...is two have two e-mail addresses. One is whitelist only, and you never "publish" it. Only give that one out to people you want to have it explicitly. Make it clear they are not to share.
The second address is for public consumption. Use that one for everything else, including mailing list subscriptions, site subscriptions, Slashdot postings, and anyone else you even suspect will sell/give away your e-mail address. Ideally this would be something like a Google/Yahoo/MSN address or one from your ISP.
The first address should then be kept pristine and you never have to worry about spam on it. The second would be suspect, but some inbox rules and white/blacklists could clean up most of it.
I've been doing this for 3+ years now and have 0 spam on my private address. Gmail does a good job of keeping the other pretty clean.
My bank doesn't have my home address, they have a PO Box. They do not have a phone number for me. I also have several friends who've retired and live on the road, in RVs. They have no permanent address. Hell, in the State of Oregon you can even change your address on your DL to read "Transient" if you live in an RV.
I deal with my bank via ATMs, direct deposit and e-mail and that is the way I prefer it.
They weren't absurd, they were stupid. "Random absurdity", especially the kind found in Monty Python, Black Adder, etc. wasn't two minutes. Hell, "Where's the fish" was a lot shorter than that. People -- if even only some -- laugh at the random absurdity. Do you know ANYONE who thought the dolphin scene was funny? Anyone at all?
This was "we have this dumb song and want to show opening credits", not humor.
They upgraded to 2.6 last week and most of them switched overnight. There are tons, if you run the Windows version. Linux & Mac users will have to wait another week or so for the update. They ARE there...tons of them.
The movie was acceptable, but for me the biggest "gotcha" was the total lack of comprehension of British humor by the directors.
The most obvious example was Arthur Dent's conversation with Processor, or lack thereof. Of course, naming the ex-President Hamma Kavula (or however it is spelled) was seriously funny.
And the whole scene with the Total Perspective Vortex which was a gun, where Zaphod gets "enlightened" was Hollywood-romance drivel. "Hey, I'm Zaphod Beeblebrox, man!"
The absolute worst was the !)@#!ing 2+ minute opening scene of jumping dolphins! What a waste of celluloid!
It just could have been so much better in the hands of a director who had a sense of humor that didn't need a laugh track to tell him what was funny.
Please note that AT&T here really means SBC. SBC purchased AT&T not too long ago but kept the AT&T name. It is run by the same cocksucker who thinks Google, Yahoo and other content providers are getting a "free ride" on his infrastructure and wants to charge them for the right to travel his wires -- peering be damned.
I was making an argument for DRM in general, not hardware specific. You are correct that it could be implemented in software only. Hardware is for very secure, extreme conditions.
Sorry about the confusion. 90% of what we did was to prevent mistakes, the other 10% was to prevent trade secret theft. There is a lot of headhunting that goes on in the industrial sector and I had to deal with two specific instances of where we hired an employee from a competitor (line worker) and they were really a mole. That person would start trying to e-mail drawings and documents to their old employer after a month or so.
DRM with certificate revocation lists helped a great deal on this one. Camera phones were another issue altogether...
Mons Venus is so huge it reaches up out of the atmosphere. A great place for an asteroid (mineral) processing plant and launch facility. Mars is also close to the mineral-rich asteroid belt.
What we ended up with was Adobe PDF files that were signed with certificates. The Adobe reader disallows printing, saving, modification and you need a valid password/cert to open the file. Take the file and move it to another PC and it still won't print and you can't open it without the right certificate and password.
As far as printscreen goes, you're confusing DRM with perfection. DRM simply has to restrict the rights and it is embedded as part of the data content, but isn't necessarily 100% foolproof.
I'm quite certain somebody viewing your documents could take a screen shot, or save the image as a new file, or actually make the car from the wrong diagrams.
Actually, screen capture was disabled and no unauthorized (i.e.- absolutely required to do the job) software was allowed on line terminals. No, people could not save anything as a new file from these terminals. Users without engineering rights could even OPEN development drawings, much less save them anywhere.
Normal permissions are only part of it. Document control includes "publishing" the documents, accounting for all "out of spec" documents, signing out actual printed copies, random audits on what documents were available on the floor, sign-off for the documents from both engineering as well as document control person, external audit where auditors tried to get users to show them the wrong documents, etc.
Every document available had a chain of certificates that recorded when it was valid, who validated it and for what use it was valid. When one simple mistake can compound to thousands of dollars in a matter of minutes of costs on a high-speed production line, you get very serious about your documentation and procedures.
I once thought as you do, then I was confronted with the twin demons of convenience and laziness.
Engineers frequently wanted to pull up development (non-production) documents on terminals on the manufacturing floor. They would often wander off after doing so and a line worker would wander in, see the drawing, notice it matched what they were producing (widget A) but not know it was an engineering rev and then screw up 200 parts before it was caught futher down the line at inspection.
There are a dozen other "oh, shit -- who in their right mind would do THAT?!" moments that I discovered and were related to incorrect documentation.
Large manufacturing facilities have tons of very specific regulations on how to control documents. They all stem from some stupid incident because "common sense" isn't very common. If you ever work with a manufacturer that produces items to MIL spec, or RS-9000 (automotive quality), you will see what I mean.
And...DRM isn't just hardware-based cryptographic assurance. It is more of a general restriction of content usage.
However, there are those that DO need that type of control. Prior to implementing the system I did, my team had the opportunity to see a similar implementation at a local defense contractor (Orlando, FL) and talk with their implementation team. We only had limited access, but even with that limitation we were impressed with how tight their documentation was controlled (and how much of a PITA is was to actually use).
Think of DRM as one attempt at dealing with the "so hard to make something foolproof because fools are so ingenious" problem.
I helped convert an automotive electronics manufacturing facility from using paper CAD drawings and documentation to all electronic. DRM was needed to not only ensure that computers/people on the manufacturing line could not view -- accidentally or deliberately -- non-production documents. We needed an iron clad way of making sure that the document being shown accurately reflected the product being produced at that time. DRM was one aspect of the solution because it allowed us to manage which user accounts and which terminals were able to view which drawings and when. Absolutely critical for making sure everyone is on the same revision of the product.
Corporate documents such as engineering drawings, notes and descriptions are NOT public material. They are private, limited distribution material that need to be controlled. "Document control" is an aspect of ISO-9000 series evaluation and certification. When those documents are electronic, control means DRM.
This is not wrong, RMS is just lumping all DRM together and that is a mistake.
When I said explosive I meant they blow themselves up.
I am unaware of any suicide bombings of abortion clinics in the U.S. There have been some snipings, point-blank shootings, planted bombs and arson of abortion clinics along with threats to doctors and staff. However, we're also talking maybe a two dozen incidents over a dozen years. They are also soundly condemned by the general population and treated as crimes by the government. Mostly there are non-violent protests. They may be disruptive, but generally don't end in firebombings or storming of buildings by armed mobs.
All civilizations on this planet were built on blood, Eastern, Western and in-between. I refuse to apologize or feel guilty for things done by people long before I was born of which I had no part.
The numbers of civilians killed in Iraq by the U.S. is dwarfed by the numbers that were killed by Saddam. The current violence is 90% sectarian in a grab for power. Most people killed in Iraq today are Shi'a vs Sunni and has little to do with the U.S. It isn't the U.S. that sends suicide bombers into funerals, mosques or police stations. Nor are those attacks directed at the U.S. but at local rivals. If everyone in Iraq just calmed their ass down and showed they could live without blowing stuff up every 10 minutes the U.S. would pull out in a heartbeat.
I disagree with the way Guantanamo is run and the entire concept is handled. However, people that go into that system ARE eventually heard from again, unlike many "secret" facilities run by other governments. These systems can be debated by the public and Congress without fear of recrimination. How many people were able to protest the way Abu Ghirab was run when it was Saddam running it?
I never claimed the West didn't have its share of radicals and fundamentalists. Civilized societies have, for the most part, evolved to the point where those radicals and fundamentalists are in a distinct minority. The specific point is in "civilized" countries, violence -- especially mob violence -- is almost always discouraged and condemned.
There is a significant difference between a few people getting a little "explosive" and:
1. Mass rioting for days in over a dozen countries by thousands of people; 2. The formal protests of half-a-dozen Governments; 3. The destruction on several embassies and consular buildings; 4. The suspension of diplomatic relations or closing of embassies by a couple countries; 5. Invasion of EU-run buildings by masked, armed mobs demanding apologies.
The reaction of the Moslem world is way, way over the top and utterly shameful. The rest of the world seems to have advanced beyond the 12th century, yet there still seem to be barbarians to be found.
...right after submitting this story I left for lunch and ran some errands. One of which was to transfer title to myself on a used car I just purchased from a friend, register it and get some new license plates.
At no time during the transaction with the Idaho DMV was I asked for ID. Nor was the VIN on the car verified. I merely signed the registration receipt and presented them with a pre-signed auto title. Just as a datapoint, my signature is totally illegible.
The previous time I titled a car, it was a Jeep with some seriously large tires. Being a real Jeep, there is no VIN plate on the door. The woman at the DMV was in heels and couldn't climb up to verify the VIN, so she had me do it for her. Same State, different county.
Google gets its foot in the door and access to a lot of the information they want to crawl and index. Mao called it "sugar coated bullets", but was referring to Disney, Coca Cola and the rest of the Western "influences" and not necessarily Google.
Can China survive under the current repressive regime, or will the eventually change to something more open? When they do change, who is going to be there to give them a hand (or more accurately, a connection to the outside world)?
Excuse me, but what does KPlaylist have to do with KDE? If the answer is "nothing", which I suspect after going to the website, why the name "KPlaylist"? This could start and entire NEW category of KDE-naming flameware!
"Books are just the beginning for the Sony® Reader. It also displays Adobe® PDFs, personal documents, blogs, newsfeeds, and JPEGs with the same amazing readability, so you can take your favorite blogs and online newspapers with you. It even plays audio files (unencrypted MP3s)."
Unlike other Sony hardware it accepts more than just a Memory Stick, it also has a slot for SD cards. The connection is via a USB port, but the one big question remains -- do you have to use their software to load titles or can it just act like a USB mass-storage device?
I've seen a couple of reviews of these devices and there were only two real complaints: the page-turn buttons were too small and the speaker is NOT something you want to listen to MP3s on. They should have just left off the speaker and focused on the rest. However, the reviews all said the screen was fantastic as was the general feel.
As the recent WMF issues have demonstrated, there is a lot of legacy code in the core OS. Some of it seems to date back over a decade. Much of it seems to originate in a time where security was no where near the concern it is now, and network connectivity was the exception and not the rule. While I understand backwards compatibility is important for some customers, has there been serious efforts to audit that old code? What about the idea of a clean break with ancient code?
BellSouth charges end-users for network (Internet) access. That is what you're paying those DSL charges for, if you're a BS customer.
Data that comes from some other network, like MCI or Level 3, is handled thru a peering agreement with that other network.
Many hosting providers have backbone connections to multiple networks, to make things faster. For example, Gnomovision Co-Lo and Hosting may have direct links to BS, Time Warner, MCI, Level 3 and more. These type of customer shouldn't be affected because they are already paying BS for a link.
Customers that have to go thru peered links seem to be BS' target. They *should* negotiate this with the peer, not the provider.
Google, with their rumored "data center in a container", could just drop a container on BS' network and not peer at all. They'd have to pay connect charges, but they would have a direct link to BS' network.
It seems to me that this would threaten the peering arrangement that makes the Internet function more than anything else.
Note: In order to complain to the FCC you must be a customer of BS, submit your complaint in writing and include a copy of your telephone bill.
The BSD license doesn't address the issue of patents. Unfortunately, software patents are a nightmare the U.S. has unleashed upon the world and henceforth need to be addressed.
GPLv3 attempts to address patents as well as the DMCA, by stating that GPL-licensed software can't be considered an "effective deterrent".
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...is two have two e-mail addresses. One is whitelist only, and you never "publish" it. Only give that one out to people you want to have it explicitly. Make it clear they are not to share.
The second address is for public consumption. Use that one for everything else, including mailing list subscriptions, site subscriptions, Slashdot postings, and anyone else you even suspect will sell/give away your e-mail address. Ideally this would be something like a Google/Yahoo/MSN address or one from your ISP.
The first address should then be kept pristine and you never have to worry about spam on it. The second would be suspect, but some inbox rules and white/blacklists could clean up most of it.
I've been doing this for 3+ years now and have 0 spam on my private address. Gmail does a good job of keeping the other pretty clean.
-Charles
My bank doesn't have my home address, they have a PO Box. They do not have a phone number for me. I also have several friends who've retired and live on the road, in RVs. They have no permanent address. Hell, in the State of Oregon you can even change your address on your DL to read "Transient" if you live in an RV.
I deal with my bank via ATMs, direct deposit and e-mail and that is the way I prefer it.
Charles
They weren't absurd, they were stupid. "Random absurdity", especially the kind found in Monty Python, Black Adder, etc. wasn't two minutes. Hell, "Where's the fish" was a lot shorter than that. People -- if even only some -- laugh at the random absurdity. Do you know ANYONE who thought the dolphin scene was funny? Anyone at all?
This was "we have this dumb song and want to show opening credits", not humor.
They upgraded to 2.6 last week and most of them switched overnight. There are tons, if you run the Windows version. Linux & Mac users will have to wait another week or so for the update. They ARE there...tons of them.
[chill]
The movie was acceptable, but for me the biggest "gotcha" was the total lack of comprehension of British humor by the directors.
The most obvious example was Arthur Dent's conversation with Processor, or lack thereof. Of course, naming the ex-President Hamma Kavula (or however it is spelled) was seriously funny.
And the whole scene with the Total Perspective Vortex which was a gun, where Zaphod gets "enlightened" was Hollywood-romance drivel. "Hey, I'm Zaphod Beeblebrox, man!"
The absolute worst was the !)@#!ing 2+ minute opening scene of jumping dolphins! What a waste of celluloid!
It just could have been so much better in the hands of a director who had a sense of humor that didn't need a laugh track to tell him what was funny.
-Charles
Please note that AT&T here really means SBC. SBC purchased AT&T not too long ago but kept the AT&T name. It is run by the same cocksucker who thinks Google, Yahoo and other content providers are getting a "free ride" on his infrastructure and wants to charge them for the right to travel his wires -- peering be damned.
-Charles
Its coming out April 1st? Oh, it's no joke then.
No, Steve Jobs is just going to announce that it runs WinCE. That is one appropriately named OS.
-Charles
I was making an argument for DRM in general, not hardware specific. You are correct that it could be implemented in software only. Hardware is for very secure, extreme conditions.
- Charles
Sorry about the confusion. 90% of what we did was to prevent mistakes, the other 10% was to prevent trade secret theft. There is a lot of headhunting that goes on in the industrial sector and I had to deal with two specific instances of where we hired an employee from a competitor (line worker) and they were really a mole. That person would start trying to e-mail drawings and documents to their old employer after a month or so.
DRM with certificate revocation lists helped a great deal on this one. Camera phones were another issue altogether...
-Charles
Mons Venus is so huge it reaches up out of the atmosphere. A great place for an asteroid (mineral) processing plant and launch facility. Mars is also close to the mineral-rich asteroid belt.
What we ended up with was Adobe PDF files that were signed with certificates. The Adobe reader disallows printing, saving, modification and you need a valid password/cert to open the file. Take the file and move it to another PC and it still won't print and you can't open it without the right certificate and password.
As far as printscreen goes, you're confusing DRM with perfection. DRM simply has to restrict the rights and it is embedded as part of the data content, but isn't necessarily 100% foolproof.
-Charles
I'm quite certain somebody viewing your documents could take a screen shot, or save the image as a new file, or actually make the car from the wrong diagrams.
Actually, screen capture was disabled and no unauthorized (i.e.- absolutely required to do the job) software was allowed on line terminals. No, people could not save anything as a new file from these terminals. Users without engineering rights could even OPEN development drawings, much less save them anywhere.
Normal permissions are only part of it. Document control includes "publishing" the documents, accounting for all "out of spec" documents, signing out actual printed copies, random audits on what documents were available on the floor, sign-off for the documents from both engineering as well as document control person, external audit where auditors tried to get users to show them the wrong documents, etc.
Every document available had a chain of certificates that recorded when it was valid, who validated it and for what use it was valid. When one simple mistake can compound to thousands of dollars in a matter of minutes of costs on a high-speed production line, you get very serious about your documentation and procedures.
-Charles
I once thought as you do, then I was confronted with the twin demons of convenience and laziness.
Engineers frequently wanted to pull up development (non-production) documents on terminals on the manufacturing floor. They would often wander off after doing so and a line worker would wander in, see the drawing, notice it matched what they were producing (widget A) but not know it was an engineering rev and then screw up 200 parts before it was caught futher down the line at inspection.
There are a dozen other "oh, shit -- who in their right mind would do THAT?!" moments that I discovered and were related to incorrect documentation.
Large manufacturing facilities have tons of very specific regulations on how to control documents. They all stem from some stupid incident because "common sense" isn't very common. If you ever work with a manufacturer that produces items to MIL spec, or RS-9000 (automotive quality), you will see what I mean.
And...DRM isn't just hardware-based cryptographic assurance. It is more of a general restriction of content usage.
However, there are those that DO need that type of control. Prior to implementing the system I did, my team had the opportunity to see a similar implementation at a local defense contractor (Orlando, FL) and talk with their implementation team. We only had limited access, but even with that limitation we were impressed with how tight their documentation was controlled (and how much of a PITA is was to actually use).
Think of DRM as one attempt at dealing with the "so hard to make something foolproof because fools are so ingenious" problem.
-Charles
I helped convert an automotive electronics manufacturing facility from using paper CAD drawings and documentation to all electronic. DRM was needed to not only ensure that computers/people on the manufacturing line could not view -- accidentally or deliberately -- non-production documents. We needed an iron clad way of making sure that the document being shown accurately reflected the product being produced at that time. DRM was one aspect of the solution because it allowed us to manage which user accounts and which terminals were able to view which drawings and when. Absolutely critical for making sure everyone is on the same revision of the product.
Corporate documents such as engineering drawings, notes and descriptions are NOT public material. They are private, limited distribution material that need to be controlled. "Document control" is an aspect of ISO-9000 series evaluation and certification. When those documents are electronic, control means DRM.
This is not wrong, RMS is just lumping all DRM together and that is a mistake.
-Charles
When I said explosive I meant they blow themselves up.
I am unaware of any suicide bombings of abortion clinics in the U.S. There have been some snipings, point-blank shootings, planted bombs and arson of abortion clinics along with threats to doctors and staff. However, we're also talking maybe a two dozen incidents over a dozen years. They are also soundly condemned by the general population and treated as crimes by the government. Mostly there are non-violent protests. They may be disruptive, but generally don't end in firebombings or storming of buildings by armed mobs.
All civilizations on this planet were built on blood, Eastern, Western and in-between. I refuse to apologize or feel guilty for things done by people long before I was born of which I had no part.
The numbers of civilians killed in Iraq by the U.S. is dwarfed by the numbers that were killed by Saddam. The current violence is 90% sectarian in a grab for power. Most people killed in Iraq today are Shi'a vs Sunni and has little to do with the U.S. It isn't the U.S. that sends suicide bombers into funerals, mosques or police stations. Nor are those attacks directed at the U.S. but at local rivals. If everyone in Iraq just calmed their ass down and showed they could live without blowing stuff up every 10 minutes the U.S. would pull out in a heartbeat.
I disagree with the way Guantanamo is run and the entire concept is handled. However, people that go into that system ARE eventually heard from again, unlike many "secret" facilities run by other governments. These systems can be debated by the public and Congress without fear of recrimination. How many people were able to protest the way Abu Ghirab was run when it was Saddam running it?
I never claimed the West didn't have its share of radicals and fundamentalists. Civilized societies have, for the most part, evolved to the point where those radicals and fundamentalists are in a distinct minority. The specific point is in "civilized" countries, violence -- especially mob violence -- is almost always discouraged and condemned.
-Charles
There is a significant difference between a few people getting a little "explosive" and:
1. Mass rioting for days in over a dozen countries by thousands of people;
2. The formal protests of half-a-dozen Governments;
3. The destruction on several embassies and consular buildings;
4. The suspension of diplomatic relations or closing of embassies by a couple countries;
5. Invasion of EU-run buildings by masked, armed mobs demanding apologies.
The reaction of the Moslem world is way, way over the top and utterly shameful. The rest of the world seems to have advanced beyond the 12th century, yet there still seem to be barbarians to be found.
-Charles
Dude, check the dates. The original issue was back on 7/4/2002 and you're quoting a law that was passed almost 3 years later.
-Charles
...right after submitting this story I left for lunch and ran some errands. One of which was to transfer title to myself on a used car I just purchased from a friend, register it and get some new license plates.
At no time during the transaction with the Idaho DMV was I asked for ID. Nor was the VIN on the car verified. I merely signed the registration receipt and presented them with a pre-signed auto title. Just as a datapoint, my signature is totally illegible.
The previous time I titled a car, it was a Jeep with some seriously large tires. Being a real Jeep, there is no VIN plate on the door. The woman at the DMV was in heels and couldn't climb up to verify the VIN, so she had me do it for her. Same State, different county.
-Charles
The authoritarian regime of China or Google?
Google gets its foot in the door and access to a lot of the information they want to crawl and index. Mao called it "sugar coated bullets", but was referring to Disney, Coca Cola and the rest of the Western "influences" and not necessarily Google.
Can China survive under the current repressive regime, or will the eventually change to something more open? When they do change, who is going to be there to give them a hand (or more accurately, a connection to the outside world)?
-Charles
I'm so glad I live in Canada
Why is that? In 2003 Diebold bought a Canadian company called Global Election Systems, the #1 supplier in Canada of electronic voting machines.
-Charles
Excuse me, but what does KPlaylist have to do with KDE? If the answer is "nothing", which I suspect after going to the website, why the name "KPlaylist"? This could start and entire NEW category of KDE-naming flameware!
-Charles
From Sony's website:
"Books are just the beginning for the Sony® Reader. It also displays Adobe® PDFs, personal documents, blogs, newsfeeds, and JPEGs with the same amazing readability, so you can take your favorite blogs and online newspapers with you. It even plays audio files (unencrypted MP3s)."
Unlike other Sony hardware it accepts more than just a Memory Stick, it also has a slot for SD cards. The connection is via a USB port, but the one big question remains -- do you have to use their software to load titles or can it just act like a USB mass-storage device?
I've seen a couple of reviews of these devices and there were only two real complaints: the page-turn buttons were too small and the speaker is NOT something you want to listen to MP3s on. They should have just left off the speaker and focused on the rest. However, the reviews all said the screen was fantastic as was the general feel.
-Charles
As the recent WMF issues have demonstrated, there is a lot of legacy code in the core OS. Some of it seems to date back over a decade. Much of it seems to originate in a time where security was no where near the concern it is now, and network connectivity was the exception and not the rule. While I understand backwards compatibility is important for some customers, has there been serious efforts to audit that old code? What about the idea of a clean break with ancient code?
-Charles
BellSouth charges end-users for network (Internet) access. That is what you're paying those DSL charges for, if you're a BS customer.
Data that comes from some other network, like MCI or Level 3, is handled thru a peering agreement with that other network.
Many hosting providers have backbone connections to multiple networks, to make things faster. For example, Gnomovision Co-Lo and Hosting may have direct links to BS, Time Warner, MCI, Level 3 and more. These type of customer shouldn't be affected because they are already paying BS for a link.
Customers that have to go thru peered links seem to be BS' target. They *should* negotiate this with the peer, not the provider.
Google, with their rumored "data center in a container", could just drop a container on BS' network and not peer at all. They'd have to pay connect charges, but they would have a direct link to BS' network.
It seems to me that this would threaten the peering arrangement that makes the Internet function more than anything else.
Note: In order to complain to the FCC you must be a customer of BS, submit your complaint in writing and include a copy of your telephone bill.
-Charles
That's what the BSD license is for...
The BSD license doesn't address the issue of patents. Unfortunately, software patents are a nightmare the U.S. has unleashed upon the world and henceforth need to be addressed.
GPLv3 attempts to address patents as well as the DMCA, by stating that GPL-licensed software can't be considered an "effective deterrent".
-Charles