During our second round of layoffs some workmates
and I have a "dead pool", program managers and
product managers lead on every list.
I just wish they would get rid of some of the
real middle-managers. They will probably use
the chance to get rid of effective managers who
give realistic dates and refuse to kiss ass.
Looks like the license is based on the BSD. At least Stallman won't be coming around wanting to rename it GNU/NewOS. I'd hate to see version
2.0: New GNU/NewOS. And so on and so on...
Unfortunately more than a couple of sites that
offer you something for your email address
will not accept addresses in the form
bwientze-companytag@the-dma.org
Spammers have some smarts and will often strip the
tag meaning that bwientze@the-dma.org may receive
spam.
Of course since bwientze@the-dma.org considers spam to be free speech he probably enjoys reading
it and would never try and use that djb-ware or
simillar tricks to avoid it.
Great premise. The big problem is that this needs
browser support before it gets support at the
server.
Browser support can be added to Mozilla easily,
but I am unable to use a lot of webpages without
IE4/5. Websites are obviously willing to ignore
anyone not using Microsoft.
Since Microsoft has an effective monopoly on
web browsers why would they be willing to support
an extension that limits their rights wrt your
information? Even if something like this is added
to the http standard MS does not have any market
pressure to implement it.
While we can't include the aim.exe with clients for legal reasons, I would doubt that the actual MD5 sums taken from that exe
are protected under any copywright.
This is the best idea I've seen. However this is
still potentially an unauthorized use of the
aim.exe file.
AOL could just add a specific prohibition in
the EULA against doing this (which they can get
away with)
and voila - you are breaking the law by producing
the hashes to be used by clones.
Just try and convince a non-computer person that
doing this can not be considered
reverse-engineering.
I'll grant that "Me Media" produces less conformity (whether this is a bad thing or not is a separate discussion). But one cannot deny that mass-media
is a lot shallower.
Maybe less conformity overall.
Within this
site opinion is so homogenous that many people
will mod up trolls just to get some alternative
viewpoints out where they will be read.
How many people don't instantly recognize "Kiss
the Blade", that "Lover's arrival" person, and Peredia as
being trolling accounts (likely of a single person). They still get good mods because that is
the only way we won't all just sit here nodding
our heads and saying "Yeah".
I love watching those posts zoom up to +4 or +5
before the cry of "Troll" brings them down to
+2 or less.
Re:It works for most people though
on
Unwanted Linking
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· Score: 1
Actually, I was thinking of a server side
pass-through cgi proxying the request.
Capture the client request header, change as
appropriate, send new request to server, get
response, send response to client.
If you have netcat, socket, netpipes, etc. this
can be done in a shell script. With the LWP
perl module it can be done in a couple lines of
non-obfuscated perl.
Shadowrun was my staple RPG in the late 80's, early 90's. I've been done with RPGs for years now, but
waiting for a good computer game version forever
(the NES and Genesis versions do not count).
Shadowrun and Champions were responsible for my
having massive collections of "gambling dice" round my apartment.
Ahh, the weird old days. Kind of pathetic - but
what the hell did we know.
The big problem here is the fake-perfectionist.
They pad schedules hard for trivia and act like
anything non-trivial is anti-gravity.
I'm just the domain knowledge expert (not a
programmer) at my job,but I have seen a failure
to start cause more problems than starting to code
without design.
Somehow I doubt the NSA would have code a backdoor
like the above. But many of the posters here seem
assume that it will be this obvious.
What about using inocuous "extra" data as an
accumulator and data dependant bugs to cause that
data to be sent?
How about code that makes ISN more predictable,
code that makes random seeds a bit more
predictable, etc. Unintentional bugs of this
nature have slipped through.
Why can't the NSA use code accretion to slip such
features in? The first two generations do the
first half of data theft/storage/sending, the
next two generations do the rest.
Especially interseting is the Assurance level that comes with this cert.
Even if these certiciates are never used, there
will be some pretty heavy US govt. involvement as
a result of this.
Anyone know if this has happened with any companies less visible than MS? A quick search did
not turn anything up, but if Versign's procedures
could let something like this slip through...
The act of choosing to limit membership in an
organization is not a protected freedom, but it
should be. The position of the US
government
has been that displays of prejudice by private
businesses are a "barrier to interstate commerce"
and gets the Feds involved.
Looks as though the often prophesied death of
Usenet is finally at hand.
The newsgroup in question was
alt.binaries.pictures.pre-teen, not an
information service specific to the service
provided by buffnet or dreamscape. Common carrier
for ISPs loses.
I wonder what the response from Supernews and
Earthlink (or any other ISP providing access to
alt.*) will be.
Permission might go into medical release forms
on
Who Owns Your Body?
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If this became an Issue of the Week I imagine
that consent to use of your genetic material could
become part of the standard barrage of paperwork
during medical procedures.
The most likely groups to "give consent" for this
would be the mentally-ill or retarted with
guardianship handled by state or group-home
employees.
It might be that signing an organ donor card could
be considered implied consent to this. Looks like
there may be plenty of opportunities for genetic
trolling.
Yep, we all love good a good CLI. But the vast
majority of them are foul and evil things I would
not wish on my worst enemy.
You get a few winners (JuniperOS, IOS) - but the
vast majority of network device CLIs are like the TNT or Portmaster or PowerRail or anything from
Netgear or... There is some excellent equipment
out there limited by a bad (or barely adequate) CLI.
The direction we've taken on our in-house software
is to have an internal set of management functions
and add interfaces as needed. That way snmp, cgi,
cli, and any buzzword enabled technology that may
come up, will be consistent.
Our first tier NOC folks seem to love the web
interfaces we have available. I can't stand them
myself, but my job does not involve sitting around
waiting for things to break.
Published 12/2000 and obviously written before that. The author bet on Gore to win.
The new administration will quickly return to a policy of ignoring Microsoft's little shortcomings, and
may try to correct the anti-business judgement
pushed through by the prior administration.
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I've never said that.
I just wish they would get rid of some of the real middle-managers. They will probably use the chance to get rid of effective managers who give realistic dates and refuse to kiss ass.
Gnu/Newspeak?
No whitespace in tagnames dipshit. That would be treated as an italics.
bwientze-companytag@the-dma.org
Spammers have some smarts and will often strip the tag meaning that bwientze@the-dma.org may receive spam.
Of course since bwientze@the-dma.org considers spam to be free speech he probably enjoys reading it and would never try and use that djb-ware or simillar tricks to avoid it.
You forgot the sarcasm tag.
Browser support can be added to Mozilla easily, but I am unable to use a lot of webpages without IE4/5. Websites are obviously willing to ignore anyone not using Microsoft.
Since Microsoft has an effective monopoly on web browsers why would they be willing to support an extension that limits their rights wrt your information? Even if something like this is added to the http standard MS does not have any market pressure to implement it.
Good luck with this project.
This is the best idea I've seen. However this is still potentially an unauthorized use of the aim.exe file.
AOL could just add a specific prohibition in the EULA against doing this (which they can get away with) and voila - you are breaking the law by producing the hashes to be used by clones.
Just try and convince a non-computer person that doing this can not be considered reverse-engineering.
Maybe less conformity overall.
Within this site opinion is so homogenous that many people will mod up trolls just to get some alternative viewpoints out where they will be read.
How many people don't instantly recognize "Kiss the Blade", that "Lover's arrival" person, and Peredia as being trolling accounts (likely of a single person). They still get good mods because that is the only way we won't all just sit here nodding our heads and saying "Yeah".
I love watching those posts zoom up to +4 or +5 before the cry of "Troll" brings them down to +2 or less.
Capture the client request header, change as appropriate, send new request to server, get response, send response to client.
If you have netcat, socket, netpipes, etc. this can be done in a shell script. With the LWP perl module it can be done in a couple lines of non-obfuscated perl.
Shadowrun was my staple RPG in the late 80's, early 90's. I've been done with RPGs for years now, but waiting for a good computer game version forever (the NES and Genesis versions do not count).
Shadowrun and Champions were responsible for my having massive collections of "gambling dice" round my apartment.
Ahh, the weird old days. Kind of pathetic - but what the hell did we know.
This is trivial to get around. You cannot trust anything sent by the client.
Its like a bad flashback to those Matt Wright scripts from a few years ago - Insta-root, just add CGI!
I hope this means I don't have to spend the next few screens knifing dogs.
It's a secret to everyone.
I'll go spend the money on Money Making Game.
I'm just the domain knowledge expert (not a programmer) at my job ,but I have seen a failure
to start cause more problems than starting to code
without design.
I was making the comment that video games (and fantasy in general) do not "equip children to deal with the world as we know it".
I am oh so happy that I spent my formative years as an arcade rat/nintendo nazi. Yeah, that did a lot to prepare me for the real world.
/* Back door code, added 4-1-2001 by MIB */
NSA_bd_Key = "MIB_r0x!";
NSA_data_t *pStolenData = NSA_bd_decrypt (
&hidden_data,
NSA_bd_key
);
NSA_bd_transmit ( pStolenData );
/* End of back door code */
Somehow I doubt the NSA would have code a backdoor
like the above. But many of the posters here seem
assume that it will be this obvious.
What about using inocuous "extra" data as an
accumulator and data dependant bugs to cause that
data to be sent?
How about code that makes ISN more predictable,
code that makes random seeds a bit more
predictable, etc. Unintentional bugs of this
nature have slipped through.
Why can't the NSA use code accretion to slip such
features in? The first two generations do the
first half of data theft/storage/sending, the
next two generations do the rest.
Don't assume Open Source means complete safety.
http://www.verisign.com/repository/CPS/CPSCH2.HTM# _toc361806948
http://www.verisign.com/products/asb/faq.html
Especially interseting is the Assurance level that comes with this cert.
Even if these certiciates are never used, there will be some pretty heavy US govt. involvement as a result of this.
Anyone know if this has happened with any companies less visible than MS? A quick search did not turn anything up, but if Versign's procedures could let something like this slip through...
No joke.
Maybe they should include opaque contacts to increase sales.
The newsgroup in question was alt.binaries.pictures.pre-teen, not an information service specific to the service provided by buffnet or dreamscape. Common carrier for ISPs loses.
I wonder what the response from Supernews and Earthlink (or any other ISP providing access to alt.*) will be.
The most likely groups to "give consent" for this would be the mentally-ill or retarted with guardianship handled by state or group-home employees.
It might be that signing an organ donor card could be considered implied consent to this. Looks like there may be plenty of opportunities for genetic trolling.
You get a few winners (JuniperOS, IOS) - but the vast majority of network device CLIs are like the TNT or Portmaster or PowerRail or anything from Netgear or... There is some excellent equipment out there limited by a bad (or barely adequate) CLI.
The direction we've taken on our in-house software is to have an internal set of management functions and add interfaces as needed. That way snmp, cgi, cli, and any buzzword enabled technology that may come up, will be consistent.
Our first tier NOC folks seem to love the web interfaces we have available. I can't stand them myself, but my job does not involve sitting around waiting for things to break.
The new administration will quickly return to a policy of ignoring Microsoft's little shortcomings, and may try to correct the anti-business judgement pushed through by the prior administration.
http://www.islandone.org/Treaties/BH595.html
http://www.ila-hq.org/pdf/SpaceLaw.pdf
http://www.seas.columbia.edu/~ah297/un-esa/paper-w inkler.html
The basic gist of all this is that the launching State is responsible for any damage caused by space vehicles or satellites.