... that you should NOT, in any circumstances, trust cops.
Pig Hogger is right. Never, ever trust a cop. Never let them in your car or your house. Never give them more than your name and birth date. This misguided belief by many people that "cop good" is both naive and dangerous.
Well Mr. Google says that there are only 14 pages in it's vast repository that link to www.macombsheriff.com. I seriously doubt one could get 3.5m hits/month without a lot more sites linking in.
So who's lying? In the words of Abe Simpson I'm thinking "A little from column A, a little from column B." The web guy better have some serious bandwidth bills from his provider for the Sherriff's site and not a "total" bill for all his sites.
Sad to say because most police departments are almost totally corrupt when they do tell the truth (not saying are) no one believes them. People stopped seeing cops as honest and reasonable a long time ago. They see a cop giving Rodney King a beat down, a Haitian getting a plunger handle or the bruises on their cousin because the cop only saw "another backtalking n*gger" and not a person. Shit, have you ever seen a cop not speeding on the highway? If you can't trust them to follow a simple law like speed limits do you really trust them with anything more? Are there still good cops out there: of course. Too bad they're grouped in with the troglodytic parasites that nest in every station in which their "brothers" refuse to do the right thing and "clean house".
Moral of the story: Avoid all dealings with the cops at all costs. Remember, they only get rewarded for tickets and arrests, both good and bad.
Adam Smith was on the right track with his "Invisible Hand" theory. Don't know who Adam Smith is? Google it, you'll learn something.
Ahhhh didn't John Nash prove Smith was wrong? Smith's idea of "fuck everyone for the dollar and the 'magic hand' will save us all" is total crap. "The Wealth of Nations" was flawed in 1776 and now we have proof.
If there are no PACs, how is the average citizen (and believe it or not, the most powerful PACs are made up of individual voters) going to get THEIR message out come election season?
I guess I see PACs making recommendations and the voter giving the candidate the money directly. Take
NORML PAC for example. Right now people give them money and they give it to candidates who best represents their point of view. Change that to NORML PAC endorsing a candidate and voters giving their money directly to the candidate with a card from NORML saying this is what they support. Candidates will see the effect of the PAC's endorsement by the number of cards that come in with the cash.
It's less of a quid pro quo than the current system. When people give their own money directly to a candidate they're a lot more careful who it goes to and remembers why they gave. Play ball or nothing for you next time around.
For this to work it needs to be simple. Minimal rules, minimal paperwork, easy to follow. No begging money from Halliburton or Buddhist Monks.
Capitalism would be great if corporations policed themselves, were honest and stopped fraud. Of course corporations today see their goal as "screw everyone, including our own workers, at any cost to make a dollar". No matter how many times you ask this question, the answer is always the same: absolute capitalism absolutely fails. BTW, this arguement works for Socialism too.
Libertarians
have the right idea on social issues but IMO unregulated business is dangerous to all. For every example of a business "doing the right thing" there are a hundred examples of "screw'em all".
Saying that socialism partly causes corporate fraud is reminds me a bit of the "Chewbacca Defense".
Work, shopping and prison. That's all the US Govt wants us to have. Free speech is dying and could be dead in a decade or two. Democrat or Republican, it doesn't matter, they all suck.
In my opinion, there's only one answer: amend the US Constitution so that Reps and Sens can only serve two terms (like the President) and limit campaign contributions to $100 per person to each candidate in each election. No PACs, no unions, no companies and no churches, only voters can give.
But of course Congress would kill that in a second.
Rome is burning and George II is just playin' the banjo to some corporations music.
If you listen carefully you'll most likely hear someone yelling:
5. "Darl McBride, -1 Troll!"
4. "New SCO docs at www.tubg...."
3. "Can someone help me fix a Perl script?"
2. "Bad news everyone, Stephen King is dead."
And the number one comment will be:
"Fuck you Darl!"
Why leave them in a room? Run 802.11g and use all the laptops while they are sitting on their owner's laps!
Here's a few issues I can think of:
Power cables. It's safer and much easier to design a temporary power grid [to power the laptops] around a small area instead of extention cords everywhere. Tripping is also an issue (I mean falling and not the other San Fran tripping).
Security. If they have a locking cage setup for single laptops one could simply could power, boot, store, lock and return where the event is over.
Networking Cost. Enough said.
Network conficts. It's only a guess but wouldn't 500 or 1000 802.11g hosts create so much noise that getting everyone connection in such a small area would be impossible?
I guess if was limited to a hundred or so wireless users with the bridges spread way out it could work but IMO not recommended.
Shhh... do you here that? Listen... listen... nothing? That's the sound of the US Congress not giving a shit what we think. I completely agree with you and think this is more about improving the whois data integrity for tracking databases and not about fraud. Who really needs correct whois information when I have an IP number for the web site? If anyone depends on finding someone from whois they're insane. This is about Congress whoring for the companies that pay them and not protecting consumers.
One thing Congress can not get through their feeble minds is that the Internet is a global network. Their laws are meaningless outside the US. The more laws they pass trying to control the net the more alienated the US becomes from the rest of the world. Of course if that's their plan then they're right on track.
IMO until we have term limits (like the POTUS has), only allow registered voters to contribute to a politician's campaign (no PACs, no unions, nothing else but voters) and limit it to $100USD per election we'll be stuck with that scummy ring around the beltway.
When I was in high school [in the '70s] I had a history teacher (hard core GOP) that railed on about the evils of communism and the USSR. His favorite story to tell was about how all photocopiers had a serial number etched on the glass so "the powers that be" could easily track who was copying what (like a dissident's newsletter). There was also a law that also required all photocopies to have a legible machine serial number. It seems that story is more apropos to the US today than ever before.
Thanks for the info, saved in my evergrowing "SCOpera" files:)
I really think there's a good book in this whole sco thing. Both on the technical front and on the corp. dishonestly angle.
I looked at MyDoom's innards, and it struck me as odd, not typical script-kiddie material at all. I got the sense it was the work of someone whose programming work had *not* previously included this sort of thing. So I'm inclined to agree with the speculation that it's primarily a spammer's zombie-generating tool, built by contract with some starving professional coder, and that the SCO and M$ DoS components are red herrings.
McAfee is saying that mydoom has it's own SMTP server built in which I guess could lead back to a spammer or spamming tool. My thinking is why would a spammer draw some much attention to his "work"? Wouldn't be better to just quietly deploy the virus, do no damage to the host and spew it's trash about the net? Why attack sco or M$ which would "turn up the heat" on the virus' erratication and bring the feds out looking for both a spammer and a "dangerous" hacker?
I suspect a lot of stuff is going to come out if and when Darl goes to a criminal trial for fraud (on the downside, looking at the history of fed's prosecution of fraud crimes there's little chance he'll even get charged).
While I don't agree with everything they're saying I just thought it was pretty funny. AFAIK Apple is barely making any money off of iTunes, instead hoping that it helps them sell iPods (and make a nice profit).
The RIAA's concerns for their artists is similar to a rancher's concern for his cattle (someone's great sig). I think the page's point is that supporting iTunes or Pepsi continues the RIAA's command of the music industry.
I personally think, with a few reservations, that the iTunes music store is a small step in the right direction for independent labels and artists. As people get use to downloading their music legally they might be more open to buying something other than what's on the radio or music store shelves. Sometimes the first steps in the right direction are the smallest and maybe we shouldn't "toss out the baby with the bath water" (and support indies via iTunes).
I guess my other issue with this whole thing [from Apple's end] is that it's not like their selling a piece of junk for the money. They're selling, IMO, a nice, underrated piece of hardware that makes moving large projects between multiple sites a breeze. It's small and fast. To me playing music is nice but people need to understand it's much more than that. I suspect that Apple has already thought of the idea of adding a fast color screen, NTSC/PAL out and the ability toplay quicktime movies. Movies that would have the same DRM as the music that is now used. Try that with a sub $400 mp3 player.
The page in question makes you think a bit but I really just thought is was funny.
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Speaking of FUD... Is there a way to tell if it's actually DoS'd, or if they shut it down themselves??
www.sco.com has been pulled from their dns records. Their whois info shows four dns servers: ns.calderasystems.com, ns2.calderasystems.com, c7ns1.center7.com and nsca.sco.com. IFAIK ns.sco.com, ns1.sco.com and ns2.sco.com use to be their DNSs of record. I ran a quick check of www.sco.com on all seven servers and found it had been removed. Since their is no ip number for that name sco never sees the http request.
I personally would've changed it to lo (127.0.0.1) so at least other dns servers would cache the first request (and serve out copies without checking) thus taking avoiding a lot of those hits to their dns servers everytime MYDOOM makes it's request. Even with their current setup they should avoid most of the force of MYDOOM (unless it attacks a range of active names and/or numbers).
The better solution if they want to keep their web server alive is to channel all requests to another web server with a thin pipe (say a T1) right off a backbone that reads the http client header, discards the MYDOOM requests (also with some real ones) and forwards everyone else to their real http server (say www2.sco.com). This could greatly minimize MYDOOM's damage, changing the a hurricane into a rain shower.
On the other hand doing it their way allows them to more easily cry "poor [sco]", claim this attack completely shut them down, have a record of exactly how many attacks they're getting and claim they lost business (like they had any anyways). This whole attack has "script kiddie" written all over it. If the author lives in the US there's a fair chance they'll catch him, and then he's SOL. In my opinion MYDOOM discredits the gnu/linux community. sco sucks but this isn't the way. An opinion shared by most in our community.
If Charter determines, in Charter's sole discretion, that Customer is using an excessive amount of bandwidth over the Charter network infrastructure for Internet access or other functions using public network resources, we may terminate Customer's account at any time and without notice, or require Customer to upgrade Customer's service level and pay additional fees in accordance with our then-current, applicable, published rates for such service.
It would seem they might want to avoid the pit Comcast fell in and state what their bandwidth limits are. BTW, I have no complaints about Charter and have never heard of them suspending accounts in this way.
The Cheese Board Collective is a business wholly owned by its members. For tax and liability purposes it has been incorporated, with each collective member an equal shareholder and member of the board of directors. Upon joining each member is given ten sharess worth $100/share. When a member leaves these shares are sold back to the corporation. All members are paid an equal hourly wage. Profits go to buy new equipment, raise wages, or are placed into our retirement fund. Moneys placed into this fund are distributed based on hours worked.
While this model might not work for a large company "risking it all" on their first product (where a lot of cash is needed) it could work for the described situation. I believe coops are eligible for "not for profit" status which allow you and your mates to keep a little extra cash. I wonder if anyone has tried this with software developement.
My other thought was why not do an OSS program and charge for support (per call/email). Again, not for a big company but it would put a very livable paycheck in your pocket every month.
Microsoft spokesman Jim Desler [said]: 'We wanted to do this in a way that's going to foster his interest in technology'.
"You keep using that word -- I do not think it means what you think it means"
foster
tr.v. fostered, fostering, fosters
1. To beat the shit out of a kid with a group of dirtbag lawyers that would step on their own mother for dollar to the point the victim is too scared to touch anything more advance than a potter's wheel.
In closing: fuck you M$ and the horse you road in on.
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Pig Hogger is right. Never, ever trust a cop. Never let them in your car or your house. Never give them more than your name and birth date. This misguided belief by many people that "cop good" is both naive and dangerous.
So who's lying? In the words of Abe Simpson I'm thinking "A little from column A, a little from column B." The web guy better have some serious bandwidth bills from his provider for the Sherriff's site and not a "total" bill for all his sites.
Sad to say because most police departments are almost totally corrupt when they do tell the truth (not saying are) no one believes them. People stopped seeing cops as honest and reasonable a long time ago. They see a cop giving Rodney King a beat down, a Haitian getting a plunger handle or the bruises on their cousin because the cop only saw "another backtalking n*gger" and not a person. Shit, have you ever seen a cop not speeding on the highway? If you can't trust them to follow a simple law like speed limits do you really trust them with anything more? Are there still good cops out there: of course. Too bad they're grouped in with the troglodytic parasites that nest in every station in which their "brothers" refuse to do the right thing and "clean house".
Moral of the story: Avoid all dealings with the cops at all costs. Remember, they only get rewarded for tickets and arrests, both good and bad.
Ahhhh didn't John Nash prove Smith was wrong? Smith's idea of "fuck everyone for the dollar and the 'magic hand' will save us all" is total crap. "The Wealth of Nations" was flawed in 1776 and now we have proof.
I guess I see PACs making recommendations and the voter giving the candidate the money directly. Take NORML PAC for example. Right now people give them money and they give it to candidates who best represents their point of view. Change that to NORML PAC endorsing a candidate and voters giving their money directly to the candidate with a card from NORML saying this is what they support. Candidates will see the effect of the PAC's endorsement by the number of cards that come in with the cash.
It's less of a quid pro quo than the current system. When people give their own money directly to a candidate they're a lot more careful who it goes to and remembers why they gave. Play ball or nothing for you next time around.
For this to work it needs to be simple. Minimal rules, minimal paperwork, easy to follow. No begging money from Halliburton or Buddhist Monks.
Libertarians have the right idea on social issues but IMO unregulated business is dangerous to all. For every example of a business "doing the right thing" there are a hundred examples of "screw'em all".
Saying that socialism partly causes corporate fraud is reminds me a bit of the "Chewbacca Defense".
In my opinion, there's only one answer: amend the US Constitution so that Reps and Sens can only serve two terms (like the President) and limit campaign contributions to $100 per person to each candidate in each election. No PACs, no unions, no companies and no churches, only voters can give.
But of course Congress would kill that in a second.
Rome is burning and George II is just playin' the banjo to some corporations music.
I guess the Ferrari 3000 notebook was a big enough screw up. Best of luck Acer.
5. "Darl McBride, -1 Troll!"
4. "New SCO docs at www.tubg...."
3. "Can someone help me fix a Perl script?"
2. "Bad news everyone, Stephen King is dead."
And the number one comment will be:
"Fuck you Darl!"
BTW, I'll be the one with the air horn.
Maybe they stole the camera too?
Here's a few issues I can think of:
Power cables. It's safer and much easier to design a temporary power grid [to power the laptops] around a small area instead of extention cords everywhere. Tripping is also an issue (I mean falling and not the other San Fran tripping).
Security. If they have a locking cage setup for single laptops one could simply could power, boot, store, lock and return where the event is over.
Networking Cost. Enough said.
Network conficts. It's only a guess but wouldn't 500 or 1000 802.11g hosts create so much noise that getting everyone connection in such a small area would be impossible?
I guess if was limited to a hundred or so wireless users with the bridges spread way out it could work but IMO not recommended.
Back in the days of M$-DOS and Lotus 1-2-3 there was a saying in Redmond:"DOS ain't done 'til Lotus won't run".
... isn't Ferrari best known for making cheap sunglasses and cut-rate gym bags? Jeeze, I hope this laptop isn't built in that same tradition.
bzflag is great. Easy to start, easy on the eyes and it's OSS.
One thing Congress can not get through their feeble minds is that the Internet is a global network. Their laws are meaningless outside the US. The more laws they pass trying to control the net the more alienated the US becomes from the rest of the world. Of course if that's their plan then they're right on track.
IMO until we have term limits (like the POTUS has), only allow registered voters to contribute to a politician's campaign (no PACs, no unions, nothing else but voters) and limit it to $100USD per election we'll be stuck with that scummy ring around the beltway.
When I was in high school [in the '70s] I had a history teacher (hard core GOP) that railed on about the evils of communism and the USSR. His favorite story to tell was about how all photocopiers had a serial number etched on the glass so "the powers that be" could easily track who was copying what (like a dissident's newsletter). There was also a law that also required all photocopies to have a legible machine serial number. It seems that story is more apropos to the US today than ever before.
If Steve Jobs was President is would've been chicago.
Who's card is it?
I really think there's a good book in this whole sco thing. Both on the technical front and on the corp. dishonestly angle.
I looked at MyDoom's innards, and it struck me as odd, not typical script-kiddie material at all. I got the sense it was the work of someone whose programming work had *not* previously included this sort of thing. So I'm inclined to agree with the speculation that it's primarily a spammer's zombie-generating tool, built by contract with some starving professional coder, and that the SCO and M$ DoS components are red herrings.
McAfee is saying that mydoom has it's own SMTP server built in which I guess could lead back to a spammer or spamming tool. My thinking is why would a spammer draw some much attention to his "work"? Wouldn't be better to just quietly deploy the virus, do no damage to the host and spew it's trash about the net? Why attack sco or M$ which would "turn up the heat" on the virus' erratication and bring the feds out looking for both a spammer and a "dangerous" hacker?
I suspect a lot of stuff is going to come out if and when Darl goes to a criminal trial for fraud (on the downside, looking at the history of fed's prosecution of fraud crimes there's little chance he'll even get charged).
The RIAA's concerns for their artists is similar to a rancher's concern for his cattle (someone's great sig). I think the page's point is that supporting iTunes or Pepsi continues the RIAA's command of the music industry.
I personally think, with a few reservations, that the iTunes music store is a small step in the right direction for independent labels and artists. As people get use to downloading their music legally they might be more open to buying something other than what's on the radio or music store shelves. Sometimes the first steps in the right direction are the smallest and maybe we shouldn't "toss out the baby with the bath water" (and support indies via iTunes).
I guess my other issue with this whole thing [from Apple's end] is that it's not like their selling a piece of junk for the money. They're selling, IMO, a nice, underrated piece of hardware that makes moving large projects between multiple sites a breeze. It's small and fast. To me playing music is nice but people need to understand it's much more than that. I suspect that Apple has already thought of the idea of adding a fast color screen, NTSC/PAL out and the ability toplay quicktime movies. Movies that would have the same DRM as the music that is now used. Try that with a sub $400 mp3 player.
The page in question makes you think a bit but I really just thought is was funny.
www.sco.com has been pulled from their dns records. Their whois info shows four dns servers: ns.calderasystems.com, ns2.calderasystems.com, c7ns1.center7.com and nsca.sco.com. IFAIK ns.sco.com, ns1.sco.com and ns2.sco.com use to be their DNSs of record. I ran a quick check of www.sco.com on all seven servers and found it had been removed. Since their is no ip number for that name sco never sees the http request.
I personally would've changed it to lo (127.0.0.1) so at least other dns servers would cache the first request (and serve out copies without checking) thus taking avoiding a lot of those hits to their dns servers everytime MYDOOM makes it's request. Even with their current setup they should avoid most of the force of MYDOOM (unless it attacks a range of active names and/or numbers).
The better solution if they want to keep their web server alive is to channel all requests to another web server with a thin pipe (say a T1) right off a backbone that reads the http client header, discards the MYDOOM requests (also with some real ones) and forwards everyone else to their real http server (say www2.sco.com). This could greatly minimize MYDOOM's damage, changing the a hurricane into a rain shower.
On the other hand doing it their way allows them to more easily cry "poor [sco]", claim this attack completely shut them down, have a record of exactly how many attacks they're getting and claim they lost business (like they had any anyways). This whole attack has "script kiddie" written all over it. If the author lives in the US there's a fair chance they'll catch him, and then he's SOL. In my opinion MYDOOM discredits the gnu/linux community. sco sucks but this isn't the way. An opinion shared by most in our community.
I wonder what their opinion of iTunes is? And be honest.
My other thought was why not do an OSS program and charge for support (per call/email). Again, not for a big company but it would put a very livable paycheck in your pocket every month.
Bonne Chance.
... when he gets his next award .
"You keep using that word -- I do not think it means what you think it means"
foster
tr.v. fostered, fostering, fosters
1. To beat the shit out of a kid with a group of dirtbag lawyers that would step on their own mother for dollar to the point the victim is too scared to touch anything more advance than a potter's wheel.
In closing: fuck you M$ and the horse you road in on.