess they changed em all around to avoid fireselling them at crackhead prices. Maybe someday I'll see a BSD running on an Irix machine to see how it would run in comparison to Linux (don't bother to troll this post this is not an OS war-penis-envious-linux-vs-bsd-post) as far as benchmarking is concerned. As for XFS support I though it was supported for reading and not writing? Oh well I don't use Linux anymore
Recently I was on IRC when this guy was beefing about paying for the CD of OpenBSD when he could just download it instead of having the ISO, not neccessarily related but hear me out. I argued with this guy for a few minutes pointing out the fact that developers often create these OS' on their own spare time, and $30.00 is relatively cheap considering most Open Sourced operating systems are heaven compared with others.
I often wonder how people manage to continously create some of the most useful open sourced products when they are not getting paid for it. Don't get me wrong I understand life isn't all about money, but you have to sometimes look at the realities of life, and you do need money to pay your bills.
To all the open source developers most of us appreciate your works extremely much, and for the majority of us who do understand life as it is, I know speaking for myself I would rather purchase a CD every here and there to support you as much as I can. Maybe its time many start looking into ways of recognizing the developers of the products they're using, and assist them with anything they can, even a dollar helps.
It keeps developers who are under tough times semi compensated when times can go rough for them, as well as provides incentive to create better work. Think about that for a quick second. If you were in the opposite person's shoes you would hope someone would do the same for you.
Sadly I hope these layoffs/out of business/quittings/etc don't affect the overall Open Source segment in the long run. Maybe its time most Open Source developers start using Pay Pal for tips on their sites. I know I would kick in between 5-10$ for products I use. Multiply that by about 2000 others and you have a nice little salary for a side job.
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Heres an argument for the cause of Napster. Have everyone record their favorite songs from the normal radio stations where they live, then burn them to MP3's this way RIAA will have to sue the radio stations for allowing their listeners to record copywritten songs.
Then have RIAA prove Billy Bob Redneck in Wyoming somewhere recorded it from something other than radio.
Geez all these lawsuits, threats of lawsuits make me sick. Have people forgotten that patents were made to innovate designs, not meant to add fuel to a legal suit.
Someone track down that old phone phreaker named Capn Crunch and have him sue those tone ringing idiots for infringing on the whistles he discovered once upon a time before cellphones were hip. While your at it, have him email me so we can split the money since I gave him the bright idea.
Anyone up for registering www.lookingforlawsuitsinallthestupidplaces.com?
Sounds great at first but should someone want the information they don't neccessarily have to use tech methods to get it. Take a good old pen and paper and write down what you want, or take a picture of the screen with a digital camera.
What if the second party receiving the email chooses not to use the plugin then what? Are companies going to be willing to let business go because someone doesn't want to comply with using a certain product. Aside from that how is this plugin written, my guess is its a Windows based plugin which does little for Nix users.
Its sort of like this tool called Comet Cursor which allows you to highlight any word in a document and get all the information on that word even if they don't have a link posted on the document, only difference is, its blocking information.
Oh well I'll wait to see how people circumvent this, and laugh at the companies who dished out 30+ thousand dollars for this cheesy program.
I found that article rather amusing as opposed to MS trying to take over the world. It would have been nice to include the entire email, headers and all as opposed to just posting something..
Equally funny is: Did they mean PC running Windows or are non MS based OS' illegal?
Either way I could see MS' beef with wanting to know if PC's are shipped with Windows where the buyer didn't pay MS for their oh so beautiful product. Now it would have been interesting to hear from MS sending out something similar stating they wanted to know how many PC's are shipped with alternative OS'.
What ever happened to that incident where users of Linux/BSD were demanding rebates for purchasing PC's without Windows, where they felt they shouldn't have to pay for Windows since they didnt use it.
Anyone remember that from like 2 years back or so?
IBM today announced its latest project code named "Mitnick" which is expected to be released sometime in the 3rd quarter of 2001. IBM is hoping by moving the Mitnick project into the Open Source market, companies worldwide make the switch to IBM software and hardware.
"Mitnick" is an artificial intelligence based Denial of Service and Hacker tool which can ingeniously compromise the systems of non IBM based products and wreck havoc.
According to an anonymous official at IBM "If we can't capture the market in its entirety, then Mitnick will make sure we can capture as much of it as we possibly can."
Mitnick in its beta stage carries a whopping 2.6 gigabytes worth of denial of service tools, along with every single exploit ever listed on Bugtraq, and developers at IBM have created an all-in-one GUI based attack center for the inexperienced script kiddie.
Officials at various law enforcement agencies are praising IBM's effort to provide the tools neccessary for malicious crackers to continue their actions. According to an agent at the FBI who wished to remain anonymous: "We think its a great move for IBM to provide the tools neccessary for evil hackers to use, maybe we can catch them one day when we finish training."
The German U-791's used Hydrogen Peroxide for fuel, and I wonder if NASA altogether dropped this idea. Would be interesting to see someone power a car on peroxide and test the environmental hazards involved.
Well hopefully Carmack can get it up and going soon, maybe he can get people like Tito to give him 20 million to send them to space.
countdown continues
2 years ago as a joke I wrote a vulnerability mock up on Packet Pigeons had I known the RFC existed I would've tried to make it funnier.
I wonder how this will affect Qwest overall. For those that don't know the story about Qwest, if I'm not mistaken, the company was working with a railraod company, and laying fiber alongside the tracks of the railroad, when the internet was in its infancy stage.
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Anyways one thing I know is Qwest owns a hell of a lot of dark fiber, and I know MS would love to get their hands on some of it for their MS.NET world. I wonder if Qwest unloaded because they were losing money, or could this be the staging for a future rival to AOL-TW. Qwest is pumping out about 15+ billion $ so I can't see them needing money that bad now.
3 days till launch
But now powerful commercial media are seeking to gain total control over the airwaves. Imagine a world in which a handful of global media conglomerates like Vivendi, Sony, BskyB, Disney, and News Corporation own literally all the airwaves all over the planet and trade them back and forth as `private electronic real estate'. A strategy is beginning to unfold in Washington DC to make that happen.
At my intial thought I was someone excited, not thinking about the obvious... AM/FM filled with nothing but companies gloating over their products. Its bad enough in radio now an hours worth of time means 25 minutes of music, 5 minutes of rootarded deejays, 29 minutes of commercials, and sometimes a test of the Emergency Broadcast System.
Ironic is the name of the site and the corresponding issue "CommonDreams.org" posting about the FCC giving up control. *stops, thinks, laughs*
Lets get realistic for a second here, gov is hard pressed to retain control of most things in the country, and when you think about this deeply you know it won't happen.
Picture some mid west gun hippy cult crew spewing all day talk of guns, and "Big Brother cominuh git me" talk. Or other forms of media government has worked hard to surpress, imagine a non stop Cypherpunk channel where Bruce Shneier, and others called in to talk about the latest Elliptical Theories to protect data.
Man politicians in DC would shit in their pants coming up with reversed/conspiracy theory factors to block this from happening.
Didn't a company sort of do this with Real Player, set up a sort of 100 channel Real Player server where you could watch whatever, whenever? Just think about that for a second anyway, (because I remember watching Parse about 2-3 years ago) if it didn't work on the net where technology is cheaper than buying huge arrays of antennas to send out signals (then hoping your neighbors don't sue for fscking up their lives with it), getting permits for equipment, yadda yadda, I see it as a corporation only like benefit, not meant for the little guy.
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But the first practical use for the research turns out to be snooping on shoppers.
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The whole idea itself does not bother me one bit since I have to choice of entering the store or not so I see no problems with it however I see it as overhyped market hooplah.
Lets see how well the software determines my thoughts based on my eyes when: I have red eye, I jokingly widen my eyes to purposely look like I'm going to do something evil, begin to look around erratically just to piss security off, etc.. What are they going to do charge me with using my eyes for my own actions?
If department stores are stupid enough to think some camera and its software are able to determine my actions, they're dumbasses. Maybe I'll just get those joke glasses with the eyes attached to those slinky links that droop down.
Did their faces register boredom or delight? How many reached for the item and put it in their shopping carts?
Well once many people get a whiff of this I'm sure the jokesters will find ways of shaming IBM's system, and exposing it for the joke I see it as.
When monitoring pupils, the system uses a camera and two infrared light sources placed inside the product display. One light source is aligned with the camera's focus; the other is slightly off axis.
I wonder who will be the first to sue a department store for causing deterioration in their eyesight with their toy
"Soon you won't only be able to capture how many people stopped by, but who they were,"
This doesnt bother me at all I would have nothing to hide going in a department store. "Hrmm that tiger print thong looks tight!
Sometimes people go overboard and wanna bitch about everything, well I think the department stores stand more to lose by placing this in their stores than I do having to worry about what DKNY or Tommy Hilfiger sweater I'm buying.
"Once identity is established it will be cross-referenced to capture that person's income and buying preferences. It's only a matter of time."
What a sad excuse give me a damn break. Advertising agencies have been target marketing for years using other means, so where is the ACLU to bitch about all those Malt Liquor and Cigarette posters in my neighborhood? Shit last time I saw pics of Rodeo Drive there were none.
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http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/04/25/ 010425hntreaty.xml?p=br&s=7
http://www.idg.net/ic_521511_1794_9-10000.html
(read full article here)
I wonder how many people visit the site using proxies, and if IP addresses are going to be used, I hope Indy Media know how circumstantial thay shit is. I wonder if it can be fought with in court with a demonstration of Packet Replays and Packet Injections, to show how just how shitty using IP addresses as identification can be.
And people think I'm paranoid about using daisy chaining proxies along with Safeweb
Well for those here who need it (I doubt there's many) here are my privacy links.
Complete List of Windows 95 Error Messages
.TMP files all over the place
WinErr: 001 Windows loaded - System in danger
WinErr: 002 No Error - Yet
WinErr: 003 Dynamic linking error - Your mistake is now in every file
WinErr: 004 Erroneous error - Nothing is wrong
WinErr: 005 Multitasking attempted - System confused
WinErr: 006 Malicious error - Desqview found on drive
WinErr: 007 System price error - Inadequate money spent on hardware
WinErr: 008 Broken window - Watch out for glass fragments
WinErr: 009 Horrible bug encountered - God knows what has happened
WinErr: 00A Promotional literature overflow - Mailbox full
WinErr: 00B Inadequate disk space - Free at least 50MB
WinErr: 00C Memory hog error - More Ram needed. More! More! More!
WinErr: 00D Window closed - Do not look outside
WinErr: 00E Window open - Do not look inside
WinErr: 00F Unexplained error - Please tell us how this happened
WinErr: 010 Reserved for future mistakes by our developers
WinErr: 013 Unexpected error - Huh ?
WinErr: 014 Keyboard locked - Try anything you can think of.
WinErr: 018 Unrecoverable error - System has been destroyed. Buy a new one. Old Windows licence is not valid anymore.
WinErr: 019 User error - Not our fault. Is Not! Is Not!
WinErr: 01A Operating system overwritten - Please reinstall all your software. We are terribly sorry.
WinErr: 01B Illegal error - You are not allowed to get this error. Next time you will get a penalty for that.
WinErr: 01C Uncertainty error - Uncertainty may be inadequate.
WinErr: 01D System crash - We are unable to figure out our own code.
WinErr: 01E Timing error - Please wait. And wait. And wait. And wait.
WinErr: 020 Error recording error codes - Additional errors will be lost.
WinErr: 042 Virus error - A virus has been activated in a dos-box. The virus, however, requires Windows. All tasks will automatically be closed and the virus will be activated again.
WinErr: 079 Mouse not found - A mouse driver has not been installed. Please click the left mouse button to continue.
WinErr: 103 Error buffer overflow - Too many errors encountered. Additional errors may not be displayed or recorded.
WinErr: 678 This will end your Windows session. Do you want to play another game?
WinErr: 683 Time out error - Operator fell asleep while waiting for the system to complete boot procedure.
WinErr: 625 Working Error - The system has been working perfectly for the past ten minutes
WinErr: 902 Screen Error - The system is working perfectly, I'm not lying, your monitor is wrong
WinErr: 72a Crucial Halt - Hang on, WHAT was that?
WinErr: 72b Memory Error - What? Tell me again.
WinErr: 39c Disk Error in drive a: - Although your disk is in perfect condition (I just formatted it), I don't like it any more
WinErr: 983 Hard Disk Error - The files on the hard disk were neatly arranged and fully optimised, so I had to mess them up and put a couple of hundred
WinErr: 294 BlackMail Error - $500 to Gates or your computer gets screwed
Winerr: 294b BlackMail Error - $500 to Gates or I'll show your wife the JPG's you just downloaded
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SAP DB will become Open Source. It is the first object of the SAP portfolio to go that direction. SAP DB can be used free of charge in non SAP environments
Hrmm Ok.. Well anyways after looking at it, has anyone used it to claim its better than MySQL, etc, etc., sure the page layout blows MySQL's out the frame, but it damn sure needs a heck of a lot of dependencies (JAVA, PERL, and Python?!) to run it. I wonder how it would hold up (server loads) in comparison to MySQL, or Oracle on diff architects.
Anyone actually using this yet?
Its nice to see someone on the Nix side of the world finally created that supports other file formats. Hey Real may have been nice in its opening months, but most of the times, videos were choppy, and sounds were awful. I'll tinker with this to try it out just for kicks, to compare them, and as for the sound issue, something I've wondered about for a while regarding video on the net...
You would think on the net it would be easier for handicapped people to access hearing impaired type videos they normally wouldn't see on TV, yet I've yet to see one product come from Windows, or Real with captioning. Odd I would think someone could capture a nice little niche there and help a shitload of others out.
Oh well...
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I could imagine the prosecutors
Yes ladies and gentleman of the jury the time has now come where you must decide the facts of the case, and make final judgement on the case. As stated by the RIAA, Napster has continously stolen from the mouths of poor millionaire artists worldwide by providing a peer to peer network solution for sharing music in illegal fashions.
It does not matter that most of the mp3 music stored on Napster was purchased in order to actually make the mp3, nor does it matter that you could also record most of the songs from radio onto cassette tapes. It does not matter that studies have show many Napster users actually purchase billions of dollars in music.
Ladies and gentleman of the jury we provide you with fact based statements and stipulations that don't show much, but the RIAA is footing the bill for this case, and my new golf clubs.
You must come to an agreement, that shows Napster, the thieving service that they are, are no better than someone robbing a bank at gunpoint, or the white collared criminal giving away insider trading information with their boiler room tactics.
It is without reasonable doubt, Napster is the Michael Milken, Charles Manson, O.J. Simpson, Kenneth Kimes, Timothy McVeigh of the computing world. Sure they didn't hurt anybody physically, but Metallica's feeling were hurt, and in pop and media culture attention and money are what counts in society today. DON'T let Metallica and the RIAA go hungry
Ladies and gentleman of the jury I ask you find the defendant GUILTY.
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If it bugs you so much get a fucking clue and move on. Who gives a shit about what someone has done and hasn't done everyone has faults in life you dumb fuck. Whats the point in rambling on like a mindless crackhead posting anonymously about someone's actions, too hypocritical to post under a name?
If it bugs you so damn much go elsewhere you fucking idiot.
You have to wonder how much of this is to market IBM so here goes my take on this.
The problem with security vulnerabilities at most is poor programming along with lousy administration, so how do they plan on bandaging a wound for a newly found vulnerabilty that has yet been exposed to the security community as a whole? Do they expect their system to just guess on its own?
Nicely put. "Our customers"
Automation is a small step. One of the biggest problems facing companies, is their administrators are poorly trained. Even if the products, their using are broken, chances are there are patches, fixes, tweaks, etc., to get it up and running properly, its the administrators job to make sure this is done.
After its done, automation should come next, not vice versa, no machine no matter what IBM thinks they're gonna do, is going to be smart enough to determine what is and what isn't secure when it comes to exposing new flaws. Sure they could patch up all the older ones as they go along, but if I sat here and coded a new vulnerability, how is that machine going to determine a fix if it hasn't been exposed without automation, to what is right and wrong?
Getting back to reality now, companies should look to training instead of spending X more on X product simply because X says it will secure your network. Total bullshit and typical snake oil salesman tactics. "Buy X product and be secured!" give me a break
#define crypto
There's slight temporary fixes for the Wireless problems dealing with security, I think someone has PKI certs for them (almost sure they have them) but PKI is not really a fix at all now is it?
I'm hoping Pat Calhoun and the folks over at Diameter get on the mark soon with their protocol, since it seems RADIUS is now a dinosaur of sorts. Well for those interested in Wireless security, check out this thesis on it. "Security in Public Access Wireless Networks"
#define crypto
Hacker Tarot Cards
1.The FOOL: a manager using a Sunblade to run a screensaver.
2.The MAGICIAN: a hacker with a Mac, a Pentium box, a U10, and a Cray on the table in front of him --- all running the same program with the same GUI. An infinity sign is over his head.
3.The HIGH PRIESTESS: a woman holding the Documentation, closed and concealed. The crescent moon is showing on an SGI Origin behind her.
4.The EMPEROR: Steve Jobs sitting on a G4 running OSX, holding an optical disk vertically in his hand.
5.The EMPRESS: A secretary with a IMAC running OSX.
6.The HEIROPHANT: Bill Gates with two flunkies kneeling before him, their faces averted, offering him floppy disks. He wears a laptop computer on his head.
7.The LOVERS: a PowerMAC and an IBM Power PC exchanging software as an angel bathed in glory regards them.
8.The CHARIOT: A man in a chariot, hurtling up an exponential curve, drawn by the twin sphinxes of Technology (black) and Culture (white).
9.STRENGTH: A woman holding the entire design and implementation of Microsoft Excel in her mind as she corrects the final error. An infinity sign is over her head.
10.The HERMIT: An old hacker, white-bearded, burns the midnight oil; its Star-of-David flame illuminates his keyboard.
11.The WHEEL OF FORTUNE: A rotating wheel. Cray is on the side going down, despite its good technology; Smalltalk is opposite it, and C++ is sitting on top. Four winged beings -- a mouse, a turtle, a dog-cow, and a human -- look on.
12.JUSTICE. A cold-faced woman holds a calculator in one hand and a delete- key in the other.
13.The HANGED MAN: A programmer is tied by his ankle to a cable duct. His phase is completely shifted: he awakens at sunset, he sleeps at dawn. His monitor is reverse-video. He programs on, flawlessly, oblivious to his circumstances.
14.DEATH: A skeleton weilding a scythe surveys a field, on which are scattered Intel P4's, Cyrix's, IBM 360/91's, Xerox Alto's, and many other machines.
15.TEMPERANCE: An angel stands with one foot on her chair and one on the floor, as she copies files from one disk to another. A cursor blinks from her chest.
16.The DEVIL: The goat-headed Lord of the Pit stands on a pile of Windows manuals, holding an inverted torch in one hand. Two humans, male and female, are in chains at his feet.
17.The TOWER: An ivory tower is struck by a bolt of lightning. Two robed figures, denied tenure, are hurtled to the ground.
18.The STAR: A Mac is running its `warp' screen saver, in a transient fragile moment of peace.
19.The MOON: A wolf and a jackal are typing at two PC's. A crayfish crawls out of a pool, offering suggestions that may ultimately prove deadly. The moon shines through a window.
20.The SUN: A naked child riding a winged rocking horse programs clever applications on a high-quality workstation.
21.JUDGEMENT: An angel blows a trumpet; all over the net, web pages arise, to be rated Cool or not.
22.The WORLD: A woman dances on the clouds, unclothed, unencumbered, in a ring of clouds, a 3-d mouse in each hand. The four winged beings from the Wheel of Fortune surround her.
more to come
To post for me when I oversleep and miss posting on /. articles.
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