I guess my reasoning for my rants are simple, why wait so long until someone else capitalized on the idea, now if DoubleClick is guilty of stealing his idea, or knowing about his code then using it, I would say he should be compensated by DoubleClick, as an ethical manner, but he should be shooting himself for not patenting the idea.
At this point, it is difficult to assess the exact impact that Shuster's submission will have on the online advertising world.
At this point what kind of an impact will people expect. Not to be sound so "anti" anything, what I will say is, he should have done something long ago instead of waiting 6+ years while DoubleClick built a niche in the market for this service
The DoubleClick patent, which makes exceptionally broad claims regarding the delivery, targeting and measuring of advertising over the Internet, touched off a wave of suits and counter suits between DoubleClick and ad serving rivals 24/7 and L90.
Can someone explain to me how people are patenting free words and actions of a computer language. I don't wanna hear about "Its a nice idea" the underlying factor is, it isn't really an invention, no one physically owns code, why doesn't someone rant and sue for using their code, say Larry Wall sue DoubleClick for using Perl without his prior consent. Sure Larry Released it free, and I can theorize if he knew it would be used by "for profit" companies he would have probably released a professional copy.
Still, Shuster's prior art points to possible problems with the validity of the DoubleClick patent. But given that the DoubleClick lawsuits are currently dormant, is the issue dead?
Why cant this be simple such as a "move your feet lose your seat" solution. Taxpayers spend millions on this bs.
The existence of this prior art, together with the
November settlement between DoubleClick, and rivals 24/7 and L90, could seriously impede DoubleClick's ability to assert the patent against
new entrants into the online advertising realm. This could have a direct benefit for Shuster himself, who is attempting a re-entry into the online advertising field.
Who says this is going to hinder anything, a patent is a patent. I had an idea for a lot of things people have ended up creating and patenting, would that give me the right to sue someone for it, because I was too lazy to capitalize on patenting and copyrights? Patent Pending
Pretty neat that Disney would use Python, maybe now more shops will realize how easy and functional Python is to use.
When I worked at one of the largest Latin American web content providers, we had an almost all Python based shop which worked wonders. About the only complaint I ever had was not learning Python earlier. As for Python vs. Perl in my opinion, there are subtle differences for using Perl and diff's for using Python. When it comes to GUI based apps, I've never seen anything easier than Python, and have always figured Perl was best for text/command line/terminal based work.
Aside from this rambling, personal experiences in my eyes show Python's methods are easier to understand and get a grap than Perl's.
Personally I think the general defacement of a
website is downright dumb and those responsible seem to forget its
outright illegal for one.
Its nice to get a message across but hacking for a so called cause only
makes things worse for the hackers, and can sometimes work to the
advantage of the target, as they can turn it around and misconstrue the
scenario as something of a terroristic attacks. Not only that but
the media has the whole concept of hackers distorted to hell due
to some of these "hackers'" actions
I've interviewed about a dozen of hackers,
a virus creation
group, and a script kiddiot
defacer. Now the "hackers" I've interviewed are not what media
considers hackers, these are professionals in the security field so don't
get it distorted, however the script kiddiot defacer and others I've
spoken with use the curtain of "hacktivism" to solely get attention,
nothing more.
If someone really wants to get a point across I think they should start an
organization and speak up on it to raise awareness. "Hacking" to promote
an idea is no better than what the Chinese did at Tiananmen Square in my
eyes, its painting the kettle black at any cost.
Don't get me wrong I believe in Freedom of Speech, Privacy and all that
good stuff, but at the same time I hate racism, I will not condone someone
from saying what they want on a racist site. I don't think double
standards should apply on subjects, and while some of the older hackes
from the mid - late 90's were funny as all hell, no one has the right to
take away someone freedom of mind, speech.
Glass optical fibres can carry much more information than copper wires. So most long-and medium-range data transmission is now conducted in pulses of laser light rather than pulses of electricity.
It is also rather expensive to attempt to replace copper with fibre cabling
When the charge carriers that ferry an electrical current around are confined within such narrow channels or boxes, the processes that prevent them from producing photons of light are suppressed. So 'nanostructured' silicon glows.
Not really an effective way to bundle strands of fibre together in order to make this work. What can end up happening is, once strands start dying out, the entire emission of the light becomes lower and less useable.
Pardon me for being the troll here, but why would their be patent suits or other on this?
I had an ex co-worker who laid down Fiber for the New York Stock Exchange, and I remember him telling me the steps they took to do this.
According to him the New York City Transit Authority was paid a hefty amount of money to blow dark fiber through its train tunnels.
He said for a few weeks he along with transit workers would begin late at night, early in the morning, and go step by step through the tunnels. I recall him saying it was a pain staking process since it carefully had to be set as to avoid any remote thought of all kinds of problems, kinks, high electrical interference etc.
Blowing fiber through the sewer sounds like a neat idea, but I wonder how exactly is it set as to avoid any acts of nature such as, chemical compounds of all sorts of crap in the sewer which can affect it. (hint acids built up from excrement)
Its an extremely expensive task, and I wouldn't want to be the one down below doing it.
this is not only my fight, i'm not the only one whose work is being pirated. hundreds of writers' stories, entire books, the work of a lifetime, everyone from isaac asimov to roger zelazny: their work has been thrown onto the web by these smartass vandals who find it an imposition to have to pay for the goods.
Somewhere along the line someone paid for it else it wouldbn't be on the net. One thing he forgets is that any publicity is good publicity, and after last checking research says online reading will not replace a good old book.
(but gawd forbid you try to appropriate something of theirslisten to em squeal!)
Well a link or two for reference would have been nice.
the outcome of this case will affect every writer, editor, photographer, artist, musician, poet, sculptor, actor, book designer, publisher and reader.
Such high expectations. Personally I doubt it would affect anyone other than himself when the sh## hits the fan. See others (even Stephen King) know the risks associated with the Internet, and again I will restate studies show people will eventually buy it if they like it enough. Its the same rants about Napster ya know.
what we're looking at is the anarchy of ignorant thieves ripping off those who labor for an honest payday, because they conveniently honor the lie that everything should be theirs for the taking.
This sounds like a dramatical emmy award winning rant. How much can someone profit by posting a link to a book. Lets take the prior Yahoo article, shit they aren't even making money anymore, so where does this "e-tard" come off thinking he's missing a million bucks from his pocket
look, this is your fight, too. if that demented, self-serving misunderstanding of the word "information" prevails, and every zero-ethic tot who wants everything for nothing, who exists in a time where e-commerce hustlers have convinced
him/her that they're entitled to everything for nothing prevails, and they are permitted to believe information must be free, with no differentiation made between raw data and the creative properties that provide all artists of any kind with an annuity, to allow them to continue creating new work, then what we're
looking at is the egregious inevitability of no one but amateurs getting their work exposed, while those who produce the bulk of all professional-level art find they cannot make a decent living.
This is some funny stuff before I go through the whole thing a solution for the author would be as simple as not using his work on the net.
The bottom line is banner revenues can be sufficient for profit potential if you play your cards right.
Think about how much money Yahoo must burn on its day to day operations, versus the amount of times people will actually visit the site. I don't think 10% of its visitors will follow a link, and considering most of Yahoo is based on its once highly visited search engines, lets face it, google kicks its ass on searching, Yahoo is one ugly ass website nowadays, Yahoo can't offer much that newer websites can, and those newer websites' operational costs are bound to be a fraction of that of Yahoo's
Popular sites like slashdot have a high enough CPM to stay more than just afloat. I'm surprised Yahoo hasn't been able to say the same
Your forgetting one key principle, most revenue is generated on click throughs, which most people ignore. If I'm coming to/. to post or read an article I may open a quick link for my browser in order to support the cause, but I'm mainly interested in one thing, and watching ads is not one of them.
The Internet is such a great thing, but one thing many seem to overlook is that it is not a neccessity. For years people have lived without the net, and while it does make live easier, it is just like a car, cell phone, etc., a novelty.
Mid to Late 90's Venture Capital firms went ballistic funding companies that were gone faster than they had came. Recent days VC is dried up as people are realizing their is no immediate ghastly halt of life for anyone without the Internet.
Keeping afloat is a hard thing to do when you have bills to pay and revenues from ads just wont cut it. Its not like television where a broadcaster can sell the rights to programs that are in syndication and make revenue off of reruns. Banner ads are not all they once claimed or hoped to be and many companies were under the impression it would last forever. Companies whose revenues fell under this scheme suffered and are suffering most, since there's much more competition meaning ads are flooded and are likely to be meaningless.
Yahoo has outlasted many dot.coms and the decision to step down as CEO was IMHO a wise move. Think about it, where else is Yahoo going to get revenue from, selling webspace, email accounts, stock quotes? There isn't much out there on the net right now, and until the next best thing comes along many other sites without a surefire business model will all end up on FuckedCompany
Rumors of Microsoft entering the portable gaming market have been reported in abundance for the past six months. However, when a globally respected news source such as MSNBC reports on such rumors, there's sure to be some substantial evidence to support them.
According to a report by MSNBC, Microsoft has progressed far enough along in discussions concerning the possibility of the company entering the portable gaming market (the fastest growing sector of the industry), that it has given the project a codename in "Xboy".
The article suggests that if all goes well with Xbox, Microsoft could enter the portable gaming market in 2002 or 2003, bringing to the table significant technological advances (read: 3D visuals) over Nintendo's upcoming Game Boy Advance, which is scheduled to appear in the US this summer.
The article is quick to point out, though, that Microsoft's main focus at this point and for the foreseeable future is Xbox. The company understands that it must establish a name for itself in the industry before attempting to enter multiple sectors of the market, and to do so, must make Xbox the system by which all others are judged.
Chief Xbox Officer, Robbie Bach, told MSNBC, "I'm focused on one thing and one thing only. If I take my eye off the Xbox mission for two seconds, I'll lose. I can think about [portable games] when I have time to think about those things."
Microsoft's competition in the handheld market, namely Nintendo, could be substantially more difficult to defeat than its main competition for Xbox, Sony.
Nintendo owns 97% of the portable gaming market and has seen the sector grow from $216 million in 1998 to $618 million in 1999 thanks to the introduction of Pokemon. Figures for 2000 should be even more impressive.
That kind of increase is one any company would be foolish to ignore, and Microsoft, while focused on Xbox, is surely paying at least a shrapnel of attention to the portable gaming market. It will take more than superior technology to draw the masses to a new handheld, though. We just hope that that "more" isn't comparable to 151 colorful monsters.
An estimated one-third of all shopping cart applications at Internet retailing sites have software holes that make them vulnerable to the price switching scam, said Peggy Weigle, chief executive of Sanctum, a security software company in Santa Clara, Calif.
Well they could have done a favor and posted some of the software in question, this way people who are using this software can make a switch.
"Thieves are coming in the front door," Weigle said. "A lot of security products have been geared to the network level, not the application level."
This is why forums such as Security Focus exist. They shed light on security based products. Programmers however, should be held accountable for creating a boon of shoddily written programs without doing extensive research into security.
Here's how it works: After choosing a product and receiving pricing information, a hacker can use a standard browser's "edit page" feature to show the hidden HTML code on the page. The thief then saves the page to his computer, alters the price information and then hits the "publish" key on the browser. In many cases, that page is then accepted by the shopping cart software - and that $999 watch becomes a $3 special.
Publish!! Sounds to me like she means Microsoft Front Page. Again these concerns should be assessed by first: The programmers creating a slew of poorly written programs, second the administrators responsible for making sure their servers, and software is secure and all the permissions are set on files.
The problem isn't just in the U.S. - an estimated 40 percent of all e-commerce sites in the U.K. are susceptible to the price changing glitch, according to Saalim Chowdhury, CEO of e-commerce software development company Alphakinetic, which has been studying the flaw.
Studying a problem should be one of the steps but removing it should be the first.
Back when Rob Malda was just Robert Mald
this is how we used to make our postings scald
we used to mix Lin with some shit like DOS
and when it kicked in you can hardly talk
and by the sixth post you gon' probably crawl
and you'll be sick then and you'll probably barf
and my prediction is you gon' probably fall
either by the moderators or by Robert Mald
And everything's spinnin' you're beginning to
think Linus is coding up pink Linux
again in the sink
then in a couple of minutes that kernel rev finished
you are now allowed to officially recompile Linux
You have the right to remain trollin and start pollin'
start a download from a mirror placed on a dot edu
get on the laptop and start it and start fraggin
playing Q3's elite just don't start braggin
Earth calling, pilot to co-pilot
Looking for life on Slashdot sir, no sign of it
All i could see is a couple of geeks
and I'm compile so much shit might take weeks
Let me out of this place I'm outta place
I'm in in outter space, I've just vanished without a trace
I'm going to a pretty place now where the flowers grow
I'll be back in an hour or so
Cause every time I go to try to post (Whoa)
moderators flamebait my shit to toast(Whoa)
I dont wanna but I gotta stay (Whoa)
Slashdot's really gotta hold on me (Whoa)
Cause every time I go to try to post (Whoa)
moderators flamebait my shit to toast(Whoa)
I dont wanna but I gotta stay (Whoa)
Slashdot's really gotta hold on me (Whoa)
In third grade all I used to do
was code in BASIC on Commodore play Atari too
seventeen years later I'm as rude as you
downloading another kernel make that 102
I got no game and every kernel looks the same
They got no name so I think I need patches again
I just say whatever I want, to whoever I want
Whenever i want, wherever I want, however I want
However I do show some respect to few
This trolling posting has got me reading the next two
Gettin sentimental as fuck, spillin' guts to you
We just met but I think I'm in love with you
But you're posting too so you tell me you love me too
Reload the page screaming "SHIT" like "Yo what the fuck we do?"
I gotta go bitch, you know I got stuff to do
gotta download from SourceForge then troll back at 2
But in the long Linux is probably gonna catch up sooner or later
But fuck it I'm compiling one so let's enjoy
Let the XFree destroy your video card
So it's not a straight line no more
So we trolling around lookin' like some windup dolls
Shit stickin' out of our posts like a dinosaur
Shit six posts won't even get me high no more
So bye for now I'm gonna and post some more
Cause every time I go to try to post (Whoa)
moderators flamebait my shit to toast(Whoa)
I dont wanna but I gotta stay (Whoa)
Slashdot's really gotta hold on me (Whoa)
Cause every time I go to try to post (Whoa)
moderators flamebait my shit to toast(Whoa)
I dont wanna but I gotta stay (Whoa)
Slashdot's really gotta hold on me (Whoa)
Slashdot's gone cold I'm wondering why I got out of bed at all
The morning rain clouds up my window and I can't see at all
And even if I could it'll all be gray but your picture on my wall
It reminds me, that it's not so bad -- it's not so bad
Dear Rob, I wrote but you still ain't callin
I left my email, my ICQ, and my yahoo chat at the bottom
I sent two emails back in autumn, you must not-a got 'em
There probably was a problem with your sendmail or somethin
Sometimes I scribble email addees too sloppy when I jot 'em
but anyways; fsck it, what's been up? Man how's your boxes?
My boxes is linux too, I'm bout to be a compiler
once I learn gcc,
I'ma compile for miles ah
I read about your Palm Pilot too I'm sorry
I had a friend lose his Palm over at the airport in Maradonna
I know you probably hear this everyday, but I'm your biggest fan
I even read all your bullshit Linux news and BSD scams
I got a room full of your posters and your pictures man
I like the way you sold your ass too that shit was fat
Anyways, I hope you get this man, hit me back,
just to chat, truly yours, your biggest fan
This is Stan
Dear Rob, you still ain't called or wrote, I hope you have a chance
I ain't mad - I just think it's FUCKED UP you don't answer fans
If you didn't wanna talk to me outside your Linux World
you didn't have to, but you coulda signed an autograph for Matthew
That's my Senior sys admin he's only 26 years old
We waited on a 9600 baud for you,
four hours and you just said, "No."
That's pretty shitty man - you're like his fsckin idol
He wants to be just like you man, he likes you more than I do
I ain't that mad though, I just don't like bein lied to
Remember when we met in Boston - you said if I'd write you
you would write back - see I'm just like you in a way
I never had a clue about shit either
I gcc'd shit with my wife then beat her
I can relate to what you're saying in your page
so when I feel like rmusering I read Slashdot to being the rage
cause I don't really got shit else so that shit helps when I'm depressed
I even got a tattoo of slashdot across the chest
Sometimes I even packet myself to see how much it floods
It's like adrenaline, the DDoS is such a sudden rush of blood
See everything you say is real, and I respect you cause you tell it
My girlfriend's jealous cause I talk about you 24/7
But she don't know you like I know you Rob, no one does
She don't know what it was like for people like us growin up
You gotta call me man, I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose
Sincerely yours, Stan -- P.S.
We should be together too
Dear Mister-I'm-Too-Good-To-Call-Or-Write-My-Fans,
this'll be the last packet I ever send your ass
It's been six months and still no word - I don't deserve it?
I know you got my last two emails
I wrote the @ signs on 'em perfect
So this is my payload I'm sending you, I hope you hear it
I'm on my modem now, I'm doing 9600 on the infohiway
Hey Rob, I drank a fifth of vodka, you dare me to code?
You know the song by Deep Purple by Depache Mode
its irrelevant by playing on my linux player
while I write some php scripts and play some Dragonslayer
That's kinda how shit is, you coulda rescued me from drowning
Now it's too late - I'm on a 1000 downloads now, I'm drowsy
and all I wanted was a lousy letter or a call
I hope you know I ripped +ALL+ of your pictures off the wall
I love you Rob, we coulda been together, think about it
You ruined it now, I hope you can't sleep and you dream about it
And when you dream I hope you can't sleep and you SCREAM about it
I hope your conscience EATS AT YOU and you can't BREATHE without me
See Rob {*screaming*} Shut up bitch! I'm tryin to page
Hey Rob, that's my senior admin screamin in the cage
but I didn't cut the power off, I just rebooted, see I ain't like you
cause if he works some harder he'll suffer more, and then the boxes die too
Well, gotta go, I'm almost BGP bridged
Oh shit, I forgot, how'm I supposed to send this packet out?
Dear Stan, I meant to write you sooner but I just been busy
You said your box is running now, how'd you like your gcc?
Look, I'm really flattered you would install 7.0 Redhat
and here's an autograph for your senior admin
I wrote it on the Starter cap
I'm sorry I didn't see you at the show, I musta missed you
Don't think I did that shit intentionally just to diss you
But what's this shit you said about you like to DDoS lamers too?
I say that shit just clownin dogg,
c'mon - how fucked up is you?
You got some issues Stan, I think you need some counseling
so heres some more Linux stories to keep your as busy when you get down some
And what's this shit about us meant to be together?
I already have a boyfriend Timothy he gets me wetter
I really think you and your boxes need each other
or maybe you just need to treat them better
I hope you get to read this letter, I just hope it reaches you in time
before you hurt yourself, I think that you'll be doin just fine
if you relax a little, I'm glad I inspire you but Stan
why are you so mad? Try to understand, that Linux and MS is just grand
I just don't want you to do some crazy shit
I seen this one shit on the news a couple weeks ago that made me sick
Some dude was drunk and switched his router for a bridge
and his packets were blackholed, and his DNS couldn't get digged
and in the colo they found a tape, but they didn't say who it was to
Come to think about, his name was.. it was you
Damn!
This same scenario was being shown on "Jon Stossel goes to Washington."
Governments and utilities corporations should assist some of these pharma companies with an incentive to keep their drugs at a reasonable cost. This would be a nice solution and would save some drug co's money:
1. Lower rents, property taxes for pharmaceuticals so they can't rollover the costs to the consumer.
2. Stop the beaurucracy when allowing products to be used by those in need. (note: FDA)
3. Use George Dubya as a test dummy for drugs
4. Provide subsidies to pharmaceutical companies perhaps on a UN like effort to make a one shop price to avoid capitalizing on poorer third world nations.
5. Pharmaceutical companies: Stop waisting so much on advertising in assinine media like the super bowl and TV. [We don't see anyone with AIDS watching television and saying "Oh Merck had such a nice commercial, and since I'm dying let me just switch drugs for a change]
Lower rent, sure some people can bitch about this, and it does sound odd but anything and everything is going to be charged by other corporations to companies who attempt to assist others, and there are pharmaceuticals companies who have enough to pay. There should be an organization created to allow companies whos' underlying factors aren't money.
I would post more but cmdrtaco hurt my feelings.;) See you at Linux World
So whats the big deal with this? Yahoo and Hotmail has a FreeBSD farm and my company uses FreeBSD to accomodate 60million users without flaws. I read a post below with someone bitching about the use of Linux and how it compares to the BSD's.
Linux still has ways to go and its surprising to see the great efforts of Slashdot running Linux based machines but personally I wouldn't use it for super high end stuff with a volumnious amount of users since it has its pitfalls.
Now to that same poster both FreeBSD and Linux suck when it comes to security as FreeBSD almost rivaled Microsoft in security advisories last year, and although OpenBSD is my OS of choice it does not have the support in hardware for most mega corporations' needs.
Solaris is a different story altogether which no one mentions good old Sol here. Although it is a bit bloated with uneccessary binaries there is no comparison for any Linux or BSD based server running Oracle versus a Solaris machine running Oracle its like comparing apples and oranges.
Why the posting of a FreeBSD based article when all this time I thought Slashdot had reformed itself to a Microsoft/Linux/Stupid Scientifical story based site with semi-weekly postings of stupid movies and stupid anime, not to be overshadowed by an assinine arsenal of other stupid articles the world just won't need.
Union Rep: Just give us 20% of your wages and we'll provide you with monthly brochures filled with an in depth analysis of where your money is going after we masquerade the illegal activities we will actually use your contributions for.
Dot-Com-Guy: Well according to Slashdot these contributions will not help the Linux movement to overthrow the evil Gates empire
Union Rep: You see by contributing you assist other dot com'ers who are ending up on FuckedCompany.com
dot-com-guy: How much will this affect my stock options?
Union Rep: Well we currently have Sammy the Bull Gravano who has made great strides in the Ecstasy game to invest your money in the hot new pharmaceutical sectors in Amsterdam
Its all said and done before and not much is going to change. Instead of offering just horror stories with a quickie little link on who to contact, something most people will take a second look at if people were so concerned they would do much more about about such as mailing their local representative in office and complaining.
Sure we can waste our lives clicking away on slashdot stories something that can take a few minutes at time, but then many want to bitch about no one taking a stand when all it takes is a few minutes to send a quick email to congress and express your gripes. With enough concerns raised they will act on issues.
So your life has been slightly changed, well its your life so what are you going to do sit around an mope about it or take initiative and correct these issues. Credit companies are just companies a business just like any other and can be reported to places like the Better Business Beauru of other agencies. Contact them and have them remove your questioned info and go on with life. Unless laws are set in place it will continue, who will change those laws, people change those laws, and without any forseen problems by those in power to change them will leave them as is, bottom line.
Personally I've been on linuxes and bsd OS' for some time and sure Linux and BSD's kick MS tail up and down for security, networking, functionality, but there is too much inconsistancies within the OS' at this point for any one of them to overthrow Mickeyshit at this point.
Take for example the arguements on simple things like window managers. The Unixes don't have a set standard which is good to the geeky type but your typical 1-2 hour user does not really have a need for this. People love simplicity and things all purty and cutesy sort of like a nation built around Oprah and Martha Stewart, do you hnoest believe that Mary Jo Homemaker, or Billy Bob Hillbilly are gonna sit around and./configure ; make ; make install or find/usr -name someshit* all day when some of these people have yet to understand that sleeping with their siblings is a crime and immoral?
Theres just too much for the average end user at this point which doesn't make it a viable solution, a lot of people just want ease of use point-click-do-this-for-me-cuz-im-illiterate OS' which aren't going to hurt their ego's which Linux can sometimes do to people even experienced users sometimes.
I use things*nix religiously and even at work I have to have a separate Wintrash system around to appease others who use Excel, Microcrash Word, Unpoweredpoint, etc.
Maybe Redhat and others should make like a separate offspring and call it Hicknix or Cluenix for e-taded users.
Could be viewed along with the arguements associated with PKI, just because a company is selling certificates why should one trust that company, are their servers secure from intrusion, just exactly who gave them that authority to sell certs, (government, god, allah, etc.) its all in open view; privacy buffs were opposed to it and I'm sure companies saw the problems down the road with allowing the database to be sold { else $PRIVACY_BUFFS_COMPLAIN >= $FUTURE_LOSES }...
I'm sure if watchful eyes weren't kept it'd been sold.
Would make sense in order to keep clients' information safe and this is first time I've heard a corporation turning down more money. I remember NSI's and ICANN's bickering over the whois database and some might have said the issue revolved around the same means however it was not.
Personally I dont think this will set any standard and in the article it mentioned complaints by privacy groups which is the foundation for the decision to take legal action, only one would hope ethical questions would've outweighed a watchful eye, but hey money talks.
I wonder what will happen when some of the bigger fish go out like Doubleclick, Netcreations.com, etc, are there standards in place already set to avoid this from happening or is information just going to end up on the eBay selling block? What about with mergers and takeovers, will the same rules apply if the newer parent company doesn't have the rules the other company did?
What we need are content regulations that are roughly similar to those regarding obscenity and the exploitation of children in other media; and there should be individual-use regulations, perhaps even licensing requirements, for visiting some sites, such as the plethora of supposed "special interest" sites that thinly veil pedophiliac content.
Children have been exposed in other forms of media just as bad around the world in print and on television just as much as the net so I sensed somewhat of a grudge in certain pointers in this article. There is no way governments across the world would bind together to propose a solution together when they can't even sign a simple treaty to stop from killing themselves (Israel, Korea, etc,.) As for pedophilia it has been rampant much more prior to the internet and much is being done to prevent this on Interpol's, USCustom's behalf, and what a lot of people fail to understand regarding this situation is that many pedophiles are sneaky and adopt to technology just as well as everyone else. Recently in a discussion with someone I had to talk them out of rm -Rf'ing a pedo site they found and rooted simply because they could've been jeapordizing someone's investigation. The minute you take a ped site down it'll pop up on four other servers and I have seen this rampantly in third world countries where laws are obsolete and there may be criminal elements within government, e.g. Russiam Mobs, Japanese Yakuza, etc., so to think all government or any one government can police is ludicrous.
Convicted sex criminals and other questionable characters simply should not be allowed access to sites that make it easier for them to stalk and approach their prey -- not until they have demonstrated, through a licensing procedure, some sort of rehabilitation, and maybe not even then.
Yes and maybe we should give those who shoot licensing tests as well. What difference would it make on a criminal level, a criminal is a criminal and one should be more worried about some form of rehabilitation and counseling than how to screen their actions on the net. Wait maybe someone should create a commercial proxy/firewall server and dub it anti-child-porn and FORCE ex cons to use ISP's provided with them. As if they wouldn't find methods of circumvention.
This can be a private process, unlike proclaiming to whole neighborhoods that a sex offender has moved in (a law that, while arguably effective, raises troubling constitutional issues).
I sense future salesman here. Megans law does justice and serves it purpose well unfortunately its sad to see people who complain never visit the local police stations to find information on people in their neighborhood. So when something happens people cry foul when they never took the time to learn about their community. Sure the law fails many times and the laws were made by people.. Bottom line people fail.
People assume that what they read on the Net is true.
I don't know where these stats came from and I would hope many would look into situations but this is a vague statement.
There must be strenuous efforts first and foremost to guarantee that what is represented as fact is fact, and that what is not fact is clearly labeled as such. Right now I could put up a Web site concerning just about anything and say just about anything so long as I attached a disclaimer. But disclaimers can be so well hidden (sometimes even in the code of the site) that they amount to nothing.
Yes lets all go out and create disclaimers many won't take the time to read, sure it will be a great solution to someone who may have just got off welfare and off their ass to try to make something of themselves by working in a low key job, well lets just give them a disclaimer with those neat little tweak paragraphs that sometimes make little sense at times. Lets make that disclaimer sign their lives away. It won't work.
How about some information based crimes on a whole new level yall?
I think I have done the most spoofs for one site to date with everything ranging from Microsoft, FreeBSD, SourceForge, ABCNews, Redhat, Firestone, Napster, Slashdot, and a few more, I think people should exercise a bit of common sense before following the information contained on spoofed pages.
Now anyone can surely see any of the pages are made in good or bad taste depending on judgement, and many can say "They should have known better", should anyone have been technologically challenged to take anything serious, but people have to take into consideration that not everyone is a tech savvy/.'er and will often fall for these jokes and misguided info filled pages (Lord knows agencies like the FBI play off some judges who are non technically adept in an effort to get warrant issued.) I've had people who thought these were hacks I had done, I had those complain to me about their (spoofed sites) judgement to use offensive things, so its clear that some people are dolts.
Should someone have intent to make money, misguide (for financial gain), or other ill motive outside of just typical fun poking of a site using a spoof then there should be some form restitution they should have the pay and the content be removed.
Slashdot Mirror
I guess my reasoning for my rants are simple, why wait so long until someone else capitalized on the idea, now if DoubleClick is guilty of stealing his idea, or knowing about his code then using it, I would say he should be compensated by DoubleClick, as an ethical manner, but he should be shooting himself for not patenting the idea.
At this point what kind of an impact will people expect. Not to be sound so "anti" anything, what I will say is, he should have done something long ago instead of waiting 6+ years while DoubleClick built a niche in the market for this service
Can someone explain to me how people are patenting free words and actions of a computer language. I don't wanna hear about "Its a nice idea" the underlying factor is, it isn't really an invention, no one physically owns code, why doesn't someone rant and sue for using their code, say Larry Wall sue DoubleClick for using Perl without his prior consent. Sure Larry Released it free, and I can theorize if he knew it would be used by "for profit" companies he would have probably released a professional copy.
Why cant this be simple such as a "move your feet lose your seat" solution. Taxpayers spend millions on this bs. Who says this is going to hinder anything, a patent is a patent. I had an idea for a lot of things people have ended up creating and patenting, would that give me the right to sue someone for it, because I was too lazy to capitalize on patenting and copyrights?
Patent Pending
Pretty neat that Disney would use Python, maybe now more shops will realize how easy and functional Python is to use.
When I worked at one of the largest Latin American web content providers, we had an almost all Python based shop which worked wonders. About the only complaint I ever had was not learning Python earlier. As for Python vs. Perl in my opinion, there are subtle differences for using Perl and diff's for using Python. When it comes to GUI based apps, I've never seen anything easier than Python, and have always figured Perl was best for text/command line/terminal based work.
Aside from this rambling, personal experiences in my eyes show Python's methods are easier to understand and get a grap than Perl's.
while($rant =~
$nonsense++;
}
print "shuddup your $nonsense makes no sense\n";
"just as bad as the targets actions" Meaning the hackers are no better than their target is by defacing them.
Personally I think the general defacement of a website is downright dumb and those responsible seem to forget its outright illegal for one.
Its nice to get a message across but hacking for a so called cause only makes things worse for the hackers, and can sometimes work to the advantage of the target, as they can turn it around and misconstrue the scenario as something of a terroristic attacks. Not only that but the media has the whole concept of hackers distorted to hell due to some of these "hackers'" actions
I've interviewed about a dozen of hackers, a virus creation group, and a script kiddiot defacer. Now the "hackers" I've interviewed are not what media considers hackers, these are professionals in the security field so don't get it distorted, however the script kiddiot defacer and others I've spoken with use the curtain of "hacktivism" to solely get attention, nothing more.
If someone really wants to get a point across I think they should start an organization and speak up on it to raise awareness. "Hacking" to promote an idea is no better than what the Chinese did at Tiananmen Square in my eyes, its painting the kettle black at any cost.
Don't get me wrong I believe in Freedom of Speech, Privacy and all that good stuff, but at the same time I hate racism, I will not condone someone from saying what they want on a racist site. I don't think double standards should apply on subjects, and while some of the older hackes from the mid - late 90's were funny as all hell, no one has the right to take away someone freedom of mind, speech.
It is also rather expensive to attempt to replace copper with fibre cabling
Not really an effective way to bundle strands of fibre together in order to make this work. What can end up happening is, once strands start dying out, the entire emission of the light becomes lower and less useable.
Pardon me for being the troll here, but why would their be patent suits or other on this?
I had an ex co-worker who laid down Fiber for the New York Stock Exchange, and I remember him telling me the steps they took to do this.
According to him the New York City Transit Authority was paid a hefty amount of money to blow dark fiber through its train tunnels.
He said for a few weeks he along with transit workers would begin late at night, early in the morning, and go step by step through the tunnels. I recall him saying it was a pain staking process since it carefully had to be set as to avoid any remote thought of all kinds of problems, kinks, high electrical interference etc.
Blowing fiber through the sewer sounds like a neat idea, but I wonder how exactly is it set as to avoid any acts of nature such as, chemical compounds of all sorts of crap in the sewer which can affect it. (hint acids built up from excrement)
Its an extremely expensive task, and I wouldn't want to be the one down below doing it.
CIA bullies a Jew
Somewhere along the line someone paid for it else it wouldbn't be on the net. One thing he forgets is that any publicity is good publicity, and after last checking research says online reading will not replace a good old book.
Well a link or two for reference would have been nice.
Such high expectations. Personally I doubt it would affect anyone other than himself when the sh## hits the fan. See others (even Stephen King) know the risks associated with the Internet, and again I will restate studies show people will eventually buy it if they like it enough. Its the same rants about Napster ya know.
This sounds like a dramatical emmy award winning rant. How much can someone profit by posting a link to a book. Lets take the prior Yahoo article, shit they aren't even making money anymore, so where does this "e-tard" come off thinking he's missing a million bucks from his pocket
This is some funny stuff before I go through the whole thing a solution for the author would be as simple as not using his work on the net.
Art imitates life
The bottom line is banner revenues can be sufficient for profit potential if you play your cards right.
Think about how much money Yahoo must burn on its day to day operations, versus the amount of times people will actually visit the site. I don't think 10% of its visitors will follow a link, and considering most of Yahoo is based on its once highly visited search engines, lets face it, google kicks its ass on searching, Yahoo is one ugly ass website nowadays, Yahoo can't offer much that newer websites can, and those newer websites' operational costs are bound to be a fraction of that of Yahoo's
Popular sites like slashdot have a high enough CPM to stay more than just afloat. I'm surprised Yahoo hasn't been able to say the same
Your forgetting one key principle, most revenue is generated on click throughs, which most people ignore. If I'm coming to
The Internet is such a great thing, but one thing many seem to overlook is that it is not a neccessity. For years people have lived without the net, and while it does make live easier, it is just like a car, cell phone, etc., a novelty.
Mid to Late 90's Venture Capital firms went ballistic funding companies that were gone faster than they had came. Recent days VC is dried up as people are realizing their is no immediate ghastly halt of life for anyone without the Internet.
Keeping afloat is a hard thing to do when you have bills to pay and revenues from ads just wont cut it. Its not like television where a broadcaster can sell the rights to programs that are in syndication and make revenue off of reruns. Banner ads are not all they once claimed or hoped to be and many companies were under the impression it would last forever. Companies whose revenues fell under this scheme suffered and are suffering most, since there's much more competition meaning ads are flooded and are likely to be meaningless.
Yahoo has outlasted many dot.coms and the decision to step down as CEO was IMHO a wise move. Think about it, where else is Yahoo going to get revenue from, selling webspace, email accounts, stock quotes? There isn't much out there on the net right now, and until the next best thing comes along many other sites without a surefire business model will all end up on FuckedCompany
Free Porn (oh by the way its ad free too)
Lets not forget XBoy
CIA mining your info
Well they could have done a favor and posted some of the software in question, this way people who are using this software can make a switch.
This is why forums such as Security Focus exist. They shed light on security based products. Programmers however, should be held accountable for creating a boon of shoddily written programs without doing extensive research into security.
Publish!! Sounds to me like she means Microsoft Front Page. Again these concerns should be assessed by first: The programmers creating a slew of poorly written programs, second the administrators responsible for making sure their servers, and software is secure and all the permissions are set on files.
Studying a problem should be one of the steps but removing it should be the first.
Oh well we all get the point.
CIA vs. Jews
Slashdot Ballad
Sung to Eminem's Drug Ballad
Back when Rob Malda was just Robert Mald
this is how we used to make our postings scald
we used to mix Lin with some shit like DOS
and when it kicked in you can hardly talk
and by the sixth post you gon' probably crawl
and you'll be sick then and you'll probably barf
and my prediction is you gon' probably fall
either by the moderators or by Robert Mald
And everything's spinnin' you're beginning to
think Linus is coding up pink Linux
again in the sink
then in a couple of minutes that kernel rev finished
you are now allowed to officially recompile Linux
You have the right to remain trollin and start pollin'
start a download from a mirror placed on a dot edu
get on the laptop and start it and start fraggin
playing Q3's elite just don't start braggin
Earth calling, pilot to co-pilot
Looking for life on Slashdot sir, no sign of it
All i could see is a couple of geeks
and I'm compile so much shit might take weeks
Let me out of this place I'm outta place
I'm in in outter space, I've just vanished without a trace
I'm going to a pretty place now where the flowers grow
I'll be back in an hour or so
Cause every time I go to try to post (Whoa)
moderators flamebait my shit to toast(Whoa)
I dont wanna but I gotta stay (Whoa)
Slashdot's really gotta hold on me (Whoa)
Cause every time I go to try to post (Whoa)
moderators flamebait my shit to toast(Whoa)
I dont wanna but I gotta stay (Whoa)
Slashdot's really gotta hold on me (Whoa)
In third grade all I used to do
was code in BASIC on Commodore play Atari too
seventeen years later I'm as rude as you
downloading another kernel make that 102
I got no game and every kernel looks the same
They got no name so I think I need patches again
I just say whatever I want, to whoever I want
Whenever i want, wherever I want, however I want
However I do show some respect to few
This trolling posting has got me reading the next two
Gettin sentimental as fuck, spillin' guts to you
We just met but I think I'm in love with you
But you're posting too so you tell me you love me too
Reload the page screaming "SHIT" like "Yo what the fuck we do?"
I gotta go bitch, you know I got stuff to do
gotta download from SourceForge then troll back at 2
But in the long Linux is probably gonna catch up sooner or later
But fuck it I'm compiling one so let's enjoy
Let the XFree destroy your video card
So it's not a straight line no more
So we trolling around lookin' like some windup dolls
Shit stickin' out of our posts like a dinosaur
Shit six posts won't even get me high no more
So bye for now I'm gonna and post some more
Cause every time I go to try to post (Whoa)
moderators flamebait my shit to toast(Whoa)
I dont wanna but I gotta stay (Whoa)
Slashdot's really gotta hold on me (Whoa)
Cause every time I go to try to post (Whoa)
moderators flamebait my shit to toast(Whoa)
I dont wanna but I gotta stay (Whoa)
Slashdot's really gotta hold on me (Whoa)
Somebody stop me
Slashdot's gone cold I'm wondering why I got out of bed at all
The morning rain clouds up my window and I can't see at all
And even if I could it'll all be gray but your picture on my wall
It reminds me, that it's not so bad -- it's not so bad
Dear Rob, I wrote but you still ain't callin
I left my email, my ICQ, and my yahoo chat at the bottom
I sent two emails back in autumn, you must not-a got 'em
There probably was a problem with your sendmail or somethin
Sometimes I scribble email addees too sloppy when I jot 'em
but anyways; fsck it, what's been up? Man how's your boxes?
My boxes is linux too, I'm bout to be a compiler
once I learn gcc,
I'ma compile for miles ah
I read about your Palm Pilot too I'm sorry
I had a friend lose his Palm over at the airport in Maradonna
I know you probably hear this everyday, but I'm your biggest fan
I even read all your bullshit Linux news and BSD scams
I got a room full of your posters and your pictures man
I like the way you sold your ass too that shit was fat
Anyways, I hope you get this man, hit me back,
just to chat, truly yours, your biggest fan
This is Stan
Dear Rob, you still ain't called or wrote, I hope you have a chance
I ain't mad - I just think it's FUCKED UP you don't answer fans
If you didn't wanna talk to me outside your Linux World
you didn't have to, but you coulda signed an autograph for Matthew
That's my Senior sys admin he's only 26 years old
We waited on a 9600 baud for you,
four hours and you just said, "No."
That's pretty shitty man - you're like his fsckin idol
He wants to be just like you man, he likes you more than I do
I ain't that mad though, I just don't like bein lied to
Remember when we met in Boston - you said if I'd write you
you would write back - see I'm just like you in a way
I never had a clue about shit either
I gcc'd shit with my wife then beat her
I can relate to what you're saying in your page
so when I feel like rmusering I read Slashdot to being the rage
cause I don't really got shit else so that shit helps when I'm depressed
I even got a tattoo of slashdot across the chest
Sometimes I even packet myself to see how much it floods
It's like adrenaline, the DDoS is such a sudden rush of blood
See everything you say is real, and I respect you cause you tell it
My girlfriend's jealous cause I talk about you 24/7
But she don't know you like I know you Rob, no one does
She don't know what it was like for people like us growin up
You gotta call me man, I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose
Sincerely yours, Stan -- P.S.
We should be together too
Dear Mister-I'm-Too-Good-To-Call-Or-Write-My-Fans,
this'll be the last packet I ever send your ass
It's been six months and still no word - I don't deserve it?
I know you got my last two emails
I wrote the @ signs on 'em perfect
So this is my payload I'm sending you, I hope you hear it
I'm on my modem now, I'm doing 9600 on the infohiway
Hey Rob, I drank a fifth of vodka, you dare me to code?
You know the song by Deep Purple by Depache Mode
its irrelevant by playing on my linux player
while I write some php scripts and play some Dragonslayer
That's kinda how shit is, you coulda rescued me from drowning
Now it's too late - I'm on a 1000 downloads now, I'm drowsy
and all I wanted was a lousy letter or a call
I hope you know I ripped +ALL+ of your pictures off the wall
I love you Rob, we coulda been together, think about it
You ruined it now, I hope you can't sleep and you dream about it
And when you dream I hope you can't sleep and you SCREAM about it
I hope your conscience EATS AT YOU and you can't BREATHE without me
See Rob {*screaming*} Shut up bitch! I'm tryin to page
Hey Rob, that's my senior admin screamin in the cage
but I didn't cut the power off, I just rebooted, see I ain't like you
cause if he works some harder he'll suffer more, and then the boxes die too
Well, gotta go, I'm almost BGP bridged
Oh shit, I forgot, how'm I supposed to send this packet out?
Dear Stan, I meant to write you sooner but I just been busy
You said your box is running now, how'd you like your gcc?
Look, I'm really flattered you would install 7.0 Redhat
and here's an autograph for your senior admin
I wrote it on the Starter cap
I'm sorry I didn't see you at the show, I musta missed you
Don't think I did that shit intentionally just to diss you
But what's this shit you said about you like to DDoS lamers too?
I say that shit just clownin dogg,
c'mon - how fucked up is you?
You got some issues Stan, I think you need some counseling
so heres some more Linux stories to keep your as busy when you get down some
And what's this shit about us meant to be together?
I already have a boyfriend Timothy he gets me wetter
I really think you and your boxes need each other
or maybe you just need to treat them better
I hope you get to read this letter, I just hope it reaches you in time
before you hurt yourself, I think that you'll be doin just fine
if you relax a little, I'm glad I inspire you but Stan
why are you so mad? Try to understand, that Linux and MS is just grand
I just don't want you to do some crazy shit
I seen this one shit on the news a couple weeks ago that made me sick
Some dude was drunk and switched his router for a bridge
and his packets were blackholed, and his DNS couldn't get digged
and in the colo they found a tape, but they didn't say who it was to
Come to think about, his name was.. it was you
Damn!
This same scenario was being shown on "Jon Stossel goes to Washington."
Governments and utilities corporations should assist some of these pharma companies with an incentive to keep their drugs at a reasonable cost. This would be a nice solution and would save some drug co's money:
1. Lower rents, property taxes for pharmaceuticals so they can't rollover the costs to the consumer.
2. Stop the beaurucracy when allowing products to be used by those in need. (note: FDA)
3. Use George Dubya as a test dummy for drugs
4. Provide subsidies to pharmaceutical companies perhaps on a UN like effort to make a one shop price to avoid capitalizing on poorer third world nations. 5. Pharmaceutical companies: Stop waisting so much on advertising in assinine media like the super bowl and TV. [We don't see anyone with AIDS watching television and saying "Oh Merck had such a nice commercial, and since I'm dying let me just switch drugs for a change]
Lower rent, sure some people can bitch about this, and it does sound odd but anything and everything is going to be charged by other corporations to companies who attempt to assist others, and there are pharmaceuticals companies who have enough to pay. There should be an organization created to allow companies whos' underlying factors aren't money.
I would post more but cmdrtaco hurt my feelings.
So whats the big deal with this? Yahoo and Hotmail has a FreeBSD farm and my company uses FreeBSD to accomodate 60million users without flaws. I read a post below with someone bitching about the use of Linux and how it compares to the BSD's.
Linux still has ways to go and its surprising to see the great efforts of Slashdot running Linux based machines but personally I wouldn't use it for super high end stuff with a volumnious amount of users since it has its pitfalls.
Now to that same poster both FreeBSD and Linux suck when it comes to security as FreeBSD almost rivaled Microsoft in security advisories last year, and although OpenBSD is my OS of choice it does not have the support in hardware for most mega corporations' needs.
Solaris is a different story altogether which no one mentions good old Sol here. Although it is a bit bloated with uneccessary binaries there is no comparison for any Linux or BSD based server running Oracle versus a Solaris machine running Oracle its like comparing apples and oranges.
Why the posting of a FreeBSD based article when all this time I thought Slashdot had reformed itself to a Microsoft/Linux/Stupid Scientifical story based site with semi-weekly postings of stupid movies and stupid anime, not to be overshadowed by an assinine arsenal of other stupid articles the world just won't need.
Home Sweet Home ya bastards
Union Rep: Just give us 20% of your wages and we'll provide you with monthly brochures filled with an in depth analysis of where your money is going after we masquerade the illegal activities we will actually use your contributions for.
Dot-Com-Guy: Well according to Slashdot these contributions will not help the Linux movement to overthrow the evil Gates empire
Union Rep: You see by contributing you assist other dot com'ers who are ending up on FuckedCompany.com
dot-com-guy: How much will this affect my stock options?
Union Rep: Well we currently have Sammy the Bull Gravano who has made great strides in the Ecstasy game to invest your money in the hot new pharmaceutical sectors in Amsterdam
dot-com-guy: Is he a Slashdot moderator?
Real news you can use
I have my whole system a Pentium V 200ghz 10Terabytes of spage 18gb mem which is transparent, and when I can see it I'll post with it to prove it.
Republicans aren't so bad"
Its all said and done before and not much is going to change. Instead of offering just horror stories with a quickie little link on who to contact, something most people will take a second look at if people were so concerned they would do much more about about such as mailing their local representative in office and complaining.
Sure we can waste our lives clicking away on slashdot stories something that can take a few minutes at time, but then many want to bitch about no one taking a stand when all it takes is a few minutes to send a quick email to congress and express your gripes. With enough concerns raised they will act on issues.
So your life has been slightly changed, well its your life so what are you going to do sit around an mope about it or take initiative and correct these issues. Credit companies are just companies a business just like any other and can be reported to places like the Better Business Beauru of other agencies. Contact them and have them remove your questioned info and go on with life. Unless laws are set in place it will continue, who will change those laws, people change those laws, and without any forseen problems by those in power to change them will leave them as is, bottom line.
Republican National Committee Spoof
Personally I've been on linuxes and bsd OS' for some time and sure Linux and BSD's kick MS tail up and down for security, networking, functionality, but there is too much inconsistancies within the OS' at this point for any one of them to overthrow Mickeyshit at this point.
./configure ; make ; make install or find /usr -name someshit* all day when some of these people have yet to understand that sleeping with their siblings is a crime and immoral?
Take for example the arguements on simple things like window managers. The Unixes don't have a set standard which is good to the geeky type but your typical 1-2 hour user does not really have a need for this. People love simplicity and things all purty and cutesy sort of like a nation built around Oprah and Martha Stewart, do you hnoest believe that Mary Jo Homemaker, or Billy Bob Hillbilly are gonna sit around and
Theres just too much for the average end user at this point which doesn't make it a viable solution, a lot of people just want ease of use point-click-do-this-for-me-cuz-im-illiterate OS' which aren't going to hurt their ego's which Linux can sometimes do to people even experienced users sometimes.
I use things*nix religiously and even at work I have to have a separate Wintrash system around to appease others who use Excel, Microcrash Word, Unpoweredpoint, etc.
Maybe Redhat and others should make like a separate offspring and call it Hicknix or Cluenix for e-taded users.
Republican Party Spoof
Could be viewed along with the arguements associated with PKI, just because a company is selling certificates why should one trust that company, are their servers secure from intrusion, just exactly who gave them that authority to sell certs, (government, god, allah, etc.) its all in open view; privacy buffs were opposed to it and I'm sure companies saw the problems down the road with allowing the database to be sold { else $PRIVACY_BUFFS_COMPLAIN >= $FUTURE_LOSES } ...
I'm sure if watchful eyes weren't kept it'd been sold.
AOL to implement security
Would make sense in order to keep clients' information safe and this is first time I've heard a corporation turning down more money. I remember NSI's and ICANN's bickering over the whois database and some might have said the issue revolved around the same means however it was not.
Personally I dont think this will set any standard and in the article it mentioned complaints by privacy groups which is the foundation for the decision to take legal action, only one would hope ethical questions would've outweighed a watchful eye, but hey money talks.
I wonder what will happen when some of the bigger fish go out like Doubleclick, Netcreations.com, etc, are there standards in place already set to avoid this from happening or is information just going to end up on the eBay selling block? What about with mergers and takeovers, will the same rules apply if the newer parent company doesn't have the rules the other company did?
SourceForge Spoof
Find someone else on IRC (efnet, etc) who lives in Romania, track the idiots info and we could all chip in some money and have this kiddiot wacked.
Or we could send him a ticket to India where the government can hire the script kiddiot for his skills
removing the dot in dot.com
What we need are content regulations that are roughly similar to those regarding obscenity and the exploitation of children in other media; and there should be individual-use regulations, perhaps even licensing requirements, for visiting some sites, such as the plethora of supposed "special interest" sites that thinly veil pedophiliac content.
Children have been exposed in other forms of media just as bad around the world in print and on television just as much as the net so I sensed somewhat of a grudge in certain pointers in this article. There is no way governments across the world would bind together to propose a solution together when they can't even sign a simple treaty to stop from killing themselves (Israel, Korea, etc,.) As for pedophilia it has been rampant much more prior to the internet and much is being done to prevent this on Interpol's, USCustom's behalf, and what a lot of people fail to understand regarding this situation is that many pedophiles are sneaky and adopt to technology just as well as everyone else. Recently in a discussion with someone I had to talk them out of rm -Rf'ing a pedo site they found and rooted simply because they could've been jeapordizing someone's investigation. The minute you take a ped site down it'll pop up on four other servers and I have seen this rampantly in third world countries where laws are obsolete and there may be criminal elements within government, e.g. Russiam Mobs, Japanese Yakuza, etc., so to think all government or any one government can police is ludicrous.
Convicted sex criminals and other questionable characters simply should not be allowed access to sites that make it easier for them to stalk and approach their prey -- not until they have demonstrated, through a licensing procedure, some sort of rehabilitation, and maybe not even then.
Yes and maybe we should give those who shoot licensing tests as well. What difference would it make on a criminal level, a criminal is a criminal and one should be more worried about some form of rehabilitation and counseling than how to screen their actions on the net. Wait maybe someone should create a commercial proxy/firewall server and dub it anti-child-porn and FORCE ex cons to use ISP's provided with them. As if they wouldn't find methods of circumvention.
This can be a private process, unlike proclaiming to whole neighborhoods that a sex offender has moved in (a law that, while arguably effective, raises troubling constitutional issues).
I sense future salesman here. Megans law does justice and serves it purpose well unfortunately its sad to see people who complain never visit the local police stations to find information on people in their neighborhood. So when something happens people cry foul when they never took the time to learn about their community. Sure the law fails many times and the laws were made by people.. Bottom line people fail.
People assume that what they read on the Net is true.
I don't know where these stats came from and I would hope many would look into situations but this is a vague statement.
There must be strenuous efforts first and foremost to guarantee that what is represented as fact is fact, and that what is not fact is clearly labeled as such. Right now I could put up a Web site concerning just about anything and say just about anything so long as I attached a disclaimer. But disclaimers can be so well hidden (sometimes even in the code of the site) that they amount to nothing.
Yes lets all go out and create disclaimers many won't take the time to read, sure it will be a great solution to someone who may have just got off welfare and off their ass to try to make something of themselves by working in a low key job, well lets just give them a disclaimer with those neat little tweak paragraphs that sometimes make little sense at times. Lets make that disclaimer sign their lives away. It won't work.
How about some information based crimes on a whole new level yall?
I think I have done the most spoofs for one site to date with everything ranging from Microsoft, FreeBSD, SourceForge, ABCNews, Redhat, Firestone, Napster, Slashdot, and a few more, I think people should exercise a bit of common sense before following the information contained on spoofed pages.
/.'er and will often fall for these jokes and misguided info filled pages (Lord knows agencies like the FBI play off some judges who are non technically adept in an effort to get warrant issued.) I've had people who thought these were hacks I had done, I had those complain to me about their (spoofed sites) judgement to use offensive things, so its clear that some people are dolts.
Now anyone can surely see any of the pages are made in good or bad taste depending on judgement, and many can say "They should have known better", should anyone have been technologically challenged to take anything serious, but people have to take into consideration that not everyone is a tech savvy
Should someone have intent to make money, misguide (for financial gain), or other ill motive outside of just typical fun poking of a site using a spoof then there should be some form restitution they should have the pay and the content be removed.
Coming soon, NSA Spoof
Home sweet home