KFM does do ftp. Just use an FTP URL like ftp://ftp.foo.org/pr0n/ to get to the pr0n directory of ftp.foo.org as an anonymous user. To connect with a username/password, use ftp://luser@ftp.foo.org/pr0n.
Once you are connected, you can browse around in your nice, GUI KFM window.
tv/vcr (a-la Tivo if only the software were there!)
I think the Tivo uses a special drive from Quantum that has the ability to read and write at the same time. Most drives can only read or write at any given time.
You know, it's just so hard to be pissed about something if the French are pissed about it, too.
In all seriousness, though, I wonder how they came up with that dollar amount and how they found "evidence" to support their claims? Mind you, since the article is typical headline fodder, we don't actually know anything.
I feel one should blame the person who breaks the law not someone who innocently contributed to the possibility of the law being broken.
I'm talking about negligence here, though. If you leave your loaded gun on the front step and somebody uses it to commit a crime, you can probably expect some repercussions. Similarly, leaving a system that has well-known and documented problems with easily available remedies on the Internet could be viewed as a form of negligence.
If your system is cracked, and then used to attack me, can I sue you for negligence? How else do we get companies to put proper practices in place?
Like IP spoofing, for example. IP spoofing would more or less come to a halt if ISPs, Universities, and corporations would put some simple filters into place, preventing packets with impossible source addresses from leaving their networks.
This distributed DOS stuff can be stopped only if *all* of the sites in the community engage in sound security practices.
You're right, it was down right irresponsible of CERT to put security ahead of making mouseovers work. What's worse, those mouseovers represent "a vast part of the web's functionality." And now we don't have them. Thanks a lot CERT! </SARCASM>
How about:
* Thanks a lot, sloppy CGI coders, for failing to validate and filter *all* input!
* Thanks a lot browser vendors, for failing to allow people choice in their browsing. Heaven forbid that I be allowed to choose which JavaScript executes on my broweser -- it's either all or none!
The people running the show in China use the term "state secret" very broadly. It can be something defense releated, but it is usually something the government finds embrrassing or annoying. Things like publishing a letter that is critical of the government, or running a web site that contradicts the party line. Something like this comments, for example.
What's really great are the punishments! You can get dead for saying the government is wrong. If the judge is feeling generous, you might only get 15 years of brutal labor, making products to sell to the US.
I agree with the sense of your argument, but would like to expand upon it with a few potential reasons.
1) Multithreaded development and debugging. The well-discussed reason is the distributed model of work. Since there are many potential testers in the world for each piece of Open Sourced software, there are also many potential patchers for siad software. The person who finds the problem actually has a possibility of being able to offer a fix.
2) Risk aversion. Big corporations like M$, Sun, HP, IBM, etc. have reputations to consider. If they offer a "fix" that later has to be fixed itself, they are embarrassed and sales could be hurt. This is bad for the decision makers because they have something to lose for their efforts besides pride -- money. The Open Source community has much less to lose. This has primarily been due to the fact that since their work was volunteer, they could hardly get fired or sued. As the world awakens to Open Source and corporations enter the arena, I wonder if this will change.
The Bush people missed the Clue Trolley on this one -- or perhaps they got run over by it.
People are always drawn to controversy. Is some religious group protesting a movie? Watch attendance soar. Is some group of middle class neo-fascists trying to censor an album? Watch sales set new records. (Pun intended)
If the Bush people wanted this site to get attention, they succeeded.
This could be great for us consumers. Currently I have a Sprint PCS phone. I'm pretty happy with Sprint right now, but what if I decide in six months to switch to AT&T? Right now I have to buy a new phone.
Maybe with this Motorola chip I will be able to use the same phone with a variety of providers. This will make it easier for me to switch and will increase price and service competition.
On the one hand, I prefer not just waiting to see how the courts will respond to the matter. The outcomes aren't really accountable and are largely unpredictable. A legislative solution could produce clear guidelines. If we don't like the guidelines, at least we can vote the bums out of office.
On the other hand, I think a legislative bandaid on our sometimes wacky intellectual property and trademark laws is not really going to help. It might even hurt since the people voting for these bills probably don't understand the full implications of the legislation.
Maybe you missed his remarks that there are several tools (PHP, Perl, Apache) that he likes but is having difficulty running because of NT. It just so happens that those tools run very well under Linux.
Could it be that he is trying to adapt to his situation! Mercy, no!
There are many restrictions on government agencies asking for your number, but few on individuals or companies. When someone from a government agency asks for your number, they are required to provide a Privacy Act Disclosure Notice, which is required to tell you what law allows them to ask, whether you have to provide your number, and what will happen if you don't provide the number.
Private companies aren't required to follow this law, and in general your recourse is to find another company to do business with if you don't like their policies.
This is interesting since a school district is very much like a government agency, isn't it?
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KFM does do ftp. Just use an FTP URL like ftp://ftp.foo.org/pr0n/ to get to the pr0n directory of ftp.foo.org as an anonymous user. To connect with a username/password, use ftp://luser@ftp.foo.org/pr0n.
Once you are connected, you can browse around in your nice, GUI KFM window.
I think the Tivo uses a special drive from Quantum that has the ability to read and write at the same time. Most drives can only read or write at any given time.
You know, it's just so hard to be pissed about something if the French are pissed about it, too.
In all seriousness, though, I wonder how they came up with that dollar amount and how they found "evidence" to support their claims? Mind you, since the article is typical headline fodder, we don't actually know anything.
I'm talking about negligence here, though. If you leave your loaded gun on the front step and somebody uses it to commit a crime, you can probably expect some repercussions. Similarly, leaving a system that has well-known and documented problems with easily available remedies on the Internet could be viewed as a form of negligence.
If your system is cracked, and then used to attack me, can I sue you for negligence? How else do we get companies to put proper practices in place?
Like IP spoofing, for example. IP spoofing would more or less come to a halt if ISPs, Universities, and corporations would put some simple filters into place, preventing packets with impossible source addresses from leaving their networks.
This distributed DOS stuff can be stopped only if *all* of the sites in the community engage in sound security practices.
You're right, it was down right irresponsible of CERT to put security ahead of making mouseovers work. What's worse, those mouseovers represent "a vast part of the web's functionality." And now we don't have them. Thanks a lot CERT!
</SARCASM>
How about:
* Thanks a lot, sloppy CGI coders, for failing to validate and filter *all* input!
* Thanks a lot browser vendors, for failing to allow people choice in their browsing. Heaven forbid that I be allowed to choose which JavaScript executes on my broweser -- it's either all or none!
The people running the show in China use the term "state secret" very broadly. It can be something defense releated, but it is usually something the government finds embrrassing or annoying. Things like publishing a letter that is critical of the government, or running a web site that contradicts the party line. Something like this comments, for example.
What's really great are the punishments! You can get dead for saying the government is wrong. If the judge is feeling generous, you might only get 15 years of brutal labor, making products to sell to the US.
What do we measure against? Most improved in the last six months? last year? ever?
I discuss this very point in another post in this thread.
Re:Open Source will always be the quickest -- why?
I agree with the sense of your argument, but would like to expand upon it with a few potential reasons.
1) Multithreaded development and debugging. The well-discussed reason is the distributed model of work. Since there are many potential testers in the world for each piece of Open Sourced software, there are also many potential patchers for siad software. The person who finds the problem actually has a possibility of being able to offer a fix.
2) Risk aversion. Big corporations like M$, Sun, HP, IBM, etc. have reputations to consider. If they offer a "fix" that later has to be fixed itself, they are embarrassed and sales could be hurt. This is bad for the decision makers because they have something to lose for their efforts besides pride -- money. The Open Source community has much less to lose. This has primarily been due to the fact that since their work was volunteer, they could hardly get fired or sued. As the world awakens to Open Source and corporations enter the arena, I wonder if this will change.
Refrigeration granted the ability to ship food products all over the world by rail, road, air, or sea and have them arrive as edible food.
It also allowed people to store food for longer periods of time.
And, finally, it led to air conditioners - refrigeration for entire buildings!
A visit to netcraft tells me the following: www.etoys.com is running Etoys Web server 1.2 on Linux
No wonder they have such excellent availability!
Thanks. The link in the Slahdot story points to a different page. (oindex.html)
I see no requests for monetary contributions on the gwbush.com site.
The Bush people missed the Clue Trolley on this one -- or perhaps they got run over by it.
People are always drawn to controversy. Is some religious group protesting a movie? Watch attendance soar. Is some group of middle class neo-fascists trying to censor an album? Watch sales set new records. (Pun intended)
If the Bush people wanted this site to get attention, they succeeded.
Never attribute to conspiracy what can be adequately explained by ignorance and stupidity.
This could be great for us consumers. Currently I have a Sprint PCS phone. I'm pretty happy with Sprint right now, but what if I decide in six months to switch to AT&T? Right now I have to buy a new phone.
Maybe with this Motorola chip I will be able to use the same phone with a variety of providers. This will make it easier for me to switch and will increase price and service competition.
This could go either way.
On the one hand, I prefer not just waiting to see how the courts will respond to the matter. The outcomes aren't really accountable and are largely unpredictable. A legislative solution could produce clear guidelines. If we don't like the guidelines, at least we can vote the bums out of office.
On the other hand, I think a legislative bandaid on our sometimes wacky intellectual property and trademark laws is not really going to help. It might even hurt since the people voting for these bills probably don't understand the full implications of the legislation.
Oh, yeah.....not first post.
Cyberdildonics -- check out www.ifriends.net. They claim to have "cyberdildonics," whatever the hell that is!
Maybe you missed his remarks that there are several tools (PHP, Perl, Apache) that he likes but is having difficulty running because of NT. It just so happens that those tools run very well under Linux.
Could it be that he is trying to adapt to his situation! Mercy, no!
And when you move from Charlottesville, VA to Portland, OR? Then what? What if there is already a Robert Link in Portland, OR?
I think you need to distinguish between governmental agencies and private businesses.
According to Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
There are many restrictions on government agencies asking for your number, but few on individuals or companies. When someone from a government agency asks for your number, they are required to provide a Privacy Act Disclosure Notice, which is required to tell you what law allows them to ask, whether you have to provide your number, and what will happen if you don't provide the number.
Private companies aren't required to follow this law, and in general your recourse is to find another company to do business with if you don't like their policies.
This is interesting since a school district is very much like a government agency, isn't it?
Did anyone else notice that this article was short on details? You know, simple things like:
* What were the rules of the game?
* What was the scope of the game?
* When the event was held?
I'd also like to see pictures.
So says the Anonymous Coward. Could this have been flame bait?
I just read their page at http://www.microsoft.co m/NTServer/web/news/msnw/Hotmail.asp and found that there was almost no information of substance! They didn't stint on the marketing information, though.