According to netcraft, algore2000 is running Linux and Apache. What were the reasons for choosing that platform, and were they mainly technical, or political? Was this your initial choice, or did you change the platform at some point?
How about creating an immigration HOWTO? There are already quite a few resources on the web - many of them belong to lawyers. My favorite is Carl Shusterman's web site. One thing to remember is that personal experiences usually don't transfer to other people's circumstances. The immigration laws are sometimes so obscure that you either need a lot of free time, or a lawyer.
Re:Is Censorship/control ALWAYS bad?
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Truth is, in any country where education isn't sufficiently high and skepticism isn't strongly in place, the free flow of information can hurt much more than it can help. Censorship to most governments is less about keeping total control over their citizens than it is about keeping out false information, information that can lead to totally irrational and damaging actions.
I believe this to be an extremely misguided and dangerous statement! The resources spent for "keeping out" false information should be spent for educating the public. After all, the main reason people would believe the unbelievable is that they are used to all information to be "sanctioned" and therefore truthful.
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...about which I sent a submission to Slashdot on January 13th, which was promptly rejected...
The Connecticut claim is filed against a mirror of 2600's article from November 12, 1999. The key phrase there is DeCSS, a free DVD decoder, that not only facilitated the creation of previously unavailable open source DVD players for Linux - also allowed people to copy DVDs. Note that the prase explicitely states a non-piracy purpose of DeCSS, and, it only talks about making copies - which by itself is not illegal (according to the Beta case from 84, IIRC). The fact that they are going against a single mirror is strange - either they have no clue about the web, internet, etc., or they have found an otherwise "weak link" where they hope to establish an easy precedent. I wonder if the defendant Hughes can post some more information here.
I think the problem is that you are trying to make a point about the whole Internet based on the UDP. The UDP is specific to Usenet. Usenet is not the Internet. The Web is not the Internet. Why is that so hard to understand???
A) First amendment applies to government, not private citizens administrating NNTP servers, or the companies the own NNTP servers. B) Anyone can choose to carry or not carry any group or message they want to don't want to.
Whats the issue?
There is no issue - yet another confused post, more or less well-written, has been promotted to insightful (+5) because: a) it is well presented b) mentions Free Speech c) mentions Civil Rights d) tries to provide a "different" point of view e) all of the above
How come I never get to meta-moderate any of these?
Many of you have been posting your questions and concerns in reference to the proposed Usenet Death Penalty (UDP) which would block the @Home Network from posting to USENET. I have attached our official response to the Usenet community and the press here but wanted to bring attention to a couple of points that are raised here:
- This afternoon we began a network wide scan targeting open proxy servers.
- If an open server is identified, the customer associated will be blocked from posting to Usenet until such time we are assured that the proxy software is secured.
------------------------------ To the USENET community:
In response to the recent UDP call for @Home Network to be removed from interacting on the USENET, we are submitting an official response with a proposal of short term and long term news spam prevention initiatives. Excite@Home is very committed to participating respectfully on the Internet, and we have taken previous requests for action seriously.
We have found that the primary source of our excessive USENET posting history comes from subscribers who have installed proxy software incorrectly. Unbeknownst to the customer, this mis-configuration has allowed outside access to the @Home news servers, and has resulted in our subscribers becoming spam relays. Because these various IP addresses create holes in our network, spammers have taken advantage of this mis-configuration, and have posted thousands of newsgroup messages through our news machines.
As of today, we are stepping up our involvement and taking more aggressive action by performing frequent network wide scans of our customer base to target proxy servers. Once these customers are identified, we are suspending their news service immediately. Re-enabling will not occur until we are assured that their machines are secure. We feel that this proactive effort will dramatically decrease the amount of extraneous news traffic originating from home.com.
We are committed to promoting better Excite@Home participation on the USENET, and we are in the process of modifying our current news product and news architecture. We are also implementing more user education as a parallel initiative.
With these new tactics in place, we are asking for an extension to our USENET access beyond the 18th of January and we are confident that the USENET community will see positive news statistics coming in the next few days.
David Jackson Manager, Network Policy Management Excite@Home
I hope you read the articles on Slashdot and other places before you write your paper - trying to link Microsoft to this won't help your case. Make sure you explain the purpose of the encryption, point out the fact that copying of DVDs can be done without breaking the encryption, and on that background explain the legal and consumer-benefitting uses of DeCSS. Another thesis for your paper could be the Free Speach implications of trying to prevent linking. Good luck on your paper, and do your research.
The only thing Y2K did was cost me a night of sleep, as I had to work (as I'm sure many of you did).
So what was the funniest (or most exciting) thing that happened to those working the night shift? There wasn't much where I was, although it was kind of amusing watching the LSU web site show the year as 19100, then 192000, and finally 2000:-).
How many of you really watch movies on your computer?
I do. When traveling, I watch them on my laptop, when at home, I hook it up to my TV. Are you or the DVD CCA going to give me $300 to get an additional DVD player? How about $150 for that other OS I have to keep on my laptop so that I can use the DVD drive?
But, as already was pointed out, this is not the real issue...
CNN has the story (mostly giving one viewpoint), and there is a discussion forum which has not a single message about this. Remember: keep it civil (the CNN discussions are a usually moderated).
PS If you read the article, notice the URL - they use dvd.crack instead of dvd.hack:-)
What makes it not free? This is what I get from phpinfo() for version 3.0.12: PHP License
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of:
A) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
B) the PHP License as published by the PHP development Team and included in the distribution in the file: LICENSE
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of both licenses referred to here. If you did not, or have any questions about PHP licensing, please contact core@php.net.
I correctly predicted Mozilla source would lack SSL and lack JAVA when shipped.
Wow! He predicted something that has been known by anyone interested in Mozilla since the openning of the source code... (And if you don't know the reasons for the lack of SSL and how Java is supported in Mozilla, then find out.)
I don't get this - you have an open standard, and now you also have a browser which implements it. Why not use the new features when they correctly follow specifications?
Slashdot Mirror
More clueless moderation...
According to netcraft, algore2000 is running Linux and Apache. What were the reasons for choosing that platform, and were they mainly technical, or political? Was this your initial choice, or did you change the platform at some point?
As a widely acknowledged expert in marketing, and coming from an extremely hardcore technical background (Ex NT admin and VBA developer)
:-)
I hope you meant "hardcore" as "filthy and disgusting for many people"
Yep, there is: Emacs Lisp.
What did IBM do?
How about creating an immigration HOWTO?
There are already quite a few resources on the web - many of them belong to lawyers. My favorite is Carl Shusterman's web site.
One thing to remember is that personal experiences usually don't transfer to other people's circumstances. The immigration laws are sometimes so obscure that you either need a lot of free time, or a lawyer.
Truth is, in any country where education isn't sufficiently high and skepticism isn't strongly in place, the free flow of information can hurt much more than it can help. Censorship to most governments is less about keeping total control over their citizens than it is about keeping out false information, information that can lead to totally irrational and damaging actions.
I believe this to be an extremely misguided and dangerous statement! The resources spent for "keeping out" false information should be spent for educating the public. After all, the main reason people would believe the unbelievable is that they are used to all information to be "sanctioned" and therefore truthful.
...about which I sent a submission to Slashdot on January 13th, which was promptly rejected...
The Connecticut claim is filed against a mirror of 2600's article from November 12, 1999. The key phrase there is DeCSS, a free DVD decoder, that not only facilitated the creation of previously unavailable open source DVD players for
Linux - also allowed people to copy DVDs.
Note that the prase explicitely states a non-piracy purpose of DeCSS, and, it only talks about making copies - which by itself is not illegal (according to the Beta case from 84, IIRC).
The fact that they are going against a single mirror is strange - either they have no clue about the web, internet, etc., or they have found an otherwise "weak link" where they hope to establish an easy precedent.
I wonder if the defendant Hughes can post some more information here.
I think the problem is that you are trying to make a point about the whole Internet based on the UDP. The UDP is specific to Usenet. Usenet is not the Internet. The Web is not the Internet. Why is that so hard to understand???
A) First amendment applies to government, not private citizens administrating NNTP servers, or the companies the own NNTP servers.
B) Anyone can choose to carry or not carry any group or message they want to don't want to.
Whats the issue?
There is no issue - yet another confused post, more or less well-written, has been promotted to insightful (+5) because:
a) it is well presented
b) mentions Free Speech
c) mentions Civil Rights
d) tries to provide a "different" point of view
e) all of the above
How come I never get to meta-moderate any of these?
As seen on athome.announce:
Many of you have been posting your questions and concerns
in reference to the proposed Usenet Death Penalty (UDP) which
would block the @Home Network from posting to USENET. I have attached
our official response to the Usenet community and the press here but
wanted to bring attention to a couple of points that are raised here:
- This afternoon we began a network wide scan targeting open proxy
servers.
- If an open server is identified, the customer associated will be
blocked from posting to Usenet until such time we are assured that
the proxy software is secured.
------------------------------
To the USENET community:
In response to the recent UDP call for @Home Network to be removed
from interacting on the USENET, we are submitting an official
response
with a proposal of short term and long term news spam prevention
initiatives. Excite@Home is very committed to participating
respectfully on the Internet, and we have taken previous requests for
action seriously.
We have found that the primary source of our excessive USENET posting
history comes from subscribers who have installed proxy software
incorrectly. Unbeknownst to the customer, this mis-configuration has
allowed outside access to the @Home news servers, and has resulted in
our subscribers becoming spam relays. Because these various IP
addresses create holes in our network, spammers have taken advantage
of this mis-configuration, and have posted thousands of newsgroup
messages through our news machines.
As of today, we are stepping up our involvement and taking more
aggressive action by performing frequent network wide scans of our
customer base to target proxy servers. Once these customers are
identified, we are suspending their news service immediately.
Re-enabling will not occur until we are assured that their machines
are secure. We feel that this proactive effort will dramatically
decrease the amount of extraneous news traffic originating from
home.com.
We are committed to promoting better Excite@Home participation on
the
USENET, and we are in the process of modifying our current news
product and news architecture. We are also implementing more user
education as a parallel initiative.
With these new tactics in place, we are asking for an extension to
our
USENET access beyond the 18th of January and we are confident that
the
USENET community will see positive news statistics coming in the next
few days.
David Jackson
Manager, Network Policy Management
Excite@Home
Carol
Newsgroup Policy Specialist
Excite@Home
I hope you read the articles on Slashdot and other places before you write your paper - trying to link Microsoft to this won't help your case. Make sure you explain the purpose of the encryption, point out the fact that copying of DVDs can be done without breaking the encryption, and on that background explain the legal and consumer-benefitting uses of DeCSS.
Another thesis for your paper could be the Free Speach implications of trying to prevent linking.
Good luck on your paper, and do your research.
Graffiti may be simple to use, but the idea is trully revolutionary. If there is no prior art, this is a very valid patent.
PS Moderators - how is the previous uninformed post "Informative"?
Hmm, and where do you think the governament would have gotten the money to cover everyone's $100K? From your taxes, of course. (S&L, anyone?)
The only thing Y2K did was cost me a night of sleep, as I had to work (as I'm sure many of you did).
:-).
So what was the funniest (or most exciting) thing that happened to those working the night shift? There wasn't much where I was, although it was kind of amusing watching the LSU web site show the year as 19100, then 192000, and finally 2000
How many of you really watch movies on your computer?
I do. When traveling, I watch them on my laptop, when at home, I hook it up to my TV. Are you or the DVD CCA going to give me $300 to get an additional DVD player? How about $150 for that other OS I have to keep on my laptop so that I can use the DVD drive?
But, as already was pointed out, this is not the real issue...
CNN has the story (mostly giving one viewpoint), and there is a discussion forum which has not a single message about this. Remember: keep it civil (the CNN discussions are a usually moderated).
:-)
PS If you read the article, notice the URL - they use dvd.crack instead of dvd.hack
What makes it not free? This is what I get from phpinfo() for version 3.0.12:
PHP License
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of:
A) the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
B) the PHP License as published by the PHP development Team and included in the distribution in the file: LICENSE
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of both licenses referred to here. If you did not, or have any questions about PHP licensing, please contact core@php.net.
Is PHP4B3 different?
From the "well-articulated view":
I correctly predicted Mozilla source would lack SSL and lack JAVA when shipped.
Wow! He predicted something that has been known by anyone interested in Mozilla since the openning of the source code... (And if you don't know the reasons for the lack of SSL and how Java is supported in Mozilla, then find out.)
So should we expect an Impaladin notebook line, preloaded with Debian, from VA Linux? :-)
I don't get this - you have an open standard, and now you also have a browser which implements it. Why not use the new features when they correctly follow specifications?
> In Japan, the number 4 ("shi") is unlucky because it is the same word for "death".
That is why they have alternative names:
Yon for 4, and Nana for 7...
I don't think Pentium IV will have a problem (with its name, that is)...
Here is a link about the Kissinger interview.
It will be interesting to see if Bill Gates will last longer than Henry Kissinger - here is a link. There is also a web site for submitting questions.