FYI for those of you who rely on Dreamweaver you can in fact get it to use SFTP without any addons or tweaks. In the remote info under manage sites, in the advanced tab, selecting ftp up top, you can check Use Secure FTP (SFTP). If you run the server yourself, you want to install openssh, the common package name for which is openssh-server and its conf files may be found in/etc/ssh. If you don't run the server, ask your ISP to fire it up if they haven't already.
This of course won't defend you from getting nailed by a keylogger phoning home... but ditching XP and using nano or emacs on *nix of course would help. Do regular backups just in case -- not just the docroot folder but sql if you use that as well.
They're not in the business of raising your opinion, BitZtream, rather to take advantage of a possibly symbiotic arrangement with a company that may help them market their product. That said, on behalf of these guys I apologize for letting you down and suggest you try DopeWars which it addition to the platforms this game runs on also runs on the TI-82.
The odds of an election being this close again that the accuracy of the voting machines themselves are questioned are pretty slim.
Truth is, it really doesn't matter who beat whom by 150 votes out of 100 million. Just as long as we have an answer that appears accurate and unquestionable.
These three comopanies will no doubt come up with a better system (heck, anyone could), but it will cost tax payers TONS of money. Money that could be better spent elsewhere.
Besides, what are J. C. Watts and Jesse Jackson going to bitch about next election when our new state-of-the-art system leaves no question next time?
I'm surprised to see slashdotters not rushing to defend these DoS attackers by saying something like, "They are helping by exposing security flaws and vulnerablilities so that they can be fixed."
I mean, that's the typical position one can expect from Slashdot when dealing with someone who has defaced a webpage or otherwise tampered with a system. Those people are considered noble.
Yet, I've gone through a hundred posts and not one doesn't call for the death of these alleged DoS attackers. Yes, what they are doing isn't as creative as drawing a Hitler mustache on Janet Reno on the Department of Justice's webpage, but is it that much worse? Apperently yes, because the victim is the innocent Undernet, and not the evil government. Bah.
I suggest to the Slashdot editors that they try to leave out their biases as much as possible in the headlines/stories because the biases are often flawed, hypocritical, inconsistent with previous biases, or just plain stupid.
While the ratio of people using regular phone line modems to higher speed digital people decreases, there will still be a large chunk of people who only have a phone line and would never bother investing the time or money into getting anything faster. I think this group is large enough to keep the analog modem market on its toes. 56k, apparently, is not the point at which we can all relax..
If these people have a technology that can do what they say it can do, they're in for some good times. After all, a typical slashdot page at -1 threshold takes about 26 seconds to load on a 56k.
It's getting tougher to find an office or school who isn't wired to the net. But the way our society works, companies, with little exception, cannot afford to let people run around wild on the net.
If one guy's voting on the Tits of the Week (towview.com), he's creating a potentially "hostile" work environment for which the company can be responsible. And that means big bucks.
I think most of us hate the idea of censorship.. but it's a reality we can't ignore. I guess my point is to think about investing in some of these companies, like Websense (on the Nasdaq), even if their software is so shitty and it pisses you off.
"political vulnerability" of us net people? Why, because our legal system is evolving a bit to put an end to this widespread theft?
Napster is the White man's form of looting. It doesn't bother me that people steal the music, in fact, I do it myself. What gets my goat is when people try to rationalize it, defend it, criticize Metallica, etc.
I've heard a lot of people whine about CD prices and how the record industry "rips" off artists. Well cousin, nobody forces bands to sign these contracts. And the way our free capitalist market works, if there was a cheaper way to produce, distribute and sell music, someone would start doing it and sell you cheaper cd's. Last time I checked, there are quite a few companies doing the same thing. Competition.
Jon Katz, you're so enlightened, aren't you. The lawyers are the winners, music lovers and Net users the losers, etc, blah blah blah.. The record companies had the option to team up with Napster (who already had an asset of 75mil users with no real marketing), but they decided to press on and shut it down. Why? Maybe because they are coming up with their own plan to distribute music safely (or safer, I should say).
Just because stealing music is so convenient and easy, that doesn't mean the concept of intellectual property is bogus. It is, as the name implies, property.. and that's the law of the land.
The one question I have for one of you legal scholars is if people like Napster can run a business that our courts have found illegal overseas, immune from our countries prosecution?
This will open the door nice and wide for dvd piracy. And the hype is really taking off (DeCSS, DivX).
If I were Hollywood, however, I would not be too scared. People can already buy bootlegs off the street. People already steal Pay Per View with their black boxes. But I think that the overwhelming majority of movie-viewers would rather experience the flick legally on a nice big theater screen. I feel that most of the soon to be bootleggers are just going to be the people who get off at stealing. Dig?
Perhaps the only way to get modded up is to join the Slashdot anti-business bias, but screw it.
The RIAA, a industry association, has a job to do everything they can to make sure everyone in the music industry gets paid. This includes the musicians, the promoters, the engineers, and the distributors. This means doing what they can to stop people who believe that music should be stolen.
While this particular website was not hosting the music files, by linking them, they are knowingly facilitating the crime. In fact, they are encouraging it. They don't even have Napster's claim that they "don't know what's going on with their users" because they store the links.
I never understood why Slashdot always has to attack businesses!!
Oh brother.. Are you really comparing petty music bootleggers to the likes of Rosa Parks, Ghandi and Mandella?
You know who else uses the same, tired and bullshit analogy? People who murder abortionists.
Yes, I realize you were specifically defending getting another copy of your scratched CD, but in the argument of following the law and breaking the law, you joined the breaking side. Along with all these other kids.
WHY HAS SLASHDOT sided with stealing? Why does slashdot hate American business? Why do slashdot moderators mod up the posts that defend Slashdot's official bias, and mod down posts that go against slashdot and in favor of the laws of our civil society? Moderating should only judge the "quality" of a post, not whether or not the opinions expressed are consistant with the moderator's. Sheesh. F ALL OF YOU!!
The price listed for the unit is 250,000 JPY. Netscape indicates that the dollar equivilant is $2,399. Well, it's actually $2,460 now. Yes, I realize that the Yen has only recently strengthened; HOWEVER, why does Netscape happen to do the conversion at the moment it was $2,399?
Everybody knows companies realize that 2,399 seems a lot cheaper to the average American than 2,400. It would seem to me that Netscape went a little out of their way to do what would be in the best interests of Pioneer. They also don't mention how the music industry might feel about this... This article seems to be nothing more than an advertisement or a press release from Pioneer.
So, I conclude: Anything Netscape "reports" should be taken with a grain of salt. Most journalism should... Do you have any idea who owns NBC?
God bless Slashdot! Even the moderators get moderated.
At the moment, the feared use of VOB's of ripping them and trading them around the internet, is pretty far-fetched. On today's modems, it would take you around 28 days to transfer a full DVD. However, it will not be long until the average user can store 100's of gigs easily, and also, transfering a DVD will be as easy as an MP3.
My question is how far are we away from the AVERAGE websurfer, with this DeCSS tool, being reasonably capable of bootlegging DVDs? A year? Also, what can GZIP to do these suckers? Thanks!
I believe that there is no such thing as "desensitizing" kids to anything, and no matter how you try to control what entertainment they get, they're going to turn out however God made 'em. It's all politics.
I believe Intel is engaging in Predatory Pricing. What is Predatory Pricing? Well, say there's a small burger joint, family owned, who prides themselves on good burgers and good, friendly service. One day, the big bad Burger Heaven franchise moves in on the same block. In order to steal their business and drive them bankrupt, Burger Heaven drops their prices lower than our small family burger joint. These low prices may not even bring Burger Heaven a profit, but they serve the purpose of squashing the weak competition. This is illegal and unethical. It is, however, hard to prove.
When Intel decided to drop their prices, you can bet that in their meetings they did consider how this would appear to be predatory pricing... This alone, in my estimation, would keep them from doing just another routine price drop, THUS, they are truley engaging in predatory pricing and should be boycotted. Thank you.
It was written somewhere that Microsoft was keeping "a close eye" on Back Orifice 2000. Could it be that they are somehow connected and can get a hold of pre-release coppies? I bet so, and I also bet that immediately after this thing is released at DefCon, that Microsoft will be ready with a quick counter as well as bug fixes and news releases, etc. But still, isn't that unethical of them?
Microsoft would never have pushed for these tests if they weren't 100% sure they would win. They surely anticipated our response to sketchy testing procedures, and sure enough, we continue to lose. Yeah, yeah, this isn't a drag race, but it would be nice if we could program software that wasn't this much slower than Windows when one of the aspects of Linux we've defended is speed and stability. So, let's do it.
The simple, REALISTIC stand, which is similar to free capitalism itself, is a completely unrestricted encrytption industry. Everyone, even terrorists, should have a right to privacy. it IS the best way, although not perfect, admittedly.
BY THE WAY, does anyone know that Hitler quotation (preferably in german) which goes something like Ein furher, Ein whatever (One everything) which people have compared to something Gates said? you know what I'm talking about... Just put it up! I need it for a paper i'm doing. Thanks
I wanted to let you all know that Slashdot is mentioned in today's frontpage of the New York Times in an article on parents and their kids on the net. I have the upmost respect for Cmndr Taco and his work. Even though some of us may bare apathy toward the Times, it is quite a milestone to have your project mentioned on the frontpage and used as a source. Mad props due! my email's doug@escape.com, drop me a line if you think i am elite.. aoturkey.escape.com rulez
I can easily imagine The Man building statistics of what type of programming and channel-changing patterns are common among serial killers and rapists, and communists, and perhaps using that against you if you fit the bill. You dig what I'm saying?
Slashdot Mirror
FYI for those of you who rely on Dreamweaver you can in fact get it to use SFTP without any addons or tweaks. In the remote info under manage sites, in the advanced tab, selecting ftp up top, you can check Use Secure FTP (SFTP). If you run the server yourself, you want to install openssh, the common package name for which is openssh-server and its conf files may be found in /etc/ssh. If you don't run the server, ask your ISP to fire it up if they haven't already.
This of course won't defend you from getting nailed by a keylogger phoning home... but ditching XP and using nano or emacs on *nix of course would help. Do regular backups just in case -- not just the docroot folder but sql if you use that as well.
They're not in the business of raising your opinion, BitZtream, rather to take advantage of a possibly symbiotic arrangement with a company that may help them market their product. That said, on behalf of these guys I apologize for letting you down and suggest you try DopeWars which it addition to the platforms this game runs on also runs on the TI-82.
The title of this story should be "What if yahoo were acquired?" instead of "What if yahoo was acquired?"
You use the subjunctive in an if statement such as this. I suggest you change it, Hemos, it makes you sound less intelligent.
The odds of an election being this close again that the accuracy of the voting machines themselves are questioned are pretty slim.
Truth is, it really doesn't matter who beat whom by 150 votes out of 100 million. Just as long as we have an answer that appears accurate and unquestionable.
These three comopanies will no doubt come up with a better system (heck, anyone could), but it will cost tax payers TONS of money. Money that could be better spent elsewhere.
Besides, what are J. C. Watts and Jesse Jackson going to bitch about next election when our new state-of-the-art system leaves no question next time?
I'm surprised to see slashdotters not rushing to defend these DoS attackers by saying something like, "They are helping by exposing security flaws and vulnerablilities so that they can be fixed."
I mean, that's the typical position one can expect from Slashdot when dealing with someone who has defaced a webpage or otherwise tampered with a system. Those people are considered noble.
Yet, I've gone through a hundred posts and not one doesn't call for the death of these alleged DoS attackers. Yes, what they are doing isn't as creative as drawing a Hitler mustache on Janet Reno on the Department of Justice's webpage, but is it that much worse? Apperently yes, because the victim is the innocent Undernet, and not the evil government. Bah.
I suggest to the Slashdot editors that they try to leave out their biases as much as possible in the headlines/stories because the biases are often flawed, hypocritical, inconsistent with previous biases, or just plain stupid.
While the ratio of people using regular phone line modems to higher speed digital people decreases, there will still be a large chunk of people who only have a phone line and would never bother investing the time or money into getting anything faster. I think this group is large enough to keep the analog modem market on its toes. 56k, apparently, is not the point at which we can all relax..
If these people have a technology that can do what they say it can do, they're in for some good times. After all, a typical slashdot page at -1 threshold takes about 26 seconds to load on a 56k.
It's getting tougher to find an office or school who isn't wired to the net. But the way our society works, companies, with little exception, cannot afford to let people run around wild on the net.
If one guy's voting on the Tits of the Week (towview.com), he's creating a potentially "hostile" work environment for which the company can be responsible. And that means big bucks.
I think most of us hate the idea of censorship.. but it's a reality we can't ignore. I guess my point is to think about investing in some of these companies, like Websense (on the Nasdaq), even if their software is so shitty and it pisses you off.
True.
CD's might cost more than cassettes because there is greater demand for CD's than cassettes.. res ipsa loquitor, bitch.
Sorry to blow your paranoid alarmist cartel-conspiracy theories.
"political vulnerability" of us net people? Why, because our legal system is evolving a bit to put an end to this widespread theft?
Napster is the White man's form of looting. It doesn't bother me that people steal the music, in fact, I do it myself. What gets my goat is when people try to rationalize it, defend it, criticize Metallica, etc.
I've heard a lot of people whine about CD prices and how the record industry "rips" off artists. Well cousin, nobody forces bands to sign these contracts. And the way our free capitalist market works, if there was a cheaper way to produce, distribute and sell music, someone would start doing it and sell you cheaper cd's. Last time I checked, there are quite a few companies doing the same thing. Competition.
Jon Katz, you're so enlightened, aren't you. The lawyers are the winners, music lovers and Net users the losers, etc, blah blah blah.. The record companies had the option to team up with Napster (who already had an asset of 75mil users with no real marketing), but they decided to press on and shut it down. Why? Maybe because they are coming up with their own plan to distribute music safely (or safer, I should say).
Just because stealing music is so convenient and easy, that doesn't mean the concept of intellectual property is bogus. It is, as the name implies, property.. and that's the law of the land.
The one question I have for one of you legal scholars is if people like Napster can run a business that our courts have found illegal overseas, immune from our countries prosecution?
True.
This will open the door nice and wide for dvd piracy. And the hype is really taking off (DeCSS, DivX).
If I were Hollywood, however, I would not be too scared. People can already buy bootlegs off the street. People already steal Pay Per View with their black boxes. But I think that the overwhelming majority of movie-viewers would rather experience the flick legally on a nice big theater screen. I feel that most of the soon to be bootleggers are just going to be the people who get off at stealing. Dig?
Perhaps the only way to get modded up is to join the Slashdot anti-business bias, but screw it.
The RIAA, a industry association, has a job to do everything they can to make sure everyone in the music industry gets paid. This includes the musicians, the promoters, the engineers, and the distributors. This means doing what they can to stop people who believe that music should be stolen.
While this particular website was not hosting the music files, by linking them, they are knowingly facilitating the crime. In fact, they are encouraging it. They don't even have Napster's claim that they "don't know what's going on with their users" because they store the links.
I never understood why Slashdot always has to attack businesses!!
Oh brother.. Are you really comparing petty music bootleggers to the likes of Rosa Parks, Ghandi and Mandella?
You know who else uses the same, tired and bullshit analogy? People who murder abortionists.
Yes, I realize you were specifically defending getting another copy of your scratched CD, but in the argument of following the law and breaking the law, you joined the breaking side. Along with all these other kids.
WHY HAS SLASHDOT sided with stealing? Why does slashdot hate American business? Why do slashdot moderators mod up the posts that defend Slashdot's official bias, and mod down posts that go against slashdot and in favor of the laws of our civil society? Moderating should only judge the "quality" of a post, not whether or not the opinions expressed are consistant with the moderator's. Sheesh. F ALL OF YOU!!
Call me paranoid, but...
The price listed for the unit is 250,000 JPY. Netscape indicates that the dollar equivilant is $2,399. Well, it's actually $2,460 now. Yes, I realize that the Yen has only recently strengthened; HOWEVER, why does Netscape happen to do the conversion at the moment it was $2,399?
Everybody knows companies realize that 2,399 seems a lot cheaper to the average American than 2,400. It would seem to me that Netscape went a little out of their way to do what would be in the best interests of Pioneer. They also don't mention how the music industry might feel about this... This article seems to be nothing more than an advertisement or a press release from Pioneer.
So, I conclude: Anything Netscape "reports" should be taken with a grain of salt. Most journalism should... Do you have any idea who owns NBC?
God bless Slashdot! Even the moderators get moderated.
At the moment, the feared use of VOB's of ripping them and trading them around the internet, is pretty far-fetched. On today's modems, it would take you around 28 days to transfer a full DVD. However, it will not be long until the average user can store 100's of gigs easily, and also, transfering a DVD will be as easy as an MP3.
My question is how far are we away from the AVERAGE websurfer, with this DeCSS tool, being reasonably capable of bootlegging DVDs? A year? Also, what can GZIP to do these suckers?
Thanks!
I believe that there is no such thing as "desensitizing" kids to anything, and no matter how you try to control what entertainment they get, they're going to turn out however God made 'em. It's all politics.
I believe Intel is engaging in Predatory Pricing.
What is Predatory Pricing? Well, say there's a small burger joint, family owned, who prides themselves on good burgers and good, friendly service. One day, the big bad Burger Heaven franchise moves in on the same block. In order to steal their business and drive them bankrupt, Burger Heaven drops their prices lower than our small family burger joint. These low prices may not even bring Burger Heaven a profit, but they serve the purpose of squashing the weak competition. This is illegal and unethical. It is, however, hard to prove.
When Intel decided to drop their prices, you can bet that in their meetings they did consider how this would appear to be predatory pricing... This alone, in my estimation, would keep them from doing just another routine price drop, THUS, they are truley engaging in predatory pricing and should be boycotted. Thank you.
It was written somewhere that Microsoft was keeping "a close eye" on Back Orifice 2000. Could it be that they are somehow connected and can get a hold of pre-release coppies? I bet so, and I also bet that immediately after this thing is released at DefCon, that Microsoft will be ready with a quick counter as well as bug fixes and news releases, etc.
But still, isn't that unethical of them?
Microsoft would never have pushed for these tests if they weren't 100% sure they would win. They surely anticipated our response to sketchy testing procedures, and sure enough, we continue to lose. Yeah, yeah, this isn't a drag race, but it would be nice if we could program software that wasn't this much slower than Windows when one of the aspects of Linux we've defended is speed and stability. So, let's do it.
How blatant this attack on something wonderful is. I wish Sun could have hired OJ's lawyers to keep Microsoft away from anything Java for good.
The simple, REALISTIC stand, which is similar to free capitalism itself, is a completely unrestricted encrytption industry. Everyone, even terrorists, should have a right to privacy. it IS the best way, although not perfect, admittedly.
BY THE WAY, does anyone know that Hitler quotation (preferably in german) which goes something like Ein furher, Ein whatever (One everything) which people have compared to something Gates said? you know what I'm talking about... Just put it up! I need it for a paper i'm doing. Thanks
I wanted to let you all know that Slashdot is mentioned in today's frontpage of the New York Times in an article on parents and their kids on the net. I have the upmost respect for Cmndr Taco and his work. Even though some of us may bare apathy toward the Times, it is quite a milestone to have your project mentioned on the frontpage and used as a source. Mad props due!
my email's doug@escape.com, drop me a line if you think i am elite.. aoturkey.escape.com rulez
I can easily imagine The Man building statistics of what type of programming and channel-changing patterns are common among serial killers and rapists, and communists, and perhaps using that against you if you fit the bill. You dig what I'm saying?