Frankly, I'd understand if you were at work and worried that you might get logged by their censorware. Aside from that, I think what they did was good enough.
Looking at the first page: Text-wise: You can easily tell that it is a less-than-polite analysis of the subject fairly early on. If you don't want to read anymore, the it is well within your rights to simply stop reading.
Image-wise: First image: Computer rendered picture of the sony and MS labeled women wrestling(I'm guessing poser-3 or 4). Now, granted, its a little more than G-rated, it shouldn't be offensive.
Second image: A simple pie-chart. Hopefully this doesn't offend you.
Third image: The penis chart. By this point you should have already stopped reading if you are offended. Considering that they are just extended rounded-rectangles with a line and a flesh color, I doubt this would be traumatizing at any level to most people.
By the third image, you already know the level of crudeness. Why continue if you are offended?
The fake rubber balls and gamecube image is, well, fake rubber balls and a gamecube. The censored pictures on the second page are poser models with less-than-stellar textures. Granted, they COULD have used P5 and the FireFly renderer with high-res photorealistic models. Rather they used models that look like over "inflated" barbie dolls that have been dipped in a tub of machine or mineral oil.
So, unless you forced yourself to read the rest, and are complaining for the "sake of others", what's the problem?
Seriously, what part did you find offensive?
- On a side note, LOL, I just realized that poser model is standing on my desk in CNCed form.
1 is not really a problem unless you pay-per-gig. For me, it means a few megs of extra network usage per day, an additional 0.1% or so on average. For my ISP it means a worthwhile sacrifice to discourage the amount of spam coming through.
2 isn't really a problem. It means that A) Its STILL going to be blocked, B) Goodie! More spammers my server can hammer away at, and C) I'm already on their list ANYWAY. Its about as likely to hit an honest "remove" link as a dishonest one. Plus, with enough people using this, verify links would be worthless.
3 is the only real problem here. Granted, why would the script kiddies do this to DDoS for only a while when you can just 0wn(via autorooter) a few hundred boxen and do a real DDoS attack?
Mean Time Before Failure is the MEAN time before the disk would fail.
If they all failed within 20 years, how would the average disk have failed in 20 years???
MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) â" Average time (expressed in
hours) that a component works without failure. It is calculated by dividing the total number of operating hours observed by the total number of failures. Also, the length of time a user may reasonably expect a device or system to work before an incapacitating fault occurs.
I've always thought that CNC/rapid prototyping was pretty cool. The ability to take a design from CAD and manufacture a prototype that is true to the original design is cool in and of itself, not to mention the time it saves. I also like the artistic side to it. You can take complex shapes and lines, or a picture used as a depth map, and create a "carving" from it with great precision.
My current CNC mill is a MaxNC NC-10. At around $1,300, it was the best deal I could find. Its a little slow, and not the best thing by any means, but works nicely. I'm going to be selling engraved desk signs, I'm going to use it for engraving. I'll probably eventually do 3D image engravings(depth mapping), but at first I'll just do lettering.
I've made a couple keychains of Tux, some 3D statuettes, several more keychains, some lettering on wood, some robotics parts, etc... They all look really nice!
Actually, my biggest complaint about that machine(the NC-10) is that the effective X work distance is only about 6 or 7 inches. Its big enough for small work, like engraving signs, but I'm thinking about building a much bigger CNC router with a 5x10ft(or something) table sometime.
One thing I have to say to everyone who is going to buy or build a mill. Software for these can cost over $1000! You need the CAD program to design the item, the CAM program to create G-code from it, and the actual CNC program which will come with the mill, or be freely available. MecSoftdid offer a free "lite" version of their CAM program, but don't seem to anymore(Luckily, I have it archived), but that is what I'm using.
I'm sure this probably will have been said several time by the time I click submit but:
While I think that creating a dot kids domain isn't necessarily a bad thing, there may be a few problems.
The first, and perhaps most obvious problem is classifying something as "kids safe" or "not kids safe". "kids" is a very broad definition. I mean, would you seriously apply the same standards to a 16 year old as you would an 8 year old? Some things (like goatse) are obviously "not kids safe", and some things are obviously "kids safe". Unfortunately, probably 90% of websites are in the grey area.
It really depends on an individual view-point. Some people would consider even the most mild things offensive, and some wouldn't. All it takes is one single curse word on some page of a site(more or less), and the site potentially could fall into the grey area between "kids safe" and "not kids safe".
Sites with some dynamic interactive content(i.e. forums, comment boards, guestbooks, etc...) would be automatically in the grey area, since who knows what could appear there, although they are forbidden by the bill anyway.
But what will the standards be? Even if they are relatively simple, you run into all sorts of problems. For example, say the only rule is "no porn". Okay, how do you really define porn? Thats a very broad definition. As I said before, some thing are definitely porn, and some are not, but many are in between. Okay, say you make the rule simpler. No nudity. Well, even thats a bit broader, and could have many problems. So you define exactly what is meant by nudity. Well, then you run into the problem that nudity alone is not harmful. You could have pornographic pictures that do not meet the definition of nudity. Okay, so no pictures with nudity or sexual acts/references. By the time you're done with a good definition, you've already excluded most of the websites on the internet. In fact, I can't think of a single website I frequently visit that wouldn't fail a test like that.
There probably won't be many useful sites there at all.
Secondly, back to the issue with age groups. Saying absolutely no possibly offensive material is okay for little kids, but what about teenagers. I remember having to do a school report about the Holocaust, and I think many people would consider sites about the Holocaust unsafe for little kids. I also had to do several reports dealing with science/medicine. Even a relatively simple no-nudity rule has problems then. Remember that the WHOLE site has to be "kids safe". Many medical sites have nudity somewhere to some degree.
Although its not 100% related, I think I should also bring up the idea of creating a.XXX domain. It would probably be a good thing to have one. The problem is if sites are forced to move to.XXX. Now, actual porn sites shouldn't have as much of a problem moving their domains. But what about sites that AREN'T porn sites, yet contain nudity, or even pornography. My site, for example, has a funny picture archive, and I'm sure some of those have nudity, or may be mildly pornographic. However, it is NOT intended as a porn site by any amount.
Anyways, back to the.kids domain. "So what's the problem?", you might ask, "Its only designed as a domain that parents can let their kids use without being worried.". I wish that would be true. Unfortunately, thats not what will happen. It'll be used as a whitelist for censorware. Schools will then end up only letting kids use the.kids domain. Even libraries may be affected.
Oh well, at least its not a mandatory.XXX domain.
That number belongs to a jeffery and robin mallory!!! You are harassing someone who has nothing to do with this. None of the other numbers are correct either. Check on http://www.anywho.com/ and see for yourself. They have probably been changed. Rodona Garst in not listed in the whitepages either.
I am not a chemist, but it probably isn't very hard. At least to test for parafin wax. But why would they be checking for parafin wax? The substance could have been any number of things, so they probably weren't testing specifically for parafin wax. Instead, they would test for various properties, which takes a while. Then they probably found that it was parafin wax because, if it looks like, has the same density, has the same chemicals, electrical properties, thermal properties,..., as parafin wax, it probably is parafin wax.
Plus, they probably had to send it to a lab, which takes time.
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"Looking over photos of the convention center in Edmonton, one of Simmons' fears is the center's glass elevators.
Grace uses floor-level laser range-finders to find her way around; the laser beams go straight through glass, rather than being reflected as they are with other obstacles."
I can see the laser rangefinders at the bottom, but it also has a bunch of ultrasound transducers in the middle, and some other lens(laser scanner?) above those in front. The glass shouldn't be too much of a problem provided that the ultrasonics are working.
Sonar does have some problems, but it works well enough on the robots I've seen/used/built. The ultrasound clicks they make can be annoying, but it works. At a university I toured once, they were demonstrating some robots, a heathkit one, and two custom ones which looked exactly like GRACE, execpt they had thermal, visible, and UV(I think) cameras, 24 ultrasonics, laser rangefinders, a 3D laser scanner on top, and no screen. The robots were roaming around, and greeting people. They didn't seem to have any problem avoiding obstacles, it was actually kind of funny when the heathkit said "Pardon me." to a supply cart:)
You can watch the live presentation HERE(scroll down, and click on a player link). They aren't really talking much about an open source version though right now.
There are other types of projectors. It could be using a CRT projector. Those are cheaper than LCD, but are larger, and aren't as space efficient. Those are the ones with three lenses.
Burn in isn't a problem with LCD projectors. That article got it wrong. The rear-projection TVs I've seen use LCD projectors, not CRTs. Burn in is a problem with CRTs, but even then, only sometimes. New CRTs don't seem to have the problem as much.
I agree, it is thier right. It may not be the best idea, but it is their right. Those are personal belongings though. It would be a little different if the CEO of Pheonix Technologies died, and before his death asked that all PheonixBIOS chips be erased, or Linus Torvalds saying that all Linux copies must be erased/burt/shot into space/whatever. Things are different if something has been publically released. It no longer is a personal belonging.
What I was actually talking about are the legal problems you encounter when trying to archive things. In the case of abandonware, it is often pretty hard to tell if a company would let you archive a program or not. You could ask them but they may not even know what you are talking about. When you are dealing with an archive of perhaps hundred of thousands of programs, and data, can you really afford to contact each owner to ask them if thair single program is legal to archive. Yet with the current laws, how can you afford not to?
The main problem really resides in current copyright law. The time before a software program becomes public domain is so long that the program could be gone by the time it becomes public domain.
I think that one of the biggest problems when it comes to archival is legal. Often, companies don't want their information archived. After they publish a product, they want it to sell, then just go away. This is the issue with abandonware. If a company releases a game, or program, then stop supporting it, they shouldn't stop people from archiving it. If people don't archive it, it will just dissapear. This is what many companies wan't, but is it really the best thing to have happen?
The biggest problem with maintaining archives may be that some people actually want thier information to just dissapear.
How about The Washington Post? Well, I've done some preliminary data mining. Heres what I found.
The posters name is Anthony M Sheetz. He lives in Washington DC. He works for the Washington Post. He also has the E-Mail address "sheetzam@washpost.com". A whole lot of other stuff which I'm not going to post here(home address, phone number, etc... scary what you can find!)
Now for the site in question. Assuming the above information is correct, a search can be done for washington post employee E-Mail addresses. I could easily compile a much larger list of the actual E-Mail addresses from the information I got, but I'll try to make a guess at the site.
First site-I don't think this one is it: TechBalt.com has "lists of email addresses and names of people who you need to email about our initiative to change Baltimore." This isn't exactly encouraging _abuse_ per say... But here is the list they published for the Washington Post: The Washington Post Jerry Knight- wtknight@washpost.com Leslie Walker- walkerl@washpost.com Yuki Noguchi- Noguchiy@washpost.com
A MUCH more likely site is http://www.vojvodina.com/mailovi.htm. They list: abramowitz@washpost.com,achenbachj@washpost .com,ah rensf@washpost.com,adamsl@washpost.com,alexanderr@ washpost.com,andrewsn@washpost.com,argetsinge@wash post.com,babcockc@washpost.com,babingtonc@washpost.com,balzd@washpost.com,barkerk@washpost.com,bates j@washpost.com,behrp@washpost.com,bersellie@washpo st.com,beyersd@washpost.com,biskupic@washpost.com, blumj@washpost.com,book@washpost.com,boodmans@wash post.com,boothb@washpost.com,makinenj@washpost.com,brindleyl@washpost.com,chandlerc@washpost.com -S NIP- priestd@washpost.com,proulxl@washpost.com,re ida@wa shpost.com,richmanp@washpost.com,ringlek@washpost. com,robertsl@washpost.com,robertsr@washpost.com,ro binsong@washpost.com,rosenfelds@washpost.com,rowej @washpost.com,sagonc@washpost.com,stgeorgedr@washp ost.com,salmonj@washpost.com,sanchezr@washpost.com,sarasohnj@washpost.com,schwartzj@washpost.com,sed gwicks@washpost.com Thats MUCH bigger that the previous list!!! Thats only about half the list! Too bad the site's in some language Babelfish won't translate.
There are a whole lot of other sites too. Can anyone here translate that site with the larger list? That might be the one, but I can't tell what its about.
What happens when a UPS explodes is usually this: 1) Somehow the battery get too much of a load or shorts out. 2) The battery begins to heat up. 3) The sulfuric acid inside the battery produces explosive gas. and last, 4) The explosive gasses are ignited. So the explosion is really a real explosion with explosives.
...as well as so-called "supernodes," or people who provide the centralized directories...
Supernodes aren't violating copyright. That is like suing because I say the person at IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx has copyrighted material. Especially considering that they are automated, supernodes don't violate copyright! Talk about stupid.
%host 213.77.115.17 17.115.77.213.in-addr.arpa. domain name pointer wenus.dtcomsa.com.
%nmap -v -v -O -sT 213.77.115.17 Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA22 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) Host wenus.dtcomsa.com (213.77.115.17) appears to be up... good. Initiating Connect() Scan against wenus.dtcomsa.com (213.77.115.17) Adding TCP port 25 (state open). Adding TCP port 110 (state open). Adding TCP port 22 (state open). Adding TCP port 23 (state open). Adding TCP port 53 (state open). Adding TCP port 21 (state open). Adding TCP port 587 (state open). The Connect() Scan took 27 seconds to scan 1542 ports. For OSScan assuming that port 21 is open and port 1 is closed and neither are firewalled For OSScan assuming that port 21 is open and port 1 is closed and neither are firewalled For OSScan assuming that port 21 is open and port 1 is closed and neither are firewalled Interesting ports on wenus.dtcomsa.com (213.77.115.17): (The 1535 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 21/tcp open ftp 22/tcp open ssh 23/tcp open telnet 25/tcp open smtp 53/tcp open domain 110/tcp open pop-3 587/tcp open submission
No exact OS matches for host (If you know what OS is running on it, see http://www.insecure.org/cgi-bin/nmap-submit.cgi). TCP/IP fingerprint: SInfo(V=2.54BETA22%P=i386-redhat-lin ux-gnu%D=7/2%T ime=3D21FAB2%O=21%C=1) TSeq(Class=TR%IPID=I%TS=10 0HZ) T1(Resp=Y%DF=N%W=FFFF%ACK=S++%Flags=AS%Ops=M NWNNT) T2(Resp=N) T3(Resp=Y%DF=N%W=FFFF%ACK=S++% Flags=AS%Ops=MNWNNT) T4(Resp=Y%DF=N%W=0%ACK=O%Fla gs=R%Ops=) T5(Resp=Y%DF=N%W=0%ACK=S++%Flags=AR%Op s=) T6(Resp=Y%DF=N%W=0%ACK=O%Flags=R%Ops=) T7(Re sp=Y%DF=N%W=0%ACK=S%Flags=AR%Ops=) PU(Resp=Y%DF=N %TOS=0%IPLEN=38%RIPTL=148%RID=E%RIPC K=E%UCK=0%ULEN=134%DAT=E)
Using a refrigerant cooling system for a PC, like a modified air conditioner, tends to work pretty well.
The coolant is at a much lower temperature, so it takes longer for it to warm up to the point where your PC fries if the compressor fails.
Secondly, it can be used to lower the temperature even more.
Unfortunately, there is a very serious problem with it. The temperatures are below the dew point, and cause condensation. This will eventually short out/damage the boards.
I've though of one way around that problem though, what if you basically freeze dried the computer? You build a case that is airtight, and won't crush under a vacuum. Then pump out most of the air/moisture with a vacuum pump. Lastly, you fill the case with CO2 or something. You get rid of the moisture, and with it the condensation problem. Its also a whole lot cheaper than Flourinert. The only problems I can see are during the vacuum stage. I'm not sure if there would be any problems with the chips exploding or components leaking in a vacuum?
I might try that sometime and see if it would work. I think the biggest problem would be making the airtight case.
Hmm. They need to fix some of their categories! 2600.com is listed as "Politics/Religion". attrition.org's security page is listed as "Entertainment,Mature".
Plus, many security sites are listed as "Criminal skills".
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I'll probably be modded down, but:
Frankly, I'd understand if you were at work and worried that you might get logged by their censorware. Aside from that, I think what they did was good enough.
Looking at the first page:
Text-wise:
You can easily tell that it is a less-than-polite analysis of the subject fairly early on. If you don't want to read anymore, the it is well within your rights to simply stop reading.
Image-wise:
First image: Computer rendered picture of the sony and MS labeled women wrestling(I'm guessing poser-3 or 4). Now, granted, its a little more than G-rated, it shouldn't be offensive.
Second image: A simple pie-chart. Hopefully this doesn't offend you.
Third image: The penis chart. By this point you should have already stopped reading if you are offended. Considering that they are just extended rounded-rectangles with a line and a flesh color, I doubt this would be traumatizing at any level to most people.
By the third image, you already know the level of crudeness. Why continue if you are offended?
The fake rubber balls and gamecube image is, well, fake rubber balls and a gamecube.
The censored pictures on the second page are poser models with less-than-stellar textures. Granted, they COULD have used P5 and the FireFly renderer with high-res photorealistic models. Rather they used models that look like over "inflated" barbie dolls that have been dipped in a tub of machine or mineral oil.
So, unless you forced yourself to read the rest, and are complaining for the "sake of others", what's the problem?
Seriously, what part did you find offensive?
- On a side note, LOL, I just realized that poser model is standing on my desk in CNCed form.
1 is not really a problem unless you pay-per-gig. For me, it means a few megs of extra network usage per day, an additional 0.1% or so on average. For my ISP it means a worthwhile sacrifice to discourage the amount of spam coming through.
2 isn't really a problem. It means that A) Its STILL going to be blocked, B) Goodie! More spammers my server can hammer away at, and C) I'm already on their list ANYWAY. Its about as likely to hit an honest "remove" link as a dishonest one. Plus, with enough people using this, verify links would be worthless.
3 is the only real problem here. Granted, why would the script kiddies do this to DDoS for only a while when you can just 0wn(via autorooter) a few hundred boxen and do a real DDoS attack?
If they all failed within 20 years, how would the average disk have failed in 20 years???
20 drives/20 years is 1 drive a year.
I've always thought that CNC/rapid prototyping was pretty cool. The ability to take a design from CAD and manufacture a prototype that is true to the original design is cool in and of itself, not to mention the time it saves. I also like the artistic side to it. You can take complex shapes and lines, or a picture used as a depth map, and create a "carving" from it with great precision.
My current CNC mill is a MaxNC NC-10. At around $1,300, it was the best deal I could find. Its a little slow, and not the best thing by any means, but works nicely. I'm going to be selling engraved desk signs, I'm going to use it for engraving. I'll probably eventually do 3D image engravings(depth mapping), but at first I'll just do lettering.
I've made a couple keychains of Tux, some 3D statuettes, several more keychains, some lettering on wood, some robotics parts, etc... They all look really nice!
Actually, my biggest complaint about that machine(the NC-10) is that the effective X work distance is only about 6 or 7 inches. Its big enough for small work, like engraving signs, but I'm thinking about building a much bigger CNC router with a 5x10ft(or something) table sometime.
One thing I have to say to everyone who is going to buy or build a mill. Software for these can cost over $1000! You need the CAD program to design the item, the CAM program to create G-code from it, and the actual CNC program which will come with the mill, or be freely available. MecSoft did offer a free "lite" version of their CAM program, but don't seem to anymore(Luckily, I have it archived), but that is what I'm using.
Aol, so sleezy to use, no wonder its number one!
I'm sure this probably will have been said several time by the time I click submit but:
.XXX domain. It would probably be a good thing to have one. The problem is if sites are forced to move to .XXX. Now, actual porn sites shouldn't have as much of a problem moving their domains. But what about sites that AREN'T porn sites, yet contain nudity, or even pornography. My site, for example, has a funny picture archive, and I'm sure some of those have nudity, or may be mildly pornographic. However, it is NOT intended as a porn site by any amount.
.kids domain. "So what's the problem?", you might ask, "Its only designed as a domain that parents can let their kids use without being worried.". I wish that would be true. Unfortunately, thats not what will happen. It'll be used as a whitelist for censorware. Schools will then end up only letting kids use the .kids domain. Even libraries may be affected.
.XXX domain.
While I think that creating a dot kids domain isn't necessarily a bad thing, there may be a few problems.
The first, and perhaps most obvious problem is classifying something as "kids safe" or "not kids safe". "kids" is a very broad definition. I mean, would you seriously apply the same standards to a 16 year old as you would an 8 year old? Some things (like goatse) are obviously "not kids safe", and some things are obviously "kids safe". Unfortunately, probably 90% of websites are in the grey area.
It really depends on an individual view-point. Some people would consider even the most mild things offensive, and some wouldn't. All it takes is one single curse word on some page of a site(more or less), and the site potentially could fall into the grey area between "kids safe" and "not kids safe".
Sites with some dynamic interactive content(i.e. forums, comment boards, guestbooks, etc...) would be automatically in the grey area, since who knows what could appear there, although they are forbidden by the bill anyway.
But what will the standards be? Even if they are relatively simple, you run into all sorts of problems. For example, say the only rule is "no porn". Okay, how do you really define porn? Thats a very broad definition. As I said before, some thing are definitely porn, and some are not, but many are in between. Okay, say you make the rule simpler. No nudity. Well, even thats a bit broader, and could have many problems. So you define exactly what is meant by nudity. Well, then you run into the problem that nudity alone is not harmful. You could have pornographic pictures that do not meet the definition of nudity. Okay, so no pictures with nudity or sexual acts/references. By the time you're done with a good definition, you've already excluded most of the websites on the internet. In fact, I can't think of a single website I frequently visit that wouldn't fail a test like that.
There probably won't be many useful sites there at all.
Secondly, back to the issue with age groups. Saying absolutely no possibly offensive material is okay for little kids, but what about teenagers. I remember having to do a school report about the Holocaust, and I think many people would consider sites about the Holocaust unsafe for little kids. I also had to do several reports dealing with science/medicine. Even a relatively simple no-nudity rule has problems then. Remember that the WHOLE site has to be "kids safe". Many medical sites have nudity somewhere to some degree.
Although its not 100% related, I think I should also bring up the idea of creating a
Anyways, back to the
Oh well, at least its not a mandatory
That number belongs to a jeffery and robin mallory!!! You are harassing someone who has nothing to do with this. None of the other numbers are correct either. Check on http://www.anywho.com/ and see for yourself. They have probably been changed. Rodona Garst in not listed in the whitepages either.
I am not a chemist, but it probably isn't very hard. At least to test for parafin wax. But why would they be checking for parafin wax? The substance could have been any number of things, so they probably weren't testing specifically for parafin wax. Instead, they would test for various properties, which takes a while. Then they probably found that it was parafin wax because, if it looks like, has the same density, has the same chemicals, electrical properties, thermal properties, ..., as parafin wax, it probably is parafin wax.
Plus, they probably had to send it to a lab, which takes time.
"Looking over photos of the convention center in Edmonton, one of Simmons' fears is the center's glass elevators.
Grace uses floor-level laser range-finders to find her way around; the laser beams go straight through glass, rather than being reflected as they are with other obstacles."
I can see the laser rangefinders at the bottom, but it also has a bunch of ultrasound transducers in the middle, and some other lens(laser scanner?) above those in front. The glass shouldn't be too much of a problem provided that the ultrasonics are working.
Sonar does have some problems, but it works well enough on the robots I've seen/used/built. The ultrasound clicks they make can be annoying, but it works. At a university I toured once, they were demonstrating some robots, a heathkit one, and two custom ones which looked exactly like GRACE, execpt they had thermal, visible, and UV(I think) cameras, 24 ultrasonics, laser rangefinders, a 3D laser scanner on top, and no screen. The robots were roaming around, and greeting people. They didn't seem to have any problem avoiding obstacles, it was actually kind of funny when the heathkit said "Pardon me." to a supply cart:)
You can watch the live presentation HERE(scroll down, and click on a player link). They aren't really talking much about an open source version though right now.
There are other types of projectors. It could be using a CRT projector. Those are cheaper than LCD, but are larger, and aren't as space efficient. Those are the ones with three lenses.
Burn in isn't a problem with LCD projectors. That article got it wrong. The rear-projection TVs I've seen use LCD projectors, not CRTs. Burn in is a problem with CRTs, but even then, only sometimes. New CRTs don't seem to have the problem as much.
I agree, it is thier right. It may not be the best idea, but it is their right. Those are personal belongings though. It would be a little different if the CEO of Pheonix Technologies died, and before his death asked that all PheonixBIOS chips be erased, or Linus Torvalds saying that all Linux copies must be erased/burt/shot into space/whatever. Things are different if something has been publically released. It no longer is a personal belonging.
What I was actually talking about are the legal problems you encounter when trying to archive things. In the case of abandonware, it is often pretty hard to tell if a company would let you archive a program or not. You could ask them but they may not even know what you are talking about. When you are dealing with an archive of perhaps hundred of thousands of programs, and data, can you really afford to contact each owner to ask them if thair single program is legal to archive. Yet with the current laws, how can you afford not to?
The main problem really resides in current copyright law. The time before a software program becomes public domain is so long that the program could be gone by the time it becomes public domain.
I think that one of the biggest problems when it comes to archival is legal. Often, companies don't want their information archived. After they publish a product, they want it to sell, then just go away. This is the issue with abandonware. If a company releases a game, or program, then stop supporting it, they shouldn't stop people from archiving it. If people don't archive it, it will just dissapear. This is what many companies wan't, but is it really the best thing to have happen?
The biggest problem with maintaining archives may be that some people actually want thier information to just dissapear.
How about The Washington Post?
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Well, I've done some preliminary data mining.
Heres what I found.
The posters name is Anthony M Sheetz.
He lives in Washington DC.
He works for the Washington Post.
He also has the E-Mail address "sheetzam@washpost.com".
A whole lot of other stuff which I'm not going to post here(home address, phone number, etc... scary what you can find!)
Now for the site in question. Assuming the above information is correct, a search can be done for washington post employee E-Mail addresses. I could easily compile a much larger list of the actual E-Mail addresses from the information I got, but I'll try to make a guess at the site.
First site-I don't think this one is it:
TechBalt.com has "lists of email addresses and names of people who you need to email about our initiative to change Baltimore." This isn't exactly encouraging _abuse_ per say... But here is the list they published for the Washington Post:
The Washington Post
Jerry Knight- wtknight@washpost.com
Leslie Walker- walkerl@washpost.com
Yuki Noguchi- Noguchiy@washpost.com
A MUCH more likely site is http://www.vojvodina.com/mailovi.htm. They list:
abramowitz@washpost.com,achenbachj@washpos
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priestd@washpost.com,proulxl@washpost.com,r
Thats MUCH bigger that the previous list!!! Thats only about half the list! Too bad the site's in some language Babelfish won't translate.
There are a whole lot of other sites too.
Can anyone here translate that site with the larger list? That might be the one, but I can't tell what its about.
What happens when a UPS explodes is usually this:
1) Somehow the battery get too much of a load or shorts out.
2) The battery begins to heat up.
3) The sulfuric acid inside the battery produces explosive gas.
and last,
4) The explosive gasses are ignited.
So the explosion is really a real explosion with explosives.
Its 73 DE N0NB. His callsigns N0NB. Yep, the websites match.
...as well as so-called "supernodes," or people who provide the centralized directories...
Supernodes aren't violating copyright. That is like suing because I say the person at IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx has copyrighted material. Especially considering that they are automated, supernodes don't violate copyright! Talk about stupid.
What about just using the landscape format?
Or a continuous feed printer in landscape mode, and the paper width set to the width of the page?
Also, if they were using something like InstallSheild, they could just modify that much more easily (add some extra files for it to install).
%host 213.77.115.17
... good.
n ux-gnu%D=7/2%T ime=3D21FAB2%O=21%C=1)0 0HZ)M NWNNT)% Flags=AS%Ops=MNWNNT)a gs=R%Ops=)p s=)e sp=Y%DF=N%W=0%ACK=S%Flags=AR%Ops=)N %TOS=0%IPLEN=38%RIPTL=148%RID=E%RIPC K=E%UCK=0%ULEN=134%DAT=E)
17.115.77.213.in-addr.arpa. domain name pointer wenus.dtcomsa.com.
%nmap -v -v -O -sT 213.77.115.17
Starting nmap V. 2.54BETA22 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
Host wenus.dtcomsa.com (213.77.115.17) appears to be up
Initiating Connect() Scan against wenus.dtcomsa.com (213.77.115.17)
Adding TCP port 25 (state open).
Adding TCP port 110 (state open).
Adding TCP port 22 (state open).
Adding TCP port 23 (state open).
Adding TCP port 53 (state open).
Adding TCP port 21 (state open).
Adding TCP port 587 (state open).
The Connect() Scan took 27 seconds to scan 1542 ports.
For OSScan assuming that port 21 is open and port 1 is closed and neither are firewalled
For OSScan assuming that port 21 is open and port 1 is closed and neither are firewalled
For OSScan assuming that port 21 is open and port 1 is closed and neither are firewalled
Interesting ports on wenus.dtcomsa.com (213.77.115.17):
(The 1535 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
Port State Service
21/tcp open ftp
22/tcp open ssh
23/tcp open telnet
25/tcp open smtp
53/tcp open domain
110/tcp open pop-3
587/tcp open submission
No exact OS matches for host (If you know what OS is running on it, see http://www.insecure.org/cgi-bin/nmap-submit.cgi).
TCP/IP fingerprint:
SInfo(V=2.54BETA22%P=i386-redhat-li
TSeq(Class=TR%IPID=I%TS=1
T1(Resp=Y%DF=N%W=FFFF%ACK=S++%Flags=AS%Ops=
T2(Resp=N)
T3(Resp=Y%DF=N%W=FFFF%ACK=S++
T4(Resp=Y%DF=N%W=0%ACK=O%Fl
T5(Resp=Y%DF=N%W=0%ACK=S++%Flags=AR%O
T6(Resp=Y%DF=N%W=0%ACK=O%Flags=R%Ops=)
T7(R
PU(Resp=Y%DF=
Uptime 0.353 days (since Tue Jul 2 06:42:11 2002)
TCP Sequence Prediction: Class=truly random
Difficulty=9999999 (Good luck!)
TCP ISN Seq. Numbers: BCD39B40 B069777B 5A2C6DFA 94A8B5F0 9363A2ED
IPID Sequence Generation: Incremental
Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 40 seconds
Using a refrigerant cooling system for a PC, like a modified air conditioner, tends to work pretty well.
The coolant is at a much lower temperature, so it takes longer for it to warm up to the point where your PC fries if the compressor fails.
Secondly, it can be used to lower the temperature even more.
Unfortunately, there is a very serious problem with it. The temperatures are below the dew point, and cause condensation. This will eventually short out/damage the boards.
I've though of one way around that problem though, what if you basically freeze dried the computer? You build a case that is airtight, and won't crush under a vacuum. Then pump out most of the air/moisture with a vacuum pump. Lastly, you fill the case with CO2 or something. You get rid of the moisture, and with it the condensation problem. Its also a whole lot cheaper than Flourinert. The only problems I can see are during the vacuum stage. I'm not sure if there would be any problems with the chips exploding or components leaking in a vacuum?
I might try that sometime and see if it would work. I think the biggest problem would be making the airtight case.
Hmm. They need to fix some of their categories!
2600.com is listed as "Politics/Religion".
attrition.org's security page is listed as "Entertainment,Mature".
Plus, many security sites are listed as "Criminal skills".
It would seem to me that the internet archival project would be on their target list. To block sites like this.
to sites@smartfilter.com. I'm writing one right now.