There are some good portions of the DMCA, it's just that you never hear of them.
For instance, the DMCA CAN REINFORCE THE GPL, if a case involving violation of the GPL ever went to court. It's not all a bad law, it's just used in a bad way.
Assume you dont have a computer. Assume that you can go to your library and get internet access, but your library doesnt have the $150 dollar version of MS Office. You can use the free internet access to use the free word processing, then download the result, and you've got a nice document without much hassle at all.
There's actually now two win32 binaries that demonstrate the exploit. The first requires you to log into hotmail to set the cookie, the second allows you to do that from the program's GUI.
Why should I donate? You're giving away your money to someone who you dont know, because of what you've read online, in a very biased publication. Another reader (above) provided a second link, (http://www.bkw.org/pdf/oklahoman-news-hack.pdf), which seems to tell a different story. I'm having a hard time believing this is an innocent "oh everyone had full read write permissions on the entire document tree" story. I'm leading towards something more along the lines of Mr. West finding and cracking a password file on his competitors machine, and using that to gain admin priv.'s, then trying to convince customers to change based on "security holes" in their current service.
Yea, not really. Either that was a comment from the dumbest person I've ever seen, or someone trying desperately to be funny, and failing.
Where to look for details...
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If you want details, the best thing to do is look to John's finger data. For instance, it's pretty clear by this that Q4 will suck on anything less than a GeForce3:
Here is a dump on the GeForce 3 that I have been seriously working
with for a few weeks now:
The short answer is that the GeForce 3 is fantastic. I haven't had such an
impression of raising the performance bar since the Voodoo 2 came out, and
there are a ton of new features for programmers to play with.
Graphics programmers should run out and get one at the earliest possible
time. For consumers, it will be a tougher call. There aren't any
applications our right now that take proper advantage of it, but you should
still be quite a bit faster at everything than GF2, especially with
anti-aliasing. Balance that against whatever the price turns out to be.
While the Radeon is a good effort in many ways, it has enough shortfalls
that I still generally call the GeForce 2 ultra the best card you can buy
right now, so Nvidia is basically dethroning their own product.
It is somewhat unfortunate that it is labeled GeForce 3, because GeForce
2 was just a speed bump of GeForce, while GF3 is a major architectural
change. I wish they had called the GF2 something else.
Unreal Fortress 04.08.2001
We got the special preview version of the Unreal Fortress beta 2. This is a special opportunity; this version of the game is not available anywhere else!
please dont slashdot it yet! at least wait until my download is done! 40 megs to go, and it's already dropped from a steady 100 KB/s to about 80! Please, you bastards, leave the site alone for another few minutes!
The two examples you're providing are actually quite common....
In california, our legal blood alcohol has been at.08 since a similar threat (no road funds) was made in the 70's (I think, could be wrong?), and Nevada was forced to lower it's speed limits on some streets/highways to keep their highway funds (it's changing some now, the 75mph signs were replaced by 65, but in the last 10 years, they 65mpg signs have been replaced with 70mpg; similar situation in california).
Anyone who takes a job with a university computer department (i'd be willing to bet) has to sign a waiver very similar to that. It's basically standard policy. University computers are for university use, period. He (again, i'm 99% sure) violated policy, which is illegal. It's his fault, he'll have to deal with it.
Yes, i realize it was unstable. I even put that in my comment. The fact of the matter is that debian developers seem to do VERY LITTLE TESTING of their packages before release.
You (collectively, as slashdot readers) seem to complain about microsoft taking weeks to months to release patches. You complain about bugs in MS code. But what nobody ever seems to realize is the *nix is just as bad, on one or the other, almost every time. If they wait for something truly stable, it's going to require a few months of testing. If they try to get a fix out quickly, it's going to be unstable. Why, though, release things that critically break systems, obviously because the package was never tested before being submitted to the general public. It's a trivial matter to install it once, log out, log back in, to check that the auth module still works. Even MS was never dumb enough to do that.
1) Let's hope Mandrake never ships a broken PAM package as debian (albeit unstable) did a few days ago. For that alone, I'd give the edge to Mandrake, even though in practice, I've always enjoyed apt.
2) Lets not forget the ports collection on FreeBSD. Installing a port is as easy as:
locate (portname)
cd/user/ports/(area)/(portname)
make install
All dependancies addressed for you. The port tree can be kept up to date with cvs. It's a great system. The maintainers seem to keep it relatively up to date, but just far enough behind that there are very few security scares.
This relies on the assumption that the US military have superior equiptment, which is generally the case.
Chemicals already exist that can produce substantial amounts of benine radiation. Swallowing such a chemical could cause a person to emit radiation with certain characteristics, which would not be detected by the naked eye. Friendly soldiers could have radiation detectors that know precisely which frequency a "friend" emits. Thus, they could easily see their "friends" through dark brush, thick trees, or other similar conditions.
Trolling aside, there are vital missions carried out by militaries other than just random killing.
Elimination of, and retribution for, terrorist activities.
Emergency rescue situations.
Aid to struggling areas (hurricaine relief, etc).
These actions can all be helped by improved biotech engineering. It's a fact of life. Perhaps you should consider looking for positive uses, rather than concentrating only on the bad possibilities?
Is curious about or has tried linux, but probably doesn't see it as a viable alternative to MS
Unfortunately, I dont think this is true at all. A vast majority of "common users" dont know what Linux is. Most probably have heard it, in one setting or another, but could not tell you what it is or where to find it. You're equating, I assume, your friends and acquantences with the "common user", and this is probably flawed. Go into an AOL or Yahoo! chat room, and ask what Linux is. Most wont know. It's a shame, but it's life.
what i can suggest, from playing around with multiple languages (jsp, perl, python, php) on FreeBSD/apache, is to use phpoptimized with zend's optimizer.... the speed boost is about 15%, and if apache is configured correctly, or even patched for speed, php will outperform any other similarly prepared language.
Their radio campaign has already started in LA, apparently, because just last night I heard IBM offering Linux based machines and support on an LA radio station..
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There are some good portions of the DMCA, it's just that you never hear of them.
For instance, the DMCA CAN REINFORCE THE GPL, if a case involving violation of the GPL ever went to court. It's not all a bad law, it's just used in a bad way.
The developers are all addicted to horse porn!
Please, you linux fucks, stop looking at all that disgusting animal porn. What the hell is wrong with you?
Please, you linux fucks, stop looking at all that disgusting animal porn. What the hell is wrong with you?
Well, its simple really.
Assume you dont have a computer. Assume that you can go to your library and get internet access, but your library doesnt have the $150 dollar version of MS Office. You can use the free internet access to use the free word processing, then download the result, and you've got a nice document without much hassle at all.
give it a while, it'll come back to you...
Riverside county (california) has been giving residents @city.ca.us email addresses for months.
There's actually now two win32 binaries that demonstrate the exploit. The first requires you to log into hotmail to set the cookie, the second allows you to do that from the program's GUI.
I just donated. You should too.
Why should I donate? You're giving away your money to someone who you dont know, because of what you've read online, in a very biased publication. Another reader (above) provided a second link, (http://www.bkw.org/pdf/oklahoman-news-hack.pdf), which seems to tell a different story. I'm having a hard time believing this is an innocent "oh everyone had full read write permissions on the entire document tree" story. I'm leading towards something more along the lines of Mr. West finding and cracking a password file on his competitors machine, and using that to gain admin priv.'s, then trying to convince customers to change based on "security holes" in their current service.
Yea, not really. Either that was a comment from the dumbest person I've ever seen, or someone trying desperately to be funny, and failing.
So, if you REALLY want to know what's going on,
finger johnc@idsoftware.com
not all sigs are meant to be funny? but yea, it's humorous, in a jealous sort of way.
yea yea, but what's the damn new sequel look like? nothing's hit my apache logs yet.
Unreal Fortress 04.08.2001
We got the special preview version of the Unreal Fortress beta 2. This is a special opportunity; this version of the game is not available anywhere else!
please dont slashdot it yet! at least wait until my download is done! 40 megs to go, and it's already dropped from a steady 100 KB/s to about 80! Please, you bastards, leave the site alone for another few minutes!
All you'd have to do is check Rob's submissions ...
great site, but the grammar and spelling here is pathetic.
The two examples you're providing are actually quite common....
.08 since a similar threat (no road funds) was made in the 70's (I think, could be wrong?), and Nevada was forced to lower it's speed limits on some streets/highways to keep their highway funds (it's changing some now, the 75mph signs were replaced by 65, but in the last 10 years, they 65mpg signs have been replaced with 70mpg; similar situation in california).
In california, our legal blood alcohol has been at
Anyone who takes a job with a university computer department (i'd be willing to bet) has to sign a waiver very similar to that. It's basically standard policy. University computers are for university use, period. He (again, i'm 99% sure) violated policy, which is illegal. It's his fault, he'll have to deal with it.
dude, they did cover it:
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/27/17102
Yes, i realize it was unstable. I even put that in my comment. The fact of the matter is that debian developers seem to do VERY LITTLE TESTING of their packages before release.
You (collectively, as slashdot readers) seem to complain about microsoft taking weeks to months to release patches. You complain about bugs in MS code. But what nobody ever seems to realize is the *nix is just as bad, on one or the other, almost every time. If they wait for something truly stable, it's going to require a few months of testing. If they try to get a fix out quickly, it's going to be unstable. Why, though, release things that critically break systems, obviously because the package was never tested before being submitted to the general public. It's a trivial matter to install it once, log out, log back in, to check that the auth module still works. Even MS was never dumb enough to do that.
ok, debian didnt ship it, but they allowed it to be distributed:
. html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-0106/msg03510
2) Lets not forget the ports collection on FreeBSD. Installing a port is as easy as:
locate (portname)
cd /user/ports/(area)/(portname)
make install
All dependancies addressed for you. The port tree can be kept up to date with cvs. It's a great system. The maintainers seem to keep it relatively up to date, but just far enough behind that there are very few security scares.
This relies on the assumption that the US military have superior equiptment, which is generally the case.
Chemicals already exist that can produce substantial amounts of benine radiation. Swallowing such a chemical could cause a person to emit radiation with certain characteristics, which would not be detected by the naked eye. Friendly soldiers could have radiation detectors that know precisely which frequency a "friend" emits. Thus, they could easily see their "friends" through dark brush, thick trees, or other similar conditions.
Trolling aside, there are vital missions carried out by militaries other than just random killing.
Elimination of, and retribution for, terrorist activities.
Emergency rescue situations.
Aid to struggling areas (hurricaine relief, etc).
These actions can all be helped by improved biotech engineering. It's a fact of life. Perhaps you should consider looking for positive uses, rather than concentrating only on the bad possibilities?
I agree with you on all but one point:
Is curious about or has tried linux, but probably doesn't see it as a viable alternative to MS
Unfortunately, I dont think this is true at all. A vast majority of "common users" dont know what Linux is. Most probably have heard it, in one setting or another, but could not tell you what it is or where to find it. You're equating, I assume, your friends and acquantences with the "common user", and this is probably flawed. Go into an AOL or Yahoo! chat room, and ask what Linux is. Most wont know. It's a shame, but it's life.
I agree with everything else, though.
what i can suggest, from playing around with multiple languages (jsp, perl, python, php) on FreeBSD/apache, is to use php optimized with zend's optimizer.... the speed boost is about 15%, and if apache is configured correctly, or even patched for speed, php will outperform any other similarly prepared language.
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Their radio campaign has already started in LA, apparently, because just last night I heard IBM offering Linux based machines and support on an LA radio station..
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