Currently, you're being taxed to support a gagillion-dollar-a-year War on Some Drugs that accomplishes nothing but jailing people and financing government intrusion. The U.S. has the highest percentage of its population behind bars in the world, and 80% of those are in for *solely* non-violent drug offenses; who do you think is paying for all these prisons? Who's paying for all the vice squad cops, the DEA agents, the armed forces to Colombia?
If you let people ingest whatever the heck they want, and abolish the DEA, the ONDCP...FOUR OUT OF FIVE jail cells across the nation...then you might actually have some money left over to give to people who NEED medical services but can't afford them.
You do know there are POOR people in this country, right, not just 100k+ programmers who are currently out of a job?
If you can support a full-fledged war on the citizens of your own country, but balk when asked to actually help some people in need...well, fuck you then. Unfortunately, most people (voters) either do, or are too stupid to see what they're doing.
If you believe that the government has no right to collect an income tax, then I agree with you. But we both know this isn't going to happen. I can live with that. The gross misappropriation of these funds that goes on, however, is really unforgivable.
BTW, for the inevitable AC that will suggest that ending drug prohibition will strain either the existing or theoretical health system: either understand how much safer legalized and regulated drugs will be than their street counterparts, or simply assert that people who have medical problems directly resulting from drug use are forced to cover it themselves. *shrug*
ElectricFence detects overruns of malloc()d buffers (hence its name). Unless this changed recently I am fairly sure it has nothing to do with leak detection?
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How do you know the author of the virus is the person who spread it?
Like I said, if someone publishes the source code and lets someone else do the spreading, who's illegal? Both, the author, or the distributor?
The other problem is that the government is the government, and my network is my network. I own the latter and reserve the right to allow/disallow any traffic I choose. Today I might feel like blocking any traffic from an IP address that has a third octet of 107. It's not like participation in the ORBS wasn't voluntary. If you don't like it, don't use it. What right do you have to send me mail, anyway?
Copyright *infringement* is of course, not free speech. If I distribute a modified version of your book I am breaking the law. However, first of all I do have the right to modify it for my own use without distributing the modified form, do I not? What about telling people about my changes? "I think a better ending would be..." What about going as far as writing a new ending, but distributing it without the original book? No copyrighted material is being republished. Similarly, a software patch can not contain any of the original material (if it contains addresses and insertions/deletions, not diffs/modifications that contain bits of the original).
A tool that modifies your existing (presumably legitimately purchased) software to do things its author never intended it to do...why is this illegal? Because the author said so? I don't think so. Imagine a tool or stencil of some sort that modifies the way a book is read.
Making a program like DeCSS illegal is like the equivalent of making Xerox machines illegal because they can reproduce copyrighted materal.
What with everyone posting about Pizza Hut and McDonald's, I thought I'd contribute to a proper balance...so here's my story.
I got my first ever paid job summer after freshman year (that's high school. I was 15). I'd spoken to the manager enough times for him to talk to me when he got his first Unix, a couple of ultrasparcs for mail servers.
When the school year started, I was still their only Unix admin, even though I came in at 3pm. A few amusing times my pager went off in the middle of a class or study hall and my bewildered teachers watched me dismiss myself as I had "something more important to attend to."
Eventually I dropped out of H.S. to work full-time, and soon afterwards moved on to a much more dynamic environment - the dot-com. Worked there all through my 17th year of life. With the 2hr each-way commute and occasional 36-hour days, what shreds of free time and a social life I could possibly have were spent on far from healthy activities. Life here was bleak and shitty. Not going to go into it.
I did, however, survive all three rounds of layoffs and went from being one of a hundred+ employees to one of twelve (wow, the exact reverse of my experience at the growing ISP).
This gave me some confidence. A completely finished company, minimizing itself in preparation for getting purchased, considered me one of the essential people needed to keep services running. So I pulled my act together and went out looking for another job while waiting for the purchase (I wasn't going to jump ship before then, but I did NOT want to work under the new company).
I don't have the words to describe the experience of accidentally finding an interesting, challenging project with a great, talented group of people, and then interviewing with a Big Fucking Cheese at a major financial institution to get it. I mean, I'm an 18-year old high school dropout. This guy makes more money in a single day than my entire life is worth. Yet I'm working here now, learning a ton every day, and doing what really interests me (software development), live in Manhattan 15 minutes from work....and am slowly becoming something resembling a human;)
Dunno what someone else would make all of this. Certainly, if that 15-16 year old me hadn't been arrogant, socially inept asshole with a complete absence of regard for anything and anyone, I'd have graduated high school this past June and would have been as naive and unexposed to the real world as everyone else. Is this good or bad? I don't know. It wasn't easy, that's for sure, but was it right? *shrug*
If you know what you want, you're sure you want it, and you've got the perseverance and blind donut-give-a-fuck, you might just get it.
*whew* Hrrm, that was waaaay longer than intended. Looks like it was more for my benefit than anyone else's. But I'll post it anyone, maybe someone will get a kick out of it.
>you're not in the backwards usa. I know people in BC that get 1.5mb up and down and 3 static ips for $40 a month. We get analy raped down here in the states.
My GOD, that hurt to read. I'm paying $215/mo for 1.5MB SDSL and a/28. I'm really paying for stuff like guaranteed uptime, but I would lose that in a second if I could get eq. bandwidth and IP space that cheap. Then again -- if they tried to filter incoming 80 on a commercial line, they would be in quite a fix.:-)
You're assuming some kind of spread. More likely, almost everyone will be trying to use it at 8pm, and it's going to be fucking painful. By 5am you should have the damn thing nearly to yourself.
Why don't they just scan for the damn vulnerability and kill the access of everyone who turns up positive?
The Correct Way to Deal With IRC Problems...
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Is AVS (adult verification system).:-)
Yeah, but not all IRC kids are packet kiddies. Then again...if I didn't discover IRC in my preteen years I might be alive today.
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Jeez, what kind of fucking moron are you?
Can you name an OS that has/never/ had a widely known remotely exploitable total-compromise vulnerability? It ain't Linux, *BSD, Solaris, or any other Unix.
BTW, does your favorite OS distribute fixes that can patch the currently executing kernel in memory without taking the system down, in the event of a kernel bug?
The problem, for the billionth time, is not Microsoft (at least not this time). The problem is the clueless fucks who are trying to admin these servers. "24/7 environments"? You're a moron. Any environment that wants to be 24/7 damn well better have high availability and redundant machines that can cover when one goes down. You can put off a patch+reboot but can you put off a disk crash? What about someone using the hole you put off patching to compromise the machine and eat your data?
There ought to be a strain of Code Red that just fucking kills the admin who left the machine vulnerable to it, or at least puts in a pink slip for him.
One chown process for a gazillion files instead of one for each file. Yours reminds me of people who do 'cat filename | grep pattern' instead of 'grep pattern files'. YOU SUCK!
I like this. The question is, of course, who's going to do it? Anyone here on/. live in a conservative southern community and have good standing with their local governing bodies?
The root of the problem is not the OS (or lack of it... hehe). The problem is clueless admins. I am at a loss as to just how FUCKING CLUELESS one has to be...forget security mailing lists, forget vendor announcements...this virus has been in the mainstream media for weeks. Anybody who is still vulnerable to this bug should IMNSHO be "Disbarred" from systems administration forever.
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Is it illegal to write software like Code Red?
If one authors such a virus and simply puts the source on his/her web page with no precompiled binaries, and WITHOUT INFECTING ANY SYSTEMS HERSELF... are there legal sanctions?
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Currently, you're being taxed to support a gagillion-dollar-a-year War on Some Drugs that accomplishes nothing but jailing people and financing government intrusion. The U.S. has the highest percentage of its population behind bars in the world, and 80% of those are in for *solely* non-violent drug offenses; who do you think is paying for all these prisons? Who's paying for all the vice squad cops, the DEA agents, the armed forces to Colombia?
If you let people ingest whatever the heck they want, and abolish the DEA, the ONDCP...FOUR OUT OF FIVE jail cells across the nation...then you might actually have some money left over to give to people who NEED medical services but can't afford them.
You do know there are POOR people in this country, right, not just 100k+ programmers who are currently out of a job?
If you can support a full-fledged war on the citizens of your own country, but balk when asked to actually help some people in need...well, fuck you then. Unfortunately, most people (voters) either do, or are too stupid to see what they're doing.
If you believe that the government has no right to collect an income tax, then I agree with you. But we both know this isn't going to happen. I can live with that. The gross misappropriation of these funds that goes on, however, is really unforgivable.
BTW, for the inevitable AC that will suggest that ending drug prohibition will strain either the existing or theoretical health system: either understand how much safer legalized and regulated drugs will be than their street counterparts, or simply assert that people who have medical problems directly resulting from drug use are forced to cover it themselves. *shrug*
the language police can go after you if your website is in the province & isn't sufficiently bilingual
:)
Are you serious? What about personal/not-for-profit sites? Are you required to *know* French to live there, or what?
BTW, also lamenting the death of NYC nightlife, but Giuliani's almost gone
Proliferate IPsec. Once every datagram is encrypted I'd say the ace is up /our/ sleeve...
ElectricFence detects overruns of malloc()d buffers (hence its name). Unless this changed recently I am fairly sure it has nothing to do with leak detection?
How do you know the author of the virus is the person who spread it?
Like I said, if someone publishes the source code and lets someone else do the spreading, who's illegal? Both, the author, or the distributor?
The other problem is that the government is the government, and my network is my network. I own the latter and reserve the right to allow/disallow any traffic I choose. Today I might feel like blocking any traffic from an IP address that has a third octet of 107. It's not like participation in the ORBS wasn't voluntary. If you don't like it, don't use it. What right do you have to send me mail, anyway?
2 GHZ, 1 GB computers for a grand,
:P
All right! 1GB for only a grand? Where do I sign up?
Am I the only one bothered by the fact that MS-Word doesn't recognize 'newspeak' as a misspelling?
:-)
Yeah, you are. Stealing the link from another poster to this article, it's in the dictionary
Easy: because marijuana is the Assassin of Youth.
Copyright *infringement* is of course, not free speech. If I distribute a modified version of your book I am breaking the law. However, first of all I do have the right to modify it for my own use without distributing the modified form, do I not? What about telling people about my changes? "I think a better ending would be..." What about going as far as writing a new ending, but distributing it without the original book? No copyrighted material is being republished. Similarly, a software patch can not contain any of the original material (if it contains addresses and insertions/deletions, not diffs/modifications that contain bits of the original).
A tool that modifies your existing (presumably legitimately purchased) software to do things its author never intended it to do...why is this illegal? Because the author said so? I don't think so. Imagine a tool or stencil of some sort that modifies the way a book is read.
Making a program like DeCSS illegal is like the equivalent of making Xerox machines illegal because they can reproduce copyrighted materal.
What with everyone posting about Pizza Hut and McDonald's, I thought I'd contribute to a proper balance...so here's my story.
;)
I got my first ever paid job summer after freshman year (that's high school. I was 15). I'd spoken to the manager enough times for him to talk to me when he got his first Unix, a couple of ultrasparcs for mail servers.
When the school year started, I was still their only Unix admin, even though I came in at 3pm. A few amusing times my pager went off in the middle of a class or study hall and my bewildered teachers watched me dismiss myself as I had "something more important to attend to."
Eventually I dropped out of H.S. to work full-time, and soon afterwards moved on to a much more dynamic environment - the dot-com. Worked there all through my 17th year of life. With the 2hr each-way commute and occasional 36-hour days, what shreds of free time and a social life I could possibly have were spent on far from healthy activities. Life here was bleak and shitty. Not going to go into it.
I did, however, survive all three rounds of layoffs and went from being one of a hundred+ employees to one of twelve (wow, the exact reverse of my experience at the growing ISP).
This gave me some confidence. A completely finished company, minimizing itself in preparation for getting purchased, considered me one of the essential people needed to keep services running. So I pulled my act together and went out looking for another job while waiting for the purchase (I wasn't going to jump ship before then, but I did NOT want to work under the new company).
I don't have the words to describe the experience of accidentally finding an interesting, challenging project with a great, talented group of people, and then interviewing with a Big Fucking Cheese at a major financial institution to get it. I mean, I'm an 18-year old high school dropout. This guy makes more money in a single day than my entire life is worth. Yet I'm working here now, learning a ton every day, and doing what really interests me (software development), live in Manhattan 15 minutes from work....and am slowly becoming something resembling a human
Dunno what someone else would make all of this. Certainly, if that 15-16 year old me hadn't been arrogant, socially inept asshole with a complete absence of regard for anything and anyone, I'd have graduated high school this past June and would have been as naive and unexposed to the real world as everyone else. Is this good or bad? I don't know. It wasn't easy, that's for sure, but was it right? *shrug*
If you know what you want, you're sure you want it, and you've got the perseverance and blind donut-give-a-fuck, you might just get it.
*whew* Hrrm, that was waaaay longer than intended. Looks like it was more for my benefit than anyone else's. But I'll post it anyone, maybe someone will get a kick out of it.
-N.
'nuff said. This is the best comment I've read on /. in a long time
>you're not in the backwards usa. I know people in BC that get 1.5mb up and down and 3 static ips for $40 a month. We get analy raped down here in the states.
/28. I'm really paying for stuff like guaranteed uptime, but I would lose that in a second if I could get eq. bandwidth and IP space that cheap. Then again -- if they tried to filter incoming 80 on a commercial line, they would be in quite a fix. :-)
My GOD, that hurt to read. I'm paying $215/mo for 1.5MB SDSL and a
fist in the air in the land of hypocrisy
Watch out for Verizon's assassins if you plan on doing this.
He turned the power to the have-nots...
and then came the shot
You're assuming some kind of spread. More likely, almost everyone will be trying to use it at 8pm, and it's going to be fucking painful. By 5am you should have the damn thing nearly to yourself.
Why don't they just scan for the damn vulnerability and kill the access of everyone who turns up positive?
Is AVS (adult verification system). :-)
Yeah, but not all IRC kids are packet kiddies. Then again...if I didn't discover IRC in my preteen years I might be alive today.
Jeez, what kind of fucking moron are you?
/never/ had a widely known remotely exploitable total-compromise vulnerability? It ain't Linux, *BSD, Solaris, or any other Unix.
Can you name an OS that has
BTW, does your favorite OS distribute fixes that can patch the currently executing kernel in memory without taking the system down, in the event of a kernel bug?
The problem, for the billionth time, is not Microsoft (at least not this time). The problem is the clueless fucks who are trying to admin these servers. "24/7 environments"? You're a moron. Any environment that wants to be 24/7 damn well better have high availability and redundant machines that can cover when one goes down. You can put off a patch+reboot but can you put off a disk crash? What about someone using the hole you put off patching to compromise the machine and eat your data?
There ought to be a strain of Code Red that just fucking kills the admin who left the machine vulnerable to it, or at least puts in a pink slip for him.
find / -name '*your_base*' -exec chown us.us {} \;
s/exec/print | xargs
One chown process for a gazillion files instead of one for each file. Yours reminds me of people who do 'cat filename | grep pattern' instead of 'grep pattern files'. YOU SUCK!
I haven't seen a mention yet. Anyone know anything in, or around NYC aside from the annual at Trenton?
I like this. The question is, of course, who's going to do it? Anyone here on /. live in a conservative southern community and have good standing with their local governing bodies?
*crickets chirping*
What?! Is this the wrong forum or something?
Please pirate all American media until the DMCA is repealed.
Yes it does. The DMCA prohibits software that circumvents copyright protection measures.
The root of the problem is not the OS (or lack of it ... hehe). The problem is clueless admins. I am at a loss as to just how FUCKING CLUELESS one has to be...forget security mailing lists, forget vendor announcements...this virus has been in the mainstream media for weeks. Anybody who is still vulnerable to this bug should IMNSHO be "Disbarred" from systems administration forever.
Is it illegal to write software like Code Red?
If one authors such a virus and simply puts the source on his/her web page with no precompiled binaries, and WITHOUT INFECTING ANY SYSTEMS HERSELF... are there legal sanctions?